CAT-DNA-P-ADD

CAT-DNA-P-ADD is a Cisco DNA Premier add-on subscription SKU for the Catalyst range. Add-on SKUs like this one attach to a specific switch or controller, so the platform it was ordered against needs identifying before it means anything concrete.

This licence tier has been withdrawn by Cisco and can no longer be bought, renewed or supported. We have left this page up because people still search for the part number and deserve a straight answer rather than a dead end.

Cisco’s end-of-life notices for DNA Premier gives these dates:

• End of sale, and the last day to order: 9 March 2022
• Last day to renew or add to an existing subscription: 8 March 2024
• Last date of support: 31 March 2025

All three have passed. Cisco’s wording is that after the last date of support these part numbers are obsolete. Cisco itemises these Catalyst DNA Premier add-on part numbers in its own switching end-of-life notice, so the dates above are theirs rather than an inference.

Premier sat at the top of the three Cisco DNA tiers, above Essentials and Advantage. Rather than simply adding more networking features, it was a bundle: DNA Advantage packaged together with Cisco’s identity and network-analytics products — Identity Services Engine and Stealthwatch, now sold as Secure Network Analytics. That is visible in Cisco’s own migration path, which replaces several Premier part numbers with DNA Advantage plus a cross-architecture bundle SKU.

What to buy instead. Cisco names a direct replacement for this one: CAT-DNA-A-ADD on a matching term, together with the cross-architecture bundle SKU DNA-XARC-OFFER that covers the identity and analytics products Premier used to include. The one exception is the spare variant CAT-DNA-P-ADD=, for which Cisco lists no replacement at all. Tell us which switch the add-on was ordered against and we will confirm the right current part number before you commit.

One thing worth knowing if you are specifying a replacement: the subscription tier has to match the perpetual Network licence on the switch — Essentials with Network Essentials, Advantage with Network Advantage. It is a common way for an order to come unstuck, so it is the first thing we check.

Green Code Technologies supplies Cisco switching, wireless and the licensing that goes with it. Tell us the switch model, how many ports you are covering and what term you need, and we will quote the current licence rather than selling you something Cisco stopped supporting in 2025.