Start

Use this page to navigate your way through the NSO documentation and access the NSO resources most relevant to your role.

Learn NSO

If you are new to NSO or interested in learning about NSO features, start with the following topics:

  • Solution Overview: Familiarize yourself with NSO by starting with solution overview.

  • NSO Introduction in Getting Started: Build your knowledge of core NSO concepts.

  • Hands-on Labs: Go hands-on with NSO and build further on basics by exploring NSO labs.

Work with NSO

An NSO deployment typically consists of the following roles:

Table 1. NSO Roles
Administrator Personnel who install, upgrade, or manage an NSO deployment.
Operator Personnel (e.g. network engineers) who operate and interface with an NSO deployment.
Developer Personnel who develop NSO services and packages.

Administrate and Manage NSO

If you are a system administrator looking to install and manage your NSO deployment, start here.

  • Deployment Example in Administration Guide: Plan your installation by understanding NSO deployment with examples.

  • Installation in Getting Started: Get started with installation with guided instructions to help you install NSO for evaluation or production use.

  • Upgrade in Administration Guide: Upgrade your NSO deployment to the latest and greatest version.

  • System Management in Administration Guide: Learn how to configure and manage your NSO deployment.

  • General Administration in Administration Guide: Learn how to manage users, packages, and devices in your NSO deployment.

Consult the Admin Guide for other administration topics relating to NSO alarms, AAA infrastructure, High Availability (HA), etc.

Operate NSO

If you are an NSO user looking to operate and interface with your NSO deployment, start here.

  • Basic Operations in User Guide: Learn about basic operational scenarios and get acquainted with the most common CLI commands.

  • Web UI in User Guide: Interact and perform operations on your NSO deployment using the web interface.

  • CLI in User Guide: Interact and perform operations on your NSO deployment using the command line interface.

Consult the User Guide in User Guide for topics relating to NSO usage and operation, such as NEDs, management of devices and network services, SSH keys, alarms, scripting, packages, etc.

Develop in NSO

If you are an NSO developer looking to develop NSO services and packages, start here.

  • NSO Development in Development Guide: Bring automation in your NSO deployment by creating your own services using simple XML templates or implementing custom logic with the provided API.

  • Web UI Development in Web UI: Learn about building a custom web frontend on top of your NSO deployment.

  • Layered Service Architecture in Layered Service Architecture: Learn how to design very large, scalable services to manage services for millions of users, ranging over several hundred thousand managed devices.

  • NSO Developer Studio in Development Guide: Use NSO's Visual Studio Code extensions to build your services and explore your NSO instances.

  • API Documentation: Use NSO's Northbound REST-style interface to read data or push configuration from another system, or otherwise extend the functionality of NSO with Python, Java, and Erlang APIs to add custom service code or expose data through data provider mechanism. Read more about Northbound APIs here in Northbound APIs .

  • Network Simulator (Netsim) in User Guide: Simulate a network of devices to be managed by NSO.

Get in Touch

For additional support, refer to https://www.cisco.com/go/support.

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