Cisco Business Dashboard Installation Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V
First Published: 2020-07-13
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Cisco Business Dashboard Overview
1
About Cisco Business Dashboard
1
Device Management Mode 2
Audience 2
Related Documents 2
Terminology 3
System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard 4
System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard Probe 5
CHAPTER 2
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard
7
Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Software 7
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard with Hyper-V 8
CHAPTER 3
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard Probe
11
Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Probe Software 11
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard Probe with Hyper-V 12
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CHAPTER
1
Cisco Business Dashboard Overview
This chapter contains the following sections:
• About Cisco Business Dashboard , on page 1
• Device Management Mode, on page 2
• Audience, on page 2
• Related Documents, on page 2
• Terminology, on page 3
• System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard, on page 4
• System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard Probe, on page 5
About Cisco Business Dashboard
Cisco Business Dashboard provides tools that help you monitor and manage the devices in your Cisco Business
network. It automatically discovers your network, and allows you to configure and monitor all supported
devices such as switches, routers, and wireless access points. It also notifies you about the availability of
firmware updates, and about any devices that are no longer under warranty or covered by a support contract.
You can view the application by clicking Request a Demo
Cisco Business Dashboard is a distributed application which is comprised of two separate components or
applications as described below:
The Dashboard
Cisco Business Dashboard also referred to as the Dashboard, is installed at a convenient location in the
network. From the Dashboard user interface, you can get a high-level view of the status of all the sites in your
network, or concentrate on a single site or device to see information specific to that site or device.
The Probe
Cisco Business Dashboard Probe also referred to as the Probe is installed at each site in the network and
associated with the Dashboard. The probe performs network discovery and communicates directly with each
managed device on behalf of the Dashboard.
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Cisco Business Dashboard Overview
Device Management Mode
Note
Certain network devices support being directly associated with the Dashboard and managed without a probe
being present. When network devices are being managed directly in this way, all management functions are
available for the device, but the network discovery process may not be as comprehensive as when a probe is
present.
Device Management Mode
Direct Managed
Certain devices can support direct association with the Dashboard and managed without a probe being present
in the network.
In a direct managed network, you will need to connect the first device to the Cisco Business Dashboard
manually. Then, this device reports information such as CDP, LLDP, and mDNS (aka Bonjour) to Dashboard.
This information is used to identify additional devices in the network, Dashboard then connects these devices
to itself automatically hence those devices become manageable, and the process repeats until all devices have
been discovered. Depending on the size of your network, this process may take tens of minutes. You may
optionally have the dashboard explicitly search the IP address ranges to discover network devices, which can
be in other VLANs or subnets.
Direct managed network is recommended if all your devices support direct management.
Probe Managed
Probe is installed at each site in the network and associated with the Dashboard. The Probe performs network
discovery and communicates directly with each managed device on behalf of the Dashboard.
A software Probe is a probe running in a virtual machine or on a Linux host. A software Probe can generally
manage up to 50 network devices. Certain devices include the Probe application embedded in the device
firmware. An embedded Probe can manage up to 15 network devices.
In one network you should only enable one Probe.
Audience
This guide is primarily intended for network administrators who are responsible for Cisco Business Dashboard
software installation and management.
Related Documents
The documentation for Cisco Business Dashboard is comprised of a number of separate guides. These include:
Installation Guides
The following table lists all the installation guides for Dashboard software that can be deployed on different
platforms. Refer the path provided in the location column for details:
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Terminology
Supported Platforms
Location
Microsoft Hyper-V
This document.
Oracle VirtualBox
Cisco Business Dashboard & Probe Installation Guide for Oracle VirtualBox
VMWare vSphere, Workstation Cisco Business Dashboard & Probe Installation Guide for VMWare
and Fusion
Amazon Web Services
Cisco Business Dashboard & Probe Installation Guide for Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
Ubuntu Linux (Dashboard and Cisco Business Dashboard & Probe Installation Guide for Linux
Probe) and Raspbian Linux
(Probe only)
Quick Start Guide—This provides details on performing the initial setup for Cisco Business Dashboard
using the most commonly selected options. Refer to Cisco Business Dashboard Quick Start Guide.
