Cisco DNA Center Essentials Term License for Catalyst 2960X/XR 48 Port
Gain essential network management capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 2960X/XR switches with a 2-year term license, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
- Access to Essential Features: Unlock core network automation, visibility, and policy enforcement capabilities for your Cisco switches.
- Compliance and Security: Maintain regulatory compliance and enhance network security posture through centralized policy management.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network operations, reduce manual configuration errors, and improve troubleshooting with intelligent insights.
- Predictable Costs: Benefit from a subscription-based model for predictable budgeting and continuous access to software updates.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Center Essentials Term License provides essential software capabilities for managing Cisco Catalyst 2960X and 2960XR series switches. It unlocks core features for network automation, visibility, and policy enforcement over a 2-year subscription term, ensuring your network infrastructure operates efficiently and securely.
Designed for businesses that own and operate their IT infrastructure, this license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations. It integrates with existing Cisco hardware to provide a centralized platform for network control, simplifying management of distributed or complex network environments.
- Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like device provisioning and configuration changes.
- Enhanced Visibility: Gain deep insights into network performance, traffic patterns, and device health.
- Policy Enforcement: Define and enforce network-wide security and access policies consistently.
- Simplified Management: Centralize network control and monitoring from a single interface.
- Subscription Term: A 2-year subscription provides access to features and updates, with predictable billing.
Empower your IT team with essential network intelligence and automation, simplifying operations without the overhead of enterprise-grade solutions.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Provisioning
Enable teams to automate the deployment and configuration of network devices, reducing manual effort and potential errors. Streamline the onboarding of new switches and network segments with predefined templates and policies.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, businesses managing multiple branch locations, teams deploying new network hardware, companies standardizing network configurations
Enhance Network Visibility and Monitoring
Streamline the process of monitoring network health and performance across your entire Cisco switching environment. Automate the collection of telemetry data to proactively identify and resolve potential issues before they impact users.
businesses with critical uptime requirements, IT departments managing growing networks, organizations seeking to optimize network resource utilization, companies needing to track network performance trends
Centralize Policy Management and Enforcement
Enable teams to define and enforce consistent security and access policies across all connected devices. Protect your network by ensuring that all endpoints adhere to defined compliance standards and security postures.
companies with strict security requirements, organizations needing to meet regulatory compliance, businesses managing BYOD or guest access, environments requiring granular network segmentation
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Essentials Software
Provides core network automation, visibility, and policy management capabilities for Cisco Catalyst switches.
2-Year Term License
Offers predictable budgeting and continuous access to essential software features and updates for a defined period.
Support for Catalyst 2960X/XR Series
Specifically enables advanced management features for these popular Cisco switch models within your network.
Centralized Management Interface
Simplifies network operations by providing a single pane of glass for monitoring and control.
Automation Capabilities
Reduces manual configuration tasks, minimizes errors, and speeds up network deployments and changes.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust network security, compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, and high availability, all of which are supported by centralized management and policy enforcement.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA and maintain continuous network uptime for critical patient care systems, benefiting from enhanced visibility and control.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, distributed networks that require reliable connectivity and security to support operational technology (OT) systems, benefiting from automation and simplified management.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse networks with many users and devices, requiring efficient provisioning, security policy enforcement, and cost-effective management solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Center Essentials?
Cisco DNA Center Essentials is a software license that unlocks core network automation, visibility, and policy enforcement features for compatible Cisco switches. It is designed to simplify network management for businesses.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, C2960X4-DNAC1E-2R, is designed for Cisco Catalyst 2960X and 2960XR series switches with 48 ports.
What is the term of this license?
This is a 2-year term license, meaning you have access to the Essentials features for a period of two years from activation.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.