Platform Support for Programmability Features

This chapter defines platform support for features that are not supported across the entire suite of Cisco Nexus platforms.

Platform Support for Programmability Features

The following tables list the supported platforms for each feature and the release in which they were first introduced. See the Release Notes for details about the platforms supported in the initial product release.

Barefoot Shell

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Barefoot Shell

Cisco Nexus 3464C switch

Cisco Nexus 34180YC switch

Cisco NX-OS 9.2(3)

Bash Shell

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Consent token for bash access

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco NX-OS 10.3(2)F

Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switch

DME Modularity

Cisco Nexus 9800 Series switches

Cisco NX-OS 10.3(1)F

DME Modularity

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco NX-OS 9.3(1)

Chef Client

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Chef Agent

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switches

Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches and line cards

Cisco NX-OS 7.0(3)I2(5)

N9K-C92348GC

Docker

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Docker Container support within NX-OS

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches with at least 8 GB of system RAM

Cisco NX-OS 9.2(1)

N9K-C92348GC

gNMI - gRPC Network Management Interface

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

gNMI Get/Set

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco NX-OS 9.3(1)

N9K-C92348GC

Hardware Telemetry

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

SSX Counters

Cisco Nexus 9332C and Cisco Nexus 9364C switches

9.3(3)

Flow Table Analytics

Cisco Nexus 9300-FX and Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 platform switches

Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with 9700 -EX/FX line cards

9.3(1)

Flow Table Events (FTE)

Cisco Nexus 9300-FX and Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 9.2(1)

Flow monitor for VRF filtering

Cisco Nexus 9300-FX/FX2 platform switches and Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with 9700-FX line cards

Cisco NX-OS Release 9.3(3)

Inband Telemetry

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Packet Postcards, support for flow, packet drop, and queue congestion events

Cisco Nexus 3464C switch

Cisco Nexus 34180YC switch

Cisco NX-OS 9.2(3)

Packet Postcards, support for the INT source and sink roles

Cisco Nexus 3464C switch

Cisco NX-OS 9.2(3)

Model-Driven Telemetry

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Alias Option for Sensor Path

Cisco Nexus 9200, 9300-EX, 9300-FX/FX2/FXP platform switches

Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with EX/FX line cards

Cisco NX-OS 9.3(5)

N9K-C92348GC

Software Telemetry (dial-out)

Cisco Nexus 9000 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 7.0(3)I5(1)

N9K-92348GC

Software Telemetry

Cisco Nexus 9000 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 10.3(1)F

NETCONF Agent

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

NETCONF Support

Cisco Nexus 9800 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 10.3(1)F

NETCONF Support

Cisco Nexus 9000 platform switches

N9K-C92348GC

NX-API REST

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

DME Config Replace

Cisco Nexus 9000 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 9.3(1)

N9K-C92348GC

Python API

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Python 3

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

Cisco NX-OS 9.3(5)

Puppet Agent

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

Puppet Agent

Cisco Nexus 9300 and 9500 platform switches

Cisco NX-OS 7.0(3)I2(5)

N9K-C92348GC

TCL Scripting

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Feature

Supported Platforms or Line Cards

First Supported Release

Platform Exceptions

TCL Shell

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches

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