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- [Narrator] Cisco DNA Center workflows

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are outlined as something that you need

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to be able to describe in this exam blueprint

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and understand how those work.

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So that's what we're going to take a look at in this video.

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Let's take a look first at how we can configure devices,

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where that's found in the DNA Center Management Dashboard.

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If we go to the main Provision tab at the very top here,

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we can see a list of our network inventory.

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It's going to have a list of all of our devices.

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Now I will point out that at the time of this recording,

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Cisco has removed the read-write access from this sandbox,

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which was previously in place.

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So this is only read access

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and there are a few options missing.

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In this view, for example, there are no check boxes

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here on the left beside of each of these devices.

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It's where you would normally see those.

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Now nevertheless, we do see an inventory

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of four devices here.

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If we look at the credential status over here on the right,

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we can see that this is listed as not provisioned.

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In a normal non-sandbox view,

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we would be able to select a check mark

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over here on the left, and then we would be able

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to provision that device.

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Once we choose that check mark,

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we could choose this actions button that we see here

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and that would allow us to select provision.

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And there are also several other options available here.

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We can see we're able to assign this device to a site.

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We can of course provision the device.

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We can update the OS image and so on.

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When we choose the provision devices option,

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we're brought to a new window

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with three remaining workflow steps.

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First, we need to make sure

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that the device is assigned to a site.

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If it is, the site will already be populated here,

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and if not, we'll need to add this to our created site

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in order to provision the device.

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Remember we created a site from the design section

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that we examined in the previous video.

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If you've selected multiple devices,

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you can check the apply to all button

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to take care of everything at once.

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And next we're shown the configuration page,

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which outlines which devices we want to provision.

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In this example, you can see two devices in the list.

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We can advance and see a summary page detailing the device

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and network settings that will be applied to each device.

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You can click each individual device on the left

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to see their individual configurations

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that are going to be pushed out.

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Click the deploy button at the bottom

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and Cisco DNA Center will begin the deployment process

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and you'll receive success messages,

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letting you know each time a device

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provisioning is complete.

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So it's super easy.

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Think about the normal workflow that you might go

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through right now when you're configuring a new router,

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gaining SSH access, logging in with enable passwords,

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check the current configuration,

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make changes, save those changes.

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And you would repeat that for each device.

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So you can see that DNA Center workflows

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are much easier in this case.

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And that's going to be true across the board

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with just about everything that we do in Cisco DNA Center.

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We can do the same thing for assurance purposes

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for monitoring and troubleshooting our network.

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Let's go under the Assurance tab at the top,

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and if we view the network health

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in the network devices section, if we scroll down,

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we'll click that and let that load,

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if we scroll down, we can see a list of our devices

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down here at the bottom and we have a filter option.

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So we're able to filter those by device type

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or by IP address, OS version, all kinds of things.

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If we click on one of these devices, it's going to bring us

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to what's called a Device 360 window.

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Again, notice the health ratings

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that we pointed out earlier.

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This particular router is listed as 10 out of 10 in health.

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And from here we'll be able to see

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a historical view of the device as well.

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We can see any issues found if there were any,

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and we can even look through resolved issues

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that have already been corrected.

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We can see a physical neighbor topology,

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and at the bottom we have the ability

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to monitor CPU and memory usage.

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If we click the Connectivity tab, we can see transmit

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and receive utilization statistics

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that will help us troubleshoot connectivity issues.

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So there's so much helpful information here

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found in one place.

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If we scroll up a bit,

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you may have noticed we passed up

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the Run New Path Trace button, and this is a fantastic tool.

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This is essentially a visual trace route and ping tool.

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It'll give you a topological view of the output,

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which is really great.

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This could be configured to run continuously

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or at set intervals if you're experiencing ongoing issues

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that you'd like to monitor.

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This particular trace example on screen, you can see,

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has all green status indicators by each device,

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and that means that the traffic

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made a successful round trip.

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However, any issues found would be indicated

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by a red circle on a particular device.

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You would be able to hover over that

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and then you would be able to see more details

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about what DNA Center has discovered as the issue.

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As an example here you can see

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that this issue is with an ACL.

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If you hover over that, you'd be able to see the ACL name,

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the direction that it's applied, the interface,

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and whether that was a permit or deny.

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So great, great troubleshooting features

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found here within DNA Center.

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So that's a look at some of the main workflows

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inside of Cisco's DNA Center.