Hi   This is a Cisco Network Services Orchestrator forum, not for the dev-ubuntu lab. I can forward it along though.  ... View more

I can't speak on how to customize the compliance reports, but one way to accomplish very granular checks of you devices' configuration is to use the Python API to check if certain things are present or not.    I created an example of this for the Python API learning lab: https://developer.cisco.com/learning/lab/hands-on-nso-simple-python/step/1   Here is a snippet from the end of that lab : import ncs with ncs.maapi.single_write_trans('admin', 'python', groups=['ncsadmin']) as t: root = ncs.maagic.get_root(t) device_list = root.devices.device for device in device_list: for server in device.config.ios__radius.server: if '0000TYPE0PASSWORD0000' in str(server.key.secret): print "for server {} old key is {}".format(server.id, server.key.secret) server.key.type = "0" #set new password server.key.secret = "NEWPASSWORD" print "new password for {} is {}".format(device.name,server.key.secret) #uncomment to apply the change #t.apply() This snippet loops over devices, checks to see if a particular thing is present (in this case an IOS radius server key) and then does some responsive action (in this case it is changing the password, but it could have just as easily been add that non-compliant device to a list in a CSV file).  ... View more

If you are looking for some basic examples for using the RESTCONF API, we have created a postman collection on the NSO Developer Github Org: https://github.com/NSO-developer/cisco-nso-postman ... View more

Hi! I was just about to suggest something similar. I think what happened was a disconnect in the tutorial example documentation. The examples.ncs directory has a number of pre-built examples to walk through. The one you chose already had a directory with Netsim devices existing, when you issued the ncs-netsim create-network /home/user/nso-5.3/packages/neds/cisco-ios-cli-3.8 3 c command, it caused a collision with the existing netsims which were already present in that examples directory. I think it tried to create the c0 devices and merge them with the existing ios0 devices which are in there already. This feedback is very helpful in my efforts to overhaul the tutorial experience. Feel free to reach out to me directly with any other feedback ( jabelk@cisco.com ). Some other tutorials that might be useful: https://learninglabs.cisco.com/modules/nso-basics https://github.com/hpreston/nso-getting-started ... View more

One thing I see is that you are logged in as your local computer user into NSO "cisco@ncs", rather than a user which has admin access to the application. The default user for NSO local install is admin. You can login as admin by doing  ncs_cli -C -u admin instead of just doing ncs_cli -C The -C gives you the Cisco style CLI (if you don't have it it is Junos style).  ... View more