Cisco DNA Essentials On-Prem License
Cisco DNA Essentials On-Prem Licensing provides essential network automation and visibility for up to 5 million devices, ensuring efficient management of your Cisco infrastructure.
- Essential Network Automation: Streamline network configuration, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting across your Cisco environment.
- Enhanced Visibility: Gain deep insights into network health, performance, and security to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Compliance and Control: Maintain network compliance and enforce security policies consistently across all connected devices.
- Scalable Capacity: Supports aggregated device counts up to 5 million, accommodating growth and complex network deployments.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco DNA Essentials On-Prem Licensing is a software subscription that unlocks foundational network automation and assurance capabilities for your Cisco network infrastructure. This license provides essential features for managing device configurations, enforcing policies, and gaining visibility into network operations, all deployed within your own data center.
This licensing solution is designed for IT professionals and managers within small to mid-market businesses who need to efficiently manage their Cisco network devices. It integrates with Cisco's network management platforms, enabling centralized control and simplifying the deployment and maintenance of network services.
- Automated Device Provisioning: Accelerate the deployment of new network devices with automated configuration and onboarding.
- Policy-Based Automation: Define and enforce network policies consistently across your entire infrastructure.
- Network Health Monitoring: Proactively monitor network performance and identify potential issues before they impact users.
- Security Compliance: Ensure your network adheres to security best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Centralized Management: Simplify network operations through a single pane of glass for managing devices and policies.
Empower your IT team with essential network management tools, delivering enterprise-grade control without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate the provisioning and configuration of network devices, reducing manual errors and deployment times. Streamline network-wide policy enforcement to ensure consistent security and operational standards across all connected endpoints.
organizations deploying new network hardware, teams managing distributed network sites, businesses standardizing network configurations
Enhance Network Visibility and Assurance
Streamline network monitoring by providing real-time insights into device health, performance metrics, and potential issues. Automate the detection and alerting of network anomalies to proactively address problems before they impact business operations.
IT departments managing complex network topologies, businesses requiring high network uptime, teams performing regular network health checks
Ensure Network Compliance and Security
Enable teams to enforce security policies and compliance standards across the entire network infrastructure. Protect against unauthorized access and configuration drift by maintaining a consistent and auditable network state.
companies operating in regulated industries, organizations with strict security mandates, businesses implementing zero-trust network principles
Key Features
On-Premises Deployment
Maintain full control over your network data and software within your own data center, meeting specific security and compliance requirements.
Device Configuration Automation
Reduce manual configuration errors and speed up device deployment, ensuring consistency and reliability across your network.
Network Policy Enforcement
Apply and manage network access and security policies centrally, simplifying compliance and enhancing security posture.
Network Health Monitoring
Gain real-time visibility into network performance and device status, enabling proactive issue detection and faster resolution.
Subscription-Based Licensing
Benefit from predictable costs and access to ongoing software updates and support as part of your operational budget.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust network security and compliance, which Cisco DNA Essentials helps to ensure through policy enforcement and visibility, supporting regulatory requirements like PCI DSS.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain strict data privacy and network availability, making the automation and assurance features of Cisco DNA Essentials critical for HIPAA compliance and uninterrupted patient care.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often have complex, distributed networks that benefit from the automation and centralized management provided by Cisco DNA Essentials to ensure operational uptime and security.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and require secure, reliable network operations, which Cisco DNA Essentials supports through enhanced control and visibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials On-Prem?
Cisco DNA Essentials On-Prem is a software license that provides foundational network automation, policy, and assurance capabilities for your Cisco network infrastructure, deployed within your own data center.
What is the difference between Essentials and Advantage/Premier licenses?
Essentials licenses provide core automation and visibility features. Advantage and Premier licenses offer more advanced capabilities such as software-defined access, advanced security features, and deeper analytics.
How is the license term and billing handled?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis for a defined term, providing continuous access to the software and its features.
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.