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NSO 6.7 is finally here!This significant long-lived release empowers your network automation strategy with seamless AI integration via the new Adaptive MCP Server. It also enhances your operations with Southbound Datastore Subscriptions and reduced maintenance windows through Optimistic Upgrade. Experience the future of intent-based orchestration today.
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Issues recompiling NED in NSO 6.4
Hi everyone,We're currently preparing a migration from NSO 6.1 to 6.4, the latest long-lived release.My question is - did the YANG compiler become more strict? If so, is there documentation somewhere that describes the changes?We're recompiling our N...
Release Announcement – Introducing NSO 6.7
We are thrilled to announce the release of NSO 6.7, our next long-lived release packed with exciting new features and enhancements. We would like to highlight some key enhancements in this release. Summary Southbound Datastore Subscriptions: Native ...
From Copilot to MCP: Automating Crosswork Workflow Manager with AI
To recap an earlier post from nearly 2 years ago, I wrote about using GitHub Copilot for Golang adapter code, Python scripts against NSO’s RESTCONF API, and Serverless Workflow DSL for Crosswork Workflow Manager (CWM). The models were slow, and I spe...
Resolved! cannot download nso trial
Hithe link for trtial download on pagehttps://developer.cisco.com/site/nso/is incorrect.could you provide correct download link ?
Resolved! Check if Dry-Run in Service Python
I know this question was asked 7-8 years ago, but has the capability been added to know if a transaction that a python based service is processing is a dry-run or the real thing?I know there is the `op` variable in the ... will represent if it is a "...
Resolve "Device Side-Effect" with "commit confirm-network-state"
Reviewer: @viktoria.fordos @jakobsvenningsson @tryeng Network devices from various vendors can proactively generate a configuration after some specific configuration has been pushed. The mechanism on the device side works like an NSO action or servi...
Resolved! Can't subscribe or monitor used-by-customer-service
Hi,We use /services/customer-service quite extensively which results in certain services having used-by-customer-service leaf-list populated. Th /services/customer-service gets populated outside FASTMAP via actions under particular service types.Well...
Optimizing Sync‑From with "commit confirm-network-state" in NSO 6.5
Reviewer: @viktoria.fordos @jakobsvenningsson @tryeng There can be a scenario where a device has a large amount of configuration, such as a large access list per time zone. This means sync-from will take a significantly large amount of time when o...
Resolved! load operational data to netsim device
Hi, All:I want to create a netsim device with operational data.After I create the simualted network:ncs-netsim create-network <pakage> 3 upfIn netsim/upf/upf0, I see the start.sh has the following:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++test -f cdb/O.cdbfirs...
Resolved! NSO Developer Studio Explorer and VSCode version
Colleagues,Could you please share any tricks to make latest VSCode version (like 1.105.1) work with NSO Explorer (version 1.1.1). Latest working VSCode version ~1.96. With all version after - VSCode isn't able to connect to NSO. Believe MS changed s...
NSO subtree filter handling of non-key string leaf values
Hi,We are using NSO 6.6 with a proprietary NED and have a question about subtree filtering behavior when querying operational data via live status.CLI usedshow devices device yyy live-status mactable macaddresstable2 Bridge_domain 0 entries * interfa...
Resolved! NSO-6.6 reports MmapCSMountPoint
Hi, all:I am using NSO-6.6 and I encouter NSO-6.6 logs the following warning:<WARN> 22-Jan-2026::14:24:55.214 MmapCSMountPoint Did-6-Worker-3: - failed to get children, path 107781231, mountId smf5.1-nc-1.0:smf5.1-nc-1.0 from MountPointDbThis does no...
Building Effective Pre‑Production Test for NSO
RepositoryRequirement of Test CasesConstruct Test CasesFile Structure for Test CasesTest Environment PrerequisitesMakefileCraft Southbound CommunicationConstruct Lux Test CasesExecute the Test Case To make sure your next network automation expansion ...
Upgrade Your Network Fleet with CWM 2.0: Automation that Delivers
Upgrade Your Network Fleet: Automation That Delivers Manually upgrading network OS images across a diverse device fleet is slow, error-prone, and risky. Maintaining compliance for Cisco and third-party devices often consumes expert time that should...
Resolved! NSO Action python instances
NSO behavior running a python NSO action seems to be to create one python ExecuteAction instance that handles all callbacks from NSO. For example, this single instance is what handles two users invoking the action.Is there a way to get one python ins...