First Published: November 30, 2021

Last Updated: August 18, 2022

What's New in Cisco NCS 1000 Series, IOS XR Release 7.5.1

NCS 1004

Feature Description

Data Models

Unified YANG Models

CLI-based Yang data models, also known as unified YANG models, are introduced in this release. The unified YANG models provide a complete coverage of the router functionality, and serve as an abstraction for YANG and CLI commands.

OC Support for 400G TXP/MXP

This feature allows you to configure the 400G TXP and 400G MXP using CFP2 DCO. On the OTN-XP card, you can configure OC datapath on a single 400GE or 4x100G payload that is received over the client port as a 400G signal over DWDM on the line side. The card improves efficiency, performance, and flexibility for customer networks allowing 400GE or 4x100G client transport over 400G WDM wavelength.

Configuration

OTN-XP Card

2X100GE MXP modes with QDD ZRP for OTN-XP Card

On the OTN-XP card, you can configure two 2x100GE payloads that are received over the client port as a 200GE signal over DWDM on the line side.

The 2x100GE-MXP-DD muxponder mode improves efficiency, performance, and flexibility for customer networks allowing 2x100GE client transport over 200GE WDM wavelength.

3x100GE MXP modes with QDD ZRP for OTN-XP Card

On the OTN-XP card, you can configure two 3x100GE payloads that are received over the client port as a 300GE signal over DWDM on the line side.

The 3x100GE-MXP-DD muxponder mode improves efficiency, performance, and flexibility for customer networks allowing 3x100GE client transport over 300GE WDM wavelength.

400GE TXP mode with QDD ZRP for OTN-XP Card

On the OTN-XP card, you can configure two 400GE payloads that are received over the client port as a 400GE signal over DWDM on the line side.

The 400GE-TXP-DD muxponder mode improves efficiency, performance, and flexibility for customer networks allowing 400GE client transport over 400GE WDM wavelength.

Support for 10x10G + 2 x 100G, 20x10G + 1 x 100G, and 30x10G + 1 x 100G Hybrid Modes

You can configure different client rates across the ports depending on the bandwidth requirement, using the following hybrid modes:

  • 30x10G + 1 x 100G

  • 10x10G + 2 x 100G

  • 20x10G + 1 x 100G

2-QDD-C Card

Mixed Client Traffic Mode Configuration

You can now configure the client traffic mode on each trunk port of the 2-QDD-C card independently. This feature provides flexibility to carry both OTN and Ethernet client traffic on the 2-QDD-C card at the same time across two slices.

Support for n x 50G Rate

You can now configure sub 50G muxponder mode in a combination of trunk and client rates for 2-QDD-C cards.

Hardware
NCS1K4-CNTLR-B-K9 Controller Card

NCS 1004 supports the NCS1K4-CNTLR-B-K9 controller card. The card supports a default of 9600 baud rate on the RS232 console port and runs on BIOS version 5.10.

NCS 1001, NCS 1002, and NCS 1004

Feature Description

System Setup

Supported Software Upgrade or Downgrade IOS XR Versions

You can determine whether a software version can be upgraded or downgraded to another version using this functionality. Before an actual upgrade or downgrade process, you can also view the hardware or software limitations that could cause the upgrade or downgrade to fail. This feature helps you plan successful software upgrades or downgrades.

This feature introduces the show install upgrade-matrix command.

Release 7.5.1 Packages

Table 1. Release 7.5.1 Packages for Cisco NCS 1004

Feature Set

Filename

Description

Composite Package

Cisco IOS XR Core Bundle + Manageability Package

ncs1004-iosxr-px-k9-7.5.1.tar

Contains required core packages, including operating system, Admin, Base, Forwarding, SNMP Agent, FPD, and Alarm Correlation and Netconf-yang, Telemetry, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Parser, HTTP server packages.

Individually Installable Packages

Cisco IOS XR Security Package

ncs1004-k9sec-1.0.0.0-r751.x86_64.rpm

Support for Encryption, Decryption, IP Security (IPsec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and Public-key infrastructure (PKI).

