Overview
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation (CNA) is a micro-services platform that brings together streaming telemetry, big data, and model-driven application programming interfaces (APIs). This demonstration highlights the CNA applications, Health Insights and Change Automation:
- Health Insights is a network health application that performs real-time key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.
- Change Automation is an application to automate the process of deploying changes to the network.
Scenarios
- Scenario 1: Configure NSO
- Scenario 2: Add Devices, Verify Initial Topology, and Router Configuration
- Scenario 3: Configure KPIs in Health Insights
- Scenario 4: Verify KPIs
- Scenario 5: Detect a Problem in the Network
- Scenario 6: Remediate Issues with Change Automation
- Scenario 7: Apply Software Update with Change Automation
Components
- Crosswork Network Automation 1.1
- Health Insights 1.1
- Change Automation 1.1
- NSO 4.4.2
- VIRL 1.5
- IOS XRv 9000 6.2.1
- TraGenSer 5.1
Features
Crosswork Network Automation | - Application infrastructure based on Industry Standards
- Collector services for apps with Normalization
- Storage Services
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Health Insights | - Monitor KPIs in Real Time
- Alerts on spikes and drops
- Configure SLA thresholds
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Change Automation | - Automate network changes
- Remediate anomalies
- Closed loop detection and resolution
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NSO | - A single, network-wide interface to all network devices and all network applications and services
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VIRL | - Virtual environment for building network topologies
- Simulation of networking components
- Capable of running a range of virtual machines (VMs) running Cisco operating systems (IOS-XE, IOS Classic, IOS-XR, and NX-OS)
- Support for third-party VMs
- Capture and analyze network traffic at any node
- Validate configurations prior to physical deployment
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IOS XRv 9000 | - Full IOS XR control plane router
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TraGenSer | - Traffic Generator with dynamic configuration
- Can create background traffic in meshes between all nodes
- Point to point flows with set duration and load
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