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Great to see TIM and Paolo Fasano’s team driving digital transformation and efficiency with NSO—an inspiring example of how automation empowers organizations to stay agile and deliver better services. Learn more about TIM's Automation Journey in this knowledge article.
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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NSO CLI permission issue with load merge terminal. The error message..
Hi all,We have multiple nso environments. In only one of them some users have a problem with the command load merge terminal.The commands look as followsncsadminuser@INT2# configEntering configuration mode terminalncsadminuser@INT2(config)# load merg...
Installing CNC Single VM on Proxmox Virtual Environment
Installing CNC Single VM on Proxmox VEA step-by-step runbook for deploying a CNC Single VM (SVM) with the Proxmox Virtual Environment web interface or command line.By: Cisco Technical Marketing · Updated: September 2026 · Reading time: 20 min...
Using LLMs to build a Crosswork Planning MCP server
Crosswork Planning predicts the impact of network changes, traffic growth, new services, and potential failures. Operators usually perform these tasks in the Design application, which provides an interactive graphical interface for simulation, optimi...
Using LLMs for Crosswork Planning script prototyping
Crosswork Planning provides comprehensive capabilities for predicting the impact of network changes, traffic growth, new services and potential failures. It leverages traffic data to provide capacity planning and optimization capabilities, allowing a...
2026 State of Network Automation Survey
Hi NSO community,The 2026 State of Network Automation Survey closes on 16 October -- now's the time for all network operators to complete the survey and everyone here to share it with other network operators: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNet...
Removing a service without restoring previous configuration
Environment: NSO 6.4.9I am seeking a way to remove our services from devices without restoring previous data.admin@<HOST_NAME>config)# no services stack_ntp rec-ntp admin@<HOST_NAME>(config)# commit dry-run cli { local-node { data devic...
IPv6 Zero-Touch Provisioning with Cisco NSO and NetBox
A while ago a colleague and I set ourselves a goal that sounds simple: when a field engineer plugs in a new switch, the switch should get on the network and configure itself, with no one typing commands on a console. This reference design was built t...
developer days
Hi all, May anyone here know whether developer days will be organized in near future, or it is not decided yet or it is ended.Sorry if this information has already been made available and i missed it.Thanks and regards.
From Static to Autonomous: The Evolution of Network Planning
In modern networks, planning processes built around manual data collection, static modeling, and periodic, human-intensive analysis are becoming a bottleneck. As network architectures grow more distributed, multi-layered, and operationally complex, t...
NSO WebUI Service Manager YANG anchor point
Hi,Service Manager (SM) in native WebUI anchors the service instance "home page" basically on the keys of the list where the yang servicepoint is.I have a browfield situation where servicepoint is too high up in the model. I want to move it lower. Is...
A Guide to Onboarding Devices into Cisco Crosswork Network Controller
Introduction and Key ConceptsOverviewIf you are looking to bring your existing network infrastructure under the management of the Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC), you’ve come to the right place. Onboarding devices into a modern controller en...
Cisco Crosswork AI and CNC: From Network Truth to Trusted Action
Introduction Network automation has helped operators move faster for years. Templates, workflows, controllers, and orchestration systems reduce manual effort, human error and make repeatable changes more consistent. But as networks become more distri...
Real-world Benefits of Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC)
Accelerating the Journey to Autonomous Networks with Cisco Crosswork Network ControllerAs Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Enterprises strive for full autonomy, they face a common challenge: how to streamline operational processes and evol...
Cisco Crosswork Network Controller for AI-Ready Multi-Vendor Networks
Multi-vendor transport networks are now the normal operating model for many Service Providers. They may have Cisco IOS XR in one part of the network, IOS XE in another, third-party routers at selected service edges, existing Cisco NSO packages in pro...
CWM SDK: Creating an adapter with a custom secret type
In this article I want show you how implement support for a custom secret type in a CWM adapter. This article is intended for adapter developers. I assume you already have a working CWM adapter developer environment, with `cwm-sdk` and `cwm-oasx` ava...
