Cisco DNA Essentials for IE 3400 Series
Cisco DNA Essentials for the IE 3400 Series provides essential software capabilities for network management and security, ensuring your industrial network operates efficiently and compliantly.
- Essential Features: Access to core network automation, security, and visibility tools for your industrial network infrastructure.
- Subscription Term: Provides continuous access to software features and updates for the duration of your subscription.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain network integrity and meet regulatory requirements through updated security protocols and management features.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlines network configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a Cisco DNA Essentials subscription license for the Cisco IE 3400 Series industrial routers. It unlocks foundational software features designed to enhance network management, security, and automation specifically for operational technology (OT) environments.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license integrates with your existing Cisco IE 3400 Series hardware, providing the necessary software to manage, secure, and gain visibility into your industrial network infrastructure.
- Network Automation: Automate device provisioning and configuration to speed up deployments and reduce manual errors.
- Security Enhancements: Benefit from updated security features to protect your industrial network from evolving threats.
- Visibility and Analytics: Gain insights into network performance and device status to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Software Updates: Ensure your network is running on the latest, most secure software versions with continuous updates.
- Simplified Management: Centralize management tasks for your industrial network devices through a unified platform.
This Cisco DNA Essentials license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to modernize and secure their industrial network operations without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Provisioning
Enable teams to automate the deployment and configuration of Cisco IE 3400 Series devices in industrial settings. Streamline the rollout of new network segments and devices, reducing manual intervention and accelerating project timelines.
industrial control systems, manufacturing floor networks, remote site deployments, operational technology environments
Enhance Network Security Posture
Streamline security management by applying consistent policies and gaining visibility into potential threats across your industrial network. Automate the application of security updates and configurations to protect critical infrastructure.
critical infrastructure networks, secure operational environments, compliance-driven IT departments, distributed industrial sites
Improve Network Visibility and Monitoring
Automate the collection of network performance data and device status for your IE 3400 Series routers. Enable teams to proactively identify and resolve network issues before they impact operations, minimizing downtime.
real-time operational monitoring, remote asset management, performance-sensitive industrial networks, distributed IT infrastructure
Key Features
Cisco DNA Essentials Software
Provides foundational software capabilities for network automation, security, and visibility on Cisco IE 3400 Series routers.
Subscription Licensing
Ensures continuous access to software features, updates, and security patches for the duration of the subscription term.
Industrial Network Focus
Tailored features for operational technology (OT) environments, addressing the unique needs of industrial networks.
Simplified Management
Centralizes and automates network management tasks, reducing operational overhead and potential for human error.
Enhanced Security
Helps protect critical industrial infrastructure with updated security protocols and threat mitigation capabilities.
Industry Applications
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial networks in manufacturing require robust security, reliable connectivity, and automation features to manage operational technology (OT) environments effectively and ensure continuous production.
Energy & Utilities
This sector relies on secure and resilient industrial networks for critical infrastructure management, often requiring long-term support and compliance with stringent operational standards.
Transportation & Logistics
Industrial routers are deployed in various transportation and logistics hubs, necessitating reliable network management and security to support operations and asset tracking.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector entities often manage critical infrastructure and facilities that benefit from secure, automated, and centrally managed industrial network solutions to ensure operational continuity and safety.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides foundational capabilities for network automation, security, and visibility, specifically designed for Cisco's industrial networking platforms like the IE 3400 Series.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for the Cisco IE 3400 Series of industrial routers.
What is the term of this subscription?
The term of the subscription is determined at the time of purchase and provides access to the software features for that duration. Specific term lengths are available.
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.