Cisco Prime Central Release Notes, 1.5.2

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Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 Release Notes

Contents

Introduction

New Features and Enhancements

Open Caveats

Related Documentation

Accessibility Features in Prime Central 1.5.2

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 Release Notes

March 21, 2017

These release notes provide an overview of Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 and describe how to access bugs for this release.

Note You can access the most current Prime Central documentation, including these release notes, online at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-central/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Contents

These release notes contain the following sections:

Introduction

Cisco Prime Carrier Management provides end-to-end management, from access to the core, helping enable carrier-class delivery of next-generation voice, mobile, cloud, and managed services. With the modular architecture, you have the flexibility to deploy the entire integrated suite or do it incrementally as you grow your business, depending on your needs.

The Cisco Prime Carrier Management solution consists of the following applications, which are accessible through the Cisco Prime Central portal:

  • Cisco Prime Network—Provides management of packet networks, including access, aggregation, edge, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) core, and Evolved Packet Core (EPC).
  • Cisco Prime Optical—Provides efficient and productive optical infrastructure management for fault, configuration, performance, and security.
  • Cisco Prime Performance Manager—Provides performance statistics and reports for service provider and large enterprise networks, including access, edge, distribution, core, mobile backhaul, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS core, and EPC networks.
  • Cisco Prime Provisioning—Provides automated resource management and rapid, profile-based provisioning capabilities for Carrier Ethernet, Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul, MPLS, and Packet Transport technologies.

Prime Central is compatible with the application versions listed in Table 1 .

 

Table 1 Compatible Application Versions

Application Version
Compatible with...
Prime Central 1.4
Prime Central 1.4.1
Prime Central 1.5
Prime Central 1.5.1
Prime Central 1.5.2

Prime Network 3.9

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Network 3.10

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Network 3.11

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Network 4.0

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Network 4.1

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Network 4.2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Network 4.2.0.1

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Prime Network 4.2.1

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Network 4.2.2

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Network 4.2.3

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Network 4.3

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Network 4.3.1

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Optical 9.6

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Optical 9.6.3

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Optical 9.8

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Optical 10.0

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Optical 10.3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Optical 10.5

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Optical 10.6

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Performance Manager 1.2

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Performance Manager 1.3

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Performance Manager 1.4

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Performance Manager 1.5

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Performance Manager 1.6

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Performance Manager 1.7

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Prime Performance Manager 1.7 SP3

No

No

Yes

No

No

Prime Performance Manager 1.7 SP4 and above1.*1

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Prime Provisioning 6.3

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Provisioning 6.4

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Provisioning 6.5

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Provisioning 6.6

No

No

No

No

No

Prime Provisioning 6.7.1

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Prime Provisioning 6.7.2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prime Provisioning 6.8

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Prime Provisioning 6.8.1

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Spiderweb Cloud 5.0

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Spiderweb Cloud 5.1

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

RMS 5.1

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

RMS 5.1 MR

No

No

No

Yes

No

RMS 5.2

No

No

No

No

Yes

1.*Since Prime Performance Manager will be released every two months, the version names are expected to change. For example, 1.7.0.1701, 1.7.0.1611 versions reflect year and month.

New Features and Enhancements

Table 2 lists the new features and enhancements in Prime Central 1.5.2.

 

Table 2 New and Enhanced Features in Prime Central 1.5.2
Feature
Description

Multiple RMS or Spiderweb support

Support to add, edit, or delete RMS or Spiderweb details from the Configured ACS details panel in the Access Points Portlet.

500K Access Points

Support for 500K Access Points.

Spiderweb alarms
  • Support to view additional probable causes for Spiderweb alarms.
  • Additional fault support for four new Spiderweb alarms.
  • Identifier is extended to capture System.name to distinguish alarms from different Service Nodes.

RMS component reboot alarms

Support to handle LUS and PMG reboot notifications coming from RMS.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support
  • KVM fencing configuration.
  • Installation of Prime Central over KVM hypervisor in standalone, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (DR) modes and over scaled environments.

RHEL 6.7

  • Inline upgrade from RHEL 6.5 to 6.7.
  • Fresh installation of Prime Central 1.5.2 and Fault Management with external database, Local Embedded, or Remote Embedded database configuration with Oracle 12C on RHEL 6.7.

3GPP enhancements

The following enhancements are done in Prime Central 1.5.2:

  • Implemented notifyChangedAlarm to notify Severity updates to OSS users.
  • Enhanced notifyUpdateAlarm to notify AdditionalText updates to OSS users.
  • Resolved Probable Cause inconsistency between GetAlarmList and NBI Notifications.
  • Introduced perceivedSeverity, alarmType in notifyUpdateAlarm API.

Upgrade of RHEL Operating System (OS)

Supports RHEL OS upgrade from 5.8 to 6.5 version and from 6.5 to 6.7 version.

Open Caveats

To view the list of open bugs in Prime Central 1.5.2, see http://wwwin-ottawa.cisco.com/tfoggoa/Scrubber/showquery.html?query=bididas-1

Related Documentation

See also Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 Documentation Overview for a list of Prime Central 1.5.2 guides.

See also the documentation for the following applications:

Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.

Accessibility Features in Prime Central 1.5.2

For a list of accessibility features in Prime Central 1.5.2, 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/c/en/us/td/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.

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