Effortless Wireless Automation with Cisco Catalyst Center

Good morning, good afternoon, good day to you depending on where you're at.00:10Welcome everyone to today's expert insight session on wireless network automation with Catalyst Center. My name is Adam Guffrey and I have the privilege of presenting alongside our very owned Miss Wi Fi herself Manuel Essard. Now May and I are both customer success specialists.00:16For the Cisco Catalyst Center and the enterprise networks team in CX. Now, May, she is a CSS with over 25 years in the industry. She has been working, you know, in the fields of engineering, architecture, and just about everything in between. Basically if it's had Wi Fi involved, she's been.00:36Involved with it and might have helped build quite a bit of it. May specializes in Cisco Catalyst Center, ICE and she is our, like I said before, resident Wi Fi expert, and she is an elite company owning her CWNEE.00:56Now me, I've been a CSS for almost six years now, and I've been working in the technology industry for about two decades. My focus is on Cisco Catalyst Center, and I do work within the Cisco Spaces realm as well.01:11So the goal of our expert insights series is to share knowledge in a format where the information we provide actually builds off of the previous sessions information. We provide these sessions to aid you in your catalyst center adoption journey and maybe help answer some questions that you didn't know you had.01:27Now in the last year, we've hosted a number of these expert insights series for Catalyst Center. The topics have ranged from migrating off of prime infrastructure to move to Catalyst Center all the way up to software defined access within Catalyst Center, and like I said, just about everything in between. Now our next session is.01:46In two weeks as we take a break next week for Cisco Live. Now in two weeks that session will be covering device controllability.02:06As we get started with our presentation today, I would like to ask that you please use the Q and A panel for any questions that you may have come up during the meeting. To get to the Q and A panel, simply click on the three dots found at the bottom right hand corner of your Webex screen. We have a wonderful group of panelists with us today ready to help answer your questions. Now.02:16Now in the event that your question is not answered, your information maybe recorded so that we can provide an appropriate answer to you at a later point in time. And for the last admin item to cover before we get going with things, at the conclusion of today's session, a survey will be provided. We would really appreci.02:36Appreciate it if you could take a few moments to provide us with some feedback. Now, it's this feedback that actually helps share shape our sessions and, you know, move things forward, make things better, topics that you would like to see covered and you know the value that you found in today's session as well, as well as feedback for myself and May.02:56We ask that you please stay with us until the end of the end of today's session so that you receive the survey when the session concludes.03:16Now, network intent for wireless networks, sounds fancy, but what is it? What, what is intent? So to give you some background, when Cisco Catalyst Center was being designed, Cisco's goal was to focus on what we as engineers want to achieve with the tool that was being.03:25Be Built and not the multitude of commands that are required to, to achieve that goal. So that is what is meant by intent. Through the use of Cisco Catalyst Center, we want to assist you in automating your tasks by using workflows that can be found in the GUI.03:45These workflows will in turn be translated by Catalyst Center as into commands, which will then be applied to your network devices via automation. Now before we delve into Catalyst Center, let me give you a little bit of a roadmap of what intent on the broader picture looks like for wireless. Now.04:02And the common methodology for wireless deployments actually calls for what we sometimes call the four Ds or the three Ds depending on, you know, what version you're following. But in most wireless projects, we are called to define, then design.04:21Then deploy and then validate. Sorry about that. My mouse went to sleep on me. So Catalyst Center has the ability to assist through every phase. You know, and define, you actually use Catalyst Center to build out the logical.04:39Network hierarchy, and then in design, this is where you actually, where the network settings and the network profiles and software images are established for your network devices. Once you have defined your network and designed what's going to go where it's time to deploy, and in that.04:55That deployment phase is where Catalyst Center does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Catalyst Center takes.05:15You know, those, the design and definite definitions that you configured and then converts them and will apply them and configure your controllers, your wlcs, your switches, your APs. Catalyst Center takes this information and converts it into, you know, commands that then build out the configuration for the devices.05:22And then let's not forget validation where assurance really shines and allows you to detect, you know, network and client issues.05:42Also assessing their ne their health and even providing troubleshooting steps when needed or necessary. You see Cisco Catalyst Center it's really built to not only meet the demands of today's wireless networks and wireless infrastructures, but we're also providing a very established infrastructure that can grow with you and your.05:49Your wireless network as your business evolves.06:09So, in order to gain the most benefits from the wireless automation features, you 1st kind of need to understand the how and the whys of of Catalyst Center and what it does. So with that, let's actually discuss how one would define their deployment with the use of Cisco Catalyst Center.06:13To get started with Cisco Catalyst Center, you 1st have to create a hierarchy. Now, the hierarchy consists of a group of areas, buildings, and floors that are all built out under a global or, you know, the root level of the hierarchy. Now, the hierarchy, it's a very, I can't stress this.06:33It's a very critical 1st step with Catalyst Center. It is how Catalyst Center determines which locations receive, which settings, security certificates, and other resources. Within the hierarchy, these settings are passed along to the sublocations for a site unless specified.06:52This type of structure really allows you to set up, you know, different credentials, servers, and other network settings based on location alone and push them out to the devices.07:12Now, there are several ways that you can create this hierarchy. You may use your own, your own, your own export from prime infrastructure in the apic EM format. You can also just manually create a hierarchy framework from scratch yourself within Catalyst Center to set up your own logical areas, physical.07:23Buildings and then finally, you can also import Echohal project files in ESX format into Catalyst Center.07:43Now you should know that there are three main constructs that you can use when you're actually building out your hierarchy, and that is the area, the building, and then the floor. And now the logical groups are often called areas. Now they're not really tied to any true coordinates. Some examples would be, you know, I'm located in the United.07:50States why my counterpart May is in Canada. And those are just larger areas. They're just areas.08:10But these areas can contain both buildings and additional areas. So within Canada, I could have Quebec, Ontario, and even British Columbia as sub areas within the main area of Canada.08:19Then somewhere between, you know, two snowbanks, we could have a building, and I'm gonna keep calling out May here and I'm gonna call this building May's house. Now that building will have a stream address and some GPS coordinates associated with it and.08:34Cisco Catalyst Centers integration with Mapbox will actually help with auto completing the address and the GPS coordinates for the for your locations. Now, maybe you work in an environment where you just have one main mailing address.08:50But you've got several other buildings. Within Catalyst Center, you can actually drop a pin on the map and Catalyst Center will fill out the street address and those GPS coordinates for you. So if you don't have a, a street address available, I at least hope you can read a map because that is how you would take advantage of this feature is just drop a pin.09:07Down the map. But let's get back to, let's get back to the buildings. You know, I mentioned May's house and, and somewhere between those, you know, those snowbanks is May's house, and I say it's June.09:27For some reason I