Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Adapter

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Updated:July 24, 2024

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Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Adapter

General Information

The Cisco NSO adapter is used for provisioning of services using Cisco NSO. It has no discovery capabilities. It can be used with an existing external NSO instance and an internal NSO instance.

Prerequisites

The NSO instance must be configured properly. The NSO adapter needs to be assigned to the devices in Device Manager, for the Services Manager application to be able to provision services using NSO. The NSO adapter is capable of provisioning only, you must use another adapter (such as IOS-XR or CNC) to collect information about the relevant routers to ensure that provisioning has been successful.

Provisioning

Table 1.Provisioning Details for the NSO Adapter

Type 

Is Supported

Additional Information

IP-Link (ZR/+)

Create, Delete

Modify is not supported

SR-Policy

Create, Delete

Modify is not supported

 

Configuration

Table 2.Configuration Parameters for the NSO Adapter

Name

Description

Default

Range

Adapter Properties

 

 

 

Enabled

Enable/disable the adapter.

False

 

Logging Level

The logging level at which the discovery cycle is reported in the adapter’s log.

INFO

DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL

User internal nso

If enabled, the entire “Server Configuration” section is ignored (except for timeout), and NSO will attempt to use an internal NSO instance.

False

 

Server Configuration

The NSO server information to be used for connecting by the adapter.

 

 

Host

The host.

1.1.1.1

 

Port

The port number.

8888

1 - 65535

Timeout [sec]

The timeout duration in seconds (sec)

30

Min: 0

Credentials

The credentials defined in the “Credentials” tab of the Device Manager.

 

 

Provisioning Parameters

 

 

 

IP-Link create timeout

The IP-link creation involves a complex mechanism which requires a longer timeout setting to complete the provisioning process. The IP-Link create timeout value must be coordinated with the timeout value in the Services Manager application, otherwise the Services Manager application will give a timeout error on the create request.

120

 

Min: 10

 

Limitations

Provisioning

·       It may take some time for Crosswork Hierarchical Controller to recognize that a service has been provisioned. In such cases, changing the cycle time of the cross mapper can reduce the time taken by the system to recognize the new service.

 

 

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