Configuring The Catena Solution; About The Catena Solution; Catena Feature Overview; Chapter - Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring the Catena Solution

This chapter describes how to configure Catena on a Cisco NX-OS device.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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About the Catena Solution

Catena provides hardware (TCAM) based application chaining solution for Cisco Nexus devices so that
packets can be redirected through multiple physical or virtual devices without changing the topology or the
existing configuration. The solution works with all L4-L7 virtual and physical devices, such as firewalls, IPS,
IDS, DOS Protection, WAAS, SSL offload engines, networking monitoring devices, switches, virtual appliances,
and containers.

Catena Feature Overview

Catena allows you to create several chains with multiple elements in each chain. You can configure security
policies to specify segments of traffic through a particular chain. For example, an element could be a cluster
of devices, in which case, catena load-balances to the cluster. Catena performs health monitoring and failure
handling of devices.
Some of the key features of Catena are as follows:
Note Catena supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
About the Catena Solution, page 3
Licensing Requirements for Catena, page 4
Guidelines and Limitations for Catena, page 5
Enabling Chaining using Deployment Modes, page 5
Catena Configuration Process, page 7
Configuration Examples of Catena Instances, page 17
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Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Catena Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
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