Table of Contents
Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.3 Release Notes
Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3
Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager2.1.3
TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
Reconciliation Report Limitations
Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only
Get Information About Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Contents
This document contains the following information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.3:
Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3
- Additional dashlets are available in the cable dashboard to help visualize the network health.
- The cBR-8 chassis view has been significantly enhanced to capture DOCSIS statistics including channel utilization, modem and CPE details, voice calls, sensor and license details.
- Visualization of L2TP link health (colors) and utilization details in the topology map.
- Compatibility with Smart PHY 1.0.1 for extended functionality.
- Ability to export Cisco cBR-8 device and DOCSIS statistics information to a CSV or PDF file.
- Credentials-based access to the RPD GUI.
- Chassis view support has been added for Cisco NCS 5011, 5501, 5501-SE, 5502, 5502-SE, and NCS 4000F (Fabric Switch Chassis) devices.
- Support for generic Cisco devices.
- Ability to add BDI/BVI interfaces to a port group. This can be done from the “All” page under Inventory > Group Management > Port Groups but not from the “User Defined” page.
- Ability to Ability to channelize T3/E3 controllers.
- Protection group-related information is now available for Unidirectional Path Switched Ring (UPSR) interfaces.
- Ability to create and delete 1+1 card protection groups on Cisco NCS 4200 devices.
- Ability to view the status of APS protection groups and perform administrative functions like lockout, force switch and manual switch.
- Ability to configure the card type for T1/E1.
- Ability to view IS-IS neighbors and their details.
- Ability to identify the interfaces on which Sync-E clock configuration is active (Cisco IOS-XR and Cisco IOS-XE devices).
- An alarm is now generated if the backup of device configuration fails a certain number of times or if a backup is older than a certain number of days and the backup fails.
- Ability to manually delete archived device configuration files.
- Ability to select FPD image packages as the default choice for upgrade during the image distribution and activation processes. Before performing an upgrade, you can view FPD details such as the device name, card type, hardware version, and other associated details.
- Ability to create a new CFM domain for E-Line EVCs.
- Support for L2 service provisioning on ASR 1000 devices.
- Support for service templates for TE tunnels.
- Flex LSP dual plane support—ability to set Affinity per path for bidirectional tunnels.
- Support for additional auto-bandwidth parameters for unidirectional tunnels.
- Service naming enhancements for services without a user-provided name:
– <SourceDeviceName>_<TunnelId>_<DestinationDeviceName> if source and destination devices have a common tunnel ID.
– <SourceDeviceName>_<ATunnelId>_<ZTunnelId>_<DestinationDeviceName> if source and destination devices have unique tunnel IDs.
- Support for 1+1 electrical protection for provisioning flows, inventory and alarming on NCS 4200 devices.
- Ability to create an ODU circuit with protection over an OTN topology with NCS 2000 and NCS2K-400G-XP linecards.
- When configuring a second OCH-CC circuit, you can now see you can now see which NCS2K-400G-XP trunk port is already assigned to a circuit.
- Discovery of LMP links between NCS 2000 and NCS 55xx devices.
- Ability to configure the UNI interfaces on NCS 2000 devices. The UNI is the service control interface between the transport network and client equipment.
- Ability to configure slices on NCS 1002 devices, setting the client rate, trunk rate, FEC and encryption for each slice.
- Support for SSON (Spectrum-Switched Optical Network)—circuit creation and discovery.
- Color-aware traffic policing is now available using the Qos Action profile.
- Multiple DSCP actions can now be associated with a QoS classification profile.
- Visualization of IS-IS network in the topology map.
- Visualization of Secure Domain Routers in the topology and geo maps.
- Ability to drill down into a device group/cluster using the double-click action in the topology and geo maps.
- Propagation of LAG member critical state to the LAG link in the map.
- In the Link Details view, LAG links are shown together with the association to their children.
- Contextual information provided upon hovering over a link with the mouse.
