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.

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.

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.