Cisco IOS XR OTN-XP DP Package

ncs1004-sysadmin-otn-xp-dp-7.5.1-

r751.x86_64.rpm

(part of ncs1004-iosxr-px-k9-7.5.1.tar)

Install the ncs1004-sysadmin-otn-xp-dp-7.5.1-r751.x86_64.rpm data path FPD package on the OTN-XP card. This package is mandatory for datapath bring up.

OpenROADM

ncs1004-tp-sw-1.0.0.0-r751.rpm

Install the ncs1004-tp-sw-1.0.0.0-r751.rpm package for OpenROADM configuration.
Table 2. Release 7.5.1 Packages for Cisco NCS 1001

Feature Set

Filename

Description

Composite Package

Cisco IOS XR Core Bundle + Manageability Package

ncs1001-iosxr-px-k9-7.5.1.tar

Contains required core packages, including operating system, Admin, Base, Forwarding, SNMP Agent, FPD, and Alarm Correlation and Netconf-yang, Telemetry, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Parser, HTTP server packages.

Individually Installable Optional Packages

Cisco IOS XR Security Package

ncs1001-k9sec-1.1.0.0r751_x86_64.rpm (part of ncs1k-iosxr-px-k9-7.5.1.tar)

Support for Encryption, Decryption, IP Security (IPsec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and Public-key infrastructure (PKI).

See Install Packages.

System Requirement

At least 16 GB RAM

Caveats

Open Caveats

NCS 1004

The following table lists the open caveats for NCS 1004:

Identifier

Headline

CSCvz35033

On Commit-replace,Configuration not matched with LC capability on 2-QDD-C card

CSCvz73400

732/751: Post lcapp restart with encyrption observing traffic glitch

CSCvz95314

NCS1004[751]-TAM and CSB in not ready state after RP Cold reload script

CSCwa35459

751:- otn_ma respawn seen while running telemetry for 4-5 days

CSCwa19042

Login banner text is missing on Cisco-IOS-XR-um-banner-cfg when text exceeds 1015 characters

NCS 1001

There are no open caveats for NCS 1001 in this release.

Bug Search Tool

Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST) is a web-based tool that acts as a gateway to the Cisco bug tracking system that maintains a comprehensive list of defects and vulnerabilities in Cisco products and software. BST provides you with detailed defect information about your products and software.

Determine Software Version

NCS 1004

Log in to NCS 1004 and enter the show version command 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show version 
Mon Nov 22 22:50:09.240 IST
Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 7.5.1
Copyright (c) 2013-2021 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Build Information:
Built By     : xxxxxxxx
Built On     : Sun Nov 21 23:25:35 PST 2021
Built Host   : iox-lnx-054
Workspace    : /auto/srcarchive15/prod/7.5.1/ncs1004/ws
Version      : 7.5.1
Location     : /opt/cisco/XR/packages/
Label        : 7.5.1

cisco NCS-1004 () processor
System uptime is 2 minutes

NCS 1001

Log in to NCS 1001 and enter the show version command 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show version
Mon Nov 22 21:26:10.929 CET
Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 7.5.1
Copyright (c) 2013-2021 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Build Information:
Built By     : xxxxxxxx
Built On     : Mon Nov 22 00:17:22 PST 2021
Built Host   : iox-lnx-061
Workspace    : /auto/srcarchive15/prod/7.5.1/ncs1001/ws
Version      : 7.5.1
Location     : /opt/cisco/XR/packages/
Label        : 7.5.1

cisco NCS-1001 () processor
System uptime is 46 minutes

Determine Firmware Support

Use the show hw-module fpd command in EXEC mode to view the hardware components with their current FPD version and status. The status of the hardware must be CURRENT; Running and Programed version must be the same.

