What’s new in DNA Center 2.1.x

Cisco DNA Center™ is the foundational controller and analytics platform at the heart of Cisco’s intent-based network. It supports the expression of intent for multiple use cases, including base automation capabilities, fabric provisioning, and policy-based segmentation in the enterprise network. Cisco DNA Center brings context to this journey through the introduction of Analytics and Assurance by providing end-to-end visibility into the network with full context through data and insights.

Cisco DNA Center enables the network administrator to:

Design your network using intuitive workflows

Define user and device profiles that facilitate secure access and network segmentation based on business needs

Policy-based automation to deliver service to the network based on business priority and to simple device deployment

Assure network performance with real-time and historical data analytics, to provide actionable insights and detect problems before they happen along with Guided remediation actions for 100+ insight

Design and Deploy Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) to simplify deliver of consistent, highly secure, identity-based policy for users and devices across wired and wireless networks

Release 2.1.x - Key Themes

2.1.x significantly enhances Enterprise readiness of Cisco DNA Center:

High Availability for Assurance, Disaster Recovery for 3-node cluster, Role-based access control (RBAC), Audit Logging, ITSM closed-loop integration

DNA Automation enhancements include new Jinja based Templates

DNA Assurance brings additional analytics capabilities: AI endpoint analytics, Power-over-Ethernet Analytics

Wi-Fi 6 Readiness Dashboard
Reporting enhancements

User private networks

Product Usage Telemetry

UI improvements

Disaster RecoveryDisaster recovery builds upon the high availability (HA) that Cisco DNA Center already provides by adding another layer of redundancy to safeguard against network downtime. HA deals with a cluster node failure by switching operations to connected cluster nodes. Disaster recovery deals with a cluster failure by handing off-network management duties to a connected cluster (referred to as a site going forward).Cisco DNA Center's disaster recovery implementation consists of three components: the main site, the recovery site, and the witness site. At any given time, the main and recovery sites are operating in either the active or standby role. The active site manages your network while the standby site maintains a continuously updated copy of the active site's data and managed services. Whenever an active site goes down, Cisco DNA Center automatically initiates a failover, completing the tasks necessary to designate the former standby site as the new active site.