After a mass firmware upgrade weekend, a building permits desk wants to know whether fabric sites recovered cleanly. Which Catalyst Center capability best summarizes post-change site and device health for operators?
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Short Explanation
Assurance is the morning-after checklist for the whole civic campus, not a pile of unsorted syslog sticky notes. Health scores and issue views tell you which sites bounced back and which still limp after the upgrade. An MD5 on the TFTP box only proves the file copied, not that fabric clients are healthy.
Full Explanation
Catalyst Center Assurance aggregates network and client health, correlating telemetry into site and device scores plus actionable issues. After a mass firmware window, operators should review those views for the permits sites rather than treating image checksums or uncorrelated syslog dumps as success criteria. Disabling telemetry removes the visibility needed to detect brownouts. Assurance does not replace change control, but it is the primary post-change health signal for SD-Access fabrics.