Release Notes for Cisco Catalyst Center, Release 3.1.5
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Catalyst Center, Release 3.1.5
Catalyst Center, Release 3.1.5
Cisco Catalyst Center is a comprehensive network management solution with functionality that spans all aspects of modern network management, including design, discovery, policy, provisioning, predictive analytics, intelligent monitoring, visibility, and compliance. Catalyst Center includes built-in automation and simplified workflows to help ensure efficiency and consistency in operations.
This document describes the features, limitations, and bugs for Catalyst Center, Release 3.1.5.
Note: Catalyst Center 3.1.5 is available as a controlled availability release. Contact your Cisco sales representative to request access to this release.
Table 1. Change history to this document since its initial release
| Date |
Change |
Location |
| 2025-10-21 |
Revised supported firmware details. |
|
| 2025-10-10 |
Added an upgrade limitation about Software Image Management (SWIM) upgrades for Catalyst IE3200, IE3300, and IE3400 switches. |
|
| 2025-10-01 |
Initial release |
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Package versions in Catalyst Center 3.1.5
Table 2. Package versions in Catalyst Center 3.1.5
| Package name |
Release 3.1.5 |
| Release build version |
|
| Release version |
3.1.5-75246 |
| System updates |
|
| System |
3.1.175 |
| System Commons |
2.732.65542 |
| System Addons |
0.10.51 |
| Package updates |
|
| Access Control Application |
2.732.65542 |
| AI Endpoint Analytics |
1.11.1708 |
| AI Network Analytics |
4.0.34 |
| Application and Service Remediation |
3.15.24 |
| Application Hosting |
2.3.325091505 |
| Application Visibility and Policy |
2.732.117669 |
| Assurance |
3.150.171 |
| Assurance – Sensor |
3.150.151 |
| Automation - Intelligent Capture |
2.732.65542 |
| Automation – Sensor |
2.732.65542 |
| Catalyst Center API Catalog |
6.8.103 |
| Catalyst Center Gateway Service |
0.10.8-3 |
| Cisco Catalyst Center Global Search |
6.9.4 |
| Cisco Catalyst Center Platform |
6.9.54 |
| Cisco Catalyst Center UI |
3.5.147 |
| Cisco Identity Services Engine Bridge |
3.150.3 |
| Cisco Umbrella |
2.732.595019 |
| Cloud Connectivity |
6.10.15 |
| Cloud Connectivity - Contextual Content |
7.0.9 |
| Cloud Connectivity – Digestor |
7.0.5 |
| Core Platform |
0.10.219 |
| Disaster Recovery |
2.732.365035 Note: This package is available only for the on-premises hardware appliance, not for the virtual appliance. |
| Cloud-Connectivity-Datahub |
6.10.29 |
| Group Based Policy Analytics |
3.150.11 |
| Identity and Access Management |
5.4.57 |
| Identity and Access Management - UI |
5.4.32 |
| Multiple Cisco Catalyst Center |
2.732.65542 |
| Network Controller Platform |
2.732.65542 |
| Network Data Platform - Base Analytics |
3.150.100247 |
| Network Data Platform - Caching Infra |
6.6.12 |
| Network Data Platform – Core |
6.6.131 |
| Network Data Platform - Ingestion Infra |
6.6.16 |
| Network Data Platform - Manager |
6.6.101 |
| Network Data Platform - Pipeline Infra |
6.6.132 |
| Network Data Platform - Storage Management |
6.6.52 |
| RCA-Scripts Package |
0.5.7 |
| Rogue and aWIPS |
3.1.206 |
| SD Access |
2.732.65542 |
| Shared Managed Services |
0.10.21 |
| Stealthwatch Security Analytics |
2.732.1095171 |
| Support Services |
2.732.885199 |
| System Management Operations |
1.6.56 |
| Telemetry |
4.7.20 |
| Wide Area Bonjour |
2.732.755008 |
The Disaster Recovery witness is available as a separate OVA file for Catalyst Center. Its version number is 2.1.732.370017.
