Integrate BlueCat DDI context into your Cisco networking and security toolkit

BlueCat provides authoritative DDI context into Cisco Cloud Control

Cisco Cloud Control is Cisco’s unified platform for network management using agentic IT operations. Within the platform, Cisco AI Canvas provides a collaborative workspace for operations teams and AI agents to investigate and resolve issues across the networking, security, observability, compute, and collaboration domains.

BlueCat integrates with Cisco Cloud Control through open Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that expose authoritative DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) context to AI agents operating within Cisco AI Canvas. This allows AI-driven workflows to incorporate trusted network identity and infrastructure context during operational analysis and troubleshooting. By combining BlueCat DDI data with broader operational telemetry and workflow automation within Cisco Cloud Control, organizations can improve cross-domain visibility, accelerate root cause investigation, and enhance AI-assisted operational workflows across complex enterprise environments.

How it works

When issues arise, AI agents can reason on BlueCat network intelligence, alongside other operational systems, to: 

• Investigate infrastructure issues across domains  
• Correlate network and security events  
• Improve operational visibility  
• Accelerate root-cause analysis  
• Support faster remediation workflows  

Operations teams remain in control throughout the process with governed, human-in-the-loop workflows. 

Key benefits

• Bring authoritative DDI context into Cisco Cloud Control  
• Improve investigation accuracy with trusted infrastructure intelligence  
• Reduce operational friction across disconnected tools  
• Accelerate cross-domain troubleshooting and remediation  
• Extend network intelligence into agentic operations workflows  
• Support operational decisions with richer infrastructure awareness  

Identify and mitigate threats

BlueCat and Cisco deliver a new level of context and actionable data that security teams can use to rapidly identify and mitigate threats.

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How it works

Cisco Secure Access DNS integration

Cisco Secure Access DNS integration with BlueCat connects DNS query and response data from BlueCat’s service points to Cisco Secure Access for richer, IP-level security context. BlueCat continuously feeds device, user, and domain activity into Secure Access, helping it see both north–south and internal east–west traffic. Security teams can use this shared context to detect suspicious behavior earlier and drive faster, policy-based responses.

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Key benefits

• Find threats faster through rapid correlation of external threat data with source IP
• Visibility and control over internal, east-west queries (around 60% of network traffic)
• Cast a wider security net with enhanced threat intelligence
• Reduce network costs and optimize SD-WAN performance by eliminating data center backhauls
• Improve customer experience with fast, easy deployment – no matter what DDI solution is in place

DNS threats BlueCat helps expose

BlueCat augments Cisco Secure Access by surfacing DNS-layer signals that other controls can miss. DNS data helps flag suspicious domain lookups, command-and-control callbacks, DNS tunneling behaviors, and anomalous query patterns from compromised users or devices. By aligning this activity with Secure Access policies, security teams can block risky destinations, quarantine endpoints, and investigate lateral movement using the same Cisco security tooling they already rely on.

Integrated detection and response workflows

With BlueCat, Cisco Secure Access can correlate DNS requests with user identity, device details, and IP assignments in near real time. Security teams can pivot from an alert in Secure Access directly into the underlying DNS activity, validate whether a threat is isolated or widespread, and then enforce policy changes centrally. This tight loop helps shrink investigation timelines, improve containment decisions, and make Cisco Secure Access a stronger control point for DNS security.

Security outcomes for your organization

By combining Cisco Secure Access with BlueCat DNS data, organizations gain deeper visibility into endpoint and application behavior, including traffic that never leaves the internal network. Security teams can more accurately prioritize alerts, reduce blind spots around DNS misuse, and coordinate action with network operations. The result is faster threat detection, more confident response, and better return on both your Cisco and DDI investments.

Improved IPAM visibility and DHCP orchestration for all Meraki enabled locations

Cisco Meraki ensures network performance and security policies across all remote locations for a consistent customer experience and simplified troubleshooting. Create the same uniformity in managing DHCP across all areas of your organization, now with more IPAM visibility, context, and granular role-based access controls (RBAC)—all within a single unified UI to view and orchestrate both corporate network and remote sites.

How it works

Simply connect with an API key to centralize DHCP management across your Meraki SD-WAN environment (MX appliances) with more visibility, context, and granular role-based access controls (RBAC).

