• The front-panel Universal Serial Bus (USB) stick is not supported. Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches support only back-panel Cisco-certified USB. • Cisco Catalyst 9500-High Performance Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches do not support front-panel USB for application hosting. • Cisco Catalyst 9500 and 9500-High Performance Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches do not support AppGigabitEthernet interfaces. • Cisco Catalyst 9410R Switches do not support application-hosting in release prior to Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.5.1. Configure the enable command on the AppGigabitEthernet interfaces to enable application hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9410R Switches.
This restriction is applicable only to Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Supervisor 1, 1XL, and 1XL-Y 25G Modules (C9400-SUP-1, C9400-SUP-1XL, and C9400-SUP-1XL-Y). You do not need to configure the enable command on Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Supervisor 2 and 2XL Modules (C9400X-SUP-2 and C9400X-SUP-2XL). Information About Application Hosting This section provides information about Application Hosting. Need for Application Hosting The move to virtual environments has given rise to the need to build applications that are reusable, portable, and scalable. Application hosting gives administrators a platform for leveraging their own tools and utilities.
An application, hosted on a network device, can serve a variety of purposes. This ranges from automation, configuration management monitoring, and integration with existing tool chains. In this document, container refers to Docker applications. Note Cisco IOx Overview Cisco IOx (IOs + linuX) is an end-to-end application framework that provides application-hosting capabilities for different application types on Cisco network platforms. The Cisco Guest Shell, a special container deployment, is one such application, that is useful in system deployment.
Cisco IOx facilitates the life cycle management of applications and data exchange by providing a set of services that helps developers to package prebuilt applications, and host them on a target device. IOx life cycle management includes distribution, deployment, hosting, starting, stopping (management), and monitoring of applications and data. IOx services also include application distribution and management tools that help users discover and deploy applications to the IOx framework. Cisco IOx application hosting provides the following features: • Hides network heterogeneity. Application Hosting Information About Application Hosting Application Hosting 2