Cisco DNA Essentials C3850XS High SMS-K Platform License
Cisco DNA Essentials provides essential network management capabilities, ensuring your Cisco 3850XS platform operates efficiently and compliantly.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to core network automation and assurance features.
- Platform Coverage: Applies to Cisco Catalyst 3850XS series switches, enhancing their functionality.
- Key Value: Enables simplified network configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting for business operations.
- Compliance: Helps maintain network integrity and adherence to operational standards.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Essentials subscription license unlocks foundational software features for your Cisco Catalyst 3850XS switches. It provides essential capabilities for network automation, visibility, and policy enforcement, ensuring your network infrastructure is managed efficiently and compliantly.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license integrates with your existing Cisco hardware to streamline network operations. It is ideal for businesses that need to maintain a secure, reliable, and easily manageable network without the complexity of enterprise-level solutions.
- Network Automation: Simplify repetitive tasks like configuration and deployment.
- Network Assurance: Gain insights into network health and performance.
- Policy Enforcement: Define and enforce network access policies consistently.
- Software Subscription: Access to the latest features and updates throughout the license term.
- Compliance Management: Tools to help maintain network security and regulatory adherence.
This Cisco DNA Essentials license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance their network management capabilities with essential automation and assurance features.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Simplification
Enable teams to automate routine network configuration and deployment tasks, reducing manual effort and potential errors. Streamline the process of onboarding new devices and applying consistent policies across the network infrastructure.
on-premises network infrastructure, managed IT environments, multi-site operations, business continuity planning
Enhance Network Visibility and Assurance
Streamline network monitoring by providing real-time insights into device health, performance, and user experience. Automate the detection and troubleshooting of network issues to minimize service disruptions for end-users.
business-critical applications, user experience monitoring, proactive issue resolution, network performance optimization
Implement Consistent Network Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of security and access policies across the network to protect sensitive business data. Ensure that all devices and users adhere to defined network standards, reducing security vulnerabilities.
access control management, security posture enhancement, regulatory compliance, segmented network design
Key Features
Cisco DNA Essentials Software Subscription
Provides ongoing access to essential network automation and assurance features for your Cisco 3850XS switches.
Network Automation Capabilities
Reduces manual configuration effort and speeds up network deployments, freeing up IT staff for strategic tasks.
Network Assurance and Visibility
Offers insights into network health and performance, enabling proactive issue identification and faster troubleshooting.
Policy-Based Management
Allows for consistent application of network access and security policies across the infrastructure.
Subscription Billing Model
Offers predictable operational expenses and ensures access to the latest software updates and features.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This vertical requires robust network security and compliance with strict data protection regulations, which Cisco DNA Essentials helps to enforce through policy management and assurance features.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable and secure network operations to manage patient data and critical medical devices, benefiting from the assurance and automation capabilities.
Retail & Hospitality
These businesses rely on stable network connectivity for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer Wi-Fi, making network automation and assurance crucial for smooth operations.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, dynamic networks with diverse user needs, benefiting from simplified management, policy enforcement, and efficient resource allocation provided by DNA Essentials.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides foundational network automation, assurance, and policy features for Cisco Catalyst switches. It is designed to simplify network management for businesses.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, C3850XS-DE-SMSK, is for the Cisco Catalyst 3850XS series of switches.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning you pay periodically (e.g., annually) for the right to use the software features.
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.