About this document

This Fabric Services System User Guide describes the system's user interface (UI), and includes procedures that guide you through the design and deployment of a fabric intent, workload intents, maintenance intents, and their supporting components.

This document is intended for network technicians, administrators, operators, service providers, and others who use the Fabric Services System.

Note: This manual covers the current release and may also contain some content that will be released in later maintenance loads. See the Fabric Services System Release Notes for information about features supported in each load.

What's new

This section lists the changes that were made in this release.

Table 1. What's new in Release 24.12.1
Feature	Location
Fabric intents
A static management IP address is now mandatory for nodes within a managed fabric.	Fabric intents
Contextual Configuration Overrides
Label-based CCO association	Contextual configuration override parameters Now defines various parameters associated with specifying a label to indicate CCO targets. Creating a contextual configuration override CCO creation procedure now includes a branch for label vs. node selection, and describes label selection to identify CCO targets.
CCO auto-deploy	Contextual configuration override parameters "Auto-deploy" parameter now active, and defined here. Creating a contextual configuration override CCO creation procedure now mentions that the auto-deploy parameter is working for CCOs.
Display CCOs per node	View a list of overrides for a node Adds a mechanism to see the set of CCOs affecting any single node, as well as the cumulative effect of all active CCOs on the configuration.
Workload intents
Changes to behavior after workload intent deletion failure	Deleting a workload VPN intent
Security
Updates related to Kafka and ZooKeeper services	Updated the topic Recovering an application after node failure and removes the topic Recovering an application after node reboot
Updated the example to show use of the `--no-prechcek` option	Deploying a user-provided CA certificate
Alarms
Adds new alarms for failed image download, health monitoring, and certificate expiry	Appendix A: Supported alarms

Precautionary and information messages

The following are information symbols used in the documentation.

DANGER: Danger warns that the described activity or situation may result in serious personal injury or death. An electric shock hazard could exist. Before you begin work on this equipment, be aware of hazards involving electrical circuitry, be familiar with networking environments, and implement accident prevention procedures.

Warning: Warning indicates that the described activity or situation may, or will, cause equipment damage, serious performance problems, or loss of data.

CAUTION: Caution indicates that the described activity or situation may reduce your component or system performance.

Note: Note provides additional operational information.

Tip: Tip provides suggestions for use or best practices.

Conventions

Commands use the following conventions

Bold type indicates a command that the user must enter.
Input and output examples are displayed in Courier text.
An open right angle bracket indicates a progression of menu choices or simple command sequence (often selected from a user interface). Example: start > connect to
Angle brackets (< >) indicate an item that is not used verbatim. For example, for the command show ethernet <name>, name should be replaced with the name of the interface.
A vertical bar (|) indicates a mutually exclusive argument.
Square brackets ([ ]) indicate optional elements.
Braces ({ }) indicate a required choice. When braces are contained within square brackets, they indicate a required choice within an optional element.
Italic type indicates a variable.

Examples use generic IP addresses. Replace these with the appropriate IP addresses used in your system.