- Software version upgrade and hardware refresh advisories
Stay up-to-date on new software and hardware availability and get lead time to plan for upgrades. - EOL/EOS field notices
Be up-to-date on hardware and software going out-of-sale and out-of-support and get lead time to plan for upgrades. - Anomalies and consistency checks
Have visibility into inconsistencies between configuration state and forwarding state, deviation from best practices, and system parameters pushing scale limits. Avoid unscheduled outages. - Bugs
Get instant visibility into any applicable bugs as soon as they are reported and fixed in other customer environments. Avoid unscheduled outages for issues already known to Cisco. - PSIRTS
Get instant visibility into any security advisories and take necessary action to stay secure and stay in compliance.
The Cisco Network Insights Advisor (NIA) application enables customers to prevent unscheduled outages and lower downtime for their data center networks by providing proactive notifications covering security advisories, critical bugs, end-of-life and end-of-support announcements and recommended software and hardware upgrades based on platforms, deployed software, and features. The NIA application also helps speed up troubleshooting by collecting the necessary data for Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) service requests in case of issues. These capabilities enable customers keep deployments running smoothly while reducing operating expenses and troubleshooting time.