Integrating Third-party Applications

The Open NX-OS modular architecture provides a flexible framework to integrate third-party application software as depicted in the figure below.

Open NX-OS Third-party Application Integration - Software Architecture

The modular framework allows for the support of monitoring and analytics applications like tcollector and Splunk amongst others. The framework supports automation tools and agents, DevOps orchestration and third-party protocol support like openLLDP.

Supported third-party applications, open source tools and publish RPMs that integrate with Open NX-OS are all available at https://developer.cisco.com/site/nx-os.