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 that automates the process of deploying changes to the network.
Scenarios
- Scenario 1: Add Devices, Verify Initial Topology, and Router Configuration
- Scenario 2: Configure KPIs in Health Insights
- Scenario 3: Verify KPIs
- Scenario 4: Detect a Problem in the Network
- Scenario 5: Remediate Issues with Change Automation
- Scenario 6: Apply Software Update with Change Automation
- Scenario 7: Blackhole Detection
Requirements
Components
- Crosswork Network Automation 1.2
- Health Insights 1.2
- Change Automation 1.2
- 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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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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