What's New in Cisco Active Advisor for APIC-EM

Installing Active Advisor for APIC-EM

Limitations and Restrictions

Troubleshooting

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What's New in Cisco Active Advisor for APIC-EM

Cisco Active Advisor for APIC-EM provides information about the devices in your Cisco APIC-EM inventory that have hardware End-of-Life warnings, vulnerabilities that have been identified by the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), Software End-of-Life, Field Notice, warranty and service contract coverage information about those devices.

The 1.5.0 version of Cisco Active Advisor for APIC-EM now provides filtering for the table view. For example, in the PISRT table, you can filter the view to only show PSIRTs that match the severity selected.

Also new to the 1.5.0 version is a link from the doughnut chart sections in the dashboard to a filtered table view. Clicking on the “End of Support” section in the Software EOL doughnut, for example, will link you to a Software EOL view showing only devices that have passed the software end-of-support milestone.

From the table views you can now also export the table to a PDF or XLS file. Also in the table view you can hover over the device serial number to show additional information about the device, such as, device hostname, IP address, MAC address, software version, device uptime and memory usage.

Installing Active Advisor for APIC-EM

From the Application Management Update page in APIC-EM, drag and drop the Active Advisor image (apic-em-caa-application-1.5.0.118.application) to the appropriate spot. If you are updating from a previous version of Active Advisor, you need to disable the previous version before enabling the new version. For a detailed explanation with screen shots, go here: Click Here

Limitations and Restrictions

Active Advisor has the following limitations and restrictions:

- Active Advisor requires an outbound connection to the internet and a DNS configuration that enables your APIC-EM controller to reach the following two sites:

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- You can test your controller internet connectivity using the procedure in the following article: Click Here

- The APIC-EM Telemetry collection service must be enabled. See the following article for information about how to check that it's enabled:

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Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting FAQs and procedures for Active Advisor, see our knowledge base at the following URL:

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If you can’t find what you are looking for, click New support ticket and open a ticket. One of our developers will get back to you.

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