Secure Erase

Secure Erase is an operation to remove all the identifiable customer information on Cisco NX-OS devices in conditions of product removal due to Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA), or upgrade or replacement, or system end-of-life.

7.3(11)N1(1)

Configuring Secure Erase

Soft Reload

The Soft Reload feature provides a best effort mechanism for the switch to be gracefully brought up with minimal impact to production traffic when a process crash occurs. You can also use the soft-reload command to trigger a manual soft reload of the switch.

7.3(2)N1(1)

Soft Reload

GIR Enhancement

Starting with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.3(0)N1(1), the default mode for GIR is “isolate”. Provides support for Unplanned Maintenance, Maintenance Mode timer, Supress FIB Pending, Adding Show commands to snapshots and dumping snapshot sections. You can use GIR to perform maintenance and software upgrade of the switches and the connected FEXs. A FEX group is added to optimize the procedure to bring up or take down the FEX.

7.3(0)N1(1)

Configuring GIR

Class-based Quality-of-Service MIB Phase 2

Starting with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.3(0)N1(1), the following cbQoSMIB tables are also supported by QoS policies: cbQosClassMapStats, cbQosMatchStmtStats and cbQosQueueingStats

7.3(0)N1(1)

Class-based Quality-of-Service MIB

Performing Software Maintenance Upgrades

A software maintenance upgrade (SMU) is a package file that contains fixes for specific defects. SMUs are created to respond to immediate issues and do not include new features.

7.2(1)N1(1)

Performing Software Maintenance Upgrades

Class-based Quality-of-Service MIB

Provides the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) MIB that enables retrieval of class-map and policy-map configuration and statistics.

7.1(1)N1(1)

Class-based Quality-of-Service MIB

Isolate and Maintenance Mode Enhancement

Provides the ability to gracefully eject a switch and isolate it from the network so that debugging or an upgrade can be performed. The switch is removed from the regular switching path and put into a maintenance mode. Once maintenance on the switch is complete, you can bring the switch into full operational mode.

7.1(0)N1(1)

Configuring GIR

OpenFlow

OpenFlow allows a controller to direct the forwarding functions of a switch through a secure channel.

7.0(0)N1(1)

OpenFlow

SPAN with ACL

The SPAN with ACL filtering feature allows you to filter SPAN traffic so that you can reduce bandwidth congestion.

7.0(0)N1(1)

SPAN with ACL