NSO - Cisco Network Service Orchestrator Essentials for Programmers and Network Architects v3.1

Module 1: Introduction to Cisco NSO

• Meeting Challenges with Orchestration
• Challenges of Network Management
• Challenges of Network Orchestration
• NSO Features and Benefits that Meet Challenges
• Standardized Approach
• What Is NSO?
• Logical Architecture
• Components
• What Does NSO Do?
• Orchestration Use Cases
• How Does NSO Work?
• Introduction to NETCONF and YANG
• Packages
• Mapping Logic
• Network Element Drivers
• Resources and Training
• Resources
• Training

Module 2: Get Started with Cisco NSO

• Installing Cisco NSO
• Setup Overview
• Cisco NSO Local Installation
• Installing NEDs
• Using NetSim
• NETCONF Overview
• Challenges of Network Management
• Introduction to NETCONF
• NETCONF Operation
• Device Manager
• Device Manager Overview
• Device Configuration Management
• Device Connection Management
• Templates and Groups
• Other Device Management Tools

Module 3: Service Manager Essentials

• YANG Overview
• Introduction to YANG
• Other Representations of YANG
• Data Types
• XPath Overview
• Basic YANG Statements
• Can You Spot the Error?
• Using Services
• Package Architecture
• Creating a Service Package
• Sample Service Configuration
• Service Template
• YANG Service Model
• Deploying a Service
• Model –to-Model Mapping
• Mapping Introduction
• Mapping Logic
• FASTMAP
• Template Processing

Module 4: Service Design and Cisco NSO Programmability

• Service Design
• Service Design Overview
• Top-Down Approach
• Bottom-Up Approach
• Device Configuration
• Service Model
• Service Management
• Service Management Tasks
• Service Lifecycle Management Guidelines
• NSO Programmability Introduction
• NSO Programmability Overview
• Python Service Skeleton
• Creating a Service YANG Model
• Creating a Service Template
• Template Processing with Python

Module 5: Cisco NSO Flexibility

• System Configuration and Troubleshooting
• System Configuration
• System Troubleshooting
• Integration
• Integration Options
• NETCONF Server
• Web Integration
• SNMP Agent
• Alarm Management and Reporting
• Alarm Management
• Reporting
• Scalability and Performance
• High Availability
• High-Availability Cluster Communications
• Clustering
• Layered Service Architecture
• Addressing Performance Limitations
• Components and Function Packs
• Function Packs
• NFV Orchestration
• Reactive FastMap

• Explain the benefits and uses of Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO)
• Install NSO and describe how NSO uses NETCONF and the Device Manager component
• Describe how YANG is used with NSO, create and deploy a service, and explain NSO FASTMAP
• Design and manage services with YANG models
• Perform NSO configuration and basic troubleshooting, and describe the following NSO features: integration options, alarms and reporting, scalability and performance options, and available function pack

Lab 1: Installing Cisco NSO
Lab 2: Using Device Manager
Lab 3: Creating a Loopback Template Service
Lab 4: Creating a VLAN Template Service
Lab 5: Creating an L3VPN Template Service
Lab 6: Creating an SVI Python Template Service
Lab 7: Using NSO REST API with Postman

• Basic knowledge of the Cisco Command Line Interface (CLI) or the CLI of UNIX-like operating systems
• Basic knowledge of YANG data modeling
• Basic knowledge of Python programming
• Basic management of network components (routers, switches, etc.)

• System installers
• System integrators
• System administrators
• Network administrators
• Solution designers