Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.0 Release Notes

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.0 Release Notes

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First Published: May 3, 2016
Last Modified: October 10, 2016

This document provides information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (Cisco EPN Manager) 2.0. It outlines the additional feature and device support available in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 and provides a list of open bugs in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0.

Note This document also provides information about the mandatory point patches—Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.1.0) and Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.2.0)—that must be installed on top of Cisco EPN Manager 2.0.

Contents

These release notes contain the following sections:

• Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0
• Additional Device/Module/OS Support in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0
• Content of Mandatory Point Patches
• Installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 and Point Patches
• Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
• Related Documentation
• Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0

Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0

Circuit Emulation (CEM) Service Provisioning and Management (Beta Features)

• Structure-agnostic time-division multiplexing (TDM) over packet (SAToP) mode.
• Creation and provisioning of CEM services on Cisco ASR 903, Cisco ASR 907, and Cisco NCS42xx devices.
• Routing CEM services through MPLS TE tunnel.
• Support for unidirectional path switched ring (UPSR) and Automatic Protection Switching (APS) protection mechanisms.

MPLS Traffic Engineering Service Provisioning and Management (Beta Features)

• Bidirectional TE tunnel and Layer 3 link creation (co-routed tunnels only).
• Support for creating MPLS TE service on Cisco NCS 4206 and Cisco NCS 4216 devices.
• Support for constraint-based routing and trunk admission control.
• Ability to choose the protection mechanism against link and node failures when provisioning an MPLS TE service.
• Usage of Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) to establish and maintain label-switched path (LSP).
• Ability to advertise TE links using OSPF.

L3VPN Provisioning and Management:

• Ability to add VRFs and create and provision L3VPN services.
• Deletion of endpoints associated with an L3VPN service.
• Activation and deactivation of L3VPN services.
• View/hide service states during service deployment.

Optical Circuit Provisioning and Management

• Ability to initiate protection switch action on Optical circuits
• Ability to view circuit history, meaning all versions of the circuit up to the current version, and compare two versions of an optical circuit.

Carrier Ethernet Provisioning and Management

• Support for EVC provisioning over bidirectional TE tunnels.
• When deleting an EVC in “failed” state, you can choose whether to remove configurations from devices only or from the database as well.

Multilayer Trace View Enhancements

• Cisco EPN Manager now supports multilayer trace view for additional point-to-point services, including CE, CEM (beta), and MPLS TE (beta) services.
• Three-dimensional view of a circuit/VC trace.
• Support for viewing partial circuits where one or more devices participating in the circuit is not part of your virtual domain.
• Display of port state icons in the circuit/VC trace.

Inventory

• Chassis View enhancements—Enhanced view for multi-rack devices, where each rack is displayed in a separate tab; ability to select an interface and launch the configuration UI from the Chassis View; ability to change the Chassis View refresh interval and enable/disable blinking icons
• Support for topology-based discovery for optical devices (includes ability to discover optical devices using a seed device IP address)
• Improved inventory collection—Enhanced logic for determining what information to collect after an incoming event signals a change (using a combination of expedited events, reactive inventory, and granular polling mechanisms)
• Network device states—Ability to move a device in and out of maintenance mode

Configuration

• Interface configuration—Can be launched from Chassis View
• Configuration templates using the wizard—Simplifies configuration template deployment with new enhanced workflow
• Device configuration to enable CEM provisioning—Configuration of Cisco NCS42xx devices with CEM by first setting appropriate controller modes for the interfaces and then configuring the PHD (E1, T1, E3, and T3), SONET, and SDH controllers for CEM interfaces. ASR and UPSR configuration support is also available.
• QoS support—QoS profiles can now permit packets based on the selected QoS group for Cisco NCS 4000 and 42xx devices.
• Ability to configure H-QoS to specify QoS behavior at multiple levels of hierarchy for Cisco NCS 4000 and 42xx devices.
• Clocking—Support for frequency synchronization using Sync-E and BITS.
• Connection Verification—Support for verifying the connection to Cisco NCS 2000 devices and setting the acknowledgment values for associated alarms.
• OSC—Configure OSC terminations on OC3 lines, and on FastEthernet (FSTE) and GigabitEthernet (GigE) interfaces. Supported cards are TNCS, TNCE, and TNC. For ONS15454 NEs, the supported interfaces are OC3 interfaces of OSCM and OSC-CSM cards.
• Squelch and GCC—Configuration support on Cisco NCS 2000 devices.
• Packet termination and PRBS—Configuration support for ODU controllers of Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• OSPF—Support for configuring OSPF routing protocol for OTU controllers of Cisco NCS42xx and Cisco NCS4000 devices.
• Ethernet over ODU—Support for configuring UNI ports mode to Ethernet packets for Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• Breakout—Configuration support on Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• GMPLS and LMP—Configuration support on Cisco NCS 2000 and Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• Configure Performance Monitoring—Enable performance monitoring on Cisco NCS 2000 and Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• NNI—Support for configuring OTU controllers to act as NNIs.
• OTN Topology—Configure the topology instance and Area ID associated with optical OTN controllers.
• Channelize ODU (LO) Controllers—Configure ODU controllers with multiple lower order ODU sub-controllers and configure TPN and TS for the sub-controllers.
• TCM, TTI, and Protection Profiles—Configuration support on Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
• Ethernet MTU—Configure MTU values for optical device’s Ethernet interfaces except Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet interfaces on TNC and ECU modules.
• FEC mode—Support for enabling standard FEC mode on OTN interfaces.

