Set up, manage, and troubleshoot Crosswork Data Gateways, including gateway components, high availability, pools, and UI access.
Crosswork Data Gateways
Introduces Crosswork Data Gateway as a secure on-premises platform for collecting network data from multivendor devices, supporting SNMP, CLI, gNMI, and Syslog to enable consistent data collection across heterogeneous environments.
Components of Crosswork Data Gateway
Outlines the core components and deployment concepts of Crosswork Data Gateway, including gateway instances, profiles, pools, data destinations, collection jobs, and custom software packages, with emphasis on management, scalability, high availability, and device coverage.
High availability and pools
Details how Crosswork Data Gateway pools provide high availability through active and standby instances, including pool protection states, failover behavior, error detection, workload reassignment, and recovery procedures to minimize disruption during gateway failures.
Data Gateway UI structure
Introduces the Data Gateway UI structure and explains how to navigate its key elements, features, and controls for monitoring, filtering, and managing Data Gateway VMs and pools efficiently.
Setting up Data Gateways for data collection
Guides you through setting up Crosswork Data Gateways for data collection, including initial configuration, pool creation, device attachment, and job verification, with optional steps for geo-redundancy, external data destinations, custom collection jobs, and expanded device coverage.
Data Gateway pool operations
Introduces Data Gateway pool operations for managing logical groups of Crosswork Data Gateway instances that support scalable data collection, high availability, automatic failover, and balanced data ingestion in large-scale or mission-critical environments.
Perform a manual failover
Provides instructions for manually failing over a Data Gateway instance during planned maintenance, including prerequisites, permission requirements, UI steps, maintenance mode options, and IPv6 considerations during standby takeover.
Device assignments and Data Gateway instance management
Details device assignment, management, and maintenance tasks for Crosswork Data Gateway instances.
Maintenance and post-setup operations
Outlines maintenance and post-setup operations for Crosswork Data Gateway, including planned downtime, configuration updates, collection setup, and system integration tasks that help maintain secure, efficient, and minimally disruptive network data collection.
Global settings and resource allocation
Details how to configure global settings for Crosswork Data Gateway, including the resource allocation and system-wide options that control its overall operation.
External data destinations
Explains what external data destinations are, their attributes, and how they are managed and used within Crosswork Network Controller.
Device package management
Describes device package management in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway, including how system and custom device packages extend data collection for Cisco and third-party devices and support tailored coverage for specific collection requirements.
Collection jobs in Crosswork Data Gateway
Introduces collection jobs in Crosswork Data Gateway, including their role in application-driven data gathering, supported protocols, internal and external data collection requests, and how bulk and parameterized jobs are displayed in the Crosswork Network Controller UI.
Troubleshooting options and common issues in Crosswork Data Gateway
Lists key troubleshooting options and common operational issues for Crosswork Data Gateway, along with guidance on diagnosing and resolving them.