Audit log support for the Cisco DNA Center platform.

Audit logs now capture the following user actions in Cisco DNA Center platform:

• Actions to configure, enable, and disable any Cisco DNA Center platform bundle.

• Actions to create, update, schedule, download, or delete any reports in Cisco DNA Center.

• Actions to subscribe to any events or notifications.

• Actions to create, update, and change any preference for an instance.

• Actions to invoke both successful and unsuccessful API methods (POST / PUT/ GET / DELETE).

See the Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center Administrator Guide for information about the audit logs.

Cisco DNA Center platform support for role-based access control support (RBAC).

The Cisco DNA Center platform supports RBAC for the following features and functionality:

• APIs

• Bundles

• Events

• Reports

As a user with a SUPER-ADMIN-ROLE, you can create custom roles with deny, read, or write permissions for these features. Click System > User & Roles > Role Based Access Control to access the GUI workflow to create a custom role.

The NETWORK-ADMIN-ROLE and the OBSERVER-ROLE have more limited and restricted capabilities with Cisco DNA Center platform. For example, these two roles do not permit the user to perform the following actions:

• Generate reports

• Subscribe to events

• Configure event settings

• Enable and configure bundles

• Configure users and roles

See the Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center Administrator Guide for information about managing users and their roles.

New GUI locations (Settings).

In the Cisco DNA Center GUI, click the Menu icon () and choose System > Settings > External Services > Destinations to access new locations for the following features:

• Webhook

• Email

• Syslog

Click System > Settings > Events and Subscriptions to access the new location for Event Catalog.

See the Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center Administrator Guide for information about the new Settings locations and features.

New Settings GUI option: SysLog.

This release supports a new Settings configuration option in the Cisco DNA Center GUI: SysLog. Use this new configuration option to configure syslog server settings for event notifications.

To configure SysLog, in the Cisco DNA Center GUI click the Menu icon and choose System > Settings > External Services > Destinations. Select the SysLog tab to configure the syslog server.

See Chapter 6, Configurations.

Syslog server support for event notifications.

This release supports the ability of Cisco DNA Center to forward an event notification to a syslog server. You use the Cisco DNA Center GUI to subscribe an event to a syslog server.

To subscribe to an event for a syslog server, in the Cisco DNA Center GUI click the Menu icon and choose Platform > Developer Toolkit > Events, select an event from the displayed list. Next, review the event details, choose SYSLOG from the Subscription Type drop down, and click Subscribe.

See Chapter 6, Configurations.

New Rogue and aWIPS bundle.

This new bundle contains the REST API supported by Cisco DNA Center for Rogue Management and the Cisco Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (aWIPS). The REST API is used to detect wired and wireless threats, including rogue access points.

See Chapter 5, Platform Manage GUI.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports the following new events:

• Bundle event notifications

• Assurance events

• CIMC events

• Disaster recovery events

• IPAM provider connectivity events

• License events

• PxGrid events

The events are viewable in the Cisco DNA Center GUI Events window. Click the Menu icon and choose Platform > Developer Toolkit > Events to access the list of events.

For information about events, see Chapter 6, Configurations and Chapter 8, Developer Toolkit GUI. For a list of the new events for this release, see the Cisco DNA Center Platform Release Notes.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports new event types for the following:

• Network applications

• Network wireless

• Hardware system

• External system

The events are viewable in the Cisco DNA Center GUI Events window. Click the Menu icon and choose Platform > Developer Toolkit > Events to access the list of events.

See Chapter 8, Developer Toolkit GUI for information about events. For a list of the new events, see the Release Notes for Cisco DNA Center Platform.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports a new event notification type: SNMP. You are now able to subscribe to an event using the following three notification types:

• REST API endpoint

• Email

• SNMP trap

  Note

  The SNMP trap notification is only available for a system hardware event. A system hardware event publishes notifications to any subscriber, when the health state of hardware components change. Hardware components monitored for changes include: CPU, Memory, Disk, NIC, fan, power supply, and RAID Controller.

See Chapter 8, Developer Toolkit GUI for information about the new event notification type.

New Cisco DNA Center platform events simulation feature.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports a new event simulation feature. With an event simulation, you can try out and test an event's subscription (email, REST API, or SNMP trap notification). After running the event simulation, the results (success or failure) are displayed in the GUI.

See Chapter 8, Developer Toolkit GUI for information about the new event simulation support.

New Reports.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports the following new reports:

• Channel change count

• PoE port availability and power budget report

• Client usage (from highest to lowest usage)

• Network device availability

• Rogue and aWIPS report for network threats.

To access the new reports, in the Cisco DNA Center GUI click the Menu icon > Reports > Report Templates.

See Chapter 7, Reports.

New Cisco DNA Center Reports GUI features.

New Reports GUI features including:

• New Reports GUI for workflow-based scheduling and reporting.

• Support to visualize generated reports within the Cisco DNA Center GUI.

• Support to send out the report as an attachment to an email.

• Support to send out the report via a webhook.

• New option select the date and time range for a report.

• New option to choose the timezone for a custom report or a report to be generated in the future.

See Chapter 7, Reports.

New Cisco DNA Center platform bundle to support enhanced CMDB synchronization.

With this Cisco DNA Center release, you can schedule a synchronization or trigger an update between your ITSM (ServiceNow) configuration management database (CMDB) and endpoint inventory. Endpoint attribute information from ServiceNow can be used to help profile endpoints in your network. ServiceNow appears in the endpoint profiling workspace as an additional probe. You may create custom profiling rules leveraging the attributes sent by ServiceNow.

Mapping between the CMDB fields and endpoint attributes occur at the platform level. This is accomplished using the new Endpoint Attribute Retrieval with ITSM (ServiceNow) bundle.

See the Cisco DNA Center ITSM Integration Guide for information about the new CMDB synchronization features.

New ITSM (ServiceNow) events retry mechanism.

In the Runtime Dashboard window, you can select an ITSM event to resend it to the ITSM (ServiceNow) for reprocessing.

See Chapter 9, Runtime Dashboard for information about the new ITSM (ServiceNow) events retry mechanism.

New API support.

This Cisco DNA Center platform release supports the following new and updated APIs:

• Application

• Assurance

• Assurance Sensor

• Configuration archive

• Ecosystem Integrations

• IP Pool

• NFV Profile

• Rogue Management Threat

• SDA

See the Cisco DNA Center Platform Release Notes for information about the new APIs.