- Ability to create a global layout for the topology map and save it as the default layout for all users. This can only be done by users with network topology Edit privileges.
- Links are persisted in the topology map even when they are down and can no longer be discovered. These links are colored gray.
- Links with critical alarms are now colored red.
- Fiber management in the geo map—ability to associate a fiber to a link via KML import and to visualize the fiber and its associated link together in the geo map.
– Device Sensors tab: Provides details on the sensors that reside on a device, such as their name, the type of information they collect (such as temperature or voltage) and the corresponding unit of measure, and the value recorded during the last device poll.
– SONET/TDM Interfaces tab: For the selected SONET or time-division multiplexing (TDM) interface, this tab provides details such as its name and configured speed, as well as dashlets that chart the interface's performance metrics.
– Remote Physical Device dashlet: Indicates the number of Remote Physical devices managed by the Cisco cBR-8 routers in your network and their current connection status.
– Supervisor FPGA Versions dashlet: Indicates the field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) currently in use by the Cisco cBR-8 routers in your network.
– Additional dashlets: Power Supply Status, Fan Status, SUP Card Memory and CPU utilization, Modem History, CPE History, Voice Data, Channel Utilizations (US and DS), Line Card Utilizations (US and DS).
- The Policies pane pop-up window (Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Monitoring Policies) allows you to quickly access summary information and action links for a particular policy or policy folder.
- In dashboard dashlets that provide charts, you can now choose a chart type and specify display options.
- In the Top N Environmental Temperature dashlet (Network Summary dashboard > Network Devices tab), you can now view both the highest recorded internal and ambient temperature for a device.
- Ability to open the 360 view for a device's adjacent device or interface from the Top N Interfaces dashboard.
- Display of QoS statistics per ECE for ME1200 devices.
- For Y.1731 performance test, delay measurement is done using Delay Measurement Message (DMM) probe and loss measurement is done using Synthetic Loss Measurement Message (SLM) probe. For ASR 1000 devices, delay measurement is done using the LMM probe only.
- For BERT performance test, export of the test results to PDF format is supported.
- Introduced Color Aware mode in Y.1564 performance test.
– Detailed Environmental Temperature Report: Lists in detail the sensor details, maximum and minimum temperature of the devices along with the timestamps.
– Summarized Environmental Temperature Report: Lists the current temperature of the device.
- New Device Availability report listing devices and their reachability status.
- Additional metrics for QoS policy graph report:
– Police % for priority queues
– Bandwidth % for normal queues
- For QoS policy graph report, ability to generate data with drop percentage > 0 along with the timestamp at which the drops occurred.
- Added fan and power supply status to the Wired Module reports.
- Ability to export utilization information to a CSV file if utilization reaches a specified threshold.
- The license report under Administration>Licenses and Software Updates>Licenses now includes licenses for each chassis in a multi-shelf device.
- Pre-provisioning (provision, modify, delete) of equipments for NCS 2000 devices.
- Modifying card mode for NCS 2000 devices.
- Creation of managed manual links to represent optical topology links.
- "Bridge and roll" for CEM services.
- NCS 4200 (IOS XE, 16.7.1) 1+1 electrical protection validation in provisioning.
- Uni-directional tunnel auto-BW parameters provisioning.
- Uni-directional tunnel as preferred path for EPL, EVPL, and CEM service provisioning.
- Selecting dynamic or static path for ECPL service.
- Support for configuring Address Family for full mesh prefix for both IPv4 and IPv6 address family for L3 VPN provisioning.
- Setting Affinity bit/mask at working and protected path of a tunnel during provisioning.
- Setting 5G slot mode for 42xx devices.
- CEM to remote device over BGP-LU for provisioning.
Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3
This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3. For a list of all support information, click the gear icon at the top right of the web GUI and choose Help > Supported Devices.
Note “Beta support” means that the device/operating system has not yet been released but Cisco EPN Manager has been tested on the Beta version.
