Crosswork Automation Hub Blogs

NSO@Cisco Live Las Vegas

Greetings from the Cisco Advanced Services team!We would like to invite you to connect with the Cisco Advanced Services team at Cisco Live Las Vegas between 25th and 29th of June.Following the NSO Dev...

NSO is an Application Server

At the Developer Days conference we saw some excellent examples of NSO use cases including device onboarding, configuration compliance, and device software upgrade. If you were not there, I recommend ...

NSO Developer Days 2017, what an atmosphere!

To all participants of the first NSO Developer Days: a BIG THANK YOU for making this event the energizing, open conversation it became!The moment that will stay the longest in my memory might be from ...

Automate NSO Installation Using Ansible

Good Days,Recently I installed NSO in few customers environments and I thought it would be helpful to automate the installation procedures instead of repeating it each time or PoC.So I wrote Ansible m...

Managing large scale NSO installation with NCT

Managing a system installation of NSO for an sysadmin is not thatcomplicated, as NSO is shipped with a useful commands and actionsthat lets you start, stop and restart the NSO daemon,create - and rest...

Service Automation Criteria

What do people really mean when they say they want NETCONF/YANG? More and more equipment providers are hearing the demand for NETCONF/YANG, so they make the simplest possible implementation, and are t...

NED Operation over a Terminal Server

One solution that is now ready for prime time thanks to some great work from the Cisco Tail-f NED folks is NSO device connections over a terminal server. For those who don’t know, a terminal server...

Upcoming IETF RFC on YANG module classification.

Just a heads-up for the YANG-inclined. We are just about to go through the last steps of publishing an IETF information RFC on the following topic (from the draft): This document describes a set of co...

RESTCONF vs JSON-RPC vs NETCONF: Which Management Protocol to Use When

When do I want to use NETCONF? Isn't there more tools available for RESTCONF? Can I get more functionality over JSON-RPC? Is the protocol secure? Use this guide when selecting the management protocol ...

Welcome to our Collaborative NSO Delivery Playbook!

Yesterday, we relaunched the NSO presence on DevNet. Our goal is to make this the virtual watering hole for all topics related to working with NSO projects. We have put together a virtual playbook t...

Secrets of the NSO Transaction Phases

I've been asked to describe how the NSO transaction processing works countless times, i.e. what happens after the operator hits "commit" until an "ok" or "fail" is received, and the change has been pr...

Welcome to the NSO Digital Ecosystem

Welcome to the NSO Digital Ecosystem and to the NSO Developer Hub which is part of it,Our strategy is to create an NSO Digital Ecosystem for the entire NSO product suite (and related products) consist...