Cisco Industrial Network Director Data Sheet

Built to manage industrial networks, the Cisco^® Industrial Network Director (IND) is designed to help operations teams gain full visibility of network and automation devices for improved system availability and performance.

Ethernet networks comprise an integral part of modern automation and control environments, and operations personnel are growing increasingly dependent on network monitoring to reduce unplanned downtime.

The Cisco IND provides operations-centric network management for industrial Ethernet networks. The system delivers an integrated topology map of automation and networking assets to provide a common framework for operations and plant IT personnel to manage and maintain the industrial network.

The system uses the full capabilities of the Cisco Industrial Ethernet product portfolio to make the network accessible to non-IT operations personnel. The simple user experience streamlines network monitoring and delivers rapid troubleshooting of common network problems found in industrial environments.

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Cisco Smart Licensing

Cisco Smart Licensing is a flexible licensing model that provides you with an easier, faster, and more consistent way to purchase and manage software across the Cisco portfolio and across your organization. And it’s secure – you control what users can access. With Smart Licensing you get:

●      Easy Activation. Smart Licensing establishes a pool of software licenses that can be used across the entire organization—no more PAKs (Product Activation Keys).

●      Unified Management. My Cisco Entitlements (MCE) provides a complete view into all of your Cisco products and services in an easy-to-use portal, so you always know what you have and what you are using.

●      License Flexibility. Your software is not node-locked to your hardware, so you can easily use and transfer licenses as needed.

In order to retrieve your Smart Licenses, you will first need to set up a Smart Account on Cisco Software Central (software.cisco.com).

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Subscription offer structure

Table 1.        IND offer structure

The Cisco Industrial Network Director is licensed on a per-device, term subscription basis. Each customer is licensed fora certain number of devices through a termination date.

Licenses for managing Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches are ordered in increments of one unit device, with a subscription term of 1, 3, or 5 years.

Customers can choose a subscription billing model of either a monthly payment for the duration of the term or prepaid for the whole term.

Within the subscription term, the offer includes:

●      License to manage a fixed count of Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switches

●      Cisco Industrial Network Director Software along with access to all maintenance, minor, and major system upgrades, and patches

Customers also have the option to purchase support services for the duration of the subscription term

Ordering information

For ordering information please refer to the Cisco Industrial Network Director ordering guide here.

Services and support

Cisco Industrial Network Director offers an optional Basic Tier Software Support Service (SWSS) with 24-hour access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as detailed in the SWSS Basic Tier description here.

Supported devices

Table 2.        Devices Cisco IND supports

System requirements

Table 3.        Minimum system requirements, and lists client browser requirements

Cisco environmental sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions, operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:

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Get full visibility and control of your automation network today with Cisco Industrial Network Director.

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