Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.2.x Collection Setup and Administration

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Cisco Crosswork Planning 7.2.x Collection Setup and Administration

Manage collection settings

Updated: August 14, 2026

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Explains how to update network access, collector capability, retention periods, and configure static routes in Cisco Crosswork Planning.

These topics provide instructions for updating network access settings, collector capability, and retention period for network elements and plan files. It also provides instructions for configuring static routes in Cisco Crosswork Planning platform.

Update the network access configuration

This topic describes how to update the global network access settings to meet your requirements.

The Network access configuration section specifies the parameters used for network access through SNMP, Login, and the SAM interface. You can update these parameters to meet your specific requirements. For example, you can update the SNMP timeout value according to your needs.

Before you begin

Caution

Before you edit, be aware that your changes will be applied globally and will affect all collections, jobs, and plan files.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System settings > Collection settings > Network access configuration.

  2. Click Edit at the bottom of the page. An alert appears, notifying you that modifying the configuration to disable the required service will result in collection failure. If you intend to change only the timeout or other parameters, click Confirm.

    The page becomes editable.

  3. Edit the file to meet your requirements.

  4. After making your changes, save them.

  5. (Optional) Click to download the file to your local machine.

The updated network access configuration is applied globally.

Update collector capability settings

You can view each collector’s data source, as well as the tables and columns into which they populate the data, on the Collector capability page. This topic describes how to update these configurations according to your requirements.

Before you begin

Caution

Before you update, be aware that your changes will be applied globally and will affect all collections, jobs, and plan files.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System settings > Collection settings > Collector capability.

  2. Click Edit at the bottom of the page.

    The page becomes editable.

  3. Edit the collector table and column configurations as needed.

    The details use the Collector.table.table-name=ALL/Column list format, where ALL indicates that the collector populates all columns in that table. If the collector populates only a subset of columns, then it is specified as a list of column names separated by commas.

  4. After making your changes, save them.

  5. (Optional) To download the collector capability configurations to your local machine, click .

  6. (Optional) To reset the configurations to their default values, click Reset default config at the upper right.

The system applies your updated collector capability configuration globally across all collections, jobs, and plan files.

Configure the aging settings

This topic describes how to configure the retention period for inactive network elements before they are permanently removed from the network.

By default, when a circuit, port, node, or link disappears from the network, it is permanently removed and must be rediscovered. You can configure how long Cisco Crosswork Planning retains these elements before permanent removal.

Before you begin

Caution

Before you configure, be aware that your changes will be applied globally and will affect all collections, jobs, and plan files.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System Settings > Collection Settings > Purge delay.

  2. Enable aging by selecting Enable.

  3. Enter the retention duration in the relevant fields.

    • L3 port: Specify how long an inactive L3 port must be kept in the network.

    • L3 node: Specify how long an inactive L3 node must be kept in the network.

    • L3 circuit: Specify how long an inactive L3 circuit must be kept in the network.

    Note

    The L3 node value must be greater than or equal to the L3 port value, which in turn must be greater than or equal to the L3 circuit value.

  4. After making your changes, save them.

Cisco Crosswork Planning uses these settings to determine how long to retain inactive network elements before permanent removal.

Set the retention period for archived plan files

This topic describes how to configure the retention period for archived plan files before they are deleted.

The archived plan files are periodically deleted in Cisco Crosswork Planning to conserve storage space. By default, the files are retained for 30 days.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System settings > Collection settings > Archive purge.

  2. In the Archive retention field, enter the number of days after which the files can be deleted.

    For example, if you enter 40 in this field, the plan files older than 40 days are deleted.

  3. Save the changes.

The system will automatically delete archived plan files older than the retention period you specify.

Note

To disable purging of archived plan files, uncheck the Enable check box. Be aware that if you disable it, storage space will eventually run out.

Add static routes

Static routes are used to reach the devices in a different subset. Use this procedure to add static routes in Cisco Crosswork Planning.

Note
After static routes are applied, their corresponding entries will appear when you run the ip rule list command at the Crosswork shell prompt.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System settings > Device connectivity management > Routes.

  2. Click + Add. The Add Route IP page appears.

  3. Enter a valid IPv4 or IPv6 subnet in CIDR format.

  4. Click Add.

Delete static routes

Follow these steps to delete static routes.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, choose Administration > Settings > System settings > Device connectivity management > Routes.

  2. Select the static route you want to delete and click Delete icon.

  3. Click Delete on the confirmation page.