Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2 Release Notes

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2 Release Notes

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First Published: April 2, 2018

Contents

This document contains the following information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2:

• Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2
• Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2
• Installation/Upgrade Paths
• Important Notes
• Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
• Related Documentation
• Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2

Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2

This section lists the new features/functionality delivered in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.

Note Features marked “BETA” provide limited functionality in this release. The intention is to fully support these features in the next release.

System Changes

• Cisco EPN Manager now uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.4 operating system.

GUI - General

• Enhancements to GUI accessibility for visually and physically impaired users, including background images, contrast ratio, font size, and tab focus.

Device Lifecycle Management

• Chassis view support for:

– NCS 540 (N540-24Z8Q2C-M)

– ASR 9906

– NCS 520 (N520-4G4Z-A)

– Catalyst 6500 VSS

- Chassis (WS-C6509-E)

- Line cards (WS-X6704-10GE, WS-X6908-10G, WS-X6148E-GE-45AT)

– ASR 99xx (A99-12X100GE-CM)

– ASR 9000v2 Satellite

– A9K-RSP880/MOD200-TR of device ASR 9006

– A9K-8T/4-L line card of ASR 9006

– A900-PWR900-D2 on NCS 4216

Device Configuration

• Information associated with the redundancy status of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series devices with dual and quad-supervisor Virtual Switching System (VSS) is provided in the Device 360 and Device Details view.
• Ability to view card protection parameters and configure the Admin Mode and Revert time values for the protection group.
• Ability to view the connection status of a BGP neighbor device participating in a BGP routing process.
• Ability to view the part numbers of all modules associated with a given device in the Device Details view.
• BETA: Ability to configure card protection on A900-IMA8CT1Z-M and A900-IMA8CS1Z-M cards in Cisco ASR 9xx devices and NCS4200-48T1E1-CE and NCS4200-48T3E3-CE cards in Cisco NCS 4200 devices.

Configuration Archive

• Support for device configuration collection via SFTP.

Image Management

• SWIM is now supported for ASR 903U, ASR 902U, ASR 920U, and NCS 540 devices.
• Ability to define interface module delay for ISSU activation.

Management of Cable Devices

• Alarm dashboard is now available to show active alarms for cBR-8 devices.
• Grouping of CMTS alarms on cBR-8 devices into categories for easier identification. For example, CMTS-Subscriber and CMTS-System.
• Device connectivity failure status is shown in all dashlets in the Cable dashboard and the dashboard can be refreshed on demand.
• Cable executive dashboard has been revamped to allow users to slice and dice data based on location groups, user defined locations and managed cBR-8 devices.
• Display of modem count by vendor and capability in the dashboard.
• Power supply status of active power modules is shown in the chassis view for cBR-8 devices (Performance tab).
• CPU and memory utilization graphs are shown for active SUP cards in the chassis view for cBR-8 devices (Performance tab).
• RPD 360 view is now available in the geo map, providing information about the RPD inventory and DEPI session.
• Ability to visualize the topology between cBR-8 devices and RPDs along with all the connected intermediate switches. Introduction of Overlay (L2TP) and Underlay (Physical Link) for the cable network. Support is for IPv4 only.
• DEPI (Downstream External-PHY Interface) session information is now available per RPD connected to a selected cBR-8 device.
• Ability to view a summary of the status of all cable modems including DOCSIS capabilities and vendor information across the network and in a selected cBR-8 group.
• BETA: Integration with SmartPHY 1.1.14 for adding cBR-8 devices, RPD service management fields and RPD bulk import using a CSV file.
• BETA: Ability to view bandwidth utilization for cable controllers, Mac domains and fiber nodes.

Carrier Ethernet

• Support for Ethernet hairpin switching on NCS42xx devices
• Local connect configuration now uses the new L2VPN-based CLI instead of the connect-based CLI.
• Support for untagged service frames between ME1200 UNIs in an EVC.
• Discovery of EVPN VPWS (single homing) services.
• Support for Carrier Ethernet provisioning on segment routing.
• BETA: Ability to resynchronize a Carrier Ethernet service.
• BETA: Support for device UNI MTU value of up to 9644 on NCS 4000 devices running IOS-XR 6.1.42).
• BETA: Validation of CE provisioning on LAG port for NCS 4000 devices running IOS-XR 6.1.42.

L3VPN

• VRF names are now shown for L3VPN services names instead of VPN IDs.
• Ability to configure OSPF for PE-CE routing between devices in an L3VPN service.

CEM

• Support for configuration of T1 and T3 controllers with framed SAToP mode.
• BETA: Support for SDH on NCS 42xx and ASR 9xx devices running IOS-XE 16.6.1 or 16.7.1.

Serial

• Service reconciliation support for IOT-related services.

