Cisco Catalyst Assurance User Guide, Release 3.3.1
Cisco Catalyst Assurance User Guide, Release 3.3.1
Provides a comprehensive overview of Cisco Catalyst Assurance, detailing its capabilities to deliver proactive and predictive network monitoring, actionable insights, and system-guided troubleshooting to ensure optimal client, application, and service performance.
This table summarizes the new and changed features in Cisco Catalyst Assurance and tells you where they are documented.
| Feature | Description |
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Support for monitoring the health of steering policies |
Catalyst Center supports the monitoring and troubleshooting the health of service insertion sites and traffic steering policies in the Assurance dashboard. Refer to Monitor and Troubleshoot Steering Policy Health, View open issues, and Issue Instance Details for steering policy issues. |
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Support for monitoring the health of URWB networks |
Catalyst Center supports the monitoring and troubleshooting the health of Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) networks. The URWB Health dashboard provides visibility into URWB network status, link performance, RF quality metrics, and throughput statistics for Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points operating in URWB mode. Refer to Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul, Monitor and troubleshoot the health of your URWB network, Monitor and troubleshoot the health of a URWB network, Issue Instance Details for URWB network issues. |
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AI PCAP Analysis for wireless controllers |
Catalyst Center supports AI PCAP analysis which simplifies wireless troubleshooting by using machine learning to analyze packet captures for client onboarding failures. Refer to Configure AI PCAP Analysis, and Perform AI PCAP Analysis. |
Provides the architecture, design principles, and role-based access requirements for Assurance.
Explains how machine learning and reasoning identify network anomalies and provide comparative benchmarking.
Details the procedural workflow for discovering devices, building network hierarchies, and managing inventory.
Describes how to use the global dashboard for a high-level health status of your entire enterprise.
Guides administrators through monitoring device-specific KPIs and health scores across various hardware categories.
Provides comprehensive procedures for monitoring and troubleshooting the health of wired and wireless client devices within your network.
Covers the monitoring of application visibility, experience, and the installation/management of ThousandEyes agents.
Provides steps to monitor core infrastructure services including AAA, DHCP, and DNS.
Explains how to manage fabric sites, virtual networks, and transit nodes within an SD-Access deployment.
Outlines monitoring and troubleshooting the health of security service insertion and traffic steering policy.
Details the use of Site Analytics for setting thresholds and monitoring trends across sites, buildings, and floors.
Outlines how to triage, resolve, or ignore system-generated issues using the Issue dashboard and Machine Reasoning Engine.
Covers the monitoring and analysis of syslog messages and endpoint events.
Provides instructions for deploying wireless sensors and managing automated test templates.
Explains how to assess and validate the readiness of your infrastructure for Wi-Fi 6E/7.
Details the configuration and monitoring of PoE telemetry for power-capable devices.
Outlines monitoring and troubleshooting the health of security service insertion and traffic steering policy.
Instructs users on creating, duplicating, and customizing personalized dashboards.
Describes advanced analytical tools for network performance benchmarking and RF monitoring.
Covers the configuration of packet captures, anomaly detection, and spectrum analysis.
Cisco Catalyst Assurance allows you to configure the SSID monitoring settings for specific SSIDs.
Explains the functionality and limitations of the path trace feature for troubleshooting connectivity between nodes.
Details the integration of Cisco CMX to visualize client and device location on floor maps.
Describes how to access and interpret logs for configuration changes made to Assurance components.