# DNAC-Device-Scan-Android-App

**Repository Path**: mirrors_CiscoDevNet/DNAC-Device-Scan-Android-App

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: DNAC-Device-Scan-Android-App
- **Description**: This mobile app lets one scan a device's serial number and learn its inventory information.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-13

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# DNAC Device Scan Android App


### Description
This project is an Andriod app that scans a device's Serial Number and provides insights into the device. It also has a middleware app that is the interface to a DNA Center instance. 

### Possible Application Scenarios
1. A network operator will be able to quickly identify a device by its inventory information without having to loggging into its terminal or a management station that might manage it.
2. The user will know the sync status of the device and the DNA Center.

### Install and Setup
* Frontend Mobile App
1. Install nodejs and npm
2. Install ionic using: https://ccoenraets.github.io/ionic-tutorial/install-ionic.html
3. Add android platform support:
  `ionic cordova add platform android`
  
4. Compile 

      `cd frontend/devScan/`
  
      `npm install`
  
      `ionic cordova build android --debug`
  
  
* Middleware installation
1. Create a python virtualenv and activate it
2. Install requirements

      `pip install -r requirements.txt`
      

* Running the middleware
1.  Setup local environment variables for your DNA Center in the file middleware/dnac_instance.conf.  *Provide the info for your DNA Center*

2. Update host-IP on line #27 of middleware/app.py
3. Start the server

    `python middleware/app.py`
    
    
### Using The Application
1.  Open the Android app and provide the middleware host-IP on the onboarding screen
2.  Scan the serial number of a device