Release Notes for Cisco Crosswork Planning, Release 7.1
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Cisco Crosswork Planning, Release 7.1
Cisco Crosswork Planning, Release 7.1
This document provides information about Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1, including product overview, new features and functionality, known issues and limitations, compatibility information and further release details.
Overview
Cisco Crosswork Planning provides tools to create and maintain a model of the current network through the continual monitoring and analysis of the network, and the traffic demands that are placed on it. At a given time, this network model contains all relevant information about a network, including topology, configuration, and traffic information. You can use this information as a basis for analyzing the impact on the network due to changes in traffic demands, paths, node and link failures, network optimizations, or other changes.
Components
Cisco Crosswork Planning comprises these two components:
● Cisco Crosswork Planning Collector: This component consists of a set of services that create, maintain, and archive a model of the current network. It achieves this through continual monitoring and analysis of the network and the traffic demands placed on it.
● Cisco Crosswork Planning Design: This component helps network engineers and operators predict growth in their network, simulate failures, and optimize the network design to meet performance objectives while minimizing cost.
This section provides a brief description of the new software features introduced in this release.
Table 1. New software features for Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1
| Product impact |
Feature |
Description |
| Ease of use |
Circuit Style RSVP LSPs (CS-RSVP LSPs) support |
CS-RSVP LSPs are logical entities that bundle two uni-directional RSVP LSPs with the same endpoints to form bi-directional RSVP LSPs. Cisco Crosswork Planning supports creating and visualizing CS-RSVP LSPs. These two new tools have been added.
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CS-RSVP LSP optimizer: This helps to create, find, and optimize CS-RSVP LSPs based on specified endpoint pairs, association ID, source address, and global ID.
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CS-RSVP LSP simulation diagnostics: This helps to perform configuration and disjointness checks on the CS-RSVP LSPs.
For more information, see the “Circuit Style RSVP LSPs” topic in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning Design 7.1 User Guide”. |
| Upgrade |
Vertical scaling of design engine instances |
Cisco Crosswork Planning now allows you to dynamically create engine instances, and allocate vCPU and memory based on your requirements. This helps you complete simulation analysis and capacity planning faster, and work with large plan files more easily. For more information, see the Desing engine instances” topic in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning Design 7.1 User Guide”. |
| Ease of use |
Cross table filters |
Multiple cross table filters have been added in Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1. For a complete list of cross table filters supported in Cisco Crosswork Planning, see the “Cross Table Filters” appendix in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning Design 7.1 User Guide”. |
| Ease of use |
Plan object decorations |
Decorations have been added or updated for the plan objects to enhance the user experience. For details on how the plan objects are represented in the Cisco Crosswork Planning Design application, see the “Legend for Plan Objects” appendix in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning Design 7.1 User Guide”. |
| Ease of use |
Option to export route |
A new Export Routes tool (Actions > File > Export > Routes> has been added to export current simulated routes for various objects, such as Demands, LSPs, and so on. This is useful for fine-tuning your analysis of how failures impact the network. For more information, see the “Export Routes” chapter in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning Design 7.1 User Guide”. |
| Ease of setup |
KVM support |
Cisco Crosswork Planning can now be installed on KVM. For installation instructions, see the “Installing Cisco Crosswork Planning on KVM” topic in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1 Installation Guide”. |
| Software reliability |
Third party device support |
Cisco Crosswork Planning now supports data collection from third-party devices using the support module framework. For more information, see the “How data is collected from third-party devices” topic in the “Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1 Collection Setup and Administration” document. |
This table lists the resolved issues in this specific software release.
Note: This software release may contain bug fixes first introduced in other releases. To see additional information, click the bug ID to access the Cisco Bug Search Tool.
Table 2. Resolved issues for Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1
| Bug ID |
Description |
| Demand traffic edit/display has issues when the demand name is not unique |
|
| libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.8.0' not found when using numpy along with RPC/OPM APIs |
|
| DefaultApplicationResourceProfile parameter is not considered for application deployment |
This table lists the open issues in this specific software release.
Note: This software release may contain open bugs first identified in other releases. To see additional information, click the bug ID to access the Cisco Bug Search Tool.
Table 3. Open issues for Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1
| Bug ID |
Description |
| BGP session is not coming up in NetFlow agent when BGP configured with password |
|
| External Collector Collection configuration should allow to enable/disable |
This section describes the known issues and limitations that should be considered before starting to work with Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1.
Table 4. Known issues in Cisco Crosswork Planning Collector
| Issue |
Description |
| Plan file download format |
The Cisco Crosswork Planning Collector application allows you to download plan files only in the .db format. Downloading plan files in the .txt format is not supported. |
| Archiving and aggregation |
You can configure the archiving or aggregation of plan files only by running a collection. It is not possible to set up archive or aggregation of plan files independently. |
| Chart readability |
When a large number of collectors are included in a configuration, the chart content displayed on the Preview page becomes difficult to read. |
Table 5. Known issues in Cisco Crosswork Planning Design
| Issue |
Description |
| Table export options |
Some CLI tools have the option to select specific tables (for example, <Nodes> table, <Interfaces> table, and so on). In Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1, you cannot use this option because there is no option to export these tables from the Network Summary tables. |
| Filtering selected objects |
When you select the objects in a network plot, they are highlighted in the Network Summary table. However, there is no option to filter the table to display only these selected objects. |
| Distinguishing link types |
There is no way to easily distinguish between Inter-AS and Intra-AS links in the network plot, as both are displayed similarly. |
Table 6. Other known issues in Cisco Crosswork Planning
| Issue |
Description |
| Report log page |
Cisco Crosswork Planning does not have a report log page which can assist in identifying basic errors. |
| Alarms and events |
The alarms and events associated with the Cisco Crosswork Planning applications are not supported in Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1. |
Supported software versions
Table 7. Supported software versions
| Software |
Supported version |
| Operating system |
● Cisco IOS XR: 25.2.1, 25.1.1, 24.4.2
● Cisco IOS XE: 17.16.1
|
| Hypervisor and vCenter |
● VMware vCenter Server 8.0 (U2c or later) and ESXi 8.0 (U2b or later)
● VMware vCenter Server 7.0 (U3p or later) and ESXi 7.0 (U3p or later)
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 KVM
|
| Cisco Segment Routing Path Computation Element (SR-PCE) |
Cisco IOS XR: 25.2.1 |
Browser compatibility
Table 8. Supported browser versions
| Browser |
Supported version |
| Google Chrome |
131 or later |
| Mozilla Firefox |
136 or later |
Documentation
A User Content Collection Page is available for Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1. Information is categorized per functional area, making it easy to find and easy to access.
You can also access the most current Cisco Crosswork Planning documentation, including these release notes, online at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/routers/crosswork-planning-7/model.html.
These documents are provided for Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1.
Table 9. Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1 documentation
| Document |
Description |
| Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1 Release Notes |
This document |
|
● System requirements
● Installation instructions
● Migrate configurations
|
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| Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1 Collection Setup and Administration |
Using Cisco Crosswork Planning Collector application to:
● Configure collections
● Configure network models
● Configure various collectors for discovery and collection
● Install licenses
● Manage administrative tasks
|
| Using Cisco Crosswork Planning Design application to:
● Visualize your network
● Model, simulate, and analyze failures, design changes, and impact of traffic growth
● Optimize your network for maximum efficiency
● Generate reports that compare traffic
|
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| List of licenses and notices for open-source software used in Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.1. |
Cisco Bug Search Tool
You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for bugs.
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 on the registration page.
3. To search for all Cisco Crosswork Planning bugs, from the Product list, select Routers > Service Provider Infrastructure Software > Cisco Crosswork Planning > Cisco Crosswork Planning 7 and enter additional criteria (such as bug ID, problem description, a feature, or a product name) in the Search For field.
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.
Note: To export the results to a spreadsheet, click Export Results to Excel.
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