Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Release Notes, Release 6.2.2 for Cisco ACI

July 26, 2023

Added CSCwf10158 to the Resolved Issues section.

June 16, 2023

Release 6.2.2.380 became available.

April 16, 2023

Release 6.2.2.368 became available.

Base Functionality

Interface based Flow Telemetry

Added support to configure flow telemetry rules for interfaces such as L3Outs, SVIs, Physical Interfaces, and Port Channel.

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If there is single chip spine in the flow path, then it is not reported in the flow path summary.

6.2.2 

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In flow analytics the health score on the flow records is displayed as healthy even when ingress flow records are not available.

6.2.2

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After reaching the 500 flows limit, any extra flows will not be reported. These un-programmed extra flows will not be reported even when we delete few of the programmed flows.

6.2.2

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In flow analytics page, PC and vPC interface ID are displayed instead of port name.

6.2.2

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Aborted DAGs does not indicate that there is partial data in Nexus Dashboard Insights GUI.

6.2.2

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Duplicate endpoint Anomalies in Nexus Dashboard Insights.

6.2.2

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Inconsistency in counts from aggregate view to primary affected objects view for anomalies.

6.2.2

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Tenant, VRF and EPG details will not be reported in Flow Browse or Details page if Q-in-Q flow is monitored using Netflow in Nexus Dashboard Insights.

6.2.2

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The Explorer "Can" query, "Can EPG:A talk to EPG:B?" may sometimes include in the Policy Table additional incorrect rules as the ones allowing the communication. However, the correct rule that allows the communication is always present in the table.

6.2.2

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Nexus Dashboard Insights does not model Endpoint Security Groups and related rules.

Stale Policy CAM rules and Enforced VRF policy violation anomaly will be displayed in Nexus Dashboard Insights

6.2.2

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The anomaly record from the summary view may show the status of anomaly that is different than the one shown in Analyze page or details view.

6.2.2

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If same EPG name is used across tenants in ACI sites, then flow path stitching and its details could be incorrect. This could impact forward, and reverse path stitch shown in flow pages of Nexus Dashboard Insights.

6.2.2

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On a scale setup when analysis is running, sometimes anomalies and the details view has a different anomaly name for a very small set of anomalies.

6.2.2

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Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator job schedule and Inter-Site view in the anomaly table usability issues

6.2.2

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As part of Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator Explore workflow, in Endpoint table 'unknown epgs’ is displayed in the EPGs column.

6.2.2

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vCenter anomalies are not exported as part of email export, when basic or advanced option is selected.

6.2.2

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NDO Endpoints Out of Sync Between Sites anomaly is generated for a subset of endpoints even though spine switch does not have the endpoint entry in the coop table.

6.2.2

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In the NetFlow mode, after you disable and re-enable Nexus Dashboard Insights, VRF and EPG information are not available sometimes in the flow analytics page.

6.2.2

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Estimated Impact for BGP Prefix Received Count Fluctuation anomaly is missing

6.2.2

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Flow Rate Statistics feature under System Status Page can sometimes have empty Node Flow Rate tables.

6.2.2

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Since Explore is designed to support max fabric wide rules of 150k, nae-policy-explorer pod would go OOM when Explore "Connectivity analysis " is run for completed epoch having a large policy scale.

6.2.2

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A switch reloads with a core dump of dcgrpc, dc_nae, dc, or any combination of these processes.

6.2.2

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As an impact of deprecation of some anomalies, Associated Policies section may not show node details for Policy CAM.

6.2.2

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As an impact of deprecation of some anomalies, Associated Policies section may not show node details for Policy CAM.

6.2.2

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Scheduled jobs are queuing up in the Configure Site Group > Assurance Analysis page.

6.2.2

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For assurance anomalies, the primary affected objects are not displayed in the aggregated view.

6.2.2

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vPC down anomaly takes longer than 20 minutes to clear.

6.2.2

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Anomalies not shown in Primary Affected Object view if the assurance job is not run in the last 2 hours.

6.2.2

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COLO_SCALE: Email notification is received for anomalies of the subcategory/category type as EVPN and Change Analysis.

6.2.2.380

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Metadata checksum failure.

6.2.2.380

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Nexus Dashboard Insights bug scans are taking too long and timing out.

6.2.2.380

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Nae pods are down, due to the "cisco-nae-secret" not being found, after an upgrade from 6.1.3 to 6.2.1.329.

6.2.2.380

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Stale Anomalies of certain categories are not cleared for over a long period of time and are visible in the GUI.

6.2.2.380

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External EPG name is not reported in Cisco Nexus Insights app even though the subnet is specified.

6.2.2

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The EX tier-1 leaf switch is not stitched in the flow path.

6.2.2

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In ACI platforms, with fast-link-fail over feature enabled, path summary will not have north bound or spine facing information in the flow path summary for FX2 based platforms.

6.2.2

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When you click on Pre-Change Analysis rows in the table, if you navigate through them a bit faster without waiting for the sidebar to completely load, you may sometimes notice duplicated changes added in the form.

6.2.2

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LLDP transmit receive packets statistics graph displays the same values regardless of the selected time range.

6.2.2

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When L4-L7 intra VRF traffic is going through spine switches, Nexus Dashboard Insights flow path summary might not show spine switch information like spine name and interface names.

6.2.2

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In Nexus Dashboard Insights, flow path information for L4-L7 traffic does not show the L3Out service leaf switch information.

6.2.2

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For L3Out to EPG intra-VRF L4-L7 traffic, some of leaf switches and spine switches might not exporting flow information. Flow path will not include those nodes in the path information.

6.2.2

Cisco Device supported for Software Telemetry

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

SE-CL-L3, ND-CLUSTER-L4

Minimum Intersight Device Connector version on Cisco Nexus Dashboard

1.0.9-828

Cisco Device supported for Flow Telemetry

Cisco Nexus 9300-EX, -FX, -FX2, -GX, and 9500 platform switches with EX, FX line cards

Cisco Nexus 9000 FX3 and 9336C-FX2-E platform switches

Minimum Cisco APIC version required for FTE and Micro-Burst

5.1(1h)

AppDynamics APM

4.5

Number of ACI sites

8 for physical Nexus Dashboard

4 for virtual Nexus Dashboard

Number of ACI nodes (includes ACI switches)

500 for physical Nexus Dashboard

50 for virtual Nexus Dashboard

 Maximum support for a 3-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Site with 50 nodes, 60000 Endpoints per Site Group and 100000 per cluster, and 10000 Flows

 Maximum support for a 4-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Site with 100 nodes, 60000 Endpoints per Site Group and 140000 per cluster, and 10000 Flows, and 300000 logical rules

 Maximum support for a 6-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Site with 500 nodes, 60000 Endpoints per Site Group and 200000 per cluster, 20000 Flows, and 300000 logical rules

Maximum support for a 6-node Cisco Virtual Nexus Dashboard (vND) cluster

Site with 50 nodes, 5000 Endpoints per Site Group and 20000 per cluster, 2500 Flows, and 100000 logical rules

Maximum support for a 9-node Cisco Virtual Nexus Dashboard (vND) cluster

(3 data nodes and 6 app nodes)

Site with 200 nodes, 5000 Endpoints per Site Group and 20000 per cluster, 5000 Flows, and 100000 logical rules

Maximum number of leaf switches in a POD running PTP

128

288 for APIC release 5.2(5) and later

Interfaces and Protocols Statistics and Error Counters

1 minute

3 days

5 minutes

7 days

3 hours

30 days

Resources and Environmental Statistics

5 minutes

7 days

3 hours

30 days

Integrations Statistics (AppDynamics)

5 minutes

7 days

3 hours

30 days

Anomalies and Advisories

On-event*

30 days

Microburst

On-event*

7 days

Endpoints History**

On-event*

7 days

Events

On-event*

15 days

Flows and Flow Telemetry Events

-

7 days

Delta Analysis

-

30 days

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Release Notes for Cisco ACI

This document.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Deployment Guide

Describes how to install and upgrade Nexus Dashboard Insights.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights User Guide for Cisco ACI

Describes how to use Nexus Dashboard Insights.