Cisco Nexus Insights Release Notes, Release 5.0(1) for Cisco ACI

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Cisco Nexus Insights (NI) application consist of a monitoring utility that can be added to the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations for Cisco Nexus Insights (NI) on Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

For more information, see Related Content.

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Date

Description

January 14, 2021

Updated the scale limits in the Verified Scalability Limits section.

December 22, 2020

Release 5.0(1) became available.

 

New Software Features

Feature

Description

Cisco Nexus Dashboard support

Cisco Nexus Insights app can be deployed as a service on Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

Multi-Site

Monitor multiple sites with single instance of Cisco Nexus Insights.

UI enhancements

Improved design with a streamlined tabbed layout, enhanced options for selecting a time range, centralized summary of sites with All Sites Dashboard, detect and indicate when features are not supported by a node.

Cisco Nexus Insights app unification

Integrating Cisco NIR and Cisco NIA apps into Cisco NI app to get  anomalies, advisories, and functionalities such as scheduling log collection jobs, scheduling bug scan and compliance jobs, firmware upgrade paths, and recommendations for upgrade versions. It also includes in-depth analysis work flows for advisories and anomalies.

Topology View

Visualize logical constructs such as Tenant, VRF, EPG and more on top of physical topology. Perform rapid troubleshooting using filters to focus on problematics nodes.

Cisco Nexus Insights Independence

Cisco NI app collects the node capabilities to determine and display the features supported and features not supported for each node on the site.

Micro-Burst detection

Expose and locate invisible microbursts. Know the congestion hot spots and protect application performance.

Cisco ACI 3-Tier support

Monitor Cisco ACI multi-tier topology with Cisco Nexus Insights features and functions.

Flow Telemetry Events

Use flow table events to minimize troubleshooting time through automated root-cause analysis of data plane anomalies, such as routing issues, ACL drops, buffer drops and more.

Kafka messaging support

Share Cisco Nexus Insights enriched value-added output with application ecosystem. Build synergetic workflows with third party IT applications.

Email notification support

Get offline alerts about network health using email notification facility. Pick and choose which issues you need to be alerted about.

PSIRT notification and Defect notification

Detect vulnerability exposure with PSIRT scan. Detect exposure to known defects with defect scan.

Resources

Monitor capacity utilization changes and threshold violations with resource anomalies.

Statistics

View control plane, data plane statistics, detect control plane and data plane anomalies.

Support for Cisco Nexus 9300-GX series switches

Monitor your high performance, scalable data center with support for Cisco Nexus 9300-GX series 400 GE platform switches.

Open Issues

This section lists the open issues in this release. Click the bug ID to access the Bug Search tool and see additional information about the caveat. The “Exists In” column of the table specifies the releases in which the issue exists.

Bug ID

Description

Exists In

CSCvr32097

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

5.0(1)

 CSCvu84352

Bug scan borg partial failure in a resource intensive scale environment.

5.0(1)

CSCvv77014

Cisco NIA allows onboarding of third party sites without any devices being discovered.

5.0(1)

CSCvv75183

Flow resource type anomalies are not exported to external kafka server.

5.0(1)

CSCvv92188

In the Flow analytics details page, path information might not display spine node in the traffic path.

5.0(1)

CSCvv31284

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

5.0(1)

CSCvv98126

Endpoint is  reported as aged-out with the older BD information.

5.0(1)

CSCvw03719

Rogue IP anomaly is not raised for every leaf switch.

5.0(1)

CSCvw03821

Rogue IP anomaly is not cleared.

5.0(1)

CSCvw11059

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

5.0(1)

CSCvw18729                        

Navigating from an interface down anomaly might sometimes take you to the interface details with the wrong time range so it will show the reported anomaly on the interface detail.

5.0(1)

CSCvv92188

In the Flow analytics details page, path information might not display spine node in the traffic path.

5.0(1)

CSCvv24554

Microburst Anomaly's description field does not contain class and type of traffic information.

5.0(1)

CSCvv31282

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

5.0(1)

CSCvw03887

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

5.0(1)

CSCvw05400

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.

5.0(1)

CSCvw24739

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

5.0(1)

CSCvw33541

The creation time for the ‘Leaf Inactive’ Fault is incorrect in the Cisco NI app GUI.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1, 15.1.2

CSCvw64159

Multiple operational anomalies are reported for same resource.

5.0(1)

CSCvw34999

When we enable and disable multicast (PIM) on a BD,  the IGMP IFstats MO is not cleared and is displayed as a blank entry in Cisco NI.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1

CSCvw36415

Spine switches s are not reported in flow analytics after VRF, BD, EPG change.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1

CSCvw26969

Flow Telemetry is not exported for IPv6 rules for tier-1 leaf switches.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1

CSCvw62454

After you disable and enable the Cisco NI App, spine switches does not export flows.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1, 15.1.2

CSCvw61611

Spine switches does not report the flows to NI collector.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 15.1.1, 15.1.2

Resolved Issues

This section lists the resolved issues in this release. Click the bug ID to access the Bug Search tool and see additional information about the caveat. The "Fixed In" column of the table specifies whether the issue was resolved in the base release or a patch release.

