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Cisco DNA Spaces Configuration Guide

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Cisco DNA Spaces Prerequisites

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Updated:
November 19, 2019

Chapter: Cisco DNA Spaces Prerequisites

Cisco DNA Spaces Prerequisites

This chapter describes the system requirements for Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Spaces, the bandwidth requirements to deploy Cisco DNA Spaces, and ports and IP addresses for Cisco DNA Spaces. This chapter contains the following sections:

System Requirements

Before installing Cisco DNA Spaces, ensure that all of the following system requirements are met.

Table 1.

Item

System Requirements

Operating System

  • Microsoft Windows XP or later

  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later

Browser

Windows OS

  • Firefox Version 30 or later

  • Chrome Version 34 or later

  • Safari Version 5.1.7 or later

Mac OS

  • Firefox Version 30 or later

  • Chrome Version 34 or later

  • Safari Version 5.1.7 or later

Cisco Wireless Controller (only for Cisco Unified Wireless Network)

8.3 or later

Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) - this is required only for Cisco Unified Wireless Network used with Cisco CMX.

10.0 or later

Bandwidth Requirements to Deploy Cisco DNA Spaces

The following table shows the Internet bandwidth requirements for Cisco DNA Spaces Connector and Cisco Wireless Controller Direct Connect to send location updates.

Table 2. Bandwidth Requirements for Location Updates

Test Data

Type

Required Bandwidth

5k-APs,60k-Clients

Cisco Wireless Controller Direct Connect

250 Kbps

5k-APs,60k-Clients

Cisco DNA Spaces Connector

4 Mbps

The following table shows the bandwidth requirements for loading the captive portal.

Table 3.

Bandwidth

Number of Users

Response (In Seconds)

1 Mbps

1

9.2

2

10.41

3

12.18

4

13.5

5

16.56

6

17.84

2 Mbps

1

9.06

2

9.15

3

10.48

4

11.28

5

12.06

6

12.34

7

13.5

8

15.5

9

15.7

10

16.85

11

17.7

5Mbps

5

9.34

10

11.56

11

11.92

12

11.51

13

12.5

14

12

15

13.82

16

13.18

17

14.91

18

16.72

19

15.96

20

16.98

21

17.41

7Mbps

25

13.93

30

15.41

31

15.21

32

15.64

33

16.31

34

18.92

9Mbps

30

10.56

35

12.11

40

14.79

41

14.7

42

13.27

43

13.93

44

15.68

45

16.81

46

16.13

47

19.25

11 Mbps

35

9.57

40

10.07

50

11.85

55

13.51

56

13.96

57

14.67

58

15.86

59

16.36

60

16.08

61

17.11

Accessible Ports and IP Addresses

Cisco DNA Spaces is a cloud-based solution, and there is no physical installation involved. So, there is no need to open any port to deploy Cisco DNA Spaces for cloud-based wireless networks such as Cisco Meraki. For some networks such as Cisco Unified Wireless Network (Cisco AireOS or Cisco Catalyst) that are not cloud-based, you must have to open the required ports to establish a connection between your wireless network and Cisco DNA Spaces. You can establish this connection through a public IP or VPN. In addition, certain Cisco DNA Spaces IP addresses must be allowed in the customer infrastructure. For more information on the IP addresses to be allowed, see the Allow Cisco DNA Spaces IP Addresses. For a default Cisco Unified Wireless Network installation, ports 80 and 443 must be open to be publicly accessible.

Cisco CMX must be publicly accessible in the following scenarios where Cisco DNA Spaces has to establish a connection with Cisco CMX:

  • Connecting to Cisco CMX

  • Importing location and access points

  • Viewing Cisco CMX maps

  • Viewing Cisco DNA Spaces reports

Allow Cisco DNA Spaces IP Addresses

To establish a connection between Cisco DNA Spaces and Cisco Unified Wireless Network (Cisco Catalyst), you must allow certain Cisco DNA Spaces IP addresses in your network infrastructure. To view the IP addresses that should be allowed, in the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click the Configure Manually link in the SSIDs window that is accessible from the Captive Portal app.

Contact Cisco DNA Spaces support team for establishing a VPN connection.


Note
You do not require a publicly resolvable domain name to connect to Cisco DNA Spaces.

Certain domain names must also be allowed in a customer’s infrastructure for the Cisco CMX instances that are deployed in a customer’s network is able to communicate with the Cisco DNA Spaces analytical and notification servers. To know the domain names that should be allowed, in the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click the Configure Manually link in the SSIDs window.

Cisco DNA Spaces Compatibility Matrix

Table 4. Cisco DNA Spaces Compatibility Matrix

Application

AireOS Controller

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller

Mobility Express

3375 Appliance

Cisco Prime/ Cisco DNA Center

Cisco DNA Spaces (with Detect and Locate, Captive Portal, Engagements, Location Personas, Behavior Metrics)

  • Cisco Wireless Controller Native Cloud Connector- 8.3 or later (except 8.3.102 for Presence)

  • Cisco DNA Spaces Connector- 8.0.119 or later.

16.10 or later

1832 model with software version 8.5.135

NA

3.0 or later for maps

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