Catalyst Center
Table 3. New and changed features in Catalyst Center 3.1.5
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Base functionality |
Rule-Based Compliance Policies |
Catalyst Center enables you to create custom configuration rules and policies that it periodically evaluates across the network to detect violations. |
| Overlapping IP address pools |
Catalyst Center allows you to enable overlapping for the CIDR subnet of an IP address pool, which provides more flexibility when assigning IP addresses dynamically. |
Cisco Catalyst Assurance
Table 4. New and changed features in Cisco Catalyst Assurance 3.1.5
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Base functionality |
Enhancements to dashboards |
Enhanced capability to define the scope and configure specific filters for client and network template dashboards. |
Catalyst Center platform
Table 5. New and changed features in Catalyst Center platform 3.1.5
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Base functionality |
API Operations |
Catalyst Center platform supports new API operations. For more information, see “New and changed information” in the Cisco Catalyst Center Platform User Guide. For detailed information about the API operations, see the Cisco Catalyst Center APIs on Cisco DevNet. |
Table 6. New and changed features in Catalyst Center Automation 3.1.5
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Base functionality |
Support for OS licenses |
Catalyst Center supports OS Essentials and OS Advantage perpetual device licenses for these switches:
● Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches
● Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches
Enhancements to the License Manager window for OS licenses:
●
Overview tab: displays information about the purchased, used, and available OS licenses.
●
Licenses tab: displays the number of total, expiring, and noncompliant OS licenses.
●
Devices tab: the procedure for change license level is enhanced to support OS license conversion and removal.
During the PnP onboarding of these switches, you can now select OS Essentials or OS Advantage stack license level from the Select a License Level drop-down list. |
| Ease of use
|
Enhancements to cloning Per-Device Configurations across multiple wireless controllers |
Catalyst Center supports cloning these Per-Device Configuration features from another Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller:
● Flex profiles
● RF profiles
● Site tags
|
Table 7. New and changed features in Cisco Software-Defined Access 3.1.5
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Base functionality |
Support for IE3500 and IE3500H as fabric edge |
Catalyst Center supports Cisco Catalyst IE3500 and 3500H configured as fabric edge nodes in a campus fabric. Campus fabric provides the basic infrastructure for building virtual networks based on policy-based segmentation constructs. Fabric edge devices
● provide connectivity to users and devices that connect to the fabric domain
● identify and authenticate endpoints
● register endpoint ID information in the fabric host-tracking database, and
● encapsulate at ingress and unencapsulate at egress to forward traffic to and from endpoints connected to the fabric domain.
|
Table 8. Changes in behavior in Catalyst Center 3.1.5
| Change |
Description |
| Minimum periodic resync interval increases to 6 hours |
The minimum periodic resync interval (both per device and global) has been increased from 25 minutes to 6 hours to improve performance and optimize resource allocation.
● Any device with a resync interval of less than 6 hours will automatically have its interval increased to the new minimum of 6 hours.
● Devices already configured with a resync interval of 6 hours or longer will remain unchanged.
● If the global resync interval is set to less than 6 hours, it will be increased to 6 hours. If the global resync interval is already 6 hours or more, it will remain unchanged.
|
| Mobility configuration option removed from Per-Device Configuration for a Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
In the left pane of the device details window for a Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller with Per-Device Configuration enabled, the Mobility option under Global Wireless Configurations and these tabs are removed:
● Global Configuration
● Peer Configuration
|
Deprecated features
Table 9. Deprecated features in Catalyst Center 3.1.5
| Feature |
Description |
| Support for Cisco Umbrella |
Catalyst Center will deprecate and discontinue support for Umbrella in an upcoming release. Data collected for Umbrella will be permanently deleted from Catalyst Center. |
You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all resolved bugs in this release.
You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all open bugs in this release.
