Overview of Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights
Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights is part of the Cisco Crosswork Network Automation suite of products. Cisco Crosswork Network Automation is a microservices-based platform that brings together streaming telemetry, big data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to redefine service provider network operations.
Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights provides the following:
-
Continuous real-time monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs)
-
Routinizing scheduled network maintenance and network reconfiguration tasks
-
Linking optimization and remediation playbooks to KPIs in order to streamline response to network events
The data collection functionality has been separated out into its own VM and software package called Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway. Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway gathers all the information from the monitored devices and forwards it to Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights for analysis and processing. Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights can then be used by the operator to manage the network or respond to changes in the network. Apart from Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights, Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway can also be used for external data collection integration. Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights uses Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (Cisco NSO) as the default provider to manage the devices according to their expected functions, including configuring any required model-driven telemetry (MDT) sensor paths for data collection. Cisco NSO is vital in supplying device management and configuration-maintenance services
Note |
Cisco recommends using Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 with Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2. |
For more information about the Cisco Crosswork Network Automation platform and Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights, see the Cisco Crosswork Network Automation Product page on Cisco.com.