Catalyst Routing

ThousandEyes supports installing Enterprise Agents on Cisco Catalyst routers using Cisco application hosting or SD-WAN Manager.

This article outlines the prerequisites, requirements, and supported Cisco Catalyst routers.

Overview

Application Hosting

To support application hosting capabilities on Cisco Catalyst routers, the router provides hardware resources where applications can reside and execute. Cisco IOS XE reserves dedicated memory and CPU resources for application hosting to provide a separate execution space for user applications, without compromising the integrity and performance of the router.

ThousandEyes supports both SD-WAN and IOS-XE modes for Cisco Application Hosting deployments.

For more information on Cisco application hosting, see Application Hosting.

SD-WAN Manager

ThousandEyes supports installing Enterprise Agents on Cisco Catalyst routers running in SD-WAN mode that are managed by SD-WAN Manager. For more information about SD-WAN Manager, see the SD-WAN Manager Documentation.

vEdge routers must be added to the SD-WAN Manager inventory list before installation. For more information, see the SD-WAN Manager Documentation.

Supported Devices and System Requirements

Cisco Catalyst Router	Supported Test Types	OS Requirements	Additional Requirements
Catalyst 8200	All non-browser tests	IOS-XE 17.6.1 and later	Hardware Requirements: No additional hardware required (16GB M.2 SSD drive is included by default). Feature Template Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.6 and later. ThousandEyes Workflow Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.16 and later.
Catalyst 8200L	All non-browser tests	IOS-XE 17.6.1 and later	Hardware Requirements: Requires 8GB RAM and 8GB Flash. Feature Template Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.6 and later. ThousandEyes Workflow Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.16 and later.
Catalyst 8300	All non-browser tests	IOS-XE 17.6.1 and later	Hardware Requirements: No additional hardware required (16GB M.2 SSD drive is included by default). Feature Template Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.6 and later. ThousandEyes Workflow Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.16 and later.
Catalyst 8500	All non-browser tests	IOS-XE 17.8.1 and later	Hardware Requirements: No additional hardware required (16GB M.2 SSD drive is included by default). Feature Template Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.8.1 and later. ThousandEyes Workflow Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.16 and later.
Catalyst 8500L	All non-browser tests	IOS-XE 17.8.1 and later	Hardware Requirements: Requires 8GB RAM and 8GB Flash. Feature Template Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.8.1 and later. ThousandEyes Workflow Management Requirements: SD-WAN Manager (previously vManage) 20.16 and later.

Installation Instructions

The following installation methods are supported for Cisco Catalyst routers:

• Installing Enterprise Agents on Cisco Catalyst Routers using Cisco Application Hosting.
• Installing Enterprise Agents on Cisco Routers using SD-WAN Manager Feature Templates.
• Installing Enterprise Agents on Cisco Routers using the SD-WAN Manager ThousandEyes Workflow.