Optical

• Ability to manually create managed links between NCS1002 trunk ports and NCS 1001 A/D on passive units.
• Discovery of LMP links between the client ports of NCS 2000 transponders (NCS2K-200G-CK-C, NCS2K-400G-XP) and the grey interfaces of ASR 9000 or NCS 5000 devices.
• Ability to specify node and link constraints when provisioning ODU circuits on NCS2K-400G-XP line cards.
• Discovery of LMP links between NCS 2000 and NCS 5000 devices using colored interfaces.
• Support for OCH-Trail UNI circuit provisioning on a network that uses NCS 1002 as transponder devices in conjunction with an NCS 2000 ROADM network.
• Ability to provision an OCH-CC circuit carried by an existing OCH-Trail with the same A and Z end-points, but in reverse order.
• Ability to show the overlay of a Media Channel Group on the topology map.
• Discovery of OCH Trail circuits between an IOS-XR device (ASR 9000, NCS 5000) and an NCS 2000 device, connected via manual or LMP link.
• Ability to filter the endpoints of a WSON or SSON circuit by specifying the optical side in the circuit provisioning wizard.
• Automatic discovery of the OTS links between NCS 1001 devices connected via OSC.
• Ability to configure the amplifier and PSM modules of NCS 1001 devices, including Optics, OTS and OTS-OCH controllers, using the Chassis View.
• ODU circuits protection are now shown in the Configuration section of the chassis view.
• Ability to create a WSON circuit with circuit diversity to ensure that the new circuit is not sharing the name risk (link) or resources (links and nodes) of an existing circuit.
• The Circuits/VCs table has two additional columns: Wavelength and Restoration Status.
• The Multilayer Trace of an OCH-CC or MHC-CC circuit displays the router IP address if there is an LMP link between an NCS 2000 and an IOS-XR router (ASR 9000 or NCS 5000).

Bandwidth Utilization

• The optical channel utilization is now calculated using the actual channel capacity rather than assuming 96 channels of total capacity.

Topology and Geo Map

• Devices from multiple device groups can now be displayed on the topology maps (previously only devices from one group could be displayed).
• Ability to search for a device by the value in a user-defined field.
• Device domain name is no longer displayed in the maps as part of the device name.
• Admin users can now save map display selections as global preferences which will be applied automatically for all new users and which can be loaded by any users on demand.
• Ability to view OTDR scan results in the context of the geo map in order to pinpoint the location of the fiber issues.
• Ability to replace the default name of a link with a user-defined name that will be displayed in all link tables and in the Link 360 view.
• BETA: Ability to create, modify and delete pools of SRRG types and SRRG values.

Fault Management

• An alarm is generated when a device loses connectivity with the NTP server.

Performance

• BER test enhancements. Ability to run BER tests:

– For CEM circuits on EOMER line cards.

– In a 1+1 electrical protection setup.

– In a UPSR setup.

• Ability to navigate from the Top N dashboard to the service dashboard and also to open the circuit 360 view.
• Ability to run the Y.1564 performance test on ME 1200 devices.
• Interface 360 performance enhancements:

– Ability to launch the performance dashboard from the Interface 360 view for all interface types.

– Ability to view performance graphs on NCS 540 interfaces and to run the Y.1731 on-demand test on circuits traversing NCS 540 devices.

– Ability to view FEC statistics on the optical layer in the Interface 360 view and in the circuit realtime performance monitor.

– Additional performance graphs are available - error, discard and drop graphs.

• Enhancements to OTDR scan results, including showing ORL and fiber end in the results.
• Delay and jitter statistics are available for ME 1200 devices running IOS-XE 3.21.
• Time frame is now selectable in the performance dashboard.

Reports

• Ability to generate non-zero drop reports for QoS.

RESTCONF NBI

• Provisioning of SSON Services (MCHGroup, MCH NC, MCHCC, MCHTrail).
• CFS, VC and MLT retrieval for SSON services.
• CFS retrieval to contain user configured explicit path for OCHTrail UNI and ODU UNI services.
• Service action for manual revert, upgrade restore and re-route of optical services.
• VC retrieval to indicate resynch state of EVC services.
• MTU Evolution for NCS 4000 V6.1.42 devices for E-Line services.
• Hairpin and local connect support for E-Line services.
• CEM provisioning over SDH controllers.
• CE provisioning support with auto-negotiation.
• VC retrieval to indicate SDH types.
• SRRG pool retrieval.
• SRRG retrieval filtered based on participating node and participating link.
• Termination point retrieval based on layer rate filter.

Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2

This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2. 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” means that the device/operating system has not yet been released but Cisco EPN Manager has been tested on the Beta version.

Installation/Upgrade Paths

The following table lists the valid paths for installing/upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 2.2 from previous versions.

See the relevant i nstallation guide for installation prerequisites and procedures for Cisco EPN Manager versions.

For point patch installation instructions, see the readme file supplied with the patch file on the on the Software Download site on Cisco.com.

Important Notes

• TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
• ISIS Overlay Limitation
• Reconciliation Report Limitations
• Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
• Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1
• Data Migration Issues
• Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only

Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

• Open Bugs
• Resolved Bugs

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.

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Related Documentation

For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 2.2, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2 Documentation Overview. The documentation overview also lists several Cisco Prime Infrastructure documents because the content of those documents is relevant to Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.

Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2, 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

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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