Description
Highlights
- Purpose-built management tool for Cisco® Business switches, routers, and wireless access points.
- Discover, monitor, and configure the network from a single interface.
- Provides remote access to sites without VPNs or special firewall configuration.
- Simple to deploy and easy to operate.
Product Overview
Cisco Business Dashboard is a network management application used to deploy and manage Cisco Business switches, routers, and wireless access points. Cisco Business Dashboard reduces the complexity of network management and operations challenges. It quickly determines the topology of a new network, generates a detailed inventory of the installed equipment, makes changes as needed, monitors the network, and automates lifecycle management. Cisco Business Dashboard, with features like automatic firmware updates and reporting on lifecycle and maintenance information, ensures that your network is always up to date and fully supported.
Features
- Purpose-built for Cisco Business switches, routers, and wireless access points.
- Automatically discovers the network devices and provides a topology diagram and inventory report. Click to access detailed information about these devices.
- Manage networks across multiple sites and customers from a single pane of glass.
- A customizable monitoring dashboard allows you to easily see the state of the network and how it is performing. Be alerted automatically to important events such as network devices going offline.
- Provides a single interface to configure system information, wireless networks, virtual LANs, and Ethernet switching.
- Offers automatic notification of firmware updates. Click to download and apply updates to devices.
- Detailed reports show lifecycle information about network devices—including maintenance and warranty status and end-of-life bulletins—and performance reports for wireless networks.
- Offers troubleshooting tools, including remote access to sites and devices, and the Network Show Tech—an archive of diagnostic information for the network that can easily be shared with technical support staff.
- Provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows integration with third-party applications.
Specifications
Management protocols
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Link-Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Multicast DNS/DNS Service Discovery (Bonjour)
RESTCONF
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Virtualization package formats
Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA)
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine Archive
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) — available from the AWS Marketplace
Dashboard System Requirements
Hypervisor support
Microsoft Hyper-V
Oracle VirtualBox
VMware ESXi, Fusion, and Workstation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
OS requirements
Ubuntu Linux version 16.04.x
CPU requirements
64-bit Intel architecture
2x vCPU (up to 300 network devices under management)
12x vCPU (up to 2500 network devices under management)
Memory requirements
4GB (up to 300 network devices under management)
24GB (up to 2500 network devices under management)
Disk requirements
60GB
Supported browsers
Apple Safari (macOS only), Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox
Probe System Requirements
Hypervisor support
Microsoft Hyper-V
Oracle VirtualBox
VMware ESXi, Fusion, and Workstation
OS requirements
Ubuntu Linux version 16.04.x
Raspbian Buster Linux
CPU requirements
1x 64-bit Intel architecture vCPU
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
Select Cisco Business devices include the probe application embedded in the device firmware.
Memory requirements
512MB
Disk requirements
5GB
Supported browsers
Apple Safari (macOS only), Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox
Network Device Support
Supported devices
Refer to the Cisco Business Dashboard – Device Support List in the Cisco Business Dashboard product documentation
Embedded Probe Support
Select Cisco Business devices include the probe application embedded in the device firmware. Refer to the Cisco Business Dashboard – Device Support List for details.
Direct Device Management
Select Cisco Business devices may be managed by Cisco Business Dashboard without a probe. Refer to the Cisco Business Dashboard – Device Support List for details.
