10-05-2018 12:44 AM
Yesterday I posted a blog post with the titilating title "Get NSO for Free". Predictably we are getting questions about this, so here are questions and answers regarding this
10-05-2018 12:53 AM
The free NSO download is for evaluation purposes only, and cannot be used for any production use. It comes without any support, although you can of course ask questions here on the NSO Developer Hub.
The NSO package comes with a lot of examples (in the examples.ncs directory in the installation), and these have NEDs that are sufficient to run these examples. You may also connect to real (physical or virtual) devices in your lab. They are however limited, and have nowhere near the coverage of the production NEDs. For access to production NEDs you need to purchase lab licenses for NSO and the required NEDs.
The current free NSO eval package is 4.7.0. This is the complete NSO server package. We will periodically, but infrequently, replace the server version. However, if you require any other version then you need to purchase a lab license, which provides access to all currently supported versions.
10-19-2022 11:57 AM
Could you be more specific about what we can and can't do in the trial? For example, should I be able to configure more than one device in the same command? I expected this command to change the description of all devices that have eth1, but it returns an error.
admin@ncs(config)# devices device config interfaces interface eth1 config description teste
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syntax error: element does not exist
Something via WEB interface. Under devices device I expected to see the interfaces for example, but I only see the routers that I had configured. Is it a limitation of evaluation?
10-20-2022 02:38 AM - edited 10-20-2022 02:40 AM
Evaluation comes with pretty much full functionality. It will start complaining after 90 days though.
The reason why your command doesn't work is that you need to use a bit of regex for device names
admin@ncs(config)# devices device * <TAB>
Possible completions:
address IP address or host name for the management
interface
authgroup Authentication credentials for the device
commit-queue Control settings for the commit queue
config NCS copy of the device configuration
connect-retries Retry connect on transient errors
connect-timeout Timeout in seconds for new connections
description Free form textual description
device-profile
* Might not work if you have different device platforms
10-20-2022 07:10 AM
Hi, Thanks for you answer. You are right, using the "*", I was able to set more than one device at same command.
And about the WEB interface? Shouldn't show all devices, like interfaces under devices?
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