Administration Guide—This is a reference guide that provides details about all the features and options
provided by the software and how they may be configured and used. Refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/
td/docs/cloud-systems-management/network-automation-and-management/cisco-business-dashboard/qsg/b_
CBD_QSG.htmlCisco Business Dashboard Administration Guide.
Device Support List—This list provides details of the devices supported by Cisco Business Dashboard and
the features available for each device type. For a list of all the devices supported by Cisco Business Dashboard,
refer to Cisco Business Dashboard - Device Support List.
Terminology
Term
Description
Hyper-V
A virtualization platform provided by Microsoft Corporation.
Open Virtualization A TAR archive containing one or more virtual machines in OVF format. It is a
Format (OVF)
platform-independent method of packaging and distributing Virtual Machines (VMs).
Open Virtual
Package that contains the following files used to describe a virtual machine and saved
Appliance or
in a single archive using .TAR packaging:
Application (OVA)
• Descriptor file (.OVF)
file
• Manifest (.MF) and certificate files (optional)
Raspberry Pi
A very low cost, single board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
For more information, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/.
Raspberry Pi OS
Formally known as Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi OS is a Debian-based linux distribution
optimized for the Raspberry Pi. For more information, see
https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/.
VirtualBox
A virtualization platform provided by Oracle Corporation.
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System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard
Term
Description
Virtual Hard Disk
(VHD)
Virtual hard disk is a disk image file format for storing the complete contents of a hard
drive.
Virtual Machine
(VM)
A virtual computing environment in which a guest operating system and associated
application software can run. Multiple VMs can operate on the same host system
concurrently.
• VMWare ESXi A virtualization platform provided by VMWare Inc.
• VMWare
Fusion
• vSphere Server
• VMWare
Workstation
vSphere Client
User interface that enables users to connect remotely to vCenter Server or ESXi from
any Windows PC. You can use the primary interface for vSphere Client to create,
manage, and monitor VMs, their resources, and the hosts. It also provides console
access to VMs.
Hypervisor
Also known as a virtual machine monitor or VMM, is software that creates and runs
virtual machines (VMs). A hypervisor allows one host computer to support multiple
guest VMs by virtually sharing its resources, such as memory and processing.
Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
An on-demand cloud computing platform.
Micosoft Azure
Active Directory
A cloud-based identity and access management service that provides single sign-on
and multi-factor authentication to help protect users from 99.9 percent of cybersecurity
attacks.
System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard
Cisco Business Dashboard is distributed as a zipped virtual machine image suitable for use with Microsoft
Hyper-V version 10.0 or above. The following table lists the compute resources required for Cisco Business
Dashboard based on the number of devices under management.
Table 1: Cisco Business Dashboard Compute Resource Requirements
#Device Supported
# vCPU
RAM
Disk Space
Up to 300
2
4GB
60GB
Up to 300 and integrated with external
applications
4
8GB
60GB
Up to 3000
16
32GB
60GB
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System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard Probe
Cisco Business Dashboard is administered through a web user interface. To use this interface, your browser
must be one of the following:
• Apple Safari (macOS only)—2 most recent major versions
• Google Chrome—Latest version
• Microsoft Edge—2 most recent major versions
• Mozilla Firefox—Latest version
Note
When using Safari, check that the certificate from Cisco Business Dashboard Probe is set to Always Trust.
Otherwise, certain functions that depend on the use of secure websockets are expected to fail. This is a limitation
of the Safari web browser.
Your network must allow all instances of Cisco Business Dashboard Probe and directly managed network
devices to establish TCP connectivity with Cisco Business Dashboard. For more details on the ports and
protocols used, see Frequently Asked Questions in the Cisco Business Dashboard Quick Start Guide.
