Cisco Active Advisor is a free online cloud service that automates network discovery and analysis of your network inventory. Cisco Active Advisor reduces the overall risk of your network administration by keeping you up-to-date on:

  • Warranty and service contract status
  • Product advisories, including Product Security Incident Response Teams (PSIRTs) and field notices
  • End-of-life milestones for hardware and software
Cisco Active Advisor log in with your Cisco CCO account:
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Main Interface includes following buttons:
  • Add Devices
  • View Devices
  • Tools
  • Switching Health
  • Wireless Health
  • Security Health
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If it is your first time to log in, you will need to scan your network to add devices. You can choose three different ways to do that:
  • Web Scanner
  • Desktop Scanner
  • Upload from file

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This is the web scanner interface. You will need to enter the scanning scope, username, password, snmp information. 
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Following screenshots are captured from Desktop Scanner. 

 
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Eventually, you will get all your devices with many advisories from Cisco. 

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