still think it's snowing in Canada. But that building will have a street address or some GPS coordinates. Like I said, and I've already I've already started messing up a little bit, but anyways, now with mace's house there is a main floor. See I went from area to building and then I stayed on building when we're.09:39Actually going to discuss that inside the building, you also have floors. So within May's house, there is a main floor and a basement floor, and ideally we would have the maps for them in a, a DXF or a DWG file format, which those specifically are extremely practical and helpful.09:59AutoCAD formats that actually come with a scale. Now, if you don't have access to those, that's fine. We can still rely on image files and those image file formats that you can import would be a JPEG PNG, PDF file types.10:19You know, if you've got your maps set up in those files, that's fine as well. You can import those for the maps. So Catalyst Center is a great tool to be able to visualize the coverage of your APs both in two D and three D However, you know, it's.10:35The tool itself is not intended to be a replacement for some of our partners products that do entire, you know, buildings campus worth of predictive site surveying. The maps in the hierarchy provides you with a reliable view of your network coverage.10:53However, there are more advanced tools available to create more precise renderings of your network coverage, but this is a solid idea of what your network, your wireless coverage looks like here within Catalyst Center. Now, by placing the APs on the map, that can actually be done.11:10And post discovery at any point in time. And when I mean post discovery, and that's after the APs have been added into Catalyst Center through discovery, file upload, what not. However, I will say that there's very good value in importing the entire predictive site survey into Catalyst Center with devices and everything that comes.11:30Is with it for the surface, for the purpose, not the surface, but the purpose of PMP, and we'll get into that down the line here in a little bit. But when importing the list of APs, you know, if an AP isn't in the catalyst centered device inventory already, it can be imported as a planned AP. Now.11:50You know, I spoke about intent originally, and this is just another good example of what intent with Catalyst Center would look like. If you actually use matching settings, Catalyst Center will tie the predicted AP with the real thing, which means NO more clicking around and trying to dig up the APs that you've just uploaded. You won't even.12:10You won't even have to place them manually. Catalyst Center can place them for you. So another great feature is our ability to export your maps from Catalyst Center specifically for Echow projects. And I'm actually gonna ask May here.12:31To step in for a moment and speak about, you know, the Echow interface because she has much more experience with it and I would like her to convey that to you. May, please ma'am? Of course, so the cool thing that that just showed you is that you can export into an echo house file, so let's pretend.12:48For an example that you need to create a predictive site survey but based on maps that you already have in catalyst center that are scaled. So you can export in ESX format and then once you do that, you bring that into AI pro, and you'll be able to draw your attenuation areas.13:08Maybe add a couple of of APs, set what model of those APs are, do your, your predictive Echohau job, and then once you're done with that, you can save it and import it back.13:29And well that you you will have if the APs do not exist, you'll have the APs created as predictive AP, predicted APs, so they'll have a little P at the top. Right, thank you mayor. I appreciate it.13:44And now that we have our Echo project file within Catalyst Center, you would navigate to the design and the network hierarchy page in the Catalyst Center, and you would actually click the three dots to the right of a given area. So in the screenshot here in Bedford Lakes, we've clicked on the three dots to the right, which brings up an additional menu and from.14:00This menu would select import echo how project.14:20Or import Echohal survey. They are not the same thing, so the difference between these two is that an Echow project is actually used for new network designs and it is a, it's a predictive site survey. And an echo house survey file, well, that would be used if you have had.14:24A full site survey done and you want to import that data from the, from the full site survey into Catalyst Center to have as close to accurate.14:44Rendering of your Wi Fi network is possible. So once imported, you can now say these newly added walls in the map. Now, I know some people that aren't involved with wireless may, you know, may not, this may not seem like a big deal, but when you're working to optimize your wireless networks and, and you.14:54Want to have accurate information about signal strength or potential interference and SNR and just other variables that can affect your wireless signal. This type of information is going to be very valuable to you and give you, like I said, that more accurate.15:14Accurate rendering of your Wi Fi coverage. So, you know, yes, it is worth the time to take to actually add in, you know, these walls and whatnot, these other physical variables onto the maps themselves, to, to give you the true realization of what your Wi Fi looks like.15:33Alright, now another great way to add APs into Catalyst Center is by taking advantage of the plug and play features within Catalyst Center. Now to set up plug and play, you would actually go to your DHCP server and find option 43, and then you're gonna configure the correct information for Catalyst Center inside option.15:50Option 43. Now that option 43 configuration, it actually allows new devices to receive the Catalyst Center controller address.16:10During its DHCP discovery process. Now this process is, you know, essentially it's enabling automatic onboarding and provisioning of your network devices via plug and play. Okay, now once an AP is onboarded, either by way of manual creation or.16:19Plug and play or import. You can give the APs.16:39You can view the aep's status in the provision, then inventory page of catalyst centers, so you go to the hamburger menu in the top left hand corner. And if you hear myself or another CSS referred to the hamburger menu, we mean these three lines in the upper left hand corner. So you'd select that.16:44And then go to design and then network.17:03Now here we can actually see that the control, we actually are seeing the controller, you know, we can see where the APs are located, if it's reachable, the credential status for the design or for the device. One of the big things that is always, always nice to see are those green check marks. Green is usually always a good.17:08Good sign. So.17:27When you see, you know, reachability with the green check mark, that is means that, you know, pretty much everything's working the way it should and day and traffic is flowing properly. Now you can also go to your hierarchy and view the heat map of the APs. You just simply navigate back to the design network hierarchy page and select the floor that you wish to view. And if.17:30There is a map with associated APs, a2D network map can be displayed. You can change that view from two D to three D and then you can even select specific radio bands to view to see, you know, the coverage area for, you know, your 2.4 or maybe your six or 5 ghz. You can filter between.17:50Showing the different ones so that, you know, ultimately you get to, you get the chance, you get the control to view the information that is important to you while filtering out the noise that can occur when presented just with an abundance of data.18:10Now, want to talk real quick about the installation report and what I like to point out here is that the biggest benefit to having this installation report is that, does that a boots on the ground or a field engineer really has quick access or even potentially like a.18:26Printed physical copy that's been laminated, what not that they can travel around. But this has all the relevant information about your APs. This report provides information about the physical locations, individual APs settings.18:47And other just very valuable information that a field engineer is gonna find extremely helpful when it comes time to replace an AP or do any type of physical troubleshooting. You know, sometimes when you're out in the field, it's hard to bring up a, a laptop and go to catalyst center and connect and get the information about an AP, so this installation.19:01Report gives you, you know, digital or physical copy of, of.19:21The AP, settings and information so that you have it with and you don't have to look it up. Now, I am gonna go