The IR800s are supported with IOT Field Network Director which offers a single platform to manage a complete FAN solution, Raw Socket sessions management, and monitoring.

Some of the key features are:

• Geographic Information System (GIS) map -based, visualization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and alarm notifications

• Group-based configuration management for FAN routers (CGR1000, IR8x9, 819H, IR5x9 and CG-Mesh endpoints

• Rule-engine infrastructure for customizable threshold -based alarm processing and event generation

• Secure network infrastructure (inventory, rollback configuration, work order) of IR809 and IR829

• Zero Touch Provisioning - Automatically provision IR800 and head-end routers with configuration

• Collect metrics and events from FAN Routers, Head-end routers, and CG-mesh endpoints, and store them in a database. Cellular metrics and statistics for cost optimization

• Network status monitoring and diagnosis for issues. Location tracking (historical and geo-fence)

• Update firmware on groups of IR809 and IR829. IR829 AP803 (Autonomous mode only)

• North-bound integration API for transparent integration with utility head-end and operational systems, for example Outage Reporting System

• Raw Socket management and monitoring

Detailed information about the IoT Field Network Director is found at the home page:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/iot-field-network-director/tsd-products-support-series-home.html

When a Cisco IR8x9 is powered on for the first time, the PnP agent process running on the IOS wakes up in the absence of the startup config and attempts to discover the address of the PnP server. The PnP agent uses methods like DHCP and DNS to acquire the desired IP address of the PnP server. Upon successfully acquiring the IP address, the PnP agent initiates a long lived, bidirectional layer 3 connection with the server, and waits for a message from the server. The PnP server application sends messages to the agent requesting for information and services to be performed on the device. The PnP server application sends the required configurations and optionally IOS image to the device.

The Cisco Plug and Play Connect cloud service works with your Smart Account and the Cisco Network Plug and Play solution to provide automatic plug and play server discovery when other methods such as DHCP or DNS are not available.

For more information go to the Plug and Play Connect webpage.

Cisco Configuration Professional Express is an embedded, device-management tool that enables bootstrap configuration and provisioning of a IR800 Series Router.

CCP Express provides you two options to bring up a brand new router. You can use the Quick Setup Wizard to perform the basic configuration tasks and Advanced Setup option for detailed configuration options. For a brand new router, Quick setup wizard is the preferred option.

Caution: If you log into an IR800 Series device as a one-time user with the cisco/cisco username and password, you must create another user through the UI or command line. Otherwise, the one-time user session is deleted, and your configurations are not saved. For more information, refer to the Cisco Configuration Professional Express Quick Start Guide at:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/800/829/software/cisco_configuration_professional_express/v3_5/guides/quickstart/CiscoCPExpress-IR-3-5-qsg.html

For Cisco CP Express to be fully functional, you will need Cisco IOS Software Release 15.6.(3)M2. Cisco CP Express is supported on these browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox 25 or later

• Google Chrome 30 or later

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later

• Safari 9.1

• Microsoft Edge Version 38

For additional information about Cisco CP Express, see the Cisco Configuration Professional Express Administration Guide:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/800/829/software/cisco_configuration_professional_express/v3_5/guides/adminguide/CCP-admin-guide.html

Cisco Kinetic is a new class of software platform – an IoT data fabric – designed to address the challenges of a distributed environment.

Cisco Kinetic is a system of software running on distributed nodes of edge, data center and cloud.

This system of software will:

• Get gateways up and running and configured

• Extract data securely and transform it into a usable format for your applications

• Set policies about which data goes where

• Execute those policies or rules – based on business logic you (the customer) have been able to set on different layers

• Provide visualization tools and dashboards with intuitive UI

• Securely move data to the right applications at the right time, based on your policies and rules

There is wealth of information available for Cisco Kinetic at:https://salesconnect.cisco.com/c/r/salesconnect/index.html#/program/PAGE-10238

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides a single platform to manage an infrastructure with a broad range of static Cisco devices. It is available on the IR829 with Cisco Prime Infrastructure release 2.2 and Device Pack 7.

For detailed information on the Cisco Prime Infrastructure, refer to the following:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/index.html

Note	Only Inventory and Configuration Archive are supported for the IR829.

Single platform for telematics and network management. See the following for more information:

• Cisco Connected Fleet

• Quickstart guide to setting up the RuBAN Bus

The Cisco IoT Fog Director brings together the IOx Application Management Module, the ability to Understand your IOx resources, and IOx Application Rollout.