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Introducing Cisco NSO 6.5: A game-changing short-lived release packed with powerful updates, including enhanced out-of-band change handling, FIPS-compliant installations, an improved UI, and YANG-Push support over RESTCONF!
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CWM 1.2 New Features: Support for Forms / Callback State
Another highlight of this release is that CWM 1.2 introduces human interaction in workflows through adding support of forms and callback state. If you are interested and want to know more details, please check the CWM documentation here: Guided Ta...
Crosswork Evolution to Support Autonomous Networks
Abstract: AI is the buzzword these days, with service providers and network equipment vendors all weighing in. But from a standardization perspective, what exactly needs to be defined for AI to be widely deployed in networks? The answer isn’t fully ...
Question about conflict detection
Hi,I am hoping to get some guidance on conflict detection. We are running NSO 6.3.1.I have created one complex service that does builds the interface for customer services. It does a lot of work, it has a lengthy xml template and implements logic in ...
AI as a New Traffic Type: Implications for Access, WAN and DCI
AI as a New Traffic Type: Implications for the Access, WAN and DCI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the digital landscape, and Service Providers (SPs) play a key role in enabling this shift. This post explores how AI traffic differs from ...
Advanced use of xpath eval in Cisco NSO devtools
I'd like to use xpath eval or a similar Cisco NSO CLI command to further pre-validate my XML code before running "packages reload". I'd like to speed up my template development by catching syntax issues earlier. In particular, I'd like to be able t...
Extracting the last word in a string within an NSO template
Need to extract the last word from a device interface description below in my Cisco NSO XML template. ncs(config)# xpath eval /oc-if-config:oc-interfaces//device[device='se1']/interfaces/interface[name='1/1/c1/1']/config/description/oc-if-config:oc-i...
Release Announcement - Introducing NSO 6.5
We are thrilled to announce the release of NSO 6.5, a short-lived release packed with exciting new features and enhancements. We would like to highlight the key innovations and improvements that make this release a significant milestone. Summary Imp...
Select NED for service
I'm defining a service that request feature on a NED available only for selected NED version.If I define the template as usual I got erro at load-time:reload-result { package snfeSERVICE result false info snfeSERVICE-SNMP-template.xml:109 Element: 'p...
Rollback and Pre- and post-modification callbacks in NSO
Overview This post is describes how the NSO rollback file feature interacts with the pre- and post-modification callbacks. These callbacks are outside of the scope of FASTMAP so changes they make to the NSO database (CDB) are not automatically undone...
service logic calling another service logic - refcount issue at delete
Hello the community, I am facing some strange behaviour in the following scenario : I have a service logic (l3vpn) defined to build L3 links (sub-interface and BGP) on my MPLS network and another service logic (vpnconfig) to build the vpn level confi...
NCS drop config false deviate replace
Hi,I'm trying to build a ned using NSO 6.4, but compilation is failing due to my deviation file.From devel.log, I have this error: ncs progress usid=35 tid=1084 datastore=running context=cli trace-id=d5aafe3da82cf16c52206216ecfb575b output: augmente...
Resolved! can't remove sub interfaces - remove the whole interface
Hi, I wrote a yang model to configure a sub interface on a Juniper srx like this: <interfaces xmlns="http://yang.juniper.net/junos-es/conf/interfaces"> <interface> <name>st0</na...
Using operational data in NSO in YANG module
I'm trying to select between IOS and IOS-XR using operational data in NSO in YANG. Here are my xpath eval results:admin@ncs(config)# xpath eval ncs:devices/ncs:device[ncs:name='ASR1006-X']/ncs:module/name='tailf-ned-cisco-ios-xr'falseadmin@ncs(config...
Resolved! how to re-deploy with commit params from python
Hi all, Could you help me on the following .. in short, how can i do re-deploy with commit params from python .. i can commit a service with commit params from cli and python with success. for example : from cli : dd-rfs d1 commit commit-queue bypass...
Resource manager - Lock allocated ID?
If I have Resource Manager/ID Allocator allocated IDs from a pool, is there any way to lock those IDs so they are maintained even if an exclude statement is added that encompasses those IDs? IE: Range is 1 to 65535, allowed range day 0 is 1 to 5000, ...