Do you need to discover services in your network?   If the answer to this question is “yes” then you may have an easy solution through NSO (Network Service Orchestrator). Cisco Advanced Services has developed a NSO-based package that makes it easy to discover services defined in your network.   What are the supported Platforms?   Any services defined in your brownfield network which has an equivalent NSO service can be discovered. This package supports services defined in a multi-vendor device network.   Available Features:   Open architecture: supports service discovery for multi-vendor device networks. Follows the ETL framework: Extract, Transform & Load discovered service instances into NSO. Fully re-usable discovery service that performs the Extract & Load. Customized XSLT transformation that maps device configurations to service instances. End-user actions to perform Discovery, Validate, Preview & Import discovered instances. Auto-reconciles the discovered service instances once they are imported. Extensible YANG model to support customizations. Flexible tool to handle discrepancies: Identification of non-standard configurations. Reduced development time minimizes cycles spent on discovering services in the network.     For further information please contact the Cisco Advanced Services team, Syed Ziaullah ( sziaulla@cisco.com ), Solution Architect, Manish Jain ( manisjai@cisco.com ), Director Software Integration and Orchestration and Filip Marest (fmarest@cisco.com), Business Architect   ... View more

Do you need to add new infrastructure devices in your network?   If the answer to this question is “yes” then you may have an easy solution through NSO (Network Service Orchestrator). Cisco Advanced Services has developed a NSO-based package that can perform onboarding (pushing day 0 & 1 configurations) of your infrastructure devices in your network without manual intervention.   Please be invited to watch this demo where DHCP based Zero Touch Provisioning built on top of NSO is shown.       For further information please contact the Cisco Advanced Services team, Syed Ziaullah ( sziaulla@cisco.com ), Solution Architect, Manish Jain ( manisjai@cisco.com ), Director Software Integration and Orchestration and Filip Marest (fmarest@cisco.com), Business Architect   ... View more

Do you need to add new infrastructure devices in your network?   If the answer to this question is “yes” then you may have an easy solution through NSO (Network Service Orchestrator). Cisco Advanced Services has developed a NSO-based package that can perform onboarding (pushing day 0 & 1 configurations) of your infrastructure devices in your network.   What are the supported Platforms?   Currently Cisco IOS (4948), NX-OS (6001), Arista-DCS (7280SE) and Juniper (EX4550 via management IP) have been validated. More platforms (including multivendor OS) to be validated in future releases.   Available Features:   Open architecture: Generic platform to support device onboarding. More device vendors can be easily added. Extensible YANG model: Existing YANG model can be extended to support customizations. Role based configuration: Different configurations can be pushed towards same device type based on device role. Custom configuration support: Templates can be easily modified to push custom configurations towards device. Onboarding using management IP: Device can be on-boarded if a management IP is already configured on device. Onboarding using terminal IP: Onboarding of device with console connectivity through terminal server are also supported. Terminal server/management IP switching: Support to switch device management from terminal server to management IP and vice versa. Multi device onboarding: 1 or more device(s) of same or different vendors can be onboarded in one request. Easy integration: Standard integration interfaces and proper responses are provided, to handle success and failure scenarios. Onboarding history logs: For easy reference, results of the onboarding request are stored in CDB.   Watch the video where Imran Baig, Solution Architect, explains how this package works.   For further information please contact the Cisco Advanced Services team, Syed Ziaullah ( sziaulla@cisco.com ), Solution Architect, Manish Jain ( manisjai@cisco.com ), Director Software Integration and Orchestration and Filip Marest ( fmarest@cisco.com ), Business Architect   ... View more

Do you need to upgrade the OS on your infrastructure devices?   If the answer to this question is “yes” then you may have an easy solution through NSO (Network Service Orchestrator). Cisco Advanced Services has developed a pre-packaged NSO-based OS Upgrade service, that can perform Software upgrades on infrastructure devices.   What are the supported Platforms?   Currently Cisco IOS (Cat 3560, Cat 4900), NX-OS (Nexus 5k), IOS-XE, ASA and STAR-OS (ASR5k) have been validated. More platforms (including multivendor OS) will be validated in future releases.   Available Features:   Open architecture: Generic upgrade platform to support user-configurable upgrade process for any device family. Batch upgrades:  Can upgrade multiple devices in parallel using individual upgrade threads per device. Pre-upgrade Validation-rules: User can define a set of validation rules to perform health-checks on the device prior to upgrade. Plan of upgrade: User can define the upgrade process with a sequence of commands to execute with success / failure criteria. Pre / Post Checks: User can define the commands, which can be executed before & after the upgrade to identify any difference in device configs. Lazy Upgrade: Runs the upgrade process on the device only when it is required. It skips the upgrade action if the device is already on target OS. Critical BUG Check: validate if there is a critical bug(s) that is associated with the target image. BUG table is maintained within NSO CDB. Upgrade Report: Generates side-by-side HTML color-coded report highlighting the difference between pre & post health-checks.   For further information please contact the Cisco Advanced Services team, Syed Ziaullah ( sziaulla@cisco.com ), Solution Architect, Manish Jain ( manisjai@cisco.com ), Director Software Integration and Orchestration and Filip Marest ( fmarest@cisco.com ), Business Architect   ... View more

