Guidelines and Limitations for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
See the following guidelines and limitations for configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches through Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker.
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker supports NX-API protocol for Cisco Nexus 9000 series family of switches.
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Tap aggregation is supported on Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with N9K-X9700-EX and N9K-X9700-FX line card.
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To enable tap aggregration on N9K-X9700-EX and N9K-X9700-FX line cards, configure hardware acl tap-agg globally on the Cisco Nexus 9500 switches.
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The devices that are going to provisioned by Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker are assumed to have LLDP enabled and the LLDP feature should not be disabled during the device association with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker. If the LLDP feature is disabled, there might be an inconsistency in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker that cannot be fixed without device deletion and re-addition.
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker assumes that the device interfaces configured by the port definitions are L2 switch ports and these interfaces have device configurations as switchport trunk by default.
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Prior to deploying the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches for Tap/SPAN aggregation through Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker with NX-API mode, the following configurations should be completed:
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Configure the ACL TCAM region size for IPV4 port ACLs or MAC port ACLs.
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Enable NX-API feature in the switch using the feature nxapi command.
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Configure switchport mode trunk on all the inter-switch ports and the port-channels.
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