Cisco Elastic Services Controller 2.3.1 Release Notes
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Introduction
Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) is a Virtual Network Functions Manager (VNFM), which performs lifecycle management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).
The Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) promotes agility, flexibility, and programmability in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) environments - and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and a modular system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of VNF lifecycle for generic virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-of-breed industry solutions.
As part of the Cisco Orchestration Suite, ESC is packaged with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), and available within Cisco Solutions such as Virtual Managed Services (vMS).
As a standalone product, ESC is available as a Virtual Network Function Manager bundled with several Cisco VNFs such as VPN, vRouter and many others.
Supported Virtual Infrastructure Managers (VIM)
ESC supports lifecycle management of VNF on OpenStack and VMware vCenter. For more details, see the Installation Scenarios chapter in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide.
New Features and Enhancements of 2.3.1
This section describes the features added in Cisco Elastic Services Controller Release 2.3.1.
For more information, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide, and Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide.
Filtering Logs Through NETCONF APIs—Starting from ESC release 2.3.1, you can query and retrieve logs (deployment related, and error logs) from ESC using log filters through the NETCONF APIs.
VNF Software Upgrade—ESC supports VNF software application level upgrade. Lifecycle stage (LCS) policies are used to trigger the upgrade. Scripts are run at different LCS stages to support the VNF software upgrade.
OpenStack Certificate Validation—In ESC Release 2.3.1, ESC provides a mechanism to enable verification of certificates. Currently, this feature is supported only on OpenStack. Certificate validation is enabled by default during the initial ESC boot up.
Support on OpenStack Mitaka—ESC is now supported on OpenStack Mitaka but this support is limited to a default domain.
In-Service Upgrade Support on VMware and KVM—Using the In-Service upgrade procedure, you can seamlessly upgrade the system that has High Availability (HA) pair of instances with minimum downtime. You can perform this type of upgrade on OpenStack, VMware, and Kernel-based Virtual Machines.
Deprecated Features
Cisco ESC Release 2.1 and later does not support the service registration attributes for VNF deployment. For more information, see the, Cisco Elastic Services Controller Deployment Attributes.
Cisco Elastic Services Controller Bugs
For a complete list of open and resolved bugs for this release, use the Cisco Bug Search tool.
Open Bugs
The table below lists the open issues in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 2.3.1 release.
Table 1 Open Bugs in Cisco Elastic Services Controller 2.3.1 Bug ID
Description
CSCvc37567 ESC Scale OUT VM fails to recover.
Resolved Bugs
The table below lists the key issues resolved in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 2.3.1 release.
Table 2 Resolved Bugs in Cisco Elastic Services Controller 2.3.1 Bug ID
Description
CSCvc28661 VM_DEPLOYED is missed before VM_ALIVE. CSCvc22160 VimMananger - intermittent "token expired" message returned in VIM status request. CSCvb95892 Sudo permission for non-admin user. Cisco Bug Search Tool
ProcedureBug Search Tool (BST), the online successor to Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve our customers' effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting.
BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version. The service has provision to filter bugs based on credentials to provide external and internal bug views for the search input.
To use the BST to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release:
Step 1 Go to http://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch. Step 2 At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In. The Bug Search page opens.
Note If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.
Step 3 To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Return. Step 4 To search for bugs in the current release:
In the Search For field, enter a keyword and press Return. (Leave the other fields empty).
Tip To export the results to a spreadsheet, click the Export All to Spreadsheet link.
See Bug Search Tools & Resources on Cisco.com. For more details on the tool overview and functionalities, check out the help page, located at http://www.cisco.com/web/applicat/cbsshelp/help.html
Accessibility Features in Cisco ESC
For a list of accessibility features in Cisco ESC 2.3.1, see Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) on the Cisco website, or contact accessibility@cisco.com.
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Related Documentation
The following documents are available for Cisco Elastic Services Controller:
Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide
Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide
Cisco Elastic Services Controller REST API Guide
Cisco Elastic Services Controller NETCONF API Guide
Cisco Elastic Services Controller Deployment Attributes
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