System Requirements for Cisco Business Dashboard Probe
Cisco Business Dashboard Probe is distributed as a virtual machine image suitable for use with Microsoft
Hyper-V version 10.0 or above. The compute resources required for Cisco Business Dashboard Probe are:
• CPU: 1x 64-bit Intel architecture
• Memory: 1GB
• Disk space: 10GB
Cisco Business Dashboard Probe is administered through a web user interface. To use this interface, your
browser must be one of the following:
• Apple Safari (macOS only)—2 most recent major versions
• Google Chrome—Latest version
• Microsoft Edge—2 most recent major versions
• Mozilla Firefox—Latest version
Cisco Business Dashboard Probe monitors and accesses the network devices that meet the following
requirements:
• Must be in the same subnet as the PC that is running the Probe, or be directly attached to a managed
device and reachable via TCP/IP.
• Must be a Cisco Business or Cisco Small Business 100 to 500 series device.
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CHAPTER
2
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Software, on page 7
• Installing Cisco Business Dashboard with Hyper-V, on page 8
Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Software
Cisco Business Dashboard is distributed as a zipped Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine. The virtual machine
image also contains the Cisco Business Dashboard Probe application, allowing a single VM to act as both
Dashboard and Probe for a particular site. To obtain the virtual machine image, navigate to
https://www.cisco.com/go/cbd-sw.
The virtual machine image has been cryptographically signed by Cisco to ensure that the software has not
been tampered with. The Hyper-V virtual machine image format does not provide a mechanism for
crytographically signing virtual machines. In order to sign the image, a signature has been generated for the
image zip file and is recorded in a file separate to the virtual machine image. The signature file, the virtual
machine image, and a number of supporting files have been packaged in to a single zip file. It is this zip file
that is downloaded from the Cisco Software Center. The contents of this zip file are described in the following
table:
Filename
Description
CISCO_BUSINESS_DASHBOARD_KEY-CCO_RELEASE.cer
The code signing certificate used
to sign the virtual machine image
Cisco_Business_Dashboard-2.2.0.xxxxxxxx.zip
The virtual machine image
Cisco_Business_Dashboard-2.2.0.xxxxxxxx.zip.signature A file containing the cryptographic
signature for the virtual machine
image
README.txt
The README file describes the
contents of the zip file and how to
validate the signature
scripts/cisco_x509_verify_release.py
A python script to verify the
signature
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Filename
Description
verify.bat
A script to verify the signature in a
format suitable for use on Microsoft
Windows
verify.sh
A script to verify the signature in a
format suitable for use on Unix-like
operating systems
To verify the virtual machine image signature, do the following:
1. Ensure you have the OpenSSL package and the Python programming language installed on the PC where
you will verify the signature.
2. Unzip the file you downloaded from the software center into a convenient location on the PC
3. Validate the signature by running either the verify.bat file or the verify.sh file, depending on the PC
operating system. The script will download the Cisco root certificate and intermediate certificate from
cisco.com, verify that the code signing certificate has not been tampered with, and then validate the
signature of the virtual machine image. The success or failure of the process will be reported in the script
output.
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard with Hyper-V
Once you have obtained and verified the Cisco Business Dashboard software, you may install it using the
following steps:
1. Ensure you have a working Microsoft Hyper-V environment available to host the virtual machine. For
assistance in setting up your environment, refer the Microsoft Hyper-V documentation. The following
links provide a useful starting point:
• For Windows 10—https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/#pivot=main&panel=windows
• For Windows Server—https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/#pivot=main&panel=server
2. Unzip the signed archive file to a convenient location on your PC. Optionally, use the verify.* scripts
to validate the cryptographic signature as described above.
3. Unzip the virtual machine image archive to a convenient directory on your PC.
4. Open Hyper-V Manager and select Action > Import Virtual Machine ...
5. Follow the prompts and make sure you have selected the directory created when you extracted the archive
in step 2. Consider whether you want the VM files to be copied, moved, or left in place when you select
the import type.
6. Check that the network adapter is connected to a virtual switch that is mapped to the correct external
network on the host machine.