Cisco Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches—New Device Support
Note Event-based inventory is not supported on Cisco Catalyst 6500 VSS devices.
Installation/Upgrade Paths
The following table lists the installation/upgrade paths for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3.
- PP = Point Patch
- Cisco EPN Manager 2.x.x = Cisco EPN Manager 2.x Maintenance Pack x. For example, Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 Maintenance Pack 2
- Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.0.x = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 installed with point patch x . For example, Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.0.1 = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 with PP1.
1. Go to the Software Download site on Cisco.com and check that you have the latest point patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 installed.
2. If you do not have the latest point patch installed, install it before installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3. Installation instructions can be found in the readme file supplied with the patch file.
1. Go to the Software Download site on Cisco.com and check that you have the latest point patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.1 installed.
2. If you do not have the latest point patch installed, install it before installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3. Installation instructions can be found in the readme file supplied with the patch file.
1. Go to the Software Download site on Cisco.com and check that you have the latest point patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 installed.
2. If you do not have the latest point patch installed, install it before installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3. Installation instructions can be found in the readme file supplied with the patch file.
Important Notes
- TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
- Reconciliation Report Limitations
- Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
- Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only
- Data Migration Issues
TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
As of Cisco EPN Manager 2.1, only Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 is supported for HTTPS and TLS related secured communication, for example, RADIUS EAP-TLS. Support for TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all versions of SSL has been disabled due to security vulnerabilities.
This means that all peer systems and clients that transact with Cisco EPN Manager using HTTPS/TLS must support TLS 1.2. If they do not support TLS 1.2, they must be upgraded. Where possible, the Cisco EPN Manager documentation highlights the potentially affected systems. Please contact your Cisco representative for support in this regard, if necessary.
Reconciliation Report Limitations
When provisioning a service, if you have not provided a value for any of the attributes, the provisioned value for those attributes will be displayed as “Missing” in the reconciliation report. The device may have default values for these attributes but Cisco EPN Manager does not have any values configured.
Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
- Manual sync required—Configuration changes to ME 1200 devices are not automatically discovered by Cisco EPN Manager. After making a change, you must manually sync the device. To do this, select the required device(s) in the Network Devices table and click Sync.
- QoS profiles are not supported for service provisioning on ME1200 devices.
- The Y.1564 performance test does not work if the source/destination is a ME 1200 device.
Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only
Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3 provides foundation lifecycle support for UCS compute systems, CSR 1000v, and Nexus series devices but does not provide data center topology.
Data Migration Issues
After upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3:
- User-defined QoS profiles for CE services created in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 cannot be used.
- Active threshold crossing alarms (TCA) for temperature will remain active and will not be cleared. Please clear these alarms manually.
- After installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3 on top of Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.1, the following device configuration menu options can be found under the Circuit Emulation menu instead of the Physical menu in the Logical View:
User Documentation Changes
From Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 onwards we have one combined installation guide for the main release and all of its maintenance packs. See Installation Guide for Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1 and Maintenance Packs (2.1.x) .
Note that the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1 Installation Guide and the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.1 Installation Guide are no longer available as individual guides on Cisco.com.
Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
Open Bugs
Table 1 lists the open bugs in Cisco EPN Manager Release 2.1.3 according to the following criteria:
- Severity 1, 2, and high priority severity 3 open bugs
- All open customer-found bugs
- High-impact bugs that are likely to affect Cisco EPN Manager workflows.
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the bug in the Bug Search Tool . Use this tool to track the status of the open bugs.
Resolved Bugs
Table 2 lists bugs that have been resolved since the last release. Specifically, it lists bugs that were listed as open bugs in the Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 release notes that have been resolved in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3.
For more information about the resolved bugs, go to the Bug Search Tool .
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.
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 .
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.
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 2.1.3, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.3 Documentation Overview . The documentation overview also lists several Cisco Prime Infrastructure documents because the content of those documents is relevant to Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3.
Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3
For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.3, please 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
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