Cisco customer businesses are growing, and their network footprint is expanding at very fast rates. This puts an increasing strain on customer deployment teams as they run into an ever-increasing backlog of work to keep up with all the activity.

A key customer request has been to automate the onboarding of new devices into their network, reducing the need to send deployment teams on site for provisioning and onboarding and increasing the speed at which the equipment becomes available for use. Cisco Crosswork Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) allows customers to provision and onboard new Cisco® IOS-XR devices automatically. Using a common GUI and API via the Crosswork Infrastructure, the network administrator can define policies for the provisioning of new devices. The result is a simplified onboarding process translating to significant time and cost savings by automating the process across many devices.

The Cisco Crosswork ZTP app provides an integrated turnkey solution to onboard a range of XR devices and enable faster time to deploy new hardware at a lower operating cost.

When a new device is powered-up, ZTP provides the automated ability to download and apply the initial software load and configuration to complete the provisioning of this device. After applying the configuration, the app allows for downloading and executing additional scripts on the device. These scripts enable the operator to fetch additional RPMs (linux binary packages) from the controller ZTP simplifies the process of deploying a new device with Day 0 configuration and bringing it up to the desired state in an automated manner.

The fully integrated solution combines core capabilities from multiple innovative, industry-leading products—Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Cisco Prime Network Registrar, and the Cisco Crosswork suite of applications—with common API and integrates with a common UI, providing control via a single pane of glass.

With the Cisco Crosswork ZTP application, customers can realize these outcomes:

• Bring up the device with customer-certified software or image and obtain its IP address from a DHCP server such as Cisco Prime Network Registrar.

• Download and apply an initial configuration.

• Download and execute a shell script.

• Manage the device family profile, device config, image, and scripts so that they are applied to the onboarded equipment in a unified manner based on customer preference.

• Automatically onboard the new devices to Crosswork Device Lifecyle Manager for Day 1 operation.

• Provide a turnkey automation solution to offer faster deployment of new devices, yielding ever-improving mean time to use as the savings compound across larger numbers of devices over time.

The result? Increased profitability through faster deployment, optimized investments, and better OpEx utilization.

This section lists new features and changes delivered in Cisco Crosswork Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0. For compatibility information, see the Cisco Crosswork Infrastructure 4.0 and Applications Installation Guide.

If you encounter problems while working with Cisco Crosswork, please check this list of open bugs. Each bug ID in the list links to a more detailed description and workaround.

You can use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.

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 here.

3. 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 Zero Touch Provisioning.

   — 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.

4. 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.

Tip	To export the results to a spreadsheet, click Export Results to Excel.

The following table lists the guides that Cisco provides for Cisco Crosswork Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0. You can access all Cisco Crosswork end user documentation at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-network-automation/series.html#~tab-documents.

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco Crosswork Zero Touch Provisioning, visit https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/accessibility/voluntary-product-accessibility-templates.html (VPAT) website, or contact accessibility@cisco.com.

All product documents except for some images, graphics, and charts are accessible. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.