real quick and take you through a demonstration of the hierarchy itself. So bear with me here for one moment while I bring up. Hey, there we go. I'm what's the.19:26If it did timing out?19:45And yeah, we're still here. Okay, so when you get to Cisco Catalyst Center and you log in for the 1st time or not for the 1st time, but when you 1st log in, this is the dashboard. This is the landing page that you, that you come to. Now to build out the network hierarchy, we're going to go to this hamburger icon, this hamburger up here in the.19:47In the Left hand corner, we're gonna go to design and then network hierarchy. Now from when then the hierarchy you initially will start off at the global level. From here you can start to kind of whittle things down, narrow things down based on area.20:07So let's go to, I'm gonna go to North America. As you can see Matt kind of zoomed in a little bit. I personally am located in the North Carolina area, so let's go to North Carolina and you see that there's RTP one right here and RTP already has a 1st floor, but maybe I'm not at RTP and I've got a new location that's coming up at Cisco.20:23Go and I want to go ahead and add that into our hierarchy. I can just simply come to the three dots right here and then go to add building.20:43Now when you click the add building, it does ask you to put in a building name, so we're gonna name that Adam test and it's already got an address in there, it's got some latitude and longitude, but really it's gonna be right over here. So I'm gonna actually click this, click on the map, and by clicking on the map.20:52We're going to drop a pin on that map, and that pin is now going to be represented in the address and the latitude and longitude. So again, if you have a large campus, maybe where you just have the one physical address.21:12But several buildings, you can actually drop a pin on each building in your map and get an accurate repre accurate representation of the GPS latitude longitude and coordinates for that building. And yes, people have asked, you can't even drop the pin in a lake, and right there's an address and we even have a latitude and longitude.21:26For right here and like this.21:46All right, so that's, you know, kind of the basics of how you would add in, you know, create your hierarchy and the reason that I stress this hierarchy so much is that within the hierarchy or once the hierarchy is established, it's when you're going to start getting into, what your network settings and, well.21:49Let me show you what that involves.22:09As I, there we go. So now we've defined our wireless network, it's time to design the network, and you know that could be just a hair confusing, but it is defined and then designed.22:13So the hierarchy is built, the maps are loaded. Now what do you want to do or now what needs to happen. So now, now we add the specific network settings for our various networks. This is when you add your site specific network settings such as, you know, regional DNS servers, NTP servers. We also create location.22:31Specific device credentials or you can, I mean, and I've worked with companies that for security reasons, you know, site A, all the devices there have their network.22:52Credentials for logging in that catalyst center uses to log into the devices and site B has a totally separate set of credentials. That way if there's ever a breach, at least, you know, their various locations, the devices have different credentials set up and catalyst center can actually handle this for you. You just set them up, like I said, as a.23:02Site specific.23:22Set of credentials. Apologies. The other thing you can do is also just allow each of the nested areas and buildings to simply inherit the settings from the parent location and go about your business. You don't have to be fancy and take advantage of the site specifics or even the regional specifics. You can just allow it to inherit your global settings.23:25If you're a small infrastructure or maybe that's just how you wanna operate.23:44Now, I will say when you navigate to the network settings page and it's accessible, you go to design network settings and in the wireless tab. Now, when you track, when you go here, you'll be presented with a number of workflows that will help take your intent.23:48And turn it into reality. You see, you have the ability to create the ssids, RF profiles, VLANs, power profiles, and so on. And you get to create these using one of these workflows. Now, when you go through these workflows, all of that will then be applied to the appropriate network devices based on.24:06On where they are, you know, where they reside in your hierarchy, you know, so essentially.24:26Excuse me, this workflow will walk you through the required information needed for each setting so that your intent can then be translated into usable configurations for your devices. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the wireless profiles and tags and and what's involved here.24:32Now, the config model for the 9800 can be broken down into, you know, three major components here. We've 1st got the RF tag and that defines the RF properties the various radio bands that are going to be used. You know, maybe you just have 2.4 ghz that's gonna be used at one location and you've got all.24:53Three at another location. But these RF tags are what are, is going to contain the information of the RF properties that are gonna be used.25:12Next is the, the site tag. Now, the site tag actually defines the properties of the main and the remote site APs. The AP join profile and if it's being used, any flex profile come together to create this actual, to create the actual site tag itself.25:21And then lastly, and I'm gonna dive into these a little bit more here in just a moment. This is just a quick overview, but the policy tag is made up of the, the WLAN profile and, and the policy tag itself. So you've got the WLAN profile policy tag, and these will define things like the broadcast domain with the properties of the respective.25:41With ssids that will be in place at that site. So let's, let's kind of take a closer look at each of these and we're gonna start off with the WLAN profile. And as you can see, it's, it's got quite a hefty lift list of what's involved with it. Now it's comprised of a number of settings. You've got the WLAN ID.26:01You've got your SSID and your AAA server information and even band select is set up right here. Now the policy profile defines the, you know, the ACLs that might be in use at this location of any VLAN information, the ABC profile DHCP, but that is taken care of in the policy.26:21Profile. Now these two profiles are combined so that Catalyst Center will then use them as the policy tag.26:41Now, the site tag. The site tag is comprised of the AP join profile, and if you're using flex, it's gonna have that flex profile combined in there as well to create the site tag. Now this can be thought of as the settings for kind of like the, the physical AP itself. You've got your heartbeat timers, your discovery.26:52Every Timer the LED state, you know.27:12Kind of, like I said, kind of the more physical attributes with the, with the AP itself and how it's gonna function. Even the discovery timer is included in there, but these components actually are used to create the site tag. And then finally there's the RF tag and it's exactly what it sounds like. This defines the RF features and AP.27:16You're gonna use.27:36That, you know, I'm sorry, they define the the RF features that an AP is gonna use based on the RF profile assigned. Forgot that assigned part in there. So things like maximum rate, max clients, power thresholds, as well as limits for max and minimum power levels. These are all the type of settings that.27:38Will be specific to the various RF bands being used and they will be.27:58They will be applied in the RF tag from Catalyst Center. So to kind of tie all this back together and circle back where we started with this section, traditionally, this is how things used to be done. You had your WAN, your WLAN profile, your policy profile, your AP joint, you've got all these different profiles that you've got to keep.28:04Keep up with, but with Catalyst Center, it combines them into policy tag, site tag, and then you've even got, you know, your RF tag, but with catalyst center, it actually takes that policy tag and that site tag and then forms the network profile that the devices are going to use. The RF profile is still.28:24Comprised of, you know, the RF tags only. So, but this is how catalyst center can actually take, again, take that intent, make things a little bit easier, what you're trying to configure and apply it to the devices without you really having to keep up with remember just a laundry list of different commands to and processes.28:44To to get these settings in place. So now I'm actually going to let