7. Start the virtual machine.
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The virtual machine will boot and automatically start the Cisco Business Dashboard application. Refer to the
Cisco Business Dashboard and Probe Quick Start Guide for details of how to access the application and
perform initial setup.
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CHAPTER
3
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard Probe
An instance of Cisco Business Dashboard Probe is required for each site in your network that you want to
manage. The Probe discovers the network, collects performance and configuration data from the discovered
devices, and reports that information back to the Dashboard.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Probe Software, on page 11
• Installing Cisco Business Dashboard Probe with Hyper-V, on page 12
Obtaining and Verifying Cisco Business Dashboard Probe
Software
Cisco Business Dashboard Probe is distributed as a zipped Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine. The Probe
is also included as part of the Cisco Business Dashboard virtual machine image, allowing a single VM to act
as both Dashboard and Probe for a particular site. To obtain the virtual machine image, navigate to
https://www.cisco.com/go/cbd-sw.
The virtual machine image has been cryptographically signed by Cisco to ensure that the software has not
been tampered with. The Hyper-V virtual machine image format does not provide a mechanism for
crytographically signing virtual machines. In order to sign the image, a signature has been generated for the
image zip file and is recorded in a file separate to the virtual machine image. The signature file, the virtual
machine image, and a number of supporting files have been packaged in to a single zip file. It is this zip file
that is downloaded from the Cisco Software Center. The contents of this zip file are described in the following
table:
Filename
Description
CISCO_BUSINESS_DASHBOARD_KEY-CCO_RELEASE.cer The code signing certificate used to sign
the virtual machine image
Cisco_Business_Dashboard_Probe-2.2.0.xxxxxxxx.zip The virtual machine image
Cisco_Business_Dashboard_Probe-2.2.0.xxxxxxxx.zip.signature A file containing the cryptographic
signature for the virtual machine image
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Filename
Description
README.txt
The README file describes the
contents of the zip file and how to
validate the signature
scripts/cisco_x509_verify_release.py
A python script to verify the signature
verify.bat
A script to verify the signature in a
format suitable for use on Microsoft
Windows
verify.sh
A script to verify the signature in a
format suitable for use on Unix-like
operating systems
To verify the virtual machine image signature, do the following:
1. Ensure you have the OpenSSL package and the Python programming language installed on the PC where
you will verify the signature.
2. Unzip the file you downloaded from the software center into a convenient location on the PC
3. Validate the signature by running either the verify.bat file or the verify.sh file, depending on the PC
operating system. The script will download the Cisco root certificate and intermediate certificate from
cisco.com, verify that the code signing certificate has not been tampered with, and then validate the
signature of the virtual machine image. The success or failure of the process will be reported in the script
output.
Installing Cisco Business Dashboard Probe with Hyper-V
Once you have obtained and verified the Cisco Business Dashboard Probe software, you may install it using
the following steps:
1. Ensure you have a working Microsoft Hyper-V environment available to host the virtual machine. For
assistance in setting up your environment, refer the Microsoft Hyper-V documentation. The following
links provide a useful starting point:
• For Windows 10—https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/#pivot=main&panel=windows
• For Windows Server—https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/#pivot=main&panel=server
2. Unzip the signed archive file to a convenient location on your PC. Optionally, use the verify.* scripts
to validate the cryptographic signature as described above.
3. Unzip the virtual machine image archive to a convenient location on your PC.
4. Open Hyper-V Manager and select Action > Import Virtual Machine ...
5. Follow the prompts and make sure you have selected the directory created when you extracted the archive
in step 2. Consider whether you want the VM files to be copied, moved, or left in place when you select
the import type.
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6. Check that the network adapter is connected to a virtual switch that is mapped to the correct external
network on the host machine.
The network interface of the Cisco Business Dashboard Probe should be connected to a VLAN containing
the management interfaces for at least one of the network devices. If the Probe is not directly connected
to at least one network device, it may be unable to fully discover the network.
7. Start the virtual machine.
The virtual machine will boot and automatically start the Probe application. Refer to the Cisco Business
Dashboard Quick Start Guide for details on how to access the application and perform the initial setup.
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