Cisco DNA Center Mentored Install
This Cisco software license provides expert-led installation and configuration for your Cisco DNA Center platform, ensuring optimal network management from day one.
- Expert Guidance: Access to certified Cisco professionals for a successful DNA Center deployment.
- Accelerated Deployment: Reduce time to value with a structured, mentored installation process.
- Optimized Configuration: Ensure your DNA Center is configured to meet your specific network operational needs.
- Risk Mitigation: Minimize deployment errors and potential network disruptions with expert oversight.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Center Mentored Install (MINT) is a platform software subscription designed to guide your organization through the initial setup and configuration of Cisco's Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC). This service provides access to specialized expertise, ensuring your DNAC environment is deployed correctly and efficiently, unlocking its full potential for network automation and management.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who are implementing or upgrading their Cisco network infrastructure. It fits into the deployment phase of a new or expanded network, providing the necessary support to integrate DNAC seamlessly into your existing IT operations and server room environments.
- Guided Deployment: Receive step-by-step assistance from Cisco-certified experts during the DNAC installation.
- Best Practice Configuration: Ensure your DNAC is set up according to industry best practices for security and performance.
- Feature Enablement: Unlock the full suite of DNAC capabilities for network visibility, automation, and assurance.
- Knowledge Transfer: Gain insights and understanding of DNAC management from experienced professionals.
- Reduced Implementation Risk: Minimize the chances of configuration errors and operational downtime during setup.
This Cisco mentored installation is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking a confident and efficient deployment of their Cisco DNA Center platform.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to deploy Cisco DNA Center with expert guidance, unlocking advanced capabilities for network automation and orchestration. Streamline network provisioning, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting across your entire infrastructure.
organizations deploying new network management platforms, businesses integrating advanced automation tools, teams managing complex campus networks, companies seeking to centralize network control
Streamline Initial DNAC Configuration
Streamline the initial setup and configuration of Cisco DNA Center, ensuring all core features are properly enabled and integrated. Automate the deployment process to reduce manual effort and potential for human error.
businesses implementing Cisco SD-Access, organizations upgrading network infrastructure, teams requiring rapid deployment of network services, companies standardizing network operations
Automate Network Visibility and Assurance
Automate the setup of network visibility and assurance tools within Cisco DNA Center, providing real-time insights into network health and performance. Ensure proactive identification and resolution of network issues.
organizations prioritizing network uptime, businesses managing distributed network environments, teams focused on network performance optimization, companies needing enhanced network monitoring
Key Features
Expert-led DNAC installation
Ensures a correct and efficient setup of your Cisco DNA Center platform, reducing deployment time and risk.
Best practice configuration guidance
Helps implement DNAC according to industry standards for optimal performance, security, and manageability.
Access to Cisco expertise
Provides your IT team with specialized knowledge for a successful network management platform deployment.
Accelerated time to value
Allows your organization to start benefiting from DNAC's automation and assurance capabilities sooner.
Risk mitigation during deployment
Minimizes the potential for configuration errors and operational disruptions during the critical setup phase.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly secure and reliable network operations, making expert deployment of advanced management tools like Cisco DNA Center critical for compliance and service continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and rely on uninterrupted network services, necessitating robust and expertly configured network management solutions for compliance and patient care.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments depend on stable and efficient network connectivity for operational technology (OT) and IT integration, where a well-deployed DNAC can enhance automation and visibility.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse networks with many users and devices, benefiting from centralized management and automation provided by a properly installed Cisco DNA Center.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is a network controller and management dashboard that provides a centralized point of control for Cisco's Digital Network Architecture. It enables network automation, assurance, and policy enforcement.
What does a 'mentored install' entail?
A mentored install involves expert guidance and support from certified professionals during the installation and initial configuration of a product. This service helps ensure the product is set up correctly and efficiently.
Who is this service for?
This service is designed for businesses, particularly SMB and mid-market companies, that are deploying Cisco DNA Center and want expert assistance to ensure a successful and optimized implementation.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.