New and Changed Information
This table summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series NX-OS Programmability Guide, Release 7.x and where they are documented.
Feature |
Description |
Changed in Release |
Where Documented |
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Model-Driven Telemetry |
Enhanced show telemetry control database sensor-paths to show details about encoding, collection, transport, and streaming. |
7.0(3)I7(7) |
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XMLIN |
Support for converting NX-OS CLI commands to Network Configuration format is documented. |
7.0(3)I7(4) |
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XML Management Interface |
Support for managing the Cisco Nexus 3000 switches with an XML-based tool through the XML-based Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) is documented. |
7.0(3)I7(4) |
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JSON-RPC as an NX-API input request format |
JSON-RPC is now an accepted NX-API input request format. |
7.0(3)I7(4) |
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rollback NX-API request element |
The rollback NX-API request element is now available in XML, JSON and JSON-RPC input request formats. |
7.0(3)I7(4) |
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Puppet support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
Added Puppet support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
NX-OS 7.0(3)I7(2) |
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Chef support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
Added Chef support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
NX-OS 7.0(3)I7(2) |
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Guest Shell support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
Added Guest Shell support for Cisco Nexus 3500 devices. |
NX-OS 7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Export rootfs of Guest Shell onto multiple devices. |
Support to export a specific Guest Shell rootfs and deploy it onto multiple devices. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Telemetry support for UDP and secure UDP (DTLS) protocols |
Added telemetry support for UDP and secure UDP (DTLS) protocols |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Authentication with self signed SSL certificate |
Added support for authentication with self signed SSL certificate. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Telemetry VRF Support |
Added telemetry VRF support. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Telemetry Compression for gRPC Transport |
Added support for telemetry compression for gRPC transport. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Model-Driven Telemetry |
Added support for telemetry. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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NX-SDK |
NX-SDK (C++ abstraction/plugin library layer) available. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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NX-OS Programmable Interface Component RPM packages |
NX-OS Programmable Interface Component RPM packages included in the NX-OS image. |
7.0(3)I7(1) |
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Dynamic Logging |
Users can now update configurations without restarting the switch. |
7.0(3)I6(1) |
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Guest Shell |
Version updated from 2.1 to 2.2. Guest shell now includes the following features:
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7.0(3)I5(2) |
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NX-API Developer Sandbox |
The Sandbox now supports the generation of YANG and NX-API REST payloads. |
7.0(3)I5(1) |
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Model-Driven Programmability |
Data modeling provides a programmatic and standards-based method of writing configurations to the network device. |
7.0(3)I5(1) |
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XML Management Interface |
Added the use of XML Management Interface to configure devices. |
7.0(3)I4(1) |
Replaced in a later release by Model-Driven Programmability |
NX-API REST |
Added support for the Cisco Nexus 3132Q-XL, 3172PQ-XL, and 3172TQ-XL switches. |
7.0(3)I2(2) |
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ISO |
The ISO image is a bootable Wind River 5 environment that includes the necessary tools, libraries, and headers to build and RPM-package third-party applications to run natively on a Cisco Nexus switch. |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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Puppet |
The Puppet software package, developed by Puppet Labs, is an open source automation toolset for managing servers and other resources by enforcing device states, such as configuration settings. |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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Third-Party Applications |
Open source applications added. |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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Guest Shell 2.0 |
Updated to Guest Shell 2.0 |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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iPXE |
Open source network boot firmware. |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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Kernel Stack |
Uses well known Linux APIs to manage the routes and front panel ports. |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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Broadcom Shell |
The Cisco Nexus 3000 Series device front panel and fabric module line cards contain Broadcom Network Forwarding Engines (NFE). The number of NFEs varies depending upon the specific model of the front panel line card (LC) or the fabric module (FM). |
7.0(3)i2(1) |
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No updates since release 6.x |
7.0(3)I1(1) |