NetBox Integration with Cisco Catalyst Center Now Available in Customer Preview
We’re excited to announce that the NetBox integration with Cisco Catalyst Center has successfully completed its private preview phase and is now entering Customer Preview! We want to extend our sincere thanks to all the participants who helped us refine this integration during the private preview—your feedback has been invaluable.
As NetBox continues to establish itself as the definitive Network Source of Truth, the demand for seamless integrations with essential network management platforms keeps growing. Our integration with Cisco Catalyst Center represents a significant step forward in eliminating manual data synchronization and reducing operational overhead for enterprise network teams.
What is Customer Preview?
Customer Preview opens this integration to existing NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers who are ready to evaluate and deploy it in their staging or test environments. The Catalyst Center integration requires NetBox Assurance, which we can enable on a trial basis for customers seeking to evaluate the integration. This phase allows us to gather real-world feedback from diverse network architectures and use cases while continuing to refine and enhance the integration based on your needs.
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.
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 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 real-time synchronization ensures your NetBox instance remains current with your actual network infrastructure, eliminating manual data entry and reducing documentation drift.
Key Features
The Catalyst Center integration is built on the NetBox Labs controller integrations framework and includes:
- Automated Device Discovery: Continuously discovers and synchronizes Cisco Catalyst devices from Catalyst Center without manual intervention
- Real-time Data Synchronization: Keeps your NetBox data current with Catalyst Center inventory changes
- NetBox Assurance Integration: Leverages NetBox Assurance for safe data ingestion and deviation management, ensuring data quality and integrity
- Secure Authentication: OAuth2 client credentials for secure communication with NetBox, plus Vault integrations for managing controller secrets
- Agent-Based Architecture: Runs as part of the NetBox Discovery agent ecosystem using the Orb Agent Pro image, enabling deployment in multiple network locations
- Comprehensive Object Mapping: Detailed mapping of devices, interfaces, IP addresses, MAC addresses, sites, roles and platforms
Join the Customer Preview
If you are a NetBox Labs customer and use Cisco Catalyst Center, we invite you to participate in the Customer Preview.
To join, please contact NetBox Labs support at support@netboxlabs.com with your organization’s name, Catalyst Center version, and any specific requirements.
For technical documentation and detailed object mapping information, visit our Cisco Catalyst Center integration documentation.
Not a current NetBox Labs customer? Please use our contact form to learn more about NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.
