Prerequisites
Cisco's IP fabric for media solution has the following prerequisites:
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Cisco Nexus 9200 and 9300 Series leaf and spine switches must be running Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I4(5) or a later release.
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Leaf switches must run Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I6(1) or a later release when used with spine switches that are running Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)F2(1) or a later release.
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Cisco Nexus 9500 Series spine switches (with N9K-X9732C-EX, N9K-X9736C-EX, and N9K-X97160YC-EX line cards) must be running Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I6(1) or a later release.
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The Cisco Nexus 9508 spine switch (with N9K-X9636C-R and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards) must be running Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)F2(1) or a later release.
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TCAM carving must be configured on leaf switches using the hardware access-list tcam region ing-racl 512 and hardware access-list tcam region ing-nbm 1536 commands. For more information on TCAM carving, see the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Security Configuration Guide.
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For Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches with N9K-X9732C-EX, N9K-X9736C-EX, and N9K-X97160YC-EX line cards, enable the multicast NBM template using the system routing template-multicast-nbm command. For more information, see the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Multicast Routing Configuration Guide.
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To use PIM SSM, which is supported beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I7(1), you must define an SSM group on the switch. For more information, see the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Multicast Routing Configuration Guide.
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The default SSM multicast group range is 232.0.0.0/8. If you do not want to use the default range, you must use the ip pim ssm command to change it across the fabric.
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For controller-based deployments, you must install one of the following Cisco DCNM Releases. For installation instructions, see the Cisco DCNM Installation Guide for your DCNM release.
Cisco NX-OS Release Running on Switches
Cisco DCNM Release
7.0(3)I4(5)
10.1
7.0(3)F2(1) or a later release
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7.0(3)I6(1) or a later release
10.2(1) or later
7.0(3)I7(2) or a later release
10.4(2) or later
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After the DCNM OVA file is installed, you must SSH into the DCNM VM as root and enter the appmgr set-mode media-controller command on the DCNM server to enable the DCNM Media Controller.