NCS 1004

Log in to NCS 1004 and enter the show hw-module fpd command: 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show hw-module fpd
Mon Nov 22 22:51:09.099 IST

Auto-upgrade:Disabled
                                                                         FPD Versions
                                                                        ==============
Location   Card type             HWver FPD device       ATR Status    Running   Programd  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0        NCS1K4-1.2T-L-K9      2.0   LC_CPU_MOD_FW        CURRENT    75.10     75.10    
0/0        NCS1K4-1.2T-L-K9      1.0   LC_OPT_MOD_FW        CURRENT     1.25      1.25    
0/1        NCS1K4-2-QDD-C-K9     1.0   LC_CPU_MOD_FW        CURRENT    75.10     75.10    
0/1        NCS1K4-2-QDD-C-K9     1.0   LC_OPT_MOD_FW        CURRENT     1.26      1.26    
0/2        NCS1K4-1.2TL-K9       3.0   LC_CPU_MOD_FW        CURRENT    75.10     75.10    
0/2        NCS1K4-1.2TL-K9       1.0   LC_OPT_MOD_FW        CURRENT     1.25      1.25    
0/3        NCS1K4-1.2T-L-K9      2.0   LC_CPU_MOD_FW        CURRENT    75.10     75.10    
0/3        NCS1K4-1.2T-L-K9      1.0   LC_OPT_MOD_FW        CURRENT     1.25      1.25    
0/RP0      NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9       4.0   CSB_IMG           S  CURRENT     0.200     0.200   
0/RP0      NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9       4.0   TAM_FW               CURRENT    36.08     36.08    
0/RP0      NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9       1.14  BIOS              S  CURRENT     5.30      5.30    
0/RP0      NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9       4.0   CPU_FPGA             CURRENT     1.14      1.14    
0/PM0      NCS1K4-AC-PSU               PO-PriMCU            NOT READY                     
0/PM1      NCS1K4-AC-PSU         0.1   PO-PriMCU            NEED UPGD   2.68      2.68    
0/SC0      NCS1004               2.0   BP_FPGA              CURRENT     1.25      1.25    
0/SC0      NCS1004               2.0   XGE_FLASH            CURRENT    18.04     18.04

NCS 1001

Log in to NCS 1001 and enter the show hw-module fpd command:

The following shows the output of show hw-module fpd command for NCS 1001 with EDFA (slot 1 and 3) and PSM (slot 2) of vendor 1. 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show hw-module fpd
Tue Nov 16 08:48:04.531 CET

Auto-upgrade:Disabled
                                                                         FPD Versions
                                                                        ==============
Location   Card type             HWver FPD device       ATR Status    Running   Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_BKP      B   CURRENT               1.10
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_FPGA         CURRENT     1.10      1.10
0/1        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv1            CURRENT     1.60      1.60
0/2        NCS1K-PSM             0.0   FW_PSMv1             CURRENT     1.51      1.51
0/3        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv1            CURRENT     1.60      1.60
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Backup      BS  CURRENT              15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Primary      S  CURRENT    15.10     15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_BKP   BS  CURRENT               0.20
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_FPGA   S  CURRENT     0.20      0.20

The following shows the output of show hw-module fpd command for NCS 1001 with EDFA (slot 1 and 3) and PSM (slot 2) of vendor 2. 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show hw-module fpd
Tue Nov 16 08:56:40.594 CET

Auto-upgrade:Disabled
                                                                         FPD Versions
                                                                        ==============
Location   Card type             HWver FPD device       ATR Status    Running   Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_BKP      B   CURRENT               1.10
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_FPGA         CURRENT     1.10      1.10
0/1        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv2            CURRENT     0.43      0.43
0/2        NCS1K-PSM             0.0   FW_PSMv2             CURRENT     0.16      0.16
0/3        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv2            CURRENT     0.43      0.43
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Backup      BS  CURRENT              15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Primary      S  CURRENT    15.10     15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_BKP   BS  CURRENT               0.20
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_FPGA   S  CURRENT     0.20      0.20

The following shows the output of show hw-module fpd command with the OTDR card in slot 2. 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show hw-module fpd
Tue Nov 16 09:00:21.385 CET

Auto-upgrade:Disabled
                                                                         FPD Versions
                                                                        ==============
Location   Card type             HWver FPD device       ATR Status    Running   Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_BKP      B   CURRENT               1.10
0/0        NCS1001-K9            0.1   Control_FPGA         CURRENT     1.10      1.10
0/1        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv1            CURRENT     1.60      1.60
0/2        NCS1K-OTDR            0.0   FW_OTDR_p            CURRENT     6.03      6.03
0/2        NCS1K-OTDR            0.0   FW_OTDR_s            CURRENT     1.51      1.51
0/3        NCS1K-EDFA            0.0   FW_EDFAv1            CURRENT     1.60      1.60
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Backup      BS  CURRENT              15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   BIOS_Primary      S  CURRENT    15.10     15.10
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_BKP   BS  CURRENT               0.20
0/RP0      NCS1K-CNTLR2          0.1   Daisy_Duke_FPGA   S  CURRENT     0.20      0.20