Manone take over May, if you would please ma'am, I cannot wait to hear what you have to say and what you have to share with us.29:04You are on mute May? And you are still on mute.29:24Oh sorry guys there we go. I was getting ready to, to share my screen and.29:44I had a little bit of a snaff if it happens. Thank you mate. So just to circle back to what we were saying, Callas Center has this different notion of how the config model should be. And this, this different notion is really.29:56Separating the policy tag and site tag into the network profile or wireless profile if you'd rather. And then you've got the basic RF profile with the AI RF or the AI RF profile. So, which one would it be? Well, if you're using AI enhanced RRM.30:16Super nifty tool, you would absolutely go AI RF profile, but otherwise you are going to have the basic RF profile. The components are still the same. The process and how they work is just slightly different. All right.30:35So, now that Adam has explained all of this, let's cause, you know, we're slowly creeping our way towards PNP. Let's talk SSID creation, ok? So we can create, we can get into that by going to design network setting.30:55Isn't wireless. So this is where we are here. So when we create the SSID, you are going to select a tile under the same name, and then so add, and then we're going to say, sorry about that when I move my mouse.31:15My slide is moving. We're going to do add and then we are going to populate all this, all the data that we want on our society. So if you haven't at this point, a short list, if you don't have that on your desk, a short list of the double.31:33Name, all the settings that you want on your SSID and all the advanced settings, your KVR and session timeouts and so on, you might want to get it. All right? So in basic settings, you're going to enter your WLAN name, you're going to enter the.31:53WLAN profile name, we're going to define our radio policies and the QoS.32:13That's also where we are going to say, set the advanced status. Okay, it's not going to be enabled till we're completely done with the process, but this is where we're going to say, we want it enabled, and also if you want to broadcast the SSID, that's where you're going to find that setting.32:19Alright, so we're going to go on and the workflow will bring you to configure the triple AAA servers and triple AAA server definition, and then the advanced settings. So as I mentioned, your KVNR, your NFP, how you want to do the.32:38The key management if you want to turn on WPA three or WPA two, all these settings.32:58This is where you're going to set them. So when I click next, the SSID will be created and will associate it to, that will associate it to a model config, and we're going to bundle everything into a wireless network profile.33:05So the wireless network profile will combine the SSID with like site specific settings, the epsos, all these good things, the CLI templates, the advanced setting, provision group, custom site tags, all these, all these good things. All right? So let's go through through the workflow.33:25So.33:45At this point we have the SSID, the RF profiles and the AP profiles, so we tie in the SSID and the policy profile here, and we're going to specify our interface. Then going into the model config, we're going to define.33:47Find our advanced society conf configuration, the cleaner, all these good things. And then complete the profile with site tag and the AT profile, and then well that we have a complete basic RF profile sorry slip at the top.34:06We have a complete wireless profile. Alright, so finally, we are at PNP. The PNP process here is is really for a greenfield controller, so your unboxing.34:24A new controller, it has some basic config and you want to configure it using Catalyst Center, ok? So this is what we're going to do here.34:44So to do PNP and that's one question that was asked before, we use, you can use option 43, you can also use DNS and and you'll you'll see a little bit later when I do the live demo all all the definitions that go through it.34:53But there's a special format to the option 43 that indicates the, the.35:14The catalyst center as the, the, you know, in option 43 usually with APs, you're going to say to give it the AP of the controller you want it to associate with. Well, this time you're going to use option 43 and the IP is going to be the IP of your catalyst center because you're doing the PNP.35:23So we have all our wireless definition wireless config definitions so we're going to go ahead and here you can see that I have NO device. So I'm going to add a new device. I could do that by a single add, a bulk ad or based on my smart account.35:43Here I'm gonna do a single add. So if I click single add, I'm going to get to a screen that will ask me for the serial number of the controller, and it's also going to ask me for the model and for the name.36:02Or just some random name, that I want to give it temporarily, ok? So if I was provisioning a whole bunch of them, I could call them, you know, delivery number 1234, and I'll I can always come back to that. All right? So.36:18That being said, here in the screen you can see that I have two unclaimed controllers that are available. So once we've discovered them with a PNP, they will be in the unclaimed category, right? And I can start the claiming process, which is basically.36:36The.36:56Really giving it a config, not just a day zero. We're going to give it a real config. So claiming it, I go to action and claim, and I'm going to, as I said, give it a name, I'm going to.36:56Find a site to it.37:16And then assign a config to it, as you can see. All right, so in assigning the configuration, I want to assign, as I said, the real name, where I'm going to assign the IP address of the WMI I'm going to.37:19To also populate like the subnet mass, the gateway, which interface I'm using and the VLAN.37:39Now, I will oops, assign the configuration. We're going to provision the templates. The templates would be any CLI templates that you would have created before. You could have a CLI template for multicast. I have someone somewhere in the rockies that really love that one.37:47So you could have an advanced template that you want to find the control to the controller when you're claiming it. So these are the templates that we're talking about.38:07Alright, so before I finalize my claim, I get to review all that I've that I've defined. I can review the configuration and once I click claim, it goes through a workflow. This workflow is.38:18Is, you can visualize it actually and it's refreshed. So you can see all the steps when you click on the provisioning item that you see just underneath here, can't see it completely, but you'll see it later in the live demo. I click on that and I can see the details and the history and the configuration.38:37Information that it's going through and I can even get some more info on what is being done.38:56All right, and I can also see how long it's taking, where is it in in the process. So as you can see here, this guy is actually proficient alright.39:04So, with that being said, let's take a look at what's happening here. So initially, as you see, the I will go to provision network devices plug and play.39:24And I've already went to action and oops, this is a problem with this demo. I apologize.39:44Rewind. So I go to plug and play, and somehow we really have a problem with this deck. Adam, we will need to revisit. Okay, so I went to my.40:02Unclaimed device, I didn't have any so when once I did the bulk add, what happened is that it discovered finally an AP not an AP, but a wireless LAN controller. And then I can go on and claim this controller.40:22Okay, so going through the claim process, I'm going to assign my device name, I'm going to assign the site. I'm going to then go on and assign all the IP addresses and the WMI, the gateway, all this good stuff. If I wanted to add a an image, I could also do that at this point.40:39Point, right?40:59And doing the claim, as you can see, we're moving more, we're moving along, we've set the claim the the we completed the claim job and slowly but surely you'll see the device status evolved to.41:01Device claimed and then clicking you can see all the workflow that it's going through. See it's, it was executing the the workflow. So now.41:20The, the controller is fully provisioned and the status will be green and eventually, if I come to provision an inventory I'm gonna be able to see it. And it's going to be managed.41:36And reachable so if you would rather do the do things manually, if you want just to import your catalyst center.41:52For discovery without your PMP. You will need a basic config, so, it it's very similar to when you start with the WLC, you have to set a couple of default settings, so you would need a host name, ideally, of course, your admin user, your enabled secret, you'll need to have.42:10Have SNMP configured netconf yang, ideally because that's how it communicates with Catalyst Center. You want to have your WMI, you want to have your regulatory domain defined and you might have to reload the device. By the way, if you use the day zero.42:30Flow on the 90 hundred, it will create an SSID and a AAA config, you should have removed that before discovery, ok?42:50Alright, so now let's let's let's do, let's do a greenfield provisioning alright? There's a key difference between provisioning and onboarding.42:59The onboarding is like me when I put all my reading glasses. So the the reading glasses are allowing me to be able to assess the situation better, but really it's not changing me, right? So.43:15The onboarding is used for assurance. A lot of you are still configuring your controllers through their GUI and that's perfectly fine. But if you want to bring them in Catalyst Center or if you have brought them in Catalyst Center, this is what we call onboarding. So.43:30In other words, you put some glasses on your controller so that you can see or you can see better, you can gain visibility into your network. Now, for, for provisioning a controller, that's when you're going to do really the entire thing, from.43:49From catalyst center, ok? So it's a little bit I'd say it's it's it's it's a little bit when you provision a device, if you provision your controller, what you have to keep in mind is that you should try to do the config.44:09Broadband then we'll see and not in catalyst center and not in the GUI of the the controller. If it if you're if you're, you're deciding to do your configuration entirely from catalyst center, ok? You can always do show commands, you can always sh in it or use the GUI.44:27Of the will see for visibility, but be careful, ok? Because changing beat If you're attempted to change something directly on the controller through the GUI or through SSH, you know, it's a little bit like the rule of the proton pack and ghostbusters, so you should never really cross the stream.44:47If you're doing everything in, in catalyst center, with, with a very, very, very limited number of exceptions, you should keep your.45:06All your operations in catalog center, if you're provisioned, if you're onboarded and you want to do your configuration through the gluey or through the CLI, then keep everything in the GUI and the CLI. All right? So what we need to do before we provision the device, we need to.45:17Sure that the device is assigned to a site, which we did earlier on when we did the claim in PNP, we have to select our wireless profile based on the device type. So.45:37We need to to assign it to the same site as the controller, and we have to specify the primary and secondary managed AP location and configure any interfaces to push a controller such as push to the controller, so any client VLAN, e.g..45:51So we're gonna go ahead and click on action and click on provision and click on provision device. On the configuration page, you need to check the WLC WLC rows. If you have a foreign anchor set up and you, you think that you.46:11You want to provision an anchor controller, you would select anchor here, right? So you've got.46:30The anchor, so that's what you would select. Now if, you are not doing well and that's not what we're doing here, we're going to keep the setting main active WLC, by the way.46:37You have also, we only have one interface going on the controller, but if you have a layer three interface, you can also configure its IP gateway and that net net net mask here, so.46:58Yeah, important detail. Next, if you go through the model config, you can set a configuration for the SSID including any any WLAN profile names, any WLAN IDs, ssids, and then you fall onto the CLI templates. So once again.47:12If you have advanced configurations like my.47:32My western kennake friend, who has multicast CLI templates or any advanced templates that you would like to apply to your controller. That is where you're going to do it. So once assigned the templates will appear under the device templates page during provision.47:37Where you can select the ones that you want to push the controller and then.47:57We're we get that step after that we're going to get to the summary page here and we can click next and confirm that the the job is to our liking and that we we are really going to provision, so.48:03There you go, a couple of.48:23Initial checks, there are NO pending operations so NO jobs that were left pending before that and the device is compliance, so we're going to provision. All right? So just before the one last step, if you're like me and you like to wear both the bells and suspenders.48:25You get a config preview of what's going to be provisioned. This is yag, but it's still easily readable. So what you can do is review all this configuration before you launch the.48:46The deployment of the, of the device provisioning just to make sure that this is really what you want. All right, so you can see that provisioning status has changed to configuring and it's going to take a little bit of time for everything to.49:01Get configured. So.49:21For any, if any point at any point in time you see that there is a field missing. You can always go to the gear icon. This is by the way, the provision inventory screen. So, this screen, if you feel that any focus area.49:25That's true for provisioning, but that's also true for, for all the other focus areas. If ever you feel that there's missing fields and you'd like to see more, you can always come here to the gear and add some fields, and that way you will be able to see all the information.49:44That you'd like to see.50:04Alright, so because I'm not one to wait in front of my screen and I like to know what's, what's going on, I'd like to take a look at, this, this process, see what's happening right now. So I can see that it actually made it to, to the vice.50:07Provisioning, the controllability, the telemetry, the model config provisioning, the HA provisioning and device controllability and telemetry. So this this green is.50:27As, as green goes, always good. This shows you the entire process of provisioning the the controller and it will pull you into where it's where it is in in provisioning your configuration.50:40So if you are curious and you won't see live what's happening, you can still take a look at the GUI of your controller, ok? No configuration while it's configuring from catalyst center. But if you take a look here, this is a caption of something that was being pushed while I was provisioning.51:00My controller. You can see that I went to configuration security and I now have a DNAC.51:20A radius server that that's defined. So that's another way of doing validation. So you can go through and check out maybe AAA profiles or policy profiles, wlans or site tags from the view of your 9800 to see, where, where they're at, right?51:27Where is the process at? In addition to the visibility that you already have in catalyst center. So I'm always curious. I like to watch that kind of stuff. You know, my coworkers, like Adam like to say that I'm.51:47That I'm a complete geek, but I completely assume myself, right? Okay, so you can also do PNP for, for eight pS. So, and that's a little bit more details about PNP discovery and the the process is really detailed here.52:00For access points, but it's very similar to the process that we go through when we're doing PNP for a controller in that it's going to use DNS.52:20The, the tidy detail is that usually when we do PNP with access points, we want it, as I said, to, to have the IP address of the controller. So if you do that through Catalyst Center, the slight detail is going to be that.52:31That you're going to replace, if you're using DNS, you're going to replace your cap web-controller-local cisco cap web controller.local domain or or the option 43 IP address of the, the WLC, you're going to replace re.52:49Place that with the address of catalyst center. So if you use DNS, it's going to be PMP server.local domain. If it's DHCP, it's going to be this string here.53:09It does have a, a big meeting, but if I cut it short, the meaning of this string is basically the 1st four digits are saying that we're doing PNPV one without debugs and then the following digits they they're saying that we're doing, we're going to give an IP address and.53:23And that we're going to use HTTP as a protocol to reach it. The I has to be there and then you've got the IP address of.53:43Of catalyst center. And then it's followed by G and the protocol. So join it using port 80. Alright? So if when when when that when that happens, if ever the the the.53:54The APs are automatically showing in in inventory because the controller was, was discovered. They might require manual site assignment and provisioning. It all depends on the flavor of what you're