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DNA QuickStart Voucher Guidelines –

Cisco APIC-EM Activation
Voucher Guidelines ................................................................................................................................ 1
APIC-EM Deployment Service ............................................................................................................ 2
Customer responsibilities.................................................................................................................... 4
Appendix A – Cisco APIC-EM Activation Customer Acceptance Form ............................... 5
Appendix B –APIC-EM Resources ..................................................................................................... 6
Appendix C –APIC-EM Support.......................................................................................................... 7

Voucher Guidelines
The APIC-EM activation service provides for the installation, set-up, and deployment
of select integrated applications. The services that can be performed as outlined
below:

 Setup and install the latest version on Customer’s APIC-EM appliance or

virtual server (stand-alone) for up to 20 devices using customer provided
credentials (CDP, admin credentials, SNMP, SSH).
 Discover and inventory the Customer’s production network and enable
reporting of telemetry data back to Cisco.
 Plug and Play: demonstrate how to pre-provision a project, including
entering device information, setting up a bootstrap configuration, full
configuration and IOS image for agreed upon devices (Router, Switch, Access
Point).
 Path Trace/Visualization: demonstrate how the controller calculates a path
between two hosts using the discovered network.
 EasyQoS: enable the EasyQoS feature on the controller, verify whether the
devices and software versions in your network are supported. From the
Topology or device Inventory window, verify that the device roles assigned
to devices during discovery are appropriate for your network design. If
necessary, change any of the device roles that are not appropriate. Setup a
policy scope for a select set of devices for the purpose of applying a QoS
policy to manage a particular kind of traffic.

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APIC-EM Deployment Service

Step 1 Pre-Deployment Checklist
1. Physical Site requirements for Server Installation.
2. Architecture Overview and Stand Alone Deployments
3. Network Device Configurations Required to Support Cisco APIC-EM
Functions
4. IP addressing and network device credentials,

Familiarize yourself with customer network, the devices, (switches, routers,

wireless LAN controllers) and hosts that will be part of the scope of work.
 Collect current network topology, types of switches and routers.
 IP addressing and sub-netting for network devices.
 SNMP community strings and device credentials.

Step 2 Hardware Installation and Set

 Install Rack/Power/Cable new UCS Server for the APIC-EM Controller
 Setup Grapevine and Admin using Configuration Wizard
 Utilize the APIC-EM Hardware Installation Guide to install and setup
procedure.
 Utilize the APIC-EM Deployment Guide for Deployment Considerations

Step 3 Configure APIC-EM Settings for credential and device access information.
 Setup credentials for device access
 Setup SNMP community strings

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 Utilize the APIC-EM Configuration Guide for APIC-EM settings, parameters

and procedure.

Step 4 APIC-EM Discovery, Navigation, review Device and Host tables and Topology
Map.
 Utilize the APIC-EM Configuration Guide for Discovering Devices and Hosts
procedure.

Step 5 (Optional, not required) Setup Plug and Play application; create project for
pre-provisioning, add one device, deploy IOS and configuration on selected device.
 Utilize PNP Configuration Guide for setup procedure.

Step 6 Path Visualization-review how the controller collects network topology and
routing data from discovered devices. How it uses this data to calculate a path
between two hosts.
 Review the APIC-EM Configuration Guide Performing Path Traces.

Step 7 (Optional, not required) Enable APIC-EM EasyQos Application and Deploy on
selected devices.
 Enable EasyQoS feature on the controller
 Review QoS Policies Concepts, Scope, Applications, Traffic Classes and
Business Relevance
 Deploy EasyQos Policy on selected devices up to (3).
 Provide a rollback demonstration
 Review the APIC-EM Configuration Configuring Quality of Services for
procedure.

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Customer responsibilities
• Participate in project and provide representative from technical team.
• Assist with the Rack, Install, Power, and Cable
• Assist with the installation of the Virtual Machine
• Provide network credentials, SNMP Communities strings to allow device access

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Appendix A – Cisco APIC-EM Activation Customer Acceptance

Form

Customer Information * Required Fields

 Customer Contact Information

Business Name
Point of Contact
(business address
name, phone and
email address)

 Was the APIC-EM Controller set-up and configured?

☐ Yes ☐ No
 Was a network discovery and device inventory performed?
☐ Yes ☐ No
 (Optional, not required) Was the Plug n Play setup and configured?
☐ Yes ☐ No
 Was the Path Visualization set-up and configured?
☐ Yes ☐ No
 (Optional, not required) Was EasyQoS set up and configured?
☐ Yes ☐ No
 Are you satisfied with the DNA APIC-EM activation service?
☐ Yes ☐ No
 Is a screen shot of the network inventory available? Or Topology Map?

 Customer Signature __________________________ Date: __________

 Attach Voucher Guidelines (Partner)

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Appendix B –APIC-EM Resources
Resources
Release Notes
Install & Upgrade Guide
Deployment Guide
Configuration Guide
Troubleshooting
Solution Guides
Programming Guides
Documentation Roadmap
Software Download
Lab Training
dCloud
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Links
Release Notes
Install and Upgrade Guides
Deployment Guides
Configuration Guides
Troubleshooting Guides
Solution Guide for Cisco Network Plug and Play
Programming Guides
Documentation Roadmaps
Download Software
APIC-EM Labs see your channel team
dcloud.cisco.com
Cisco APIC-EM Network Path Visualization v1.1
Demonstrate how APIC-EM Path Visualization reduces
the configuration times from months to minutes, and
enables immediate IT response to business needs.
Cisco APIC-EM EasyQoS v1
Demonstrate how APIC-EM EasyQoS reduces the
configuration times from months to minutes, and
enables immediate IT response to business needs.
Cisco 4D APIC-EM IWAN Application Lab v2
Explore the APIC-EM IWAN App, including Dual DC,
Traffic Generation and WAN impairment. ALERT! The
estimated boot time is 45 minutes. Please schedule in
advance.
Cisco APIC-EM Python Sandbox v1.1
Launch and learn to program the APIC-EM v1.0
controller using Python. The estimated boot time is 45
minutes. Please schedule in advance.
Cisco APIC-EM Network Plug and Play v1
Demonstrate how the APIC-EM Plug and Play
Application unifies the configuration process for Cisco
switches, routers, and wireless access points. The
estimated boot time is 45 minutes. Please schedule in
advance.
Cisco DNA Enterprise Network Programmability Lab v1.2
Enterprise SDN Programmability and Virtualization
perspectives on infrastructure (RESTCONF, NXAPI,
Python, EEM, VIRL, virtual-service containers), controller
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(APIC-EM REST APIS) and DevOps-style Human-

Interaction (Spark APIs, Tropo.com APIs, NeXt UI).

DevNet APIC-EM DevNet Site

Sales Resources Sales Resources
Release Notes Release Notes

Appendix C –APIC-EM Support

PDI DNA Mentoring

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