Greetings from the Cisco Advanced Services team! We would like to invite you to connect with the Cisco Advanced Services team at Cisco Live Las Vegas between 25th and 29th of June. Following the NSO Developer Days in Stockholm our solution architects and subject matter experts will now host multiple sessions at Cisco Live: Topic Session ID Presenters Service Orchestration with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator BRKNMS-1100 Ohad H arel Michel Papiashvili Close the Loop: Leverage Real Time Service Assurance to Automation Service Provisioning DEVNET13439 Weigang Huang Wei Yan NSO: Dealing with Brownfield, Deploy, Discover and Reconcile L2VPN Services LABNMS-2500 Weigang Huang Andrew Bond Deploying L2/L3 services over VXLAN using Cisco NSO TECDCN-2202 Marcelo Reis Imran Baig Debashis Kundu Getting Started with Orchestration for deploying and managing NFV using ETSI MANO architecture BRKNMS-2309 Julie Ann Connary Harris Haider Orchestration Mobility Services with Cisco NSO - BRKSPM-2004 BRKSPM-2004 Imtiaz Ahmed Junaid Khan Manish Jain Building a Software Defined Service Provider BRKSPG-2001 Andrew Bond Renato Fichmann Secure, Reliable and Scalable Network Orchestration with Cisco NSO TECSDN-2717 Yang Li Sumit Kothiyal Madhavi Nannapaneni Zero Touch Deployment for Service Providers CCSSPG-2000 Rene Sobral Fabio Leandro The leadership team, represented by Manish Jain, Director Advanced Services ( manisjai@cisco.com ), will also be available to meet with customers and partners. Please register your interest on Session Catalog - Cisco Live US Looking forward to meeting with you. ... View more

Advanced Services Problem Statement: Post NSO deployment in the network, we often get questions from customers “How to utilize/leverage my existing tool (NSO) for tasks other than service configuration?" The typical tasks are: OS Upgrade: Upgrading device operating system from one version to another. This depends on the device platform. A generic framework can be developed in which device specific upgrade procedures can be plugged-in. Service Migration: Migration of services from one platform to another. If it is a brown field deployment then service(s) can be discovered by NSO. Monitoring of the above 2 operations for the following: Assurance that all the existing services/circuits are up and running after upgrade/ migration. Strict compliance to defined KPIs within the permissible threshold limits. Parallel upgrade/migration: Automation can facilitate the upgrade/migration of multiple devices at the same time in a small maintenance window. OS upgrade and migration from one platform to another are some of the ongoing chores that network operators need to perform on a regular basis. Doing it manually (using MOP) is error prone and very slow and not much can be achieved in one maintenance window. Service Providers are penalized for any service interruption and hence assuring that all service/circuits are functional after upgrade/migration is key to the success of these maintenance windows. The above tasks can be automated using NSO. It is a great value add and additional ROI for the Customer. We are in the process of developing the above solution using NSO and these will be deployed at Tier 1 Service Provider in USA. Author: Sandeep Lohia, Cisco Advanced Services Solution Architect The Cisco Advanced Services Software Integration and Orchestration ( SIO ) group provides consulting and solution plan, build, and systems integration services around Cloud, NMS/EMS, OSS/BSS, SDN/NFV/ACI Management & Orchestration solutions for major Cisco strategic architecture plays to our Service Provider and Enterprise customers worldwid e. ... View more

  Advanced Services SIO Engineering onboarding track: this table details the steps followed to onboard new team members Author: Vishesh Kansal, Cisco Advanced Services Software Engineering The Cisco Advanced Services Software Integration and Orchestration ( SIO ) group provides consulting and solution plan, build, and systems integration services around Cloud, NMS/EMS, OSS/BSS, SDN/NFV/ACI Management & Orchestration solutions for major Cisco strategic architecture plays to our Service Provider and Enterprise customers worldwid e. ... View more