Driver Support Document

Cisco load-balancers, CSS 11000 series, OS version 7.x, 8.x

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.4.2 CSS11800 8.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.4.3 CSS11150 8.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.4.4 CSS11050 8.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.4.5 CSS11503 8.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.4.6 CSS11506 7.30.1.06
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.368.4.5 CSS11503 8.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.368.4.6 CSS11506 7.50.0.04
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.368.4.7 CSS11501 7.50.0.04, 8.10.1.06

Driver Features Support Grid

Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery release notes X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh1, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID
X     X                  
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration   X     X                  
X Retrieve Startup Configuration   X     X                  
  Retrieve Binary Configuration                            
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running release notes X                        
X Configuration Deployment to Startup (with reboot)   X                        
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X                        
X OSPF Neighbors   X                        
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
  File System                            
X Uptime     X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
X Duplex Parsing   X                        
X Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
  Software Center                            
  Software Image Synchronization                            
X Password Management  
(Can modify: limited username, limited password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection   Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
X ACL Provisioning   X                        
X VLAN Provisioning   X                        
X Configlet Parsing  
X QoS Parsing  
X VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

Driver Discovery

Release Notes

Interactive SSH discovery unsupported

Some Cisco CSS devices require interactive login via SSH. Interactive login via SSH is not currently supported by discovery for JavaScript drivers. To ensure correct discovery, disable SSH for the device through the Edit Device menu.

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Configuration Deployment to Running

Release Notes

Configuration commands can be reformatted and shuffled during deploy

After you deploy a configuration, it is common for the CSS to shuffle or change the format of commands in the configuration file. Afterwards, it appears that numerous lines were added, removed or modified when comparing configurations. You must inspect the configuration manually to determine which commands were moved and which were actually changed by the deploy task.

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General Access

Release Notes

Extra support for drivers that use HTTP

This note applies only for drivers that use HTTP requests for driver functions. HTTP proxy operations are supported by setting the device access variable "http_proxy" to "ip:port", replacing with the IP and port values of the proxy server. SNI-requiring devices (e.g CloudGenix & Cisco Meraki) can be supported by using the device access variable "alternate_host" to contain the DNS name of the host. The host name will be used rather than the normal management IP address for all HTTP requests, effectively supporting SNI.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes (inherited)

More prompt causes an unexpected disconnection

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers handle More prompts by using timeouts, which can cause problems with the third-party SSH client code, which interprets the timeout as a disconnection. There are two options to work around the problem. Setting the RCX option [<option name="Driver/Discovery/UsePollRead">true</option>] in site_options.rcx will effect the workaround for all affected devices. Alternatively, it could be applied to a single device by setting the device access variable "PollRead" to "true".

Wakeup Ctrl-U character can cause discovery to fail

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers use wakeup characters are sent during device connection, to ensure that the device is responding. Normally, these characters do not echo to the console, but some devices may echo them. In this case, this causes the prompt detection phase to fail, which in turn can cause More prompts to not be handled properly, and discovery may fail. If these characters are echoed from the device [check the session log to see this], then set the device access variable "skip_ctrl_u" to skip the sending of the wakeup characters. Note that setting this option on a previously working device could cause discovery tasks to fail, but it only affects CLI discovery. SNMP discovery is unaffected.

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Syslog Triggering

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