To search for a documented Cisco product issue, type in the browser: <bug_number> site:cisco.com
Table 10. Guidelines and limitations for Catalyst Center 3.1.5
| Feature |
|
Description |
| Guidelines |
||
| Stealthwatch Security Analytics |
|
If you are upgrading from Release 2.3.7.x to 3.1.x, you must have Write permissions for Stealthwatch to provision Stealthwatch Security Analytics on a device. With only Read permissions, you can’t edit or provision the configurations. Update the permissions before or after the upgrade to enable editing and provisioning the configurations. |
| Limitations |
||
| Can’t uninstall optional packages |
|
Due to a known software issue (CSCwr13826) in Catalyst Center 3.1.5, Cisco has temporarily disabled the option to uninstall optional application packages. Optional packages can only be uninstalled by Cisco TAC. Open a service request with Cisco TAC for assistance. |
| Group-Based Policy Analytics |
|
For Group-Based Policy Analytics, the summary for the 24-hour and 12-hour Sankey charts isn’t available in
● Catalyst Center on AWS
● Catalyst Center on Azure, and
● Catalyst Center on ESXi.
|
| Network Reasoner |
|
The Machine Reasoning Engine workflows are not supported on Catalyst 9350 and Catalyst 9610 devices. |
| In-product help |
|
● Online help and Interactive Help are available in light mode only and don't support dark mode.
● When you place the Interactive Help widget on the top-right, right-center, and bottom-right locations, if you hover your cursor beyond the right edge of the widget, the widget may flicker.
|
| IPv6 |
|
If you choose to run Catalyst Center in IPv6 mode:
● Access Control Application, Group-Based Policy Analytics, SD Access, Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics, Cisco ISE, and Support Services packages are disabled and cannot be downloaded or installed. Before upgrading, remove those packages from the IPv6 deployment, because those packages don't support IPv6.
● Communication through Cisco ISE pxGrid is disabled because Cisco ISE pxGrid doesn't support IPv6.
● LAN automation is not supported.
● Adding devices to a site is supported, but provisioning is not supported.
● ITSM integration is not supported.
● Network profiles for wireless devices are not supported.
● Stealthwatch Security Analytics is not supported.
● Disaster Recovery is not supported.
● Catalyst Center does not support integration with Cisco ISE when it’s also configured for IPv6. It only supports the use of Cisco ISE as a AAA server.
|
| Upgrade |
|
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) is not supported in Cisco SD-Access deployments, with this exception: Catalyst IE3200, IE3300, and IE3400 switches are classified as low-flash memory devices. Although Catalyst Center typically recommends using install mode for SWIM upgrades, this method may fail on Catalyst IE switches when upgrading from Cisco IOS XE Release 17.x to 17.12.x. Therefore, for SWIM upgrades in install mode, we recommend upgrading the switch to Release 17.15.x or later. If you are using bundle mode, you can upgrade the switch to Release 17.12.x. |
Catalyst Center compatibility matrix
For information about devices—such as routers, switches, and wireless APs—and software releases supported by each application in Catalyst Center, see the Cisco Catalyst Center Compatibility Matrix.
Cisco SD-Access compatibility matrix
For information about Cisco SD-Access hardware and software support for Catalyst Center, see the Cisco Software-Defined Access Compatibility Matrix.
Compatible browsers
The Catalyst Center GUI is compatible with the following HTTPS-enabled browsers:
● Google Chrome: Version 93 or later.
● Mozilla Firefox: Version 92 or later.
Screen resolution:
● Minimum: 1368 x 768 pixels
● Recommended: 1920 x 1080 pixels
We recommend that the client systems you use to log in to Catalyst Center be equipped with 64-bit operating systems and browsers with internet access to the *.cisco.com domain.
For information about upgrading your current release of Catalyst Center, see the Cisco Catalyst Center Upgrade Guide.
Before you upgrade, use the Validation Tool to perform an appliance health and upgrade readiness check for Catalyst Center. Choose the Appliance Infrastructure Status and Upgrade Readiness Status validation sets for running preupgrade checks. For more information, see "Use the Validation Tool" in the "Configure System Settings" chapter of the Cisco Catalyst Center Administrator Guide.
Catalyst Center scale
For Catalyst Center scale numbers, see the Cisco Catalyst Center Data Sheet.