MTOSI

• Service Inventory Retrieval (MSI)

– Network Interface (UNI/ENNI) Retrieval

• Resource Provisioning (RP)

– setTP for NNI Controller configuration

– Cisco Config Activation - MBC

• Service Provisioning Updates (SAI)

– Diversity Provisioning (OCH Trail-UNI)

– Error Handling improvement

RESTCONF/YANG API

• Support for physical inventory retrieval. See the RESTCONF NBI Guide for information on how to obtain the YANG schema for objects supported by this interface

Administration

• Licensing—Support for Cisco Smart Licensing (along with traditional licensing)
• Jobs Dashboard—Enhanced for easier navigation
• Improved security for server connectivity—Enhanced instructions for security server connectivity using HTTPS and certificate mechanisms
• New System Monitoring Dashboard—Customizable dashboard that provides a quick view of server health (system CPU, memory, and kernel information; utilization statistics; job and backup information; API and service information)
• External authentication—Support for Cisco ISE 2.x and TACACS+
• Alarm customization

– Ability to configure alarm auto-clear interval

– Ability to customize the information displayed in the Failure Source column of the web GUI

• Software Image Management server—Ability to add this server using the web GUI

GUI

• Menu customization—Ability to disable portions of the web GUI which are not used
• Home page/landing page—Ability to customize this page
• Ability to view a table listing all links in the system (Inventory > Other).
• Ability to view a table listing all network interfaces (UNIs, ENNIs, INNIs) and all circuits/VCs in the system (Inventory > Other).

Compliance Audit:

• Ability to duplicate policies during policy creation.
• Eight new user-defined example policies can now be used as reference for creating new policies.
• New policy groups are now supported for the platform for WLC wireless devices.
• Support extended for auditing AireOS Wireless LAN Controllers.

Circuit/VC Provisioning and Management (Optical and CE)

Performance

• Support for Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) performance test for OTN Circuits of the type ODU UNI.
• Support for OTDR performance test to diagnose OTS link related issues on NCS 2000 devices.
• New performance counters, monitoring policy (TDM/Sonet), and performance charts for monitoring CEM services.
• Support for performance monitoring on ODU controllers - Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCI).
• Support for Bit Error Rate (BER) performance test on Cisco NCS 42xx devices.
• Additional QoS dashlets available under the Service Performance dashboard.

– QoS Top N Drop Rate Table

– QoS Top N Pre-Policy Rate Table

– QoS Top N Post-Policy Rate Table

– QoS Policy Class Map Traffic Graph

– QoS Policy Class Map Traffic Table

• Additional Y.1731 dashlets available under the Service Performance dashboard:

– Y.1731 Top N One-Way Jitter

– Y.1731Top N Two-Way Delay

– Y.1731 One-Way Jitter Graph

– Y.1731 Delay Graph

– Y.1731 Frame Loss Graph

– Y.1731Top N Frame Loss Table

– Y.1731 Probe Statistics Table

– Y.1731 Probe Details Table

Topology

• Graphical visualization of optical link bandwidth utilization on the topology map and representation in link tables and link details. Bandwidth utilization visualization is supported for OTU, ODU, and OTS links.
• Additional functionality in geo map toolbar.
• New layout of the Topology window to improve user experience.
• Legend provided to identify map components.
• Geo Map—Ability to enter GPS coordinates in all available formats (DMM, DD, or DMS).
• Predefined background images provided for topology map.
• Ability to export data from Circuits/VCs and Network Interfaces tables.
• New Link 360 view—Provides quick, detailed information about a specific device link (performance, end points, circuits/VCs, and so forth)

Additional Device/Module/OS Support in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0

This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0. For a list of all support information, click the gear icon at the top right of the web GUI and choose Help > Supported Devices.

Content of Mandatory Point Patches

The following point patches must be installed on top of Cisco EPN Manager 2.0:

• Point patch 1 (PP1)—Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.1.0)
• Point patch 2 (PP2)—Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.2.0)

Note PP2 includes the content of both patches. Therefore, if you have not yet installed PP1, you can go directly to PP2.

PP1 Content

Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.1.0) addresses the following issues:

PP2 Content

Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.2.0) addresses the following issues:

For patch installation instructions, refer to Download and Install a Patch (No HA) or Download and Install a Patch (HA Deployment).

Installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 and Point Patches

Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 Point Patch 2 is a required patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.0. The installation flow is as follows:

1. Install Cisco EPN Manager 2.0. See the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.0 Installation Guide. The installation guide provides instructions for installing the product in both standard and high availability environments. It also provides instructions for upgrading from a previous version to Cisco EPN Manager 2.0.

