Cisco IQ Link
- AKA, The Collector.
Necessary for the Standard and Signature tier.
Telemetry examples:
- SNMP
- Software Versions
- Crypto being used for VPNs
Can also use Data Connectors to talk to other Managers, like On-Prem SD-WAN Manager, or On-Prem Catalyst Center.
VM Requirements
This set of requirements is for 10K devices:
- 16 vCPU
- 28GB RAM
- 600 GB
- Thick Provision
- Disk write speed must be greater than 70 megabytes per second
IPv4 and DNS Requirements
- a v4 address
- DNS A Record (for the VM)
- DNS PTR Record (for the IP the VM is using)
External Network Connectivity Requirements
These must work and be reachable in DNS.
US Market
- us-west-2.iq.cisco.com
- ng.acs.agent.us.csco.cloud
EMEA Market
- eu-central-1.iq.cisco.com
- ng.acs.agent.emea.csco.cloud
APJC Market
- ap-southeast-2.iq.cisco.com
- ng.acs.agent.apjc.csco.cloud
Port Requirements
| Port | Protocol | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | TCP | Admin CLI and Cisco Support |
| 443 | TCP | Cisco IQ Link UI and API |
| 53 | UDP/TCP | DNS |
| 123 | UDP | NTP |
| 161 | UDP | SNMP |
Supported Hypervisors
- VMware ESXi
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Red Hat KVM
Internal Network Requirements
The internal network needs at least v4 /20, 4096 IPv4 addresses.
OK candidates are:
10.255.240.0/20192.168.240.0/20172.31.240.0/20
This cannot overlap with anything Cisco IQ Link needs to reach on the managed network.
Data Connectors
- Intersight
- Meraki Dashboard
- On-Prem SD-WAN Manager
- On-Prem Catalyst Center