Introduction

Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) is a Virtual Network Functions Manager (VNFM), which performs lifecycle management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).

The Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) promotes agility, flexibility, and programmability in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) environments, and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and a modular system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of VNF lifecycle for generic virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-of-breed industry solutions.

  • As part of the Cisco Orchestration Suite, ESC is packaged with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) and Cisco NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) bundle. This is available within Cisco Solutions such as Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX).

  • As a standalone product, ESC is available as a Virtual Network Function Manager bundled with several Cisco VNFs such as VPN, vRouter and many others.

Supported Virtual Infrastructure Managers (VIM)

ESC supports lifecycle management of VNFs on OpenStack, VMware vCenter, vCloud Director, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and so on. For more details, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide.

New Features and Enhancements in 5.1

This section describes the features added in Cisco Elastic Services Controller Release 5.1.

Cisco Elastic Services Controller Bugs

For a complete list of open and resolved bugs for this release, use the Cisco Bug Search tool.

Open Bugs

The table below lists the open issues in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 5.1 release.

Table 1. Open Bugs in Cisco Elastic Services Controller 5.1

Bug ID

Description

CSCvs66486 Service stuck in INERT state when recovery attempted downstream up update and failover
CSCvs47450 Vim connector status can fail to be updated on AA follower nodes

Resolved Bugs

The table below lists the resolved issues in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 5.1 release.

Table 2. Resolved Bugs in Cisco Elastic Services Controller 5.1

Bug ID

Description

CSCvs19637 AA HA log level settings are not honored on local failover
CSCvr78476 The follower ESC node has etsi process in dead state during local AA to Geo AA upgrade
CSCvq58303 When A/S HA fails over, and VIM is unreachable, VIM failure notification is not sent out
CSCvr74850 VIM connector creation notifications can fail to reach NB
CSCvr58636 When failover happens during VM recovery, both service and VM can become stuck in inert state
CSCvq65416 ESC passwd generation no longer generates a password using escadm command
CSCvr37485 VM_ALIVE can be declared before VM_RECOVERY_COMPLETE if VM enters recovery while deploying
CSCvr43709 VNF in failed state cannot be deleted or redeployed
CSCvq69905 ETSI Instantiate VNF Req using OOB Port fails with error: illegal reference address_id
CSCvr25741 VM_ALIVE may not be generated for all VMs when in-flight deployment is resumed after ESC restart
CSCvr28616 Successful OS VIM connector creation may not generate VIM_CONNECTION_STATE event

Cisco Bug Search Tool

Bug Search Tool (BST), the online successor to Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve our customers' effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting.

BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version. The service has provision to filter bugs based on credentials to provide external and internal bug views for the search input.

To use the BST to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release:

Procedure


Step 1

Go to http://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch.

Step 2

At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In. The Bug Search page opens.

Note 

If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.

Step 3

To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Return.

Step 4

To search for bugs in the current release:

  1. In the Search For field, enter a keyword and press Return. (Leave the other fields empty).

  2. When the search results are displayed, use the filter tools to find the types of bugs you are looking for. You can search for bugs by modified date, status, severity, and so forth.
    Tip 

    To export the results to a spreadsheet, click the Export All to Spreadsheet link.

See Bug Search Tools & Resources on Cisco.com. For more details on the tool overview and functionalities, check out the help page, located at http://www.cisco.com/web/applicat/cbsshelp/help.html


Accessibility Features in Cisco ESC

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco ESC 5.1, see Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) on the Cisco website, or contact accessibility@cisco.com.

All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics, and some charts. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

Related Documentation

The following documents are available for Cisco Elastic Services Controller:

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller ETSI NFV MANO Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller Administration Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller NETCONF API Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller REST API Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller ETSI API Guide

  • Cisco Elastic Services Controller Deployment Attributes

You can access the documents at:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/elastic-services-controller-esc/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.