Cisco Network Insights for Resources Application for Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 2.0.1

Cisco Network Insights for Resources (NIR) application consist of a monitoring utility that can be added to the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations for Cisco NIR on Cisco APIC.

For more information, see Related Content.

Date

Description

Mar 27, 2020

Compatibility information for Cisco NIR.

Mar 5, 2020

Usage guidelines and limitations.

Feb 26, 2020

Hardware requirements for Cisco Network Insights Resources.

Oct 23, 2019

Updated verified scalability limits for Cisco NIR installed on Cisco APIC.

July 15, 2019

Software Streaming Telemetry resources – added Storage and DOM levels in Environmental data.

June 7, 2019

Release 2.0.1 became available.

Contents

■      New Software Features

■      Cisco Network Insights Resources

■      Open Issues

■      Resolved Issues

■      Hardware Requirements

■      Compatibility Information

■      Verified Scalability Limits

■      Usage Guidelines and Limitations

■      Related Content

■      Documentation Feedback

■      Legal Information

New Software Features

Feature

Description

Software Streaming Telemetry

Environmental – Cisco NIR collects the following environmental data:

■      CPU (System & Pre-Process)

■      Memory (System & Pre-Process)

■      Fan Utilization

■      Power

■      Temperature

■      Storage

■      DOM levels

Interface – Cisco NIR collects the following interface data:

■      Rx/Tx Rate

■      CRC errors

Hardware Resource Utilization – Cisco NIR collects the following hardware resource utilization data:

■      Ports Utilization

■      Ports in admin UP state

■      Bandwidth Utilization

■      Control Plane Policers

■      LPM

■      QoS TCAM

■      VLAN, Port, Routed ACLs

■      MAC Address Table

Network State – Cisco NIR collects the following network state data:

■      MAC addresses

■      IPv4 and IPv6 learned routes

■      IPv4 and IPv6 host routes

■      Multicast routes

■      VLANs

■      VRFs

■      VNIs/VTEPs

Protocol Statistics – Cisco NIR collects the following protocol statistics:

■      LLDP, LACP

Cisco Network Insights Resources

The Network Insights Resources (NIR) application provides a way to gather resource information through data collection to get an overview of available resources and their active processes and configurations across the entire APIC.

The NIR application consists of the following components:

■      Data Collection—The streaming of telemetry data is done by using software or hardware agents in the fabric devices. As each data source is different and the format in which data is streamed is different, there are corresponding "collectors" running Analytics that translate the telemetry events from the devices into data records to be stored in the data lake. The data stored in the data lake is a format that the analytics pipeline can understand and work upon.

■      Resource and Environmental Utilization—Resource analytics supports configuration, operational and hardware resources. Environmental covers CPU, memory, temperature, and fan speed related to the Leaf switches. System analytics also covers, Anomalies, and trending information of each resource and graphing of parameters which help Network operators to debug over periods of time.

■      Predictive Analytics and Correlation—The value-add of this platform is predicting failures in the fabric and correlating internal fabric failures to the user-visible/interested failures.

Open Issues

This section lists the open issues in this release. Click the bug ID to access the Bug Search tool and see additional information about the caveat. The “Exists In” column of the table specifies the releases in which the issue exists.

Bug ID

Description

Exists In

CSCvn42171

App version is incorrect/stale after deleting and installing new version.

2.0.1

Resolved Issues

None in this release.

Hardware Requirements

This table describes the Cisco APIC LAN deployment requirements for Cisco NIR software telemetry.

Hardware

Cisco NIR installed in Cisco APIC cluster

APIC-CLUSTER-M1

No

APIC-CLUSTER-M2

No

APIC-CLUSTER-M3

Yes (Maximum 30 ACI fabric nodes)

APIC-CLUSTER-L1

No

APIC-CLUSTER-L2

No

APIC-CLUSTER-L3

Yes (Maximum 30 ACI fabric nodes)

In the Lab environment you can  install Cisco NIR app on APIC-CLUSTER-M1/M2 or APIC-CLUSTER-L1/L2. We do not recommend installing Cisco NIR app on APIC-CLUSTER-M1/M2 or APIC-CLUSTER-L1/L2  in the production environment.

Compatibility Information

For Cisco NIR on Cisco APIC compatibility with Day-2 Operations apps, see the Cisco Day-2 Operations Apps Support Matrix.

Software

Release

Cisco NX-OS version

7.0(3)I7(6)

Cisco Device supported for Software Telemetry

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Verified Scalability Limits

Software/Hardware

Number

Number of leaf switches supported with NIR installed on APIC cluster

100

Usage Guidelines and Limitations

This section lists the usage guidelines and limitations for Cisco NIR:

■      A Cisco APIC cluster must have a minimum of 3 APICs. Cisco NIR is not supported on single APIC.

Related Content

The Cisco NIR documentation can be accessed from the following website:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/data-center-analytics/network-insights-resources/model.html

The documentation includes installation, upgrade, configuration, programming, and troubleshooting guides, technical references, and release notes, as well as other documentation.

Document

Description

Cisco Network Insights for Resources Application for the Cisco APIC Release Notes

This document.

Cisco Network Insights for Resources Application for the Cisco APIC User Guide

Describes how to download, install, and set up Cisco NIR in Cisco APIC.

Documentation Feedback

To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, send your comments to cisconetworkinsights-docfeedback@cisco.com.

Legal Information

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