Contents

• What's New in Cisco Active Advisor
• Installing Active Advisor
• Limitations and Restrictions
• Troubleshooting

First Published: May 22, 2017

What's New in Cisco Active Advisor

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In addition to providing information about the devices in your Cisco APIC-EM inventory that have hardware End-of-Life warnings and vulnerabilities that have been identified by the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), Cisco Active Advisor now provides Software End-of-Life, Field Notice, warranty, and service contract coverage information about those devices.

Cisco Active Advisor, version 1.4.2, supports the controller proxy defined in the controller settings page of the administrator view.

Installing Active Advisor

From the Application Management Update page in APIC-EM, drag and drop the Active Advisor image (apic-em-caa-application-1.4.2.106 application file) to the appropriate spot. If you are updating from a previous version of Active Advisor, you need to disable the previous version before enabling the new version. For a detailed explanation with screen shots, go here: https:/​/​help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com/​solution/​articles/​13000029387-how-do-i-install-active-advisor-for-apic-em-

Limitations and Restrictions

Active Advisor has the following limitations and restrictions:

• Active Advisor requires an outbound connection to the internet and a DNS configuration that enables your APIC-EM controller to reach the following two sites:

  • https:/​/​op2-prd1-dprox.cisco.com

  • https:/​/​ciscoactiveadvisor.com

• You can test your controller internet connectivity using the procedure in the following article: https:/​/​help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com/​solution/​articles/​13000030655-how-do-i-check-to-see-if-my-apic-em-controller-has-access-to-the-necessary-web-services-to-function-p

• The APIC-EM Telemetry collection service must be enabled. See the following article for information about how to check that it's enabled:

  https:/​/​help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com/​solution/​articles/​13000030658-how-do-i-ensure-that-telemetry-collection-is-turned-on-on-my-apic-em-controller-

Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting FAQs and procedures for Active Advisor, see our knowledge base at the following URL:

https:/​/​help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com/​solution/​folders/​13000006583

If you can’t find what you are looking for, click New support ticket and open a ticket. One of our developers will get back to you.

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