Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches integrated with ThousandEyes for network visibility
Today we are going to discuss about the integration of Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches with ThousandEyes (newly acquired by Cisco).
Before we are going to talk about the ThousandEyes integration, we would like to discuss about thousand eyes in brief.
What is ThousandEyes?
Thousand Eyes is a next generation software defined solution which analyzes the
performance of LAN, WAN and cloud-based infrastructure and provide end to end
visibility of traffic and path.
ThousandEyes
Monitoring provides a platform to see and understand underlying dependencies
along the digital supply chain that impact end user experience. So the main
focus is the customer experience whether customer deployed and use ThousandEyes
in LAN, WAN and Cloud as we discuss earlier.
Cisco
Catalyst integration with ThousandEyes
Cisco Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switches with ThousandEyes provides us with visibility
into the next generation experience of Branch/Campus users connecting to any
application over any network.
With the help of ThousandEyes, we can visualize
detailed network paths and metrics between Branch/Campus and the critical SaaS
and cloud-based services.
Fig 1.1- ThousandEyes Dashboard |
What licenses
required to enable ThousandEyes in the Campus network on Cisco Catalyst 9000
devices?
Cisco Catalyst 9000 series customers with a DNA Advantage or Premier
subscription will have the ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent natively supported on
the switch IOS XE in flash.
So, if you
are a new customer and going to buy Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches
(9300/9400) you will get that shipped with the DNA Advantage and Premier
subscription package.
If you are already
have Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switch with DNA Advantage and Premier
subscription, you need to check Software subscription on the Cisco software
portal and the request will be generated and redirected to ThousandEyes, by
which you will get the portal access and the subscription for the ThousandEyes
to use.
As Cisco acquired
ThousandEyes, the main purpose of the acquisition is to give more benefits to
the customers who has adoption towards Cloud and SaaS and will help to ease the
visibility across the network end to end Internet and Cloud Intelligence for the
Catalyst 9000 will deliver critical visibility and actionable insights to
organizations so they can take back control of their experience of external
dependencies they don’t own and, ultimately, thrive in a connected world.
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