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Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0 Release Notes
Overview
Important Note
Open Caveats
Related Documentation
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0 Release Notes
First Published: January 9, 2012, OL-26002-01
These release notes contain the following sections:
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Overview
•Important Note
•Open Caveats
•Related Documentation
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Overview
Cisco Network Services Manager (Network Services Manager) is network management software that helps build the network services you need to securely create and deploy a cloud computing infrastructure. By using Network Services Manager, you can organize your network resources into a flexible cloud infrastructure that integrates the network with your existing IT tools and processes.
Table 1-1 describes Network Services Manager features.
Table 1-1 Network Services Manager Features
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Feature
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Description
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Abstraction and virtualization |
Network Services Manager virtualizes network services by abstracting a logical representation of the physical network that it manages. The abstraction and virtualization allow you to provision and deploy numerous individual network components quickly, thereby reducing network operations costs and accelerating service delivery. |
Policy implementation and adherence |
Policies enforce topology models, network features, and network behaviors, thereby ensuring adherence to organizational or architectural requirements, such as security or access to resources. |
Dynamic topology support |
Network Services Manager retrieves abstract information from a business model, converts that information into device-specific configurations, and implements the resulting configurations on the appropriate devices. If the physical topology changes and the topology model is updated, Network Services Manager evaluates the defined policies against the new topology model to determine the best option for providing the required services while adhering to the rules and policies that you defined. Network Services Manager automatically disseminates the updated device-specific configurations to the affected devices to ensure ongoing adherence to policy. |
Use of network containers |
A network container is a logical group of virtual network resources that are created and managed as a unit. With network containers, Network Services Manager enables you to quickly and easily configure physical and virtual network infrastructure and network services to interoperate with computing and storage resources. |
Administration user interface (UI) |
Network Services Manager provides a browser-based Administration UI that enables you to view multiple virtual platforms (domains) and domain-specific policies. |
Northbound (NB) Application Programming Interface (API) |
The Network Services Manager NB API provides an integration interface for automated network provisioning as part of a larger cloud environment. The NB API enables you to instantiate cloud service models and topologies, create new cloud service offerings, modify existing offerings, and support containers and workloads. Additions, changes, or deletions made using the NB API are reflected in the Administration UI. |
Important Note
The VMware vSphere client for the engine and controller virtual machines might display a message stating that the VMware Tools package is out-of-date. This message does not affect Network Services Manager functions, and you can safely ignore it.
The version of VMware Tools that is distributed with Network Services Manager is vmware-tools-8.3.2-1.
Open Caveats
The open caveats for Network Services Manager 5.0 are available in the Cisco Bug Toolkit. Cisco Bug Toolkit enables you to search for a caveat by identifier or product and version, and can provide additional details about the caveat, such as more information or that the caveat has been fixed.
Related Documentation
Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
The following documents are available for Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0:
•Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0 Quick Start Guide
•Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0 Release Notes
•Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0 User Guide
•Open Source Used in Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
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