The following shows the output of show hw-module fpd command entered from admin in case of AC PEM: 

sysadmin-vm:ios# show hw-module fpd
Thu Nov  18 07:29:33.711 UTC+00:00”
                                                                     FPD Versions
                                                                    ==============
Location  Card type         HWver FPD device       ATR Status      Run     Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0       NCS1001-K9        0.1   Control_BKP      B   CURRENT               1.10
0/0       NCS1001-K9        0.1   Control_FPGA         CURRENT     1.10      1.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   BIOS_Backup      BS  CURRENT              15.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   BIOS_Primary      S  CURRENT    15.10     15.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   Daisy_Duke_BKP   BS  CURRENT               0.20
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   Daisy_Duke_FPGA   S  CURRENT     0.20      0.20
0/PM0     NCS1K-2KW-AC2     0.0   PO-PriMCU            CURRENT     4.00      4.00
0/PM1     NCS1K-2KW-AC2     0.0   PO-PriMCU            CURRENT     4.00      4.00

Then the following shows the output of show hw-module fpd command entered from admin in case of DC PEM : 

sysadmin-vm:ios# show hw-module fpd
Thu Nov  18 08:44:19.962 UTC+00:00
                                                                     FPD Versions
                                                                    ==============
Location  Card type         HWver FPD device       ATR Status      Run     Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0       NCS1001-K9        0.1   Control_BKP      B   CURRENT               1.10
0/0       NCS1001-K9        0.1   Control_FPGA         CURRENT     1.10      1.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   BIOS_Backup      BS  CURRENT              15.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   BIOS_Primary      S  CURRENT    15.10     15.10
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   Daisy_Duke_BKP   BS  CURRENT               0.20
0/RP0     NCS1K-CNTLR2      0.1   Daisy_Duke_FPGA   S  CURRENT     0.20      0.20
0/PM0     NCS1K-2KW-DC      0.2   PO-PriMCU            CURRENT   2.01      2.01
0/PM1     NCS1K-2KW-DC      0.2   PO-PriMCU            CURRENT   2.01      2.01

The preceding show output lists the hardware components that the current release supports with their status. The status of the hardware must be CURRENT; Running and Program version must be similar.

Other Important Information and References

Supported MIBs

NCS 1004 supports the following MIBs:

  • CISCO-AM-SNMP-MIB

  • CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB

  • CISCO-FLASH-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-REDUNDANCY-MIB

  • CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB

  • EVENT-MIB

  • DISMAN-EXPRESSION-MIB

  • CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB

  • NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB

  • CISCO-RF-MIB

  • RADIUS-AUTH-CLIENT-MIB

  • RADIUS-ACC-CLIENT-MIB

  • IEEE8023-LAG-MIB

  • CISCO-TCP-MIB

  • UDP-MIB

  • CISCO-BULK-FILE-MIB

  • CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB

  • CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB

  • CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB

  • CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

  • CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB

  • ENTITY-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

  • CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB

  • RMON-MIB

  • HC-RMON-MIB

  • CISCO-OPTICAL-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

  • LLDP-MIB

  • CISCO-ALARM-MIB

NCS 1001 supports the following MIBs:

  • CISCO-OPTICAL-OTS-MIB

  • CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB

  • CISCO-FLASH-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-REDUNDANCY-MIB

  • CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB

  • EVENT-MIB

  • DISMAN-EXPRESSION-MIB

  • CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB

  • NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB

  • CISCO-RF-MIB

  • CISCO-TCP-MIB

  • UDP-MIB

  • CISCO-OTN-IF-MIB

  • CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB

  • CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

  • CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB

  • ENTITY-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

  • CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB

  • RMON-MIB

  • CISCO-OPTICAL-MIB

  • CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB