Add Devices and Credential Profiles By Synchronizing With Cisco NSO
If you are currently using Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (Cisco NSO) to manage your network devices, you may be able to perform a bulk upload of your Cisco NSO devices to Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights by synchronizing the two systems. Cisco strongly recommends that you undertake this synchronization only once, and only with the direct assistance of your Cisco CX account team.
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If you encounter NSO read timeout error while pushing configuration, increase the NSO timeout from 20 to 120 seconds by editing
the ncs.conf file with |
Before you begin
To perform this task, you will need:
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A Cisco NSO server that is fully populated with the devices you want to add.
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The protocol, IP address, port, administrative user name and password needed to connect to the Cisco NSO server.
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Access to a text editor that you can use to edit the Cisco NSO server ncs.conf file.
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The parameters required to add Cisco NSO as a Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights provider.
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The SNMP community strings and other credentials that Cisco NSO uses to access the devices you want to add to Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights.
You will also need to ensure that you have pre-configured your devices to work with Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights, as explained in Prerequisites for Onboarding Devices, Sample Configuration for Devices in Cisco NSO and Prerequisites for Device Model Driven Telemetry.
Procedure
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On the Cisco NSO server: Access and edit the ncs.conf file to enable port 8080 and then restart the server with a package reload: |
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Log into Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights and set up Cisco NSO as a provider, with the credentials needed to connect to Cisco NSO and to the imported devices:
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Step 3 |
Synchronize Cisco Crosswork Change Automation and Health Insights's Inventory Management application with Cisco NSO's inventory services, as follows: |