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