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Introduced HA Raft, a consensus based high availability solution. HA Raft is based on the Raft algorithm and provides secure and durable state replication with robust automatic cluster management.
Administration Guide
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Added a new section, the section called “NSO HA Raft” in Administration Guide, with comprehensive documentation on this new feature.
Compaction improvements have been made to schedule periodic compaction and disable compaction on start.
Administration Guide
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Added a new section called Compaction in Administration Guide to describe automatic and manual compaction. New ncs command option --disable-compaction-on-start added to disable compaction on start.
Development Guide
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Added a new section called Periodic Compaction in Development Guide to include scheduling of NSO compaction during low utilization periods.
Manual Pages
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Updated the Manual Pages, NCS man-pages Volume 5 in Manual Pages to add a new configuration parameter ncs-config/compaction/delayed-compaction-timeout.
NSO can now run in a container runtime, such as Docker. A pre-built image is available for download from software.cisco.com.
Administration Guide
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Added a new chapter called Running NSO in Containers in Administration Guide describing how to run NSO in a containerized environment, such as Docker.
NED packages can now be added to the system without triggering a package reload/service outage.
Administration Guide
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Added a new section called Adding NED Packages in Administration Guide to guide how to add new NED packages without triggering service outage. Updated the NED Migration in Administration Guide and Upgrade in Administration Guide section also.
NSO authentication mechanism has been improved to include Single Sign-on and package authentication.
Administration Guide
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Added a new section called Package Authentication in Administration Guide to describe the NSO package authentication mechanism.
Web UI Guide
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Added a new chapter called Single Sign-on in Web UI in the NSO Web UI to describe the NSO package authentication mechanism.
The device, service, and template checks now run in parallel across the CPU cores in the system while utilizing less memory by streaming the report to disk instead of building the report in memory. Compliance templates can check devices for compliance. In addition, strict mode checks that the template configuration is the only configuration on the device. Reports can now be generated in 'sqlite' format, which will produce an SQLite database file as the output of a report run.
User Guide
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Added a new section called Additional Configuration Checks in User Guide.
Updates in documentation to promote using nano services over Reactive FastMAP.
Development Guide
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Updated chapter Developing NSO Services in Development Guide to include new content and example to promote using nano services to implement Reactive FASTMAP (RFM) based applications. Also updated section Kicker in Development Guide.
The progress trace framework has been improved to add the concepts of spans and links. A span represents a unit of work or operation that occurs over a span of time. A link is a reference to another span event and can be used to find related events.
Development Guide
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Updated the chapter Progress Trace in Development Guide.
NSO now provides Phased Provisioning as a support tool to schedule provisioning tasks. Phased Provisioning gives you more fine-grained control over how and when changes are introduced into the network.
Platform Tools
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Updated the NSO Platform Tools documentation to include Cisco NSO Phased Provisioning.
NSO Observability Exporter package allows Cisco NSO to export observability-related data using software-industry-standard formats and protocols, such as the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP).
Platform Tools
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Updated the NSO Platform Tools documentation to include Cisco NSO Observability Exporter.