Support for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 standard
Catalyst Center supports the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 standard for the AA conformance level, with these limitations:
Table 11. WCAG 2.1 standard for the AA conformance level and limitations
| WCAG success criterion |
Support |
Limitations |
| 1.2.4: Captions (Live) |
Not Supported |
— |
| 1.2.5: Audio Description (Prerecorded) |
Not Supported |
— |
| 1.3.4: Orientation |
Not Supported |
— |
| 1.3.5: Identify Input Purpose |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum) |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.4: Resize Text |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.5: Images of Text |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.10: Reflow |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.11: Non -Text Contrast |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.12: Text Spacing |
Supported |
— |
| 1.4.13: Content on Hover or Focus |
Supported |
— |
| 2.4.5: Multiple Ways |
Supported |
— |
| 2.4.6: Headings and Labels |
Supported |
— |
| 2.4.11: Focus Appearance (Minimum) |
Supported |
— |
| 2.5.7: Dragging Movements |
Partially Supported |
Dashboard partially supports drag and drop due to third-party library limitations. |
| 2.5.8: Target Size (Minimum) |
Supported |
— |
| 3.1.2: Language of Parts |
Supported |
— |
| 3.2.3: Consistent Navigation |
Supported |
— |
| 3.2.4: Consistent Identification |
Supported |
— |
| 3.3.3: Error Suggestion |
Supported |
— |
| 3.3.4: Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) |
Not Supported |
— |
| 3.1.2: Language of Parts |
Supported |
— |
| 3.2.3: Consistent Navigation |
Supported |
— |
| 3.2.4: Consistent Identification |
Supported |
— |
| 3.3.3: Error Suggestion |
Supported |
— |
| 3.3.4: Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) |
Not Supported |
— |
Supported hardware appliances
Cisco delivers Catalyst Center in the form of a rack-mountable, physical appliance. These versions of the Catalyst Center appliance are available:
● Second generation
◦ 44-core appliance: DN2-HW-APL (Cisco UCS C220 M5)
◦ 44-core promotional appliance: DN2-HW-APL-U (Cisco UCS C220 M5)
◦ 56-core appliance: DN2-HW-APL-L (Cisco UCS C220 M5)
◦ 56-core promotional appliance: DN2-HW-APL-L-U (Cisco UCS C220 M5)
◦ 112-core appliance: DN2-HW-APL-XL (Cisco UCS C480 M5)
◦ 112-core promotional appliance: DN2-HW-APL-XL-U (Cisco UCS C480 M5)
● Third generation
◦ 32-core appliance: DN3-HW-APL (Cisco UCS C220 M6)
◦ 56-core appliance: DN3-HW-APL-L (Cisco UCS C220 M6)
◦ 80-core appliance: DN3-HW-APL-XL (Cisco UCS C240 M6)
Statement of volatility
For the statement of volatility for the physical appliances, see the Statement of Volatility for Cisco UCS Hardware.
Catalyst Center 3.1.5 is supported for deployment as a virtual appliance (VA) only on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure in the cloud, or on VMware ESXi for on-premises environments. Neither Catalyst Center nor Cisco TAC can provide support for any issues, bugs, or unexpected behavior that occur in environments that use other hypervisors.
Catalyst Center 3.1.5 has been validated only against these firmware versions:
● Cisco IMC Version 4.3(2.240077) for appliance model DN2-HW-APL, DN2-HW-APL-L, DN2-HW-APL-XL
● Cisco IMC Version 4.3(6.250040) for appliance model DN3-HW-APL, DN3-HW-APL-L, DN3-HW-APL-XL
Update the Cisco IMC firmware
To update your Cisco IMC firmware, first see the release notes for the corresponding release of Catalyst Center that you are installing. In the release notes, the “Supported Firmware” section shows the Cisco IMC firmware version for your Catalyst Center release.
Then, see the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility User Guide for instructions on updating the firmware.
In a three-node cluster configuration, we recommend that you shut down all three nodes in the cluster before updating the Cisco IMC firmware. However, you can upgrade the cluster nodes individually if that's what you prefer. See “Typical Cluster Node Operations” in the Cisco Catalyst Center High Availability Guide and follow the steps provided to shut down one or all of the nodes for maintenance.
Related resources
See Cisco Catalyst Center Documentation for additional documents relating to Catalyst Center.
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