Cisco Spaces Dashboard

The following features are introduced in the Cisco Spaces dashboard:

Locations and Maps

The Locations and Maps feature enables you to normalize and unify network hierarchies from various sources—Catalyst Center, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, and Cisco Meraki into a single business-orientated location hierarchy.

You can create a business-centric hierarchy in Cisco Spaces by uploading a Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) file containing location details. Moreover, the import from a Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) file allows you to add or update location metadata information for multiple locations at once.

Note	Currently, this feature is only enabled for Cisco Smart Workspaces users.

Rich Maps

Rich Maps transforms flat floor plans into dynamic, interactive, and highly intuitive 3D maps. The Rich Maps feature in Cisco Spaces helps to logically deconstruct the Computer-Aided design (CAD) files and extract data such as meeting room details, workplace desk information, amenities, and so on. You can attach them to the location hierarchy to discover additional use cases.

Cisco Spaces: Connector 3 - Support for High Availability-Pair

Cisco Spaces Connector 3, May 2023 release supports Dual Interface and High Availability features. The dual interface model enables you to control traffic going into Cisco Spaces: Connector. This model supports two interfaces—Primary and Secondary.

The Primary interface is the default interface for all egress traffic and all the input ports are blocked. The Secondary interface allows you to configure networks or IP address endpoints from which ingress is allowed.

With High Availability support, at any given time, only one Cisco Spaces: Connector is active and the Secondary instance is always on standby mode. A virtual IP address is shared between these two instances. Thus, any device connecting to the Cisco Spaces: Connector uses the same IP address regardless of which system is active.

Cisco Spaces Dashboard

The following enhancement is made in the Cisco Spaces dashboard:

Map Service

When you import or synchronize maps from various sources—Catalyst Center, Cisco Prime Infrastructure or Cisco Meraki, support is extended to normalize and unify network hierarchies into a single business-orientated hierarchy.