doing, but.54:14Oh, that's that's usually that's usually how it shows. So let's let's go ahead and do a bulk ad of APs. We're not going to use the option, 43 or DNS method, so doing a manual import, you can do the single bulk.54:29Okay add and smart account add as we, as we saw earlier, smart account would be by the way, used with smart licensing. So within the smart pull smart smart licensing portal, you would be able to get a CSV file of all the devices that.54:49That you have that you could import and then you can edit it tailor it to your, your liking. All right? So, just in case you're worried about the file format, it's possible, as you can see here to download a file.55:09Template. So you're going to define a few things that are mandatory and others that are, that can be skipped.55:27Sorry, I've got a very sensitive mouse. I'll stop touching. So what you want to, to bear in mind, try to have your serial number, your product ID, and then, device name, site profile, management IP. We have the subnet mask, the gateway, and then if you don't.55:37Nope know the rest, you can just.55:57Use a comma as a placeholder so that it's going to be skipped. All right? So we have that that way when you're constructing your, your file, you can import it as a CSV and if ever there's a problem with your file, when you do the import, you're.55:59Going to get a red x, so that will let you know that there's a problem with your, your, your template file to do the bulk import. And this is what will plue you in that you have to review the file and then once it's finally green, like what we see on the screen here.56:20You'll be able to click on import devices right here. So, doing the import device, you're going to see once they're imported, you're going to see those two APs that we were trying to add. We're going to see them here.56:39We're going to check the boxes instead of clicking on add device and we're going to.56:59To go ahead and click on add and claim so we can go through the PMP process. Because we're doing the bulk, the source discovery method of DNS or option 40 the.57:06The source, the source is going to be changed from network to user, ok? So, since we're using the uploaded CSV file, here, as you can see, the, the source is going to be user.57:21Here, a quick note oh yeah this these are planned APs once we go through the process, the IP and the MAC address of the devices will be also populated populated here as well.57:40Okay, so here is the day zero configuration preview for those APs that we're about to deploy. So you can see it here, we've got the RF tag. We've got the policy tag, we've got the the primary WLC.58:00We've got the the IP and the name and the site tag name.58:20So when they're going through the joining process they will attempt to connect to your controller. So we def we told it, hey, you know, you should, you should go to this controller and controller will detect that the APs have joined and callist center will resync the controller in the.58:26Inventory as you can see here, and when that will be done, the AP will become visible in catalyst Centre under the inventory, so you'll see that it's available for operations as you can see here.58:46Right? So we're back in our default focus area, and you can see that the APs that we have, well actually we have all the devices, so the controller is actually reachable, managed and compliant, and we can see that both APs are reachable and managed and.59:03And they have been assigned a site and they we can see their image version and IP address.59:23They're ready for operations. So what will get pushed to the AP if you were to check, you'd see that there's an AP name, there's a location, there's a mode, there's a country code, and you can expand on, all these information. So if you were looking at.59:30At that from at at the the whole process.59:50From the 9800, this is what you would see. And by the way, if you wanted to see a little bit more detail on what, what the policy, the policy tags and the site tags and the RF tags are, if you click one of those blue boxes, you're going to see, that's a very nifty visual way of looking at.59:54At, at the, the whole constructs around the AP. So you can see that we've got the WLAN policies. We can see that the status of the the WLAN, so it's green. We can see that the VLAN ID is one, it's using WPA two. We can see the site properties.01:00:14We can see that it's using a default AP joint profile the lens are on, it's detecting it's detecting rows, but it's in local mode, and we can also see that the RF properties are set for a high client density both on five and 2.4.01:00:34I really like this view. I think that it speeds a lot. Alright, so if I was to redo everything that we've seen here, you can see that if I upload my, my devices from my CSV.01:00:54Oh, I don't like these demos. Okay, so I will do the bulk end. I have the file, alright, those two APs that I want to add and claim.01:01:13Set the name, device type, and then provision all the templates. All right. Excellent. So you can see that these are set as planned AP and the devices are.01:01:30Excellent. All right, everything's good so you can see the onboarding progress and the state of every.01:01:52Thing here. So these would open the two windows that I showed you earlier with the status of everything and coming back to the inventory, you can see now that the APs are reachable, they are managed, and everything is good to go.01:02:07So if I look at them, in terms of their real APs, they were the two APs that I we were, we originally planned and they are now showing as active. They are green, they're, you can see the 2.4 and five status, you can see all the information and.01:02:31They lost the little P and they now have the little L logo in the middle of the pug, of the hockey pug. Sorry, Canadian right? So you have the P the the L in the middle of the hockey park that says that it's in local mode.01:02:51All right, everything that we talked about so far has been a lot about, about greenfield. So brand new controller, brand new APs, we're rolling them in and and all of that, but most of the world.01:03:05Has brownfield deployments. We used to do a process that was called learn device. Well, learn device is now deprecated. It was something that we had, a little bit of trouble had trouble with and our customers.01:03:22We're experiencing bugs, so we decided to go back to the drawing board and redesign it. And so we came up with something that we now call campus automation.01:03:42So campus automation is, 1st of all, very effective. It will allow you to use your controllers and do the configuration from Catalyst Center in a brownfield, so it will be it will discover and you will send API calls to the controller to.01:03:55To actually configure it. This is also called per device configuration and if you want to see if you could do it on your own controllers, if you come here in the, in the devices and you take a look at your WLC, if it's not doing.01:04:15Per device yet, but it is eligible, you will have a little bit of a logo here and it's it's going to tell you per device configuration. This is what it is, right? And when you do per device configuration, all the fields that you have to configure are are here. So this brings.01:04:35Puts you back to a lot of the.01:04:55A lot of the ways that some some people were doing things with prime, right? You can see all the configuration of your controller. Well, this is an enhanced version of that. It's not necessarily based on it, but.01:04:59It makes me think of it, and it will allow you to do your management through, through your, through your catalyst centers, so you would, you would be able to actually deploy your WLAN from here. You could take a look at DRF and change a couple of.01:05:15Configurations, and you do it all from a single point.01:05:35So, ok, let's see here, alright, I'm going to bring you back to PNP for just a quick.01:05:42Minute. If you were going to brownfield, an AP using PNT.01:06:03We'll assume that you have existing controllers in production with tags profiles and at least one AP already joined, so you want you want to.01:06:10Ensure that the controller is already discovered in center that it's added to a site and that telemetry is enabled and before APs were tagged with using using policy site and tags, but this method was slow. So we find that.01:06:26Using a 3rd device configuration on the controller is a little bit faster, ok?01:06:46So let's do the AP plug and play onboarding template. We're going to create that very simply. This is ginger. Some preferred velocity, but, it it for Jinja is more than readable.01:06:53My my coworker Aaron would slap my fingers for saying that so ok so let's let's take a look. The project name will be, onboarding configuration here. It's going to be a regular template. It's going to be agenda template as we.01:07:11That and of course the software type will be iOS XE and the device family will be.01:07:31Wireless controller. Okay, so this is what the template would be would look like. So we have to find the primary WLC IP, name, secondary.01:07:39Secondary, configure configured a WLC IP name, policy tag name, site tag name, and then RF tag name, and then we also have the primary, as as we said primary WLC of course always super important.01:07:59Okay, if you were doing a bulk ad to import those brownfield APs, same CSV format for the AP import, so serial number, product ID, device name, you don't configure a site.01:08:21And, if you set a profile that will, that will set the device type to AP, so it's not going to be tagged Mobility express. Alright, so let's add those devices in bulk.01:08:41Okay, and now we're going to attach the template. After we attach the template to the two APs, we'll finish the claimant process and.01:09:04To move this along a little bit quicker, there's gonna be a shop NO shut that's done so that the AP and you can see the AP in the Mac pop address populate a little bit faster. So if we go back to the controller, we can see that we have a total of now three.01:09:24APs on the controller all with the correct tags and applied APs.01:09:44Applied to the APs that is alright so provisioning the templates, checking the job, and.01:09:50Our two templates are actually provisioned. Alright, I promise I won't mess this up. This is a demo of the process. So this is the graphic view.01:10:06I had to say it, right? This is the graphic view of this, of this nifty tool that we have available clicking on the on the blue little square that you have. You also have this available. So we've got our two planned APs.01:10:27That are here, alright, we've got our two templates, very simple templates, right? There you go.01:10:45Let's go to plug and play. We're going to bulk add those devices. We have our list of devices that are being onboarded at this time, ok, assign device type.01:11:07No site, hold that site, assign the templates, alright, click on next. This is the finished product and there you go. So we shut NO shut the the.01:11:23The interface, and now we have the entire data. All right? So see we've got three APs and those three APs all have their different profiles we were checking out what they look like.01:11:41Like, and the mapping was also done automatically in inventory, they're not compliant, managed reachable, and ready to operate.01:12:01All right, one more thing before I let you go. Usually what we like to see is redundancy in the wireless network and catalyst center high availability the high availability for the 9800, you can see from Catalyst Center and you can manage from catalyst center. So a little bit.01:12:14Information to do the process and then we're going to move on the demo. So you want your active and and standby controllers to be added to the inventory, the controllers should be of the same type of version. The WMI interfaces is are configured including the one on standby and.01:12:34And, you know, if, if the standby was not imported, best way to import it would be PMP to import it.01:12:54These are the same requirements that you would have if you were doing this on a non caller center set up. All right? So we're going to go to provision and so provision inventory.01:13:02And we're going to select our controller and we'll go to provision in action, provision, configure WLCHA. And what we'll do here is we're going to define the RP port for the two WLC, and we're also going to.01:13:19Find the RMI. Now remember that recent best practice encourages you to not only depend on an RP but also to depend on an RMI to, to avoid the situations where you have.01:13:39Stuck inactives or you know the little loops in, in your networks, you know, it's just avoid some nasty situations. Alright, so once you're going for HA, you have to know that of course.01:13:54You know, and this is the warning on your screen, the WC WLC will reboot once the HA is enabled. So it's warning you. Of course you want to do that during a maintenance window. All right? So there we go.01:14:11You can see that both controllers are now unreachable, and then eventually when the boat clusters come up, of course the standby will not be reachable if you were doing a ping on it, it won't be reachable because they are now.01:14:30Bundled into a unit, right? If you want to check the status of those controllers now that they're in HA, you can come to the provision inventory and you're going to see that little logo, the, those two blue squares, and those two blue squares mean that they are an HA pair.01:14:50If you hover over it.01:15:10You'll see that you get the redundancy summary, so we can see that it's primary we'll see is CLLB CLLB local and then you've got one HACLB local or secondary. We can see that the redundancy state is SSL and the sync stat.01:15:12This is the duplex.01:15:32So a couple of very important things here is that if ever something goes south, for any reason, the lo the color of the logo will change and there's also the sync status that will, that will read symplex because one of the he pair members is.01:15:34Having an issue. So you can actually monitor from this little snapshot, this little.01:15:54A window, the status of your redundancy cluster. If you were to come to the 9800, if you go to monitoring general system, you'll see that you can actually.01:16:04Okay, you can actually check the redundancy status by going to the redundancy item. So just here and going into general, you can see my state, the peer state, and you can get.01:16:22The operational model, the Mac address, the RMI, all the good information that you get in Catalos Center it's all already here as well. So.01:16:38In terms of sync status, that's an image of what I was telling you about. So sync status is simplest here because there's an issue. The logo has turned red, so you should really, you should really take a look at the situation if you need to.01:16:55Do we have the HA SSO analysis. That is a report that will do a root cause analysis of the situation and it will come to it's a little bit like running the MRE engine on some of the issues that you see in caller center. So it's going to check a couple of items.01:17:15Is, the controller manageability, the DNA center, well.01:17:35By the way, we, we keep saying caller centers DNA center. They are one in the same. This is by the way version 237 and 2379 to be precise and sometimes there are still a few breadcrumbs in the interface of the change of we apologize.01:17:40Guys for that. So it's going to evaluate the the the center platform. It's going to check the RP and RMI status. It's going to check primary device status in the HA pair and then it's going to give you a list of conclusions. So these conclusions.01:18:00This could be, oh, ok, the standby controller has NO power. So that's why, that's why you're not getting anything.01:18:20And it's going to give you a list of suggested actions, just in case, you know, there was something that had been done an interface had been checked, something like that. If it's a physical thing like you're seeing here, I would I would directly go to to see if the power is ok on the standby.01:18:30And once you've addressed anything that you can address, you can press the run again button up here and that run again button will redo the checks and redo an assessment so that you get the status of the.01:18:50Of the HOS HSSO pair now that you've tried to resolve it. All right? Okay, so if I was doing the HSSO.01:19:07And this is starting way behind. So we're going to move along a little bit because we have still a lot of information for you, so.01:19:23Alright, let's do the HASSO. So.01:19:39It went really fast, but I went into two action and then I configured my let me replay this a little slower for you. Okay, let's do a friendly frame just like hockey, right?01:19:55I'm hoping that the hats win tonight. So I will go to action and then provision configure HA, I'm gonna fill in the information for this form.01:20:13So RMI, warning will be rebooted. Okay, so everything is being synced. And let's see.01:20:33By the way, you do realize that once you have created your HA pair, the secondary will disappear as you just saw here. Let me rewind just a little bit. See, I had CL one HA, that was my secondary.01:20:55It's going to disappear. Look, because they are now an HA pair. And see, you've got the little logo. This logo, if we click on it, see, we have the redundancy state SSL.01:21:12Duplex, all is good. I've got my active and standby RMI IT, right? And This brings me back to Adam. Adam I've been talking a whole lot, but I think that we.01:21:28Might still have a few minutes to talk about another nifty feature that we have in catalyst center. And that's especially handy for those controllers. That's the software image