Announcing General Availability of the Cisco Catalyst Center Integration for NetBox Enterprise and NetBox Cloud

We’re thrilled to announce that the NetBox integration with Cisco Catalyst Center has reached General Availability! After a successful Customer Preview phase where we gathered invaluable feedback from customers deploying the integration in their environments, we’re now ready to make this powerful integration available to all NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers with NetBox Assurance.

Why This Integration Matters

Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) is a comprehensive network management and automation platform that simplifies operations, enhances security, and optimizes performance across Cisco-based infrastructures. For organizations managing complex enterprise networks, maintaining synchronization between NetBox and Catalyst Center has traditionally required time-consuming manual processes or fragile homegrown scripts.

Many teams use NetBox as their source of truth for network inventory and topology, while Cisco Catalyst Center handles real-time automation, policy enforcement, and monitoring. Without an automated connection, teams face data inconsistencies, increased error rates, and operational delays. Our integration eliminates these pain points by automatically discovering and synchronizing your network infrastructure from Catalyst Center into NetBox.

What Gets Synchronized

The Catalyst Center integration provides comprehensive data synchronization across your network infrastructure:

• Devices: Automatic discovery and synchronization of Cisco Catalyst devices
• Platforms: Device platform information
• Interfaces: Complete interface inventory
• IP Addresses: Network addressing information
• MAC Addresses: Layer 2 addressing data
• Sites: Location and site hierarchy
• Roles: Device roles and functions

This automated synchronization ensures your NetBox instance remains current with your actual network infrastructure, eliminating manual data entry and reducing documentation drift. Data synchronization runs on a schedule you configure based on your environment’s needs.

Key Benefits

Always-Accurate Source of Truth – The integration automatically synchronizes devices, interfaces, IPs, MAC addresses, and site data from Cisco Catalyst Center into NetBox, ensuring NetBox reflects the current state of devices in your network and eliminating manual updates.

Intelligent Drift Detection with NetBox Assurance – NetBox Assurance provides intelligent deviation management and safe data ingestion. When changes occur in your Catalyst Center environment, you gain visibility into what’s changed, can identify unexpected deviations from your intended state, and maintain control over data quality through validation, anomaly flagging, and reconciliation workflows.

Eliminates Manual Data Entry – No more hand-updating NetBox every time a device, port, or IP changes, resulting in dramatically reduced operational overhead and fewer human errors.

Reliable Network Automation – Accurate Catalyst Center data in NetBox powers automated provisioning, policy enforcement, config generation, and capacity workflows, making automation far more reliable when powered by trusted data.

Reduced Operational Risk – Automatically updated device and interface data ensures accurate documentation for audits, security reviews, and governance frameworks, resulting in easier compliance reporting and reduced risk from outdated information.

Faster Incident Response – Quickly map devices to interfaces and IPs, correlate issues across network layers, and speed up time-to-resolution during incidents.

“What makes this integration valuable isn’t just the automation — it’s the confidence. When NetBox and Catalyst Center work together, you get continuous alignment between what your network should be and what it actually is. That’s compliance by design, not by effort.” – Christopher Beye, Customer Success Specialist, Cisco Systems. 

Integration Architecture

The Cisco Catalyst Center integration is built using the NetBox Labs controller integrations framework, which provides:

• Standardized Integration Pattern: Consistent approach across all NetBox Labs controller integrations
• NetBox Assurance Integration: Built-in support for safe data ingestion and deviation management with NetBox Assurance, ensuring data quality and integrity
• Agent-Based Architecture: Runs as part of the NetBox Discovery agent ecosystem using the Orb Agent Pro image, enabling deployment in multiple network locations
• Secure Authentication: OAuth2 client credentials for secure communication with NetBox, plus Vault integrations for managing controller secrets
• Comprehensive Object Mapping: Detailed mapping of devices, interfaces, IP addresses, MAC addresses, sites, roles, and platforms

Getting Started

With today’s general availability, it’s easy to get started integrating your NetBox Enterprise or NetBox Cloud instances with your Cisco Catalyst Center deployment. The Catalyst Center integration is included with the Pro and Premium tiers of NetBox Assurance.

To get started:

1. Contact your NetBox Labs account team or reach out to customer support at support@netboxlabs.com
2. We’ll help you get the integration enabled and guide you through a successful implementation
3. We’ll work closely with you to ensure ongoing operational success between the two platforms

For technical documentation and detailed object mapping information, visit our Cisco Catalyst Center integration documentation.

This supported integration between NetBox and Cisco Catalyst Center is only available to NetBox Labs customers. If you’re using NetBox Community edition and Cisco Catalyst Center today and want to explore this integration, please use our contact form to learn more about NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.