Bug ID                             

Description

Fixed In

CSCvv09818

Cisco NIR software telemetry statistics are not populated in GUI when cisco APIC cluster time is off by hours.

5.0(1)

CSCvu99008

L3 endpoints behind vPC port channel may be not visible in the Endpoint Analytics Browse page when the vPC port channel is down.

5.0(1)

CSCvu98645

L3 endpoints are not visible in NIR app's Endpoint Analytics Browse page.

5.0(1)

CSCvu43471

Shared services flow records are not exported in -FX, -FX2 -GX spine switches.

5.0(1)

CSCvu86618

LLDP neighbor information is not displayed in the Protocols Detail page.

5.0(1)

CSCvu00248

Latency information is not displayed in the Flow Analytics Browse page.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 14.2(4o)

CSCvu83542

The operational status of a few interfaces is not reported correctly in NIR app Interface Browse page after upgrading Cisco APIC.

5.0(1)

CSCvu56914

pimIfStats and igmpIfSats are not deleted after pimIf interfaces are deleted.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l), 4.2(40)

CSCvu76397

Protocol data mismatch between switch and NIR app.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l), 4.2(40), 5.0(2e)

CSCvu60561

Few nodes in the fabric are not displayed on System Configuration Resource page.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu56537

Precision Time Protocol (PTP)  process crash anomaly is not displayed in NIR app.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu23105

Some endpoints may not be visible in Endpoint Analytics Dashboard in Cisco NIR after the policy upgrade of Cisco Application Services Engine nodes is completed.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu10552

Endpoint rogue anomaly is raised for one instance while it is reoccurring every 30 minutes.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu72947

Few PIM Doms multicast protocols are displayed as disabled in the NIR app while they are enabled.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu62256

Endpoint status is displayed as active after rebooting a leaf switch.

Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1l)

CSCvu11543

NIR shows very high number of MAC Endpoints on nodes that are part of Endpoint move.

Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release 14.2(4o) and 15.0(1l)

CSCvu07676

Interface observer statistics query fails to return data in Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 platform switches and Cisco Nexus 9700-FX2 line cards.

All releases of Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches

CSCvs95691

Some fixed bugs may appear under the advisory details section of the Call TAC advisory.

5.0(1)

CSCvv09818

Cisco NIR software telemetry stats are not populated in UI when Cisco APIC cluster time is off by hours.

5.0(1)

 

Compatibility Information

For Cisco NI on Cisco ACI and Cisco NI on Cisco Nexus Dashboard compatibility with Day-2 Operations apps see the Cisco Data Center Networking Applications Compatibility Matrix.

Software

Release/PID

Cisco Device supported for Software Telemetry

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

SE-CL-L3

Minimum Intersight Device Connector version on Cisco Nexus Dashboard

1.0.9-461

Cisco Device supported for Flow Telemetry

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

AppDynamics APM

4.5

Verified Scalability Limits

Software/Hardware

Scale Limits

Number of ACI fabrics

8

Number of ACI nodes (includes ACI switches)

500

Number of flows supported in Flow Analytics

20000

Maximum support for a 3-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Fabric with 50 nodes, 60000 Endpoints, and 10000 Flows

Maximum support for a 4-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Fabric with 100 nodes, 60000 Endpoints, and 10000 Flows

Maximum support for a 6-node Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster

Fabric with 500 nodes, 60000 Endpoints, and 20000 Flows

Usage Guidelines and Limitations

This section lists the usage guidelines and limitations for Cisco NI app:

     Cisco NI 5.0(1) app supports Cisco ACI 3-Tier architecture for Software Telemetry and Flow Telemetry.

     Cisco NI 5.0(1) app downgrade is not supported.

     When the Device Connector is unclaimed from the on-premise GUI application, the Device Connector must be unclaimed from Intersight for TAC Assit’s connected TAC functionality to work.

     You have to configure telemetry in the Cisco NI app to configure for fabric node control.

     After modifying a bridge domain or VRF instance for an EPG, the flows show errors and flow analytics does not work as expected.

Related Content

The Cisco NI documentation can be accessed from the following website:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/data-center-analytics/nexus-insights/series.html

The documentation includes installation, upgrade, configuration, programming, and troubleshooting guides, technical references, and release notes, as well as other documentation.

Document

Description

Cisco Nexus Insights Release Notes for Cisco ACI

This document.

Cisco Nexus Insights User Guide for Cisco ACI

Describes how to download, install, and set up Cisco NI app.

 

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