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 for multiple applications requiring same data from the network.

Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway serves as the scalable collection architecture for Crosswork or customer applications. Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway is not a standalone product and needs to be deployed with one of the following Crosswork options:

1. Crosswork Cloud

2. Crosswork On Premise Applications

Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway provides a simple secure gateway between the network and controller (Crosswork Cloud or Crosswork On Premise application) to collect data. It provides the capability to offload voluminous data collection closer to the devices while allowing the Crosswork applications to scale independently.

Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway can also be used to feed external data destinations (such as, an external Kafka or gRPC server) apart from Crosswork applications.

It enables service providers to quickly program and deploy collectors and offers central visibility into services collecting data and type of data being collected.

Note	Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1 supports Cisco Crosswork On Premise applications only.

Cisco releases updated builds on the Cisco Support & Download site when needed.

This section lists the features/functionalities delivered in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1:

The following table lists hardware and software versions that have been tested and are known to be compatible with Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway. For complete installation requirements, see the respective Crosswork On Premise application's installation guide with which you plan to use Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.

Note	This release supports new deployments only.

Supported Cisco OS

Note

The below table lists only the software versions on which Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1 was tested. Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway allows you to expand device coverage by means of custom packages. See Section Manage Custom Software Packages in Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.1 User Guide and Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine 1.1 User Guide for information on how to expand the device coverage.

OS	Software Version	Config Mode	Protocol	Encoding	Transport
IOS-XR	6.4.1, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.6.2	NSO XR NED CLI 7.13.9	MDT	KVGPB	TCP
	6.4.1, 6.5.3, 6.6.2
	6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.6.2
	6.4.1, 6.4.2
	7.0.1
	6.4.2
IOS-XE	16.10,		SNMP, CLI
	16.9.2, 16.10
NX-OS	7.0(3).7(2)
	8.4(0).SK(1)

This section provides guidelines and important notes to consider when using Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.

Installation and Configuration

• If you want to install Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for Crosswork Cloud, you must select Crosswork Cloud configuration option during installation.

  To install Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for Crosswork On Premise applications, select Crosswork On Premise configuration option during installation.

  Note	Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1 supports only Crosswork On Premise applications. Do not use Crosswork Cloud option.

  To install and configure Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for a Crosswork application, refer the respective guide:

  To install Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for...	Refer...
  Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.1	Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.1 Installation Guide
  Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine 1.1	Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine 1.1 Installation Guide

• Use VMware vCenter for OVA deployment.

• Use the same NTP source and server to avoid time synchronization issues.

• During OVA deployment, note the Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway user names and passwords. You will not be able to recover the administrator password later because of security purposes.

Using Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway

For information on how to use Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for a Crosswork application, refer the respective guide:

The following are known issues, limitations, and workarounds in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.

You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.

1. Go to the Cisco Bug Search Tool.

2. Enter your registered Cisco.com username and password, and click Log In.

   The Bug Search page opens.

   Note	If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register here.

3. Use any of these options to search for bugs, and then press Enter (Return) to initiate the search:

   — To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field.

   — To search for bugs based on specific criteria, enter search criteria, such as a problem description, a feature, or a product name, in the Search For field.

   — To search for bugs based on products, enter or choose the product from the Product list. For example, enter Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.

   — To search for bugs based on releases, in the Releases list choose whether to search for bugs affecting a specific release, bugs that were fixed in a specific release, or both. Then enter one or more release numbers in the Releases field.

4. When the search results are displayed, use the filter tools to narrow the results. You can filter the bugs by status, severity, and so on.

Tip	To export the results to a spreadsheet, click Export Results to Excel.

A list of open source software used in Cisco Crosswork can be found in Open Source Used in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.

For related documentation, see the Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1 Documentation Roadmap.

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