Audience

This guide is designed for service provider operators and tenants who deploy, manage, configure Cisco MSX Managed Device service pack, and troubleshoot various Managed Device service issues.

What’s New in Cisco MSX 4.3 Managed Device

Features Description

Meraki Configuration Enhancements

Cisco MSX provides the ability to create switch port configurations from a list of adaptive and access policies, switch network configurations for Quality of Service (QoS), and wireless configurations for Identity PSKs. The configuration can be applied across Meraki organizations based on switch port, network, and wireless SSID tags.

For more information, see Managing Configurations.

Meraki Site Sync with Device and Network Information
After a synch operation, Cisco MSX now identifies Meraki sites, and assigns networks and devices to a site based on their address or latitude and longitude information.

Full Device Compliance Configuration

Cisco MSX now allows you to set up or manage compliance for either full device configuration or standard configuration.

For more information, see Full Device Configuration in Device Compliance.

Overview

The Managed Device service pack provides the ability for the service providers to manage the configurations of their customer devices through a self-service portal in an operator-driven configuration template environment.

The Cisco MSX Managed Device service pack allows you to onboard devices located at the customer premise (CPEs) and apply or manage configuration settings remotely from its Network Operations Center (NOC). The service providers can prepare parameterized configuration template files and deploy them on the CPEs. Using the Managed Device service pack, device deployment and its configurations are simplified.

Some of the advantages are:

  • Zero-touch provisioning for initial device connectivity through the PnP server process.

  • Service provisioning of on-premise routers through devices and VNFs.

  • User Interface portal for templates configuration, ordering service, and performance or fault monitoring.

The following are some of the key concepts in the Cisco MSX Managed Device service pack:

  • Device Models: Device models are the pre-defined set of constructs available in Cisco MSX for devices, which enables the users to capture the essential metrics data for a device. Cisco MSX Managed Device service pack provides metrics for Cisco IOS devices.

    To facilitate the metrics data collection for the new device types, the device model construct should be modified to capture the details that are utilized to collect metrics for these new device types. For more information, see the topic 'Preparing Device Model Information for New Device Type'.

  • Device Templates: The device templates have parameters that are used to define a device's complete operational configuration.

    A device template, when applied to a service ordering workflow, gathers the parameter values entered during the service ordering process. These values are then passed to the Cisco MSX orchestration engine (NSO) to configure the devices.

    The device templates are created from the device CLI configurations.

  • Adding a Device: Using the Managed Device service pack, service providers can onboard devices located at customer premises into their network to apply and manage configurations remotely from their Network Operations Centre (NOC). This functionality allows you to onboard the devices and to apply templates during the add device procedure. For more information, see the topic 'Adding a Device'.

  • Bulk Imports: The bulk import option allows you to import multiple devices at once into Cisco MSX. The Site Template file allows you to add multiple devices and also apply the templates. For more information, see the topic on 'Importing Multiple Devices'.

  • Onboarding New Device Type: Out-of-the-box, Managed Device service pack consists of Cisco IOS Network Elements Driver (NED), which allows to onboard any Cisco IOS-XE device in the Cisco MSX system.

    To extend the support to any other new device type, see the topic 'Provisioning a Device that is Not Supported Out-of-the-Box by Managed Device'.

  • Support for Meraki: Manage Meraki appliances and automate provisioning actions without the need for manual intervention. For more information, see Managing Meraki.

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