Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application for the Cisco DCNM Release Notes, Release 2.0.1

Cisco Network Insights Advisor (NIA) application consists of a monitoring utility that are added to the Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM).

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations for Cisco Network Insights Advisor on the Cisco DCNM.

For more information, see Related Content.

Date

Description

May 28, 2020

Usage guidelines and limitations.

March 27, 2020

Compatibility information for Cisco NIA.

March 4, 2020

Cisco NX-OS compatability version for Flow State Validator.

Jan 31, 2020

Release 2.0.1 became available.

Contents

■       New Software Features

■       Open Issues

■       Resolved Issues

■       Hardware Requirements

■       Compatibility Information

■       Verified Scalability Limits

■       Usage Guidelines and Limitations

■       Related Content

■       Documentation Feedaback

■       Legal Information

New Software Features

Feature

Description

Metadata refresh

When Cisco NIA is updated to latest from the app settings, the application fetches the latest metadata published version.

Advisory Report

Download Advisory Report as an Excel file from the Browse Advisories work pane. Each advisory tab in the Excel file lets you view the notices, issues, advisories, and anomaly details for devices in the fabric.

Connected TAC Assist

Connected TAC Assist allows the user to collect logs for specified devices and then user uploads the logs to the cloud. It also enables Cisco TAC to trigger on-demand collection of logs for specified user devices and pulls the logs from cloud.

Fabric Job

The fabric job provides access to configure and schedule bug scan and compliance check jobs that run across the fabric.

Flow State Validator

The global job provides access to configure and schedule flow state validator jobs that run across the network. The flow state validator helps detect and isolate problematic nodes in the network.

Software Upgrade Path and Upgrade Impact

View device specific upgrade path to the Cisco NIA recommended release. Check non-disruptive or disruptive result to the first-hop of the path and view release notes for versions in the upgrade path.

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 issue. The “Exists In” column of the table specifies the releases in which the issue exists.

Bug ID

Description

Exists In

CSCvp51960

NIA TAC Assist job only lists the folder name where the files are located for the job.

2.0.1

CSCvs12558

Cisco NIA app GUI displays that the Device Connector is not connected.

2.0.1

CSCvs35561

Upgrade from Cisco NIA release 1.0.x to release 2.0.1 is not supported.

2.0.1

Resolved Issues

There are no resolved issues in this release.

Hardware Requirements

Hardware Requirements for Deployments Up to 80 Switches

Node

Deployment Mode

CPU

Memory

Storage

Network

DCNM

OVA/ISO

16vCPUs

32G

500G HDD

3xNIC

Computes (x3)

OVA/ISO

32vCPUs

64G

500G HDD

3xNIC

Hardware Requirements for Deployments From 81 to 250 Switches

Node

Deployment Mode

CPU

Memory

Storage

Network

DCNM

OVA/ISO

16vCPUs

32G

500G HDD

3xNIC

Computes (x3)

OVA/ISO

40vCPUs

256G

2.4TB HDD

3xNIC*

*Network card: Quad - port 10/25G

Compatibility Information

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

Software/Hardware

Release

Minimum Intersight Device Connector version on Cisco DCNM

1.0.9-286

Minimum Cisco NX-OS version required for Software Telemetry

7.0(3)I7(6), 7.0(3)I7(7)

Minimum Cisco NX-OS version required for Software and Hardware Telemetry

9.3(2), 9.3(3)

Minimum Cisco NX-OS version required for Flow State Validator

9.3(3)

Cisco devices supported

Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series switches.

Verified Scalability Limits

Hardware

Switches

Number of Cisco devices supported

250

Usage Guidelines and Limitations

■        Upgrade from Cisco NIA 1.0.x to Cisco NIA 2.0.1 App on Cisco DCNM 11.3(1) is not supported.

■        Cisco NIA checks for metadata update every hour. However, there may not be an update every time.

■        TAC Assist started from Cisco NIA 2.0.1 App will not show up in Cisco NI Base and vice versa.

■        User initiated upload to Cisco Intersight Cloud fails if the TAC Assist job completed prior to Cisco DCNM HA failover. It is recommended to start a new TAC Assist job after Cisco DCNM HA failover.

■        When the Device Connector is unclaimed from the on-premise GUI application, the Device Connector must be unclaimed from Intersight for TAC Assit’s connected TAC functionality to work.

Related Content

The Cisco Network Insights Advisor documentation can be accessed from the following website:

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

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

Document

Description

Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application for the Cisco DCNM Release Notes

This document.

Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application for the Cisco DCNM User Guide

Describes how to download, install, and set up Cisco Network Insights Advisor application in Cisco DCNM.

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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