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Is there one controller to rule us all?

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Well find out next right here on IT Pro TV.

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>> You're watching IT Pro TV.

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>> Hello, there are so many different systems that are out there.

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But Cisco DNA Center is the one that Cisco is counting on to

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rule just about every device that's out there.

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And here to help us out to learn a little bit more about it, Anthony Sequeira.

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>> Ronnie, I got to tell you, you've been blowing me away with those teasers.

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>> [LAUGH] All right, yeah.

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>> It would have taken me all morning to come up with that.

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Ronnie's just like let me make this up, one controller to rule them all.

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That was awesome, dude.

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>> But it is the truth, right?

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>> It really is.

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>> The very fact is there's been so many different products over the years, but

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essentially now Cisco has said look,

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the DNA Center is where we're pretty much heading.

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>> Yeah, I got to tell you I'm pretty impressed with this product and

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I have a history here.

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So I'm 50 years old and I've been doing Cisco for a long time.

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Like I was one of the nerds that ran out for the very first CCNA exam, and

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that was a long time ago now.

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But what's one of the areas that I've

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always had to kind of be very well versed in,

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has been management Cisco's management tools.

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And my peers used to poke such fun at me because

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some of the early stuff was called Cisco Works.

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>> Right. >> And it didn't work.

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>> So it was a really poor name choice.

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But then Cisco Works got a little better and

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then Cisco was really upset that there was such a negative connotation

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with that name still that they renamed the whole approach to Prime.

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>> Right. >> Cisco Prime and

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now we're seeing this third generation if you will and it's just gotten so

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much better and they didn't just sit around and try and improve what they had.

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With the DNA Center approach,

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they're doing something that I've never seen them do before and

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that is think about the entire life cycle of the device.

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The idea here is that you get your shiny new in the cardboard box Cisco device.

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You're all excited.

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Let's say it's a wireless LAN controller.

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You're all excited.

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You unbox it, you follow the installation guide.

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So you rack and stack it, you plug it in, and

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then automatically you go into DNA Center and it's there.

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>> Through DHCP.

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It gets all properly registered up into the DNA Center and

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now you go into the DNA Center and you completely provision it.

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And what back up,

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you design where it's going to go in your software defined access.

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And then you provision it into that design.

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And then you put policy on it to make sure that it stays secure.

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And then you monitor it.

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And then you upgrade it and then you retire it.

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>> All through the DNA Center.

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>> All through the DNA Center, the entire life.

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It's like, it's like my mom and

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she may outlive me.

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I hope she does she's just doing incredibly well and

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it's just this incredible over the entire life

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cycle of the device, this management tool, and I've got great news for you.

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You don't need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to experience this.

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And what we're going to do together right now,

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as you can see I've gone up to Cisco's DevNet Center and

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I went to the Sandboxes and there is a always on,

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so you don't have to deal with any of the scheduling or anything like that.

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There is an always on DNA Center and there it is.

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So they give you the URL and the login credentials, it's always running.

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And what you're gonna want to do with this is a couple of things.

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First of all if you want to go beyond Encore, okay beyond what Ronnie and

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I are going to share with you because you're super excited by this, great.

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Do it, notice up in the top right?

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There's this learn more about DNA Center and there's I will be honest.

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I haven't viewed them, but I'm sure they're pretty good, right?

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Notice there's tools that you can use and I'm sorry.

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they do link to tools that you can use as well.

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Because here's the other exciting thing about this SD controller.

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This really is a software-defined controller that we're working with.

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The really impressive thing about it is,

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it's built around all the latest really exciting cloud-based tech,

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meaning that it exposes application programming interfaces.

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And if that's something you're still struggling with we'll have an episode on

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that later today.

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So it exposes all these APIs, so

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you can really use it in a fully automated fashion.

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In other words, think about this.

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This tool enables you to do automation and

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orchestration against all your Cisco devices now and

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you can interact with it in an automated and orchestrated way.

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So we're just seeing that more and more in networking today where automation and

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orchestration are happening at absolutely every level, super exciting.

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So when you come in here, what I would encourage you to do is

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just visit every major tab and just look around.

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see it on a nice map of the world when we colonize like Mars.

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the image repository, where you're gonna have all the software

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that you're gonna be deploying out to devices, the network profiles.

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I won't go through all of these because we'd be here for a long time.

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And from a memorization standpoint, make some flash cards on this.

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I want you to know that those major tabs are design,

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policy, provision, and assurance.

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Designing the network like we talked about, Ronnie.

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Provisioning devices into it, assigning them policy, and

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the assurance piece is monitoring them and using tools to test them.

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>> Yeah now this is kinda neat that the way that they design DNA Center

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because they actually thought about that life cycle and

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they put it right up there in the tabs.

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I don't know the entire Cisco design life cycle, you can put a device in and

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just click on those tabs and go here's what I need to do.

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And then when you're done go to the next tab and then you do that and

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you continue til you're actually done and

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you'll see by the end of that process your device will be fully provisioned so

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that you can manage and watch it through the entire lifestyle.

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>> It really is and you might say well, why did they put policy before provision

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then go ahead and provision, pretty clever.

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>> It really is and if you're wondering like okay, could I do this in DNA Center?

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I want you to just play this game.

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the spreadsheet inside of DNA Center now, so you cannot only

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it just says all right here's what's going to actually be handed out and

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>> Yup, now a common question that we get Ronnie is, okay well, yeah fine and

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every device they create can be managed with DNA Center, every device.

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now you can use Python if you want to actually be able to integrate in and you

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automation that we get to so, you don't always have to do this.

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Ronnie and I are excited by this clearly.

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We're not faking our enthusiasm here, but we're not selling you on this solution.

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If you have Enterprise Network management software that you love and

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We're not trying to sell you on this tool.

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We're just excited about it.

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Cisco really is getting it right, finally in the network management area.

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That's certainly exciting to me and if you are interested in Encore certification,

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you are guaranteed at least one question on Cisco DNA Center.

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That's how it's going to work.

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So we wanted to make sure you were ready.

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>> All right, well, thank you again Anthony for everything that we actually

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Now, we didn't get super in-depth into it.

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you'll probably see more on this as you continue on in your Cisco learning and

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your track as well, but this is enough for this episode.

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So signing off for IT Pro TV.

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>> I'm your host Ronnie Wong.

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>> And I'm Anthony Sequeira.

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>> Stay tuned right here for more of your CCNP Encore show.

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>> Thank you for watching IT Pro TV.

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