Set up the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour Application

Overview of the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour Application Installation

Depending on the installation status of your Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application, use one of the following procedures to install the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application on your Cisco DNA Center.

Install Cisco Wide Area Bonjour Application on a Fresh Installation of Cisco DNA Center

For a fresh ISO installation of Cisco DNA Center, follow the instructions outlined in the Cisco DNA Center Appliance Installation Guide.

After you have installed the Cisco DNA Center appliance, if you have a firewall, allow Cisco DNA Center to access the following location for all system and package downloads: https://www.ciscoconnectdna.com:443. To ensure that you have cloud connectivity to AWS, log in to the cluster and run the following CLI command:

maglev catalog settings validate

For more information, see the Cisco DNA Center Appliance Installation Guide.

After you have completed the configuration, connect to AWS, identify and download the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application.

To install the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application in Cisco DNA Center, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Click the menu icon () and choose System > Software Updates.

Step 2

Find Wide Area Bonjour on the list and click Install under the Action column.

Install the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour Application on a Cisco DNA High-Availability Cluster

First, set up the Cisco DNA high-availability cluster. For more information, see Cisco DNA Center High Availability Guide.

After your Cisco DNA Center is set up, complete the following steps to install the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application.

Procedure

Step 1

Click the menu icon () and choose System > Software Updates.

Step 2

Ensure Updates is selected in the left navigation pane.

Step 3

Find Wide Area Bonjour in the Application Updates list and click install under the Action column.

Create User Roles

Cisco DNA Center enables you to create user roles with controlled access. For information about user roles, see the Cisco DNA Center Administrator Guide.

The minimum required permissions according to user role for the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application on Cisco DNA Center are as follows:

Table 1. Required Permissions According to User Role
User Role Access Permission

Observer (OBSERVER-ROLE)

Network Services > Bonjour

Read

  • Administrator (SUPER-ADMIN-ROLE)

  • Network Administrator (NETWORK-ADMIN-ROLE)

Network Services > Bonjour

Write

Note

If you're a user with an observer role, the options to create or edit data are not enabled in the GUI.

Update the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour Application

Cisco periodically releases updates to the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application. To ensure that you have the latest version of the Cisco Wide Area Bonjour application installed in your Cisco DNA Center, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Click the menu icon () and choose System > Software Updates.

Step 2

Ensure Updates is selected in the left navigation pane.

Step 3

Find Wide Area Bonjour in the Application Updates list and click install under the Action column.

Add Devices to the Inventory

Before you can configure a switch as an SDG agent, you must add it to the Cisco DNA Center Inventory. For more detailed information about the Inventory, see the Cisco DNA Center User Guide.


Note

Before adding your devices to the Inventory, ensure that the hardware and software versions are supported. See Supported Platforms.

Procedure

Step 1

Click the menu icon () and choose Provision > Inventory.

Step 2

In the left pane, select the site to which you want to add a device.
Step 3

Click Add Device.

The Add Device dialog box is displayed.
Step 4

From the Type drop-down list, choose Network Device.

Step 5

In the Device IP / DNS Name field, enter the IP address or name of the device.

Step 6

Expand the SNMP area, if it's not already visible.

Step 7

From the Version drop-down list, choose V2C (SNMP Version 2c) or V3 (SNMP, Version 3), and configure the required fields.

Step 8

Expand the SNMP RETRIES AND TIMEOUT area, if it's not already expanded, and configure the Retries and Timeout (in seconds) fields.

Step 9

Expand the CLI area, if it's not already expanded, and configure the required fields.

Step 10

Expand the NETCONF area, if it's not already expanded, and configure the Port field.

NETCONF requires that you configure SSH as the CLI protocol and define the SSH credentials.

Note 

NETCONF is necessary only for the wireless controller.

Step 11

Click Add.