Overview

This section contains the following topics:

Audience

This guide is for experienced network administrators who want to use Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway in their network. This guide assumes that you are familiar with the following topics:

  • Linux system administration

  • Networking technologies and protocols

  • Familiarity with the different operating systems used on devices that form your network, such as Cisco IOS-XR, ISO-XE, and NX-OS.

Overview

Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway is a model-driven data collection platform that enables real-time data collection from multi-protocol capable devices, thereby reducing the need for multiple collection points to the network.

Crosswork Data Gateway provides a simple secure gateway between the network and applications to collect data. It enables service providers to quickly program and deploy collectors and offers central visibility into services collecting data and type of data being collected.

Crosswork Data Gateway is available in two variants to enable data collection in different use cases:

  • Cisco Crosswork Cloud: Provides secure data collection and distribution to Cisco Crosswork Cloud solutions, such Trust Insights, Network Insights, etc.

  • Customer-hosted Solutions: Crosswork Data Gateway provides data collection and distribution to customer-hosted solutions.

Log In and Log Out

You can use either of the following two ways to access Crosswork Data Gateway:

Access Crosswork Data Gateway Through vCenter

Follow these steps to login via vCenter:

Procedure

Step 1

Locate the VM in vCenter and then right click and select Open Console.

The Crosswork Data Gateway flash screen comes up, prompting for password:
Step 2

Input the password and press Enter.

Upon successful login, you can see the Crosswork Data Gateway's interactive console, as shown in the following figure:

Note 

The Main Menu shown in this figure corresponds to dg-admin user. It is different for dg-oper. See Chapter 3 Manage Users in Crosswork Data Gateway 1.0 User Guide.



Access Crosswork Data Gateway Via SSH

Follow these steps to login via SSH.

Procedure

Step 1

Run the following command:

ssh <username>@<ManagementNetworkIP>

where ManagementNetworkIP is the management network IP address.

For example,

To login as adminstrator user: ssh dg-admin@<ManagementNetworkIP>

To login as operator user: ssh dg-oper@<ManagementNetworkIP>

The following Crosswork Data Gateway flash screen opens prompting for password:
Step 2

Input the password and press Enter.

Upon successful login, Crosswork Data Gateway opens with an interactive console, as shown in the following figure:

Note 

The Main Menu shown in this figure corresponds to dg-admin user. It is different for dg-oper. See Chapter 3 Manage Users in Crosswork Data Gateway 1.0 User Guide.



Log Out

To log out, select option l Logout from the Main Menu and press Enter or click OK.

Use the Interactive Console

Crosswork Data Gateway launches an interactive console upon successful login. The interactive console displays the Main Menu as shown in the following figure:


Note

The Main Menu shown here corresponds to dg-admin user. It is different for dg-oper user as the operator does not have same privileges as the adminstrator. See Supported User Roles.



The Main Menu presents the following options:

  1. Export Enrollment Package

  2. Import Device Pack Tar File

  3. Import MIB Pack Tar File

  4. Show System Settings

  5. Change Current System Settings

  6. Vitals

  7. Troubleshooting

  8. Change Passphrase

  9. Logout