Cisco DNA Essentials for Catalyst 9300 24 Port
Cisco DNA Essentials for Catalyst 9300 24 Port provides essential network automation and security features for your core switching infrastructure, ensuring operational continuity.
- Essential Features: Unlocks foundational automation, security, and analytics capabilities for your network devices.
- Subscription Term: Provides access to software features and updates for the duration of the subscription term.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain network compliance through consistent policy enforcement and visibility.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlines network management tasks, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides foundational network automation, visibility, and security capabilities for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches. This license enables essential features for managing your network infrastructure, ensuring it operates efficiently and securely.
This subscription is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to simplify network operations, enhance security posture, and maintain compliance without the overhead of enterprise-level solutions. It integrates directly with your existing Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches.
- Network Automation: Automate repetitive network configuration tasks, reducing manual errors and saving time.
- Enhanced Security: Implement foundational security policies and gain visibility into network threats.
- Centralized Management: Manage network policies and configurations from a central point for improved consistency.
- Software Updates: Receive regular software updates and feature enhancements throughout the subscription term.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting regulatory and internal policy requirements through standardized configurations.
Empower your IT team with essential network intelligence and automation, making advanced network management accessible for your business.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate repetitive network configuration tasks, reducing manual errors and deployment times. Streamline the provisioning and management of network services across your infrastructure.
businesses with growing network complexity, organizations standardizing configurations, teams managing multi-site deployments, companies seeking operational efficiency
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of security policies across your network to protect against unauthorized access and threats. Gain better visibility into network traffic and potential security incidents.
companies prioritizing data protection, businesses with compliance requirements, organizations managing remote or hybrid workforces, networks requiring consistent security controls
Improve Network Visibility and Analytics
Streamline the process of gathering network performance data and insights. Automate the monitoring of network health and user experience to proactively identify and resolve issues.
organizations focused on uptime, businesses needing performance metrics, IT departments managing critical applications, teams performing network troubleshooting
Key Features
Cisco DNA Essentials Software
Provides foundational network automation, security, and analytics capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches.
Subscription Licensing
Ensures access to the latest software features and updates for the duration of your subscription term, promoting continuous improvement.
Network Automation
Reduces manual configuration effort, minimizes human error, and accelerates network service deployment.
Security Policy Enforcement
Helps maintain a consistent security posture across your network by automating policy application.
Network Visibility
Offers insights into network performance and health, enabling proactive issue resolution and better resource management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security and compliance to protect sensitive financial data and adhere to strict regulatory standards like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain high levels of network security and availability to protect patient data (HIPAA compliance) and ensure critical medical systems remain operational.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from reliable network performance and security to support operational technology (OT) systems and ensure production continuity.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms in this sector handle confidential client information and require secure, reliable network infrastructure to maintain client trust and operational efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides foundational network automation, visibility, and security features for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches. It is designed to simplify network management for businesses.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, C9300-DE-24-OPS, is for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series 24-port switches. It is a software license that enhances the capabilities of the compatible hardware.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis for the duration of the subscription term. This provides ongoing access to software features and updates.
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.