2. Install Point Patch 2—Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 (0.2.0). PP2 includes all the content of the previously-released PP1. If you already have PP1 installed, you must install PP2 on top of it.

– To install PP2 in an environment with no high availability, see Download and Install a Patch (No HA).

– To install PP2 in a high availability environment, see Download and Install a Patch (HA Deployment). Note that high availability must be set up before installing the patch.

Download and Install a Patch (HA Deployment)

Follow these steps to install a point patch on top of Cisco EPN Manager 2.0 in a deployment that is already configured for high availability, where the secondary server is registered to a primary server.

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Note You must start the patch install with the primary server in the Primary Active state and the secondary server in Secondary Syncing state. See the installation steps below for details.

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Patching of primary and secondary HA servers takes approximately one hour. During that period, both servers will be down.

Before You Begin

• Make sure you have the password (authentication key) that was created when HA was enabled. You will need it to install the patch on the secondary server.

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Step 1 Check the HA status on the primary server.

a. Log into the web GUI on the primary server as a user with Administrator privileges.

b. From the left sidebar, choose Administration > Settings > High Availability.

c. In the HA Status page, confirm that the primary server’s state is Primary Active.

d. Click HA Configuration and confirm that the Configuration Mode is HA Enabled.

Step 2 Check the HA status on the secondary server.

a. Log in to the secondary server’s HM web page by entering the following URL in your browser:

https:// serverIP :8082

where serverIP is the IP address or host name of the secondary server.

b. Enter the authentication key and click Login.

c. Verify that the Current State Mode is Secondary Syncing.

Step 3 On the secondary server, download and install the patch.

a. Log in to the secondary server’s Health Monitor (HM) web page by entering the following URL in your browser:

https:// serverIP :8082

where serverIP is the IP address or host name of the secondary server.

b. Enter the authentication key and click Login.

c. Click Software Download at the top right of the Health Monitor window to open the Secondary Server Software Update window.

d. Enter the authentication key and click Login.

e. Click the Upload link under the window title, browse to the patch ubf file, and click OK.

After the successful download or upload of the patch, the patch name will appear under Critical Fixes on the Software Update page.

f. Install the patch on the secondary server by clicking its associated Install button. The secondary server will auto-restart and will not be accessible for a few minutes. Click Yes in the confirmation pop-up window to proceed with the installation. After successful installation, the status will change to Installed.

Step 4 Verify the installation on the secondary server.

a. Check the status of the services.

– Start an SSH session with the secondary server and log in as the Cisco EPN Manager CLI admin user.

– Run the ncs status command to ensure that all services are up and running.

(admin)# ncs status

b. Log into the secondary server’s HM page and verify that its status is Secondary Syncing.

c. Verify that the patch is listed as Installed in the Software Update page of the secondary server.

Step 5 On the primary server, download and install the patch. Follow Steps 1 to 4 in Download and Install a Patch (No HA). After installation, the primary server restarts automatically and the web GUI will not be accessible for some time.

Step 6 Verify the installation on the primary server:

a. Check the status of the services.

– Start an SSH session with the primary server and log in as the Cisco EPN Manager CLI admin user.

– Run the ncs status command to ensure that all services are up and running.

(admin)# ncs status

b. Verify that the status of the primary server is Primary Active using the following command:

(admin)# ncs ha status

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Once all the processes on the primary server are up and running, HA registration is automatically triggered between the secondary and primary servers (and an email is sent to the registered email addresses). This usually completes after a few minutes.

Step 7 Verify that the patch is listed as Installed in the Software Update page of the primary server.

Step 8 On the primary server, verify that the web GUI is accessible and the version is updated on the Software Update page.

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Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

• Get Information About Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
• Related Documentation

Get Information About Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

Use the Bug Search tool (BST) to get the latest information about Cisco EPN Manager bugs. BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and it aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version.

Cisco EPN Manager bugs may be caused by defects in a device's platform or operating system. In those cases, the Cisco EPN Manager bug will be resolved when the hardware/operating system bug is resolved.

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Step 1 Log into the Bug Search Tool.

a. Go to https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/.

b. At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In.

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Note If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.

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Step 2 To list all bugs for this version, click the Select from list hyperlink that is next to the Product field and select the product.

a. Choose Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager and then select the required product version.

b. When the results are displayed, use the filter and sort tools to find bugs according to their status, severity, how recently they were modified, if any support cases are associated with them, and so forth.

You can also search using bug IDs or keywords. For more information, click Help at the top right of the Bug Search page.

Related Documentation

For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 2.0, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.0 Documentation Guide. The documentation guide also lists several Cisco Prime Infrastructure documents because the content of those documents are relevant to Cisco EPN Manager 2.0.

Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.0, see the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) on the Cisco website, or contact accessibility@cisco.com.

All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics and some charts. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, using the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.

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