Highlights
- Designed for Cisco 100 to 500 Series networks.
- Simplifies discovery, monitoring, and configuration via a single interface.
- Enables remote site access without requiring VPNs or special firewall settings.
- Quick to deploy and easy to manage.
Product Overview
Cisco FindIT Network Manager is a powerful management solution tailored for Cisco 100 to 500 Series switches, routers, and wireless access points. It allows rapid network discovery, generates detailed equipment inventories, provides performance monitoring, and issues alerts for critical events. With built-in lifecycle management, firmware update automation, and maintenance tracking, it ensures your network remains secure, up-to-date, and fully supported.
The solution includes two components:
- Manager: Provides centralized monitoring and alerting across all sites.
- Probe: Installed at each site to discover and manage devices locally.
Key Features
- Automated Device Discovery: Creates a live network topology and inventory with detailed device-level data.
- Custom Monitoring Dashboard: View network health and performance at a glance. Receive real-time alerts for outages or issues.
- Unified Configuration Interface: Manage system settings, wireless networks, VLANs, and Ethernet switching from one platform.
- Firmware Management: Automatically detects available firmware updates with one-click download and deployment.
- Lifecycle & Performance Reporting: Access maintenance status, warranty info, end-of-life notices, and wireless network analytics.
- Advanced Troubleshooting: Gain remote access to sites and use the Network Show Tech tool for diagnostic data sharing with support teams.
- RMM Tool Integration: Seamlessly integrates with popular Remote Monitoring and Management platforms.
Supported Management Protocols
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Link-Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Multicast DNS / DNS-SD (Bonjour)
- RESTCONF
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Virtualization Support
Package Formats:
- Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA)
- Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine Archive
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI) via AWS Marketplace
Supported Hypervisors:
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Oracle VirtualBox
- VMware ESXi, Fusion, Workstation
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
System Requirements
Operating Systems
- Ubuntu Linux 16.04.x
- Raspbian Stretch Linux
CPU Requirements
- Manager: Dual-core 64-bit processor
- Probe: Single-core 64-bit processor or Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Memory Requirements
- Manager: 4 GB RAM
- Probe: 512 MB RAM
Storage Requirements
- Manager: 20 GB
- Probe: 5 GB
Supported Browsers
- Apple Safari (macOS only)
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox
