Right Now Overview
The Right Now app provides you the Right Now report that shows the details of visitors currently present at your locations. Using the Right Now app, you can also create Density Rules through which you can send notifications to the business users such as employees based on the visitor density or device count in the business locations.
Right Now Report
The Right Now report displays the details of the visitors currently present at your locations.
By default, the report shows the details of visitors currently present at all the locations. You can filter upto floor level.
This app will be available for SEE, ACT, and Extend license types.
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Viewing the Right Now Report
To view the Right Now report, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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From the Location drop-down list, choose the network location for which you want to view the report. The Right Now report for the selected network location is displayed. ![]() The local time of your system is displayed under the Right Now section at the top of the report. The report will have the following charts:
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Right Now on Camera
The Right Now on Camera option shows the Right Now report for your locations based on the data captured by the Meraki Cameras installed in your locations. This report will be available only if you have configured Meraki Camera for Cisco DNA Spaces using the Camera option in Setup. For more information on configuring Meraki Camera, see Setting up Cisco DNA Spaces to Work with Cisco Meraki Camera.
Viewing Right Now Report for Meraki Camera
To view the Right Now report for Meraki Camera, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon displayed at the top-left of the window, and choose Right Now on Camera. The Right Now on Camera window appears with the Right Now report for Meraki Camera. ![]() |
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If required, from the Location drop-down list, choose the location for which you want to view the report.
The report will be having the following details:
For information on pinning a location, camera, or camera zone, see Pinning a Location, Camera, or Camera Zone. |
What to do next
Pinning a Location, Camera, or Camera Zone
To pin a location, camera, or camera zone, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Right Now on Camera window, click the Pin icon dsipalyed at the top right of the window. The Pin window appears. |
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Do the following based on your requirement:
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Density Rules
Density Rule enables you to track the density of unique devices or visitors in your business locations. This option is available only for the ACT license.
The Density Rule option allows you to create rules that triggers notifications to the business users such as building administrators based on the density of visitors, count of unique devices, or occupancy in the business locations. You can configure to send notifications through SMS, e-mail, Cisco Webex Teams, or using Trigger API.
This rule can be used to monitor the visitors in your locations to maintain the COVID 19 protocols, and can also be used to measure the impact of COVID 19 in your locations.
The Density Rules option also allows you to create rules that trigger notifications to business users based on the number of people captured by the Meraki Camera located in the business location.
To create a Density Rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon displayed at the top-left of the window, and choose Density Rules. |
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In the Density Rule window that appears, click Create New Rule displayed at the top-right of the window. The Create Density Rule window is displayed. |
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In the Rule Name field, enter a name for the Density Rule. |
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In the Sense area, choose the required filter criteria from the When a user is connect to WiFi and drop-down list:
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In the Locations area, specify the locations for which you want to apply the rule. You can configure to apply the rule for the entire location hierarchy, or a single or multiple locations such as group, floor, or zone. You can add the locations of multiple network types such as Cisco Meraki, Cisco AireOS or Cisco Catalyst in a Density rule. For more information on creating the location hierarchy, see the Defining the Location Hierarchy section. You can again filter the locations based on the metadata defined for the selected location, or its parent or child locations. For more information on configuring the metadata for the locations, see the Defining or Editing Metadata for a Location section . You can either apply the rule for the locations with a particular metadata or exclude the locations with a particular metadata. For more information on filtering the locations, see the Filtering by Location. |
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In the Schedule area, specify the period for which you want to apply the rule.
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In the Actions area, specify the notification frequency and notification mode. |
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Click Save and Publish. The rule gets published, and is listed in the Density Rules window. If you do not want to publish the rule now, you can click the Save button. You can publish the rule at any time later by opening the rule, and clicking the Save and Publish button. Also, you can publish the rule by clicking the Make Rule Live icon at the far right of the rule in the Density Rules window. |
What to do next
Viewing a Density Rule Report
The Density Rule report enables you to view the report for each Density Rule.
To view a Density Rule report, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Density Rule for which you want to view the report. The Density Rule report for that particular rule is displayed. The Density Rule report will have the following details:
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Testing a Density Rule
To test a Density Rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Test Rule icon that appears at the far right of the Density rule that you want to test. The Test the Rule window displays. |
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Click Yes to trigger a notification on the selected channels. A notification is triggered and a success message is displayed. |
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Click Continue. |
Modifying a Density Rule
To modify a Density rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Edit Rule icon that appears at the far right of the Density rule that you want to modify. |
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Make necessary changes. |
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To save the changes, click Save or to publish the changes, click Save and Publish.
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Pausing a Density Rule
To pause a Density rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Pause Rule icon that appears at the far right of the Density rule that you want to pause. |
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In the window that appears, confirm pausing. The Density rule is paused. |
What to do next
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To pause multiple Density rules, check the check box for the Density rules that you want to pause, and click the Pause button that appears at the bottom of the page. |
Restarting a Density Rule
To restart an Density rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Make Rule Live icon that appears at the far right of the Density rule that you want to restart.
The Density rule is restarted. |
What to do next
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To restart multiple Density rules, check the check box for the Density rules that you want to restart, and click the Make Live button that appears at the bottom of the window. |
Deleting a Density Rule
To delete a Density rule, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Right Now. The Right Now window appears. |
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Click the three-line menu icon that appears at the top-left of the window. |
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Choose Density Rules. The Density Rules window appears with all the existing Density rules listed. |
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Click the Delete Rule icon that appears at the far right of the Density rule that you want to delete. |
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In the dialog box that appears, click Delete Rule. The Denisty Rule gets deleted. |
What to do next
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To delete multiple Density rules, check the check box for the Density rules that you want to delete, and click the Delete button that appears at the bottom of the window. |