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Features
Cisco
Catalyst
Essentials
Cisco Catalyst
Advantage
Cisco DNA
Essentials
Cisco DNA
Advantage
Network assurance and analytics
Global insights, trends, compliance, custom reports;
switch 360, wired client 360; fabric and non-fabric
insights; app health, app 360, app performance (loss,
latency, jitter)
No
Yes
No
Yes
Cloud monitoring for Catalyst
Yes*
Yes
Yes*
Yes
- Limited device visibility
For a full list of features, please refer to Cisco Feature Navigatorcfnng.cisco.com
Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches run on Cisco IOS XE Release 16.9.2 or later. This software release
includes all the features listed earlier in the Platform Software Benefits section.
Managing licenses with Smart Accounts
Creating Smart Accounts by using the Cisco Smart Software Manager (Cisco SSM) enables you to order
devices and licensing packages and also manage your software licenses from a centralized website. You can
set up Cisco SSM to receive daily email alerts and to be notified of expiring add-on licenses that you want to
renew.
You must order an add-on license in order to purchase a switch. When the license term expires, you can either
renew the add-on license to continue using it or deactivate the add-on license and then reload the switch to
continue operating with the base license capabilities.
Both the base and add-on licenses are also available for a 90-day evaluation period. An evaluation license is
activated temporarily, without purchase. An expired evaluation license cannot be reactivated after reload.
Note: It is not required to deploy Cisco Catalyst Center, just to use one of the above packages.
Table 11 shows the features included in the Network Essentials and Advantage packages.
Table 12 shows the features included in the Cisco DNA Essentials and Advantage packages.
Specifications
Dimensions, weight, acoustic, mean time between failures
Table 13-16 show the dimensions, weights, acoustic, and mean time between failures of all models of
Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches.