Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 Release Notes
This document describes the features, limitations, and bugs for Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2.
This document includes the following sections:
Introduction
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:
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Crosswork Cloud (Crosswork Network Insights and Crosswork Trust Insights)
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Crosswork On Premise Applications (Crosswork Change Automation, Crosswork Health Insights, and with Crosswork Optimization Engine)
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.
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New Features and Enhancements
New features and enhancements provided in the Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 release include:
Release Dates
Cisco releases updated builds on the Cisco Support & Download site when needed.
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1.1.2 |
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cw-na-dg-1.1.2-50-release-20200331.ova |
2020-04-03 |
Features/Functionalities Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2
This section lists the features/functionalities delivered in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2:
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Applications Supported
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Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 supports the following Crosswork On Premise applications:
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Collectors
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Supports multiple data collection methods:
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Collection Optimization |
Optimizes collection requests to reduce redundant data collections. |
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External Data Destinations Support for third party application access to network data
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Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway supports Kafka and gRPC servers to be used as external data destinations for collected data. |
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Secure communication between Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway and specified data destination |
Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway allows you to enable secure communication between itself and the specified data destination i.e., a Crosswork application or external Kafka. |
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Accessing SCP server via a custom port |
Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway allows you to use a custom port instead of the default SCP Port 22. You can specify the port as a part of the SCP command. For example,
where 55 is a custom port. |
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SNMP Column Walk |
Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway allows you to provide either a Table OID or a Column OID for TABLE operation. |
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Collection Job Monitoring |
Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway provides central visibility into services collecting data and type of data being collected. |
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Custom Device Package Support |
Allows third party device data collection by means of custom device packages. Lets you deploy three types of custom packages:
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Collection Vitals |
Exposes vitals of its services allowing you to monitor overall health of Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway The vitals include Base VM performance metrics and reachability if each instance. |
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Load Monitoring |
Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway provides report of its available bandwidth and performance. This includes Network I/O, Disk I/O, Memory, and CPU utilization. |
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Centralized logging |
Lets you use an external syslog server. |
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Revised destination output protos for SNMP collection and SNMP Traps |
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Enhanced support in CLI Device Packs for third party |
Enhanced support for 3rd party devices. CLI reachability uses custom device packages to check the reachability of devices with different protocols, such as SSH, TELNET, SNMP, and NETCONF. |
Compatibility Information
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Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway release 1.1.2 has been validated in conjunction with CA/HI release 3.2. |
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.
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This release supports new deployments only. |
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Supported Version |
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Hardware platform |
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B or C series
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Hypervisor and vCenter |
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Supported Cisco OS
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The below table lists only the software versions on which Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 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 3.2 User Guide for information on how to expand the device coverage. |
OS | Software Version | Collection Protocols | MDT Encoding |
IOS-XR* |
6.4.1, 6.4.2 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3 6.6.2, 6.6.3 7.0.1 |
MDT CLI SNMP |
KVGPB/TCP |
IOS-XE |
16.9.2, 16.10 17.1.1 |
SNMP CLI |
NA |
NX-OS |
7.0(3).7(2) 8.4(0).SK(1) |
NA |
*For MDT configuration via NSO on IOS-XR, use NSO XR NED 7.13.9.
Usage Guidelines and Important Notes
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Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 supports only Crosswork On Premise applications. Do not use
Crosswork Cloud
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Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway release 1.1.2 has been validated in conjunction with Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2.
To install and configure Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for a Crosswork application, refer the respective guide:
To install Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for... |
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Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2 |
Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2 Installation Guide |
Using Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway
For information on how to use Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for a Crosswork application, refer the respective guide:
For information on how to use Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway for... |
Refer... |
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Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2 |
Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights 3.2 User Guide |
Known Issues and Limitations in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2
The following are known issues, limitations, and workarounds in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.
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Description |
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None. |
Cisco Bug Search Tool
You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.
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Go to the Cisco Bug Search Tool.
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Enter your registered Cisco.com username and password, and click Log In.
The Bug Search page opens.
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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.
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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.
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To export the results to a spreadsheet, click Export Results to Excel. |
Open Source
A list of open source software used in Cisco Crosswork can be found in Open Source Used in Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway.
Related Documentation
For related documentation, see the Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway 1.1.2 Documentation Roadmap.
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