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Updated:August 13, 2019

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Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application for the Cisco DCNM Release Notes, Release 1.0.2

Cisco Network Insights Advisor (NIA) application consists of a monitoring utility that are added to the Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM).

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations for Cisco Network Insights Advisor on the Cisco DCNM.

For more information, see Related Content.

Date	Description
May 28, 2020	Usage guidelines and limitations.
Aug 13, 2019	Release 1.0.2 became available.

■ New Software Features

■ About Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application

■ Open Issues

■ Resolved Issues

■ Hardware Requirements

■ Compatibility Information

■ Verified Scalability Limits

■ Usage Guidelines and Limitations

■ Related Content

■ Documentation Feedaback

■ Legal Information

New Software Features

Feature	Description
Bug Scan Support	Cisco NIA provides support to schedule a bug scan on the network.

About Cisco Network Insights Advisor Application

Cisco NIA monitors a data center network and pinpoints known issues that can be addressed to maintain availability and reduce surprise outages. Cisco NIA constantly scans your network and provides proactive advice with a focus on maintaining availability and alerting you about potential issues that can impact uptime.

Cisco NIA consists of the following components :

■ Advisories

■ Software Upgrades

■ Cisco Recommendations

■ Cisco Notices

■ Eol/Eos Dates

■ Field Notices

■ Issues

■ Bug/PSIRT Reports

■ Baseline Best Practices (Compliance)

■ TAC Assist

■ Log Collection

■ Serviceability

■ Schedule Driven (Compliance, BugScan)

■ On Demand

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 issue. The “Exists In” column of the table specifies the releases in which the issue exists.

Bug ID	Description	Exists In
CSCvq02398	NIA App reports a Bug Scan or TAC Assist job partial failures, if tac - pac collection in progress. A failure could occur if switch has a tac - pac collection running and NIA starts a Bug Scanner or TAC Assist job.	1.0.2
CSCvp51960	NIA TAC Assist job only lists the folder name where the files are located for the job.	1.0.2

Resolved Issues

There are no resolved issues in this release.

Hardware Requirements

Hardware Requirements for Deployments Up to 80 Switches

Node	Deployment Mode	CPU	Memory	Storage	Network
DCNM	OVA/ISO	16vCPUs	32G	500G HDD	3xNIC
Computes (x3)	OVA/ISO	16vCPUs	64G	500G HDD	3xNIC

Hardware Requirements for Deployments From 81 to 250 Switches

Node	Deployment Mode	CPU	Memory	Storage	Network
DCNM	OVA/ISO	16vCPUs	32G	500G HDD	3xNIC
Computes (x3)	ISO	32vCPUs	256G	2.4TB HDD	3xNIC*

*Network card: Quad - port 10/25G

Compatibility Information

For Cisco NIA on Cisco DCNM compatibility with Day-2 Operations apps, see the Cisco Day-2 Operations Apps Support Matrix.

Software/Hardware	Release
Cisco devices supported	Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series switches.

Verified Scalability Limits

Hardware	Switches
Number of Cisco devices supported	250

Usage Guidelines and Limitations

■ Cisco NIA is not supported on the following:

■ Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches with -R line cards.

■ Cisco Nexus 3600 Series switches.

■ TAC Assist started from Cisco NIA 2.0.1 App will not show up in Cisco NI Base and vice versa.

■ 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.

■ User initiated upload to Cisco Intersight Cloud fails if the TAC Assist job completed prior to Cisco DCNM HA failover. It is recommended to start a new TAC Assist job after Cisco DCNM HA failover.

Documentation Feedback

To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, send your comments to cisconetworkinsights - docfeedback@cisco.com.

Legal Information

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Any Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and phone numbers used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses and phone numbers. Any examples, command display output, network topology diagrams, and other figures included in the document are shown for illustrative purposes only. Any use of actual IP addresses or phone numbers in illustrative content is unintentional and coincidental.

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