Missing or Incorrect EoL/EoS Data

Where would you like to report this information? Being able to submit this information via the NCM interface in an semi-automated fashion would be very nice.

We have many Cisco ASA's and it seems to only be reporting suggested dates for other Cisco devices (2 Catalyst switches and a NAS device), for these devices the matching on device type seems a little hit and miss. Would it be possible to add system ID to the matching mix? Also on the Cisco ASA's the system description seems to be more OS information than hardware information as shown in the below information (OS reversions redacted):

• Cisco ASA 5550,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018, End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliances  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5540,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018,  End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliances  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5520,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018,  End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5510,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018, End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems

It would be very nice if NCM offered something like the newly added inventory and asset information in SAM with along with sub-views by default would be an nice addition.

Where would you like to report this information? Being able to submit this information via the NCM interface in an semi-automated fashion would be very nice.

We have many Cisco ASA's and it seems to only be reporting suggested dates for other Cisco devices (2 Catalyst switches and a NAS device), for these devices the matching on device type seems a little hit and miss. Would it be possible to add system ID to the matching mix? Also on the Cisco ASA's the system description seems to be more OS information than hardware information as shown in the below information (OS reversions redacted):

• Cisco ASA 5550,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018, End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliances  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5540,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018,  End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliances  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5520,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018,  End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems
• Cisco ASA 5510,Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Version 8.X(X), September 16, 2013,September 30, 2018, End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance  [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls] - Cisco Systems

It would be very nice if NCM offered something like the newly added inventory and asset information in SAM with along with sub-views by default would be an nice addition.

Hi,

Thank you very much for the information. We definitely plan to introduce crowd-sourcing for missing EoL data.

System OID is the ideal matching information we would love to have. Unfortunately, vendors do not publish their EoL announcement with this info. That's the root cause of all difficulties with EoL/EoS.

Regards,

Jiri

There is always that manual element, it would be possible to crowd source the linking of OIDs to model numbers, it's already done in part with the machine type. However this often does not include the model number. In the announcements Cisco at least do include the full model number, so matching it together should be easy.