management. So I think that you've got a live demo for that.01:21:48Back to you. Hey, you may. As always may, you are an unbelievable wealth of knowledge when it comes to Wi Fi and I appreciate everything you had to share with us today. Now, I am going to.01:22:04Do a, we're gonna go through some of the swim features right now. Now swim itself can actually be, you know, there's enough content within the swim topic that we could, you know, take up an entire session, but to, you know, kind of give you.01:22:19You know, the, the quick version of swim. The 1st thing to I want to make you aware of is that we actually have the, if you go to design and then the image repository. Now, this is where all of your images actually currently live. You can see the number of different.01:22:37Devices, how many images total there are, if there's any security advisories associated with those images. I'm gonna click here on my 9300 series switch.01:22:56Now, what we're looking at here is that we can see all the different various versions of software that are currently residing on Catalyst Center for the 9300 switches. If it was a version of software that we could, you know.01:23:07Maybe that we wanted to download, you would see an down arrow with a line under it here where this image status is because that would be notifying you to then download the image. But this is also where you come to set your golden image. You can take the image that you want to set as your golden standard for a device or family of devices.01:23:22Based on their role or tags applied to them.01:23:42Here within the image repository, you select the device type that you're looking for, and then within the list of image names come down and you can click on the, you know, you can then mark this image as the golden image.01:23:47Now, for the golden images, and there are, you know, within Catalyst Center, there are other ways to download the images. You can manually download images. You go to software.cisco.com outside of Catalyst Center and download the images. Maybe you're in an air gapped environment, that type of thing.01:24:02So you can go manually download the images, put them on a drive or a.01:24:23Another media format to where you can then upload them into Catalyst Center without having to go to software.cisco.com directly from Catalyst Center. Now, so when you mark the golden image, where this, you know, really comes into play is I want to show you what this looks like in the inventory.01:24:28Review. So from the inventory, let's see, we got 5 min. Okay, from the inventory page, we actually have a something called a focus, and what this is, is.01:24:48You can tell looking at this screen or maybe you can't tell, but when you look at the screen here, there are a number of columns that you can add or remove to be able to see the information that is pertinent for you. When you select a focus, it automatically selects some of those important topics to put right there front and center for you to view.01:25:02So you can see that now when I switch to software image, we now have the device names, the IP address, family, if it's reachable, and then the software image that's currently running as well if there's any update that needs to occur. We can see here that a lot of these are currently up to date.01:25:21However, maybe you do need to update an image, and there's actually a number of ways you can do this. You can begin with by just selecting the individual devices and then come to action, software image, and then update image. Now what that's going to do is it's actually going to start the image update.01:25:39Workflow. Our devices are already listed in here and you know just like with anything, we, you know, any of the the workflows you gotta put a name with it. So I'm gonna name it that, then go next and this is kind of what I was talking about where when you go through these workflows and you actually.01:26:00Provide the information that it's requesting and answer some of the questions. It will then take the the information gathered in that workflow and that is what then gets turned into the configuration that's then pushed out to the network devices.01:26:20So, you know, the, it says I don't have any network devices because they're all up to date. I don't have any network devices available to upgrade at this moment. So I'm going to actually upgrade that workflow and another way that you can do it is oh oh let me go back to my focus and just.01:26:35To kind of show you what some of these other ones look like.01:26:53If you select the inventory focus, again, you've got the reachability EOX compliance, and compliance really is another one where SWIM can come into effect. We can actually click and look at why this device is not compliant. And you can see that for this device to.01:26:57You know for for it to be marked as compliance. It's got a number of different topics here. You got the EOX end of life, network settings, any application visibility issues, fabric issues, but then right here, if this was running a different version of software, we see it's green, it's running the golden image. You'd actually have.01:27:16Red X here and then it would show you what the golden image is for that device, what you've already configured in the system settings for that device be running that, that specific golden image. But I wanted to, let's go back to provision.01:27:36Inventory I'm gonna show you this another way real quick, is that when you are viewing the oops, I clicked inventory when I meant to click software image, from this page right here, maybe if you don't, you don't select all the individual devices, you see, oh, image update right here at the top.01:27:54Just click image update and then once again, that workflow of the image update workflow, this is the same workflow. However, this time we just don't have the devices pre selected when the workflow kicks off. And just like the previous way, just continue walking your way through this workflow to then update the images themselves.01:28:12Okay.01:28:31One other thing, you know what? Oh do do do do do do. Come here, go to design. We're gonna go back to the yes, I want to exit the workflow, go back to our image repository. You do have the ability, availability to filter.01:28:36I.01:28:52I see that we're running, you know, now we are a little short on time. So what I'm going to do is that we are gonna go ahead and wrap some things up. So, you know, granted the information that I just provide you with swim that, you know, it it wasn't, it wasn't enough to be, you know, to really help you grab a hold of it and and fully grab.01:28:53That's what swim is. Swim it's is like I said, software image management. It allows you to designate software versions for device families based on the device type, location, role within your network. You set golden images, you can kick off upgrades. You can actually go ahead and begin the upper.01:29:13Upgrade process, where catalyst center can then push the new image out to the device but then schedule it to actually be applied at a later point in time like in the evening during a maintenance window. It's a great feature within swim. That way you don't have to get up at 02:00 A.M. and actually kick off an upgrade. You can go ahead and kick it off during the day.01:29:33And then it just won't become active until the middle of the night. Now, a few things to remember about today's session is that, you know, all the tools to support you in all the phases of the wireless life cycle are integrated into Catalyst Center. If you aren't sure where a tool is or how to use one, reach out to customer success, reach out to.01:29:53Csss and we are here to help you with your adoption to help answer those questions so that you are getting full value of your catalyst center.01:30:13Plug and play. Fantastic tool to actually deploy wlcs, APs, even, you know, switches and other network devices. And, you know, I've I'm not gonna harp on any more, but intent based configurations. That's, you know, it's a key thing. Wireless is a handful. That's why I'm so thankful to have me as part of my team is, is there's a lot.01:30:22What's going on with wireless? So Catalyst Center using that intent based networking actually can help you stay on top of things.01:30:42Now, if you'd like to view this session again or register for future sessions, you can visit the URL on your screen or, and that'll take you to our little corner of the Cisco verse where you can view the recordings and even register for future sessions. Now at the end of today's session, you will be presented with a survey we ask that you please fill that out.01:30:50So that we can get that valuable feedback to better tailor our our sessions for you. With that, I would like to say thank you for joining us today. I know your time is valuable and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.01:31:10