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Cisco Nexus vs Cisco Manager

Solved3.10K views1st September 2020Cisco
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Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]9.44K 1st September 2020 0 Comments

What's the difference between the Cisco Nexus and Cisco Manager protocols?

If my understanding is correct, the Cisco Manager is a generic protocol that can communicate with each Cisco product. Why would we use the Cisco Nexus protocol?

Glenn D'Haene [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 1st September 2020

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Jeroen Nietvelt [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]1.34K Posted 1st September 2020 1 Comment

Hi Jens,

The Cisco Manager protocol has indeed been designed originally to operate with a broad range of Cisco equipment all running on Cisco IOS operating software. As Cisco have released a different type of operating software "nx-os" or Nexus operating sofware we noticed that this operating software had a completely different API when compared to IOS running devices. For this reason a new Cisco Nexus protocol was developed which accomodates the nx-os API.

This lead us to the 2 protocols or connectors (Cisco Nexus and Cisco Manager) we have in our catalogue today.

Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Posted new comment 1st September 2020
Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented 1st September 2020

There is a similar question already in Dojo:
https://community.dataminer.services/question/which-driver-shall-i-use-to-control-a-cisco-nexus-switch/

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Glenn D'Haene362 Posted 1st September 2020 0 Comments

From a commercial point of view:

  • Cisco Manager driver is a generic connector that can be used for all the standard Catalyst type of switches of the range 1,2,3,4xxx series
  • Other products have specific DataMiner connectors:
    • NEXUS (different OS), ASA, IE, ASA, etc.

In a nutshell: the generic Cisco Manager connector serves the standard Catalyst range of products (1,2,3 and 4xxx), for all other products a dedicated connector is commercially required.

Glenn D'Haene [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 1st September 2020
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