Cisco Spaces Dashboard

Cisco Spaces Dashboard

Cisco Spaces dashboard is the default home page of Cisco Spaces application. The Cisco Spaces GUI adopts the Magnetic design implementation. Magnetic design follows a persistent header and collapsible left navigation pane.

After you log in to Cisco Spaces, the Home window is displayed as shown in the following image:

Figure 3. Cisco Spaces Home

The Cisco Spaces Home window includes the Dashboard drop-down list (in the left navigation pane) which allows you to search and view the available apps associated with your Cisco Spaces license.

Use the Dashboard drop-down list to choose and navigate to any selected app. To navigate back to the Cisco Spaces Home window, choose Dashboard option from the drop-down list.

The dashboard has the following main areas: Menu Bar, Information icon, Profile icon, and various applications available as per your subscription.

Left Navigation Pane

Use the left navigation pane to access these features.

  • Home

  • Location Hierarchy

  • Integrations

  • Configure

  • Monitor

  • Admin Management

  • IoT Services

  • Setup

Icons

Click the icons on the right side of the menu bar to perform common tasks:

Icon

Description

Support: Displays help center, support and documentation links.

User Profile: Displays account and logout options. The license information is available under My Account > License Info > License Units Consumed.

For more information, refer to User Profile.

Cisco Spaces Features

The major features of Cisco Spaces dashboard includes:

Cisco Spaces Apps

Figure 4. Apps

Note

Right Now is now called Live Occupancy app.

Location Hierarchy

  1. Log in to Cisco Spaces.

  2. In the left navigation pane, click Location Hierarchy.

  3. Use the hierarchy tree or search option to find the required location.

  4. Expand the hierarchy nodes, such as network, campus, building, floor, or zone.

  5. Select the required location to view or manage its details.

Integrations

The Integrations feature enables you to connect Cisco Spaces with Cisco and third-party applications, such as Catalyst Center, Office 365, Google Calendar, ServiceNow, and Hamina.

These integrations help extend Cisco Spaces data and workflows into other systems. Depending on the integration, Cisco Spaces can synchronize maps, provide device location updates, share location, occupancy, space utilization, or footfall data, and synchronize meeting room booking information. This helps improve workspace operations and maximize the value of your Cisco Spaces deployment.

Configure

The Configure feature enables you to configure Cisco Spaces options such as SDK, Notifications, and Location Compute.

Monitor

The Monitor feature enables you to view the operational status of Cisco Spaces and related services. It displays summary information for connectivity, anomalies, connectors, controllers, location updates, Cisco Spaces apps, enterprise integrations, partner integrations, Meraki networks, and support tickets.

Admin Management

The Admin Management feature enables you to invite and manage Cisco Spaces admin users. You can create and edit roles, assign permissions, and restrict user access to specific locations based on their role.

IoT Services

Cisco Spaces: IoT Services enables you to activate, claim, manage, monitor, and configure IoT devices using Cisco wireless and wired infrastructure. It supports IoT device management across vendors, form factors, and technology protocols. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is supported for IoT device management, with additional device and gateway workflows available through IoT Services.

IoT Services uses Cisco Spaces, Cisco Spaces Connector, Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, compatible Cisco access points, and supported switches to enable wireless and wired gateway activation, device onboarding, inventory management, monitoring, and device configuration.

For more information, refer to Cisco Spaces: IoT Service Configuration Guide (Wireless).

Setup

Use Setup > Locations & Maps to manage location information, network maps, and digital maps in Cisco Spaces. You can import locations, upload or manage network maps, and add digital maps for supported use cases.

The Setup menu allows you to configure and maintain your network infrastructure and confugure locations and maps.

The Setup menu features are categorized into:

  • Wireless Networks

  • Locations & Maps

User Profile

The User Profile option () in the top-right of the Cisco Spaces dashboard helps to view account and logout options.

Figure 5. User Profile

You can view the last login and timestamp details. Click View History to view the recent login attempts.

The User Profile feature includes the following options:

  • My Account: Click to display the My Account window. For more information, refer to Viewing Cisco Spaces Account Details.

  • View Change Log: Click to open the Change Log tab in the My Account window that displays the activity details of all the users in a particular account. For more information, refer to Viewing Cisco Spaces Account Details.

  • Logout: Click to log out from Cisco Spaces.

Viewing Cisco Spaces Account Details

Use the My Account window to view Cisco Spaces profile details, account activity, licence information, preference, and change log details. The My Account window has the following tabs:

  • My Profile: Displays the basic profile information such as first name, last name, email and mobile number.

  • Account Activity: Displays Recent Login details in a searchable table with columns for IP Address, Date, and Browser, with pagination controls at the bottom.

  • Preferences: This tab includes the following options:

    • Add new domain: Click to add a new domain for SSO authentication.

    • Enable Support Access: Click this option to enable or disable access to their account to the Cisco Spaces support team. Enabling this option helps the Cisco Spaces support team to detect and debug issues under exceptional situations.


      Note

      • By default, the Enable Support Access option is enabled.

      • When access is enabled, the Cisco Spaces support team gets access to the customer's Cisco Spaces account.

  • Change Log: Displays a filterable table with Activity, Time, App, Section, and User columns. Click an activity to view detailed information, including Time, Activity, App, Section, Email, Old Value, and New Value.

    The View Change Log feature (Profile icon > My Account > Change Log) helps you to track audit trail activities for the Cisco Spaces apps.