Key benefits

• Orchestrate all SD-WAN enabled locations using a single pane of glass for all your DDI data, from the cloud to the corporate network and even your SD-WAN enabled remote sites.
• Greater visibility and detailed insights into IP address space, DHCP leases, and active connections.
• More granular control over role-based access controls (RBAC) by allowing each network site’s IT architect to make changes only to their designated site.
• Seamless integration with Meraki: Micetro is easily and non-disruptively deployed—it quickly discovers and imports all Meraki IPAM data.
•  Enable remote management at scale for thousands of locations​, using a single platform: BlueCat Micetro​.

Central IPAM for SD-WAN and branch

BlueCat Micetro gives you centralized IPAM and Meraki DHCP management for all SD-WAN and remote locations. Network teams can model subnets once, allocate address space to new Meraki sites, and push changes without logging into each network. As branches come online or change, IP data flows back into Micetro, keeping inventory accurate. This reduces duplicate subnets, misconfigured scopes, and the fire drills that come with fragmented site-by-site IP tracking.

Provisioning and troubleshooting workflows

With Cisco Meraki IPAM integration, BlueCat Micetro streamlines everyday operations. For provisioning, engineers define IP ranges centrally and assign them to new Meraki networks in minutes, with automated validation to avoid conflicts. For troubleshooting, teams can quickly trace a user or device from an IP or hostname back to its Meraki lease and site, cutting time to resolve issues like overlapping scopes, rogue devices, or misrouted traffic across SD-WAN paths.

Role-Based Control for distributed teams

BlueCat Micetro extends granular role-based access control across your Meraki environments so the right teams manage the right IP space. Central architects can own global IP design, while regional or site admins get delegated access to specific networks and scopes. Everyone works from the same IPAM data, but privileges stay aligned to responsibility. That structure helps large organizations scale Meraki deployments without sacrificing governance or introducing change risk.

Cisco DNA Center IP Address Management

Cisco DNA Center IP address management with BlueCat connects your intent-based networking workflows to a trusted DDI source of truth. Subnets are planned and reserved in BlueCat, validated against existing allocations, then exposed to DNA Center as ready-to-use pools. As sites, networks, and devices are provisioned, assignments stay synchronized so IP space remains consistent across core, branch, and cloud.

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Automating subnet planning and sync

Network teams design IP schemes once in BlueCat, defining ranges, roles, and policies for each site. Those subnets are automatically checked for conflicts, tagged with business context, and published to Cisco DNA Center. When DNA Center provisions fabrics or access networks, it draws from these approved pools and BlueCat updates utilization in real time, closing the loop without manual spreadsheets or ticket back-and-forth.

Key benefits

• Reduce manual errors and downtime through automated validation of IP addresses
• Manage networks efficiently with automated allocation and management of IP addresses
• Reduce network complexity by managing the entire IP address workflow through a single platform

Automating site turn-up and onboarding

For new site turn-up, BlueCat pre-allocates IP space based on templates, then makes those pools immediately available for Cisco DNA Center to use during provisioning. As devices are onboarded or VLANs added, IP assignments and reservations are recorded centrally in BlueCat, improving traceability. Teams can reduce time-to-provision, cut address conflicts, and standardize IP address automation across regions and operating groups.

Gain automation efficiencies

Cisco ACI DNS integration with BlueCat connects your application-centric fabric to an authoritative DDI source of truth. Subnets, IP address ranges, and DNS objects defined in BlueCat automatically synchronize with ACI, keeping network intent aligned with actual addressing. This reduces manual updates, drift, and misconfigurations across tenants and application profiles.

How it works

Drive network automation from accurate IPAM context

With Cisco ACI IPAM integration, automation workflows start from validated IP data instead of spreadsheets or siloed tools. ACI consumes BlueCat-assigned subnets and IPs to power policy-based provisioning, segmentation, and expansion. That means faster change windows, fewer failed deployments, and less rework when rolling out new applications or scaling existing ones.

Key benefits

• Enhance visibility by viewing DDI assets directly in Cisco ACI
• Reduce manual data entry by synchronizing IP data automatically
• Speed up troubleshooting by assessing your entire DDI infrastructure in a single view

Accelerate troubleshooting with DNS-aware visibility

When issues arise, BlueCat gives ACI operators DNS-aware network automation insights that cut through complexity. IP addresses, hostnames, and subnets are correlated so teams can quickly trace flows, validate assignments, and spot conflicts. This shared context shortens mean time to resolution and reduces the risk of outages tied to IP or DNS errors.