Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Release Notes
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Release Notes
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Release Notes
If you haven’t installed Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Update 02 yet, then this is a
***critical mandatory update*** - it should only be installed on a Prime Infrastructure 3.5 server. Also, if you plan to restore a backup of a prior Prime Infrastructure 3.x release on a freshly installed Prime Infrastructure 3.5 server, then install Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Update 02 prior to initiating a restore of that backup. If you are using a VM environment for running Prime Infrastructure, please ensure that the disk is using thick provisioning, otherwise patch install process may take a very long time to complete. If you are unable to download this package directly from cisco.com through Administration -> Software Updates page, then please download this update to your local machine and manually upload and install it through Prime Infrastructure’s Software Updates page.
If you plan to migrate data from Prime Infrastructure 3.5 server to Cisco DNA Center 1.2.6 (or higher), then you should first install the latest update for
Prime Infrastructure 3.5 before initiating this migration from the “
Prime Infrastructure - DNA Center” tool page.
Introduction
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management tool that supports lifecycle management of your entire network infrastructure from one graphical interface. Prime Infrastructure provides network administrators with a single solution for provisioning, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting both wired and wireless devices. Robust graphical interfaces make device deployments and operations simple and cost-effective.
- For information on server and web client requirements, see the Understand the System Requirements section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Quick Start Guide .
- For information about installing this release of Prime Infrastructure, see the Installation Options section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Quick Start Guide.
- For information about upgrading from previous releases of Prime Infrastructure, including the list of versions from which you can upgrade, see the How to Perform an Inline Upgrade section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Quick Start Guide.
- For detailed information on licensing, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x Ordering and Licensing Guide.
Submitting Feedback
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Step 1 If you have configured your mail server, go to Step 4.
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Supported Devices
To see the list of devices supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure:
Step 1 Log in to Prime Infrastructure.
Step 2 Click the wheel icon at the top right, then click Supported Devices.
For detailed information on the software compatibility for the Cisco wireless devices, see the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html
Note Prime Infrastructure does not support non-admin virtual device context (VDC) on Nexus devices.
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Table 1 lists the Prime Infrastructure supported devices for switches, WLCs, Access Points (APs), ISEs, and MSEs.
Catalyst 3560 Series Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE] Catalyst 3650 Series Ethernet Stackable Switch* Catalyst 3750 Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE] Catalyst 3850 Series Ethernet Stackable Switch* |
Catalyst 9800-40 Wireless Controller Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller Cisco 8510 Wireless Controller Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Cisco 5508 Wireless Controller Cisco 4400 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller Cisco Flex 7510 Wireless Controllers Cisco Wireless Service Module (WiSM) Cisco Wireless Service Module 2 (WiSM2) Cisco Wireless Controller on Cisco Services-Ready Engine (WLCM2 on SRE) |
Cisco ISE 1.4 with the required patch1 |
Cisco Aironet 3800i AP Cisco Aironet 3700i AP Cisco Aironet 3600i AP Cisco Aironet 3600e AP Cisco Aironet 3500i AP Cisco Aironet 2800i AP Cisco Aironet 2700i AP Cisco Aironet 2600i AP Cisco Aironet 1850i AP Cisco Aironet 1815i AP Cisco Aironet 1810 OfficeExtend Series AP Cisco Aironet 1700i AP Cisco Aironet 1600i AP |
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Catalyst 6500 Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SXI] and [Cisco IOS XE 03.07.00.E] |
Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller (STACK) The following Cisco Mobility Express Controllers are supported: |
Cisco Aironet 1562I AP Cisco Aironet 1552C AP |
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If you are using Cisco ISE 1.4, you must have the patch ise-patchbundle-1.4.0.253-Patch3-141133.x86_64.tar.gz, which you can get from the following location:
https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=283801620&flowid=26081&softwareid=283802505&release=1.4&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest.
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New Features and Enhancements
This section provides a brief description of new features and enhancements in this release. For more information about the features and benefits, as well as hardware and software specifications, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 Data Sheet at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/datasheet-listing.html
Wired
Administration Dashboard Enhancements
Job Dashboard—Includes new column named “Job Interval” to display the job recurrence interval.
User Permissions and Device Access Enhancements
– The Users page allows you to sort the table columns and to search particular data in table column using Quick Filter option.
– The Users page allows you to delete or pause the jobs associated with a stale local user.
– The User Groups page allows to add and delete user defined groups and allows you to filter the columns.
Administration Settings Enhancements
- Administration > Settings > System Settings > General > Data Retention—The Advanced Settings under Performance Data Retain Periods, allows you to edit the maximum number of records retained in the database. The Max Records column value is shown only when it is set in database. For values that are not set in database, a "-" (dash) with appropriate message is displayed.
- Administration > Settings > System Settings > General > DNA Center coexistence — Allows you to migrate devices, location groups, associated site maps and cmx data from Prime Infrastructure to DNA Center and manage your enterprise network over a centralized dashboard. Supported DNA Center versions are 1.2.6.
Administration > Settings > System Settings > Mail and Notification > Change Audit Notification—Allows you to select Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol when you are adding Syslog receivers.
– Includes new column named “VLAN ID” and “VLAN Name” to display vlan details of physical ports.
Alarms and Events Enhancements
- The Events page includes Take Snapshot tab to view the paged events.
- Syslog Policy - A new page is included under Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Syslog Policies which allows us to create, edit, delete a syslog policies and change the policy ranking.
- The Performance Dashboard page includes a link click here to launch the corresponding report, to go to the respective Report page, if the number of records exceeds 100 million. Some of the relevant filters will be pre-filled in the Reports page.
- Network Summary Dashboard - For timezone, recommended browser versions are Chrome(71+) and Firefox (64+).
– When you choose an interface for monitoring, the user defined description of the interface is displayed. Note that only 64 characters of the description will be displayed.
– The settings icon allows you to select the auto refresh time interval. 30 mins is the default auto refresh time.
Application Visibility and Control Enhancements
- If HA is configured with IPv4 Virtual IP address, the same Virtual IP address is used as AVC exporter value; i.e when AVC is enabled in a device or interface, the Virtual IP address gets automatically fetched in the configuration.
Wireless
Mobility Services Engine (MSE) Enhancements
You can now view site maps data in Client Details page when you:
- Search by Client’s MAC address using global search.
- Filter by Clients Detected by MSE in Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Clients and Users page.
- Filter by appropriate type (Associated, Wired, Wireless Clients and so on) in Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Clients and Users page.
Wireless Site Maps Enhancements
- CAD 2018 File Import—You can now import CAD 2018 files without the need to convert to older formats.
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller support
- From Release 3.5, Prime Infrastructure supports WLC running Cisco Wireless LAN controller Software Release 8.8.
Cisco MSE Client Accessibility Enhancement
- With Cisco MSE 8.0.150.x and later, Cisco MSE login page is displayed when you click a Cisco MSE host name or IP address from Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5. You must then login to display Cisco MSE UI.
Cisco Mobility Express Controller Support
Release 3.5 onwards, Prime Infrastructure supports Cisco Aironet 4800 AP with Mobility Express functionality running AireOS version 8.8 and above.
Lightweight AP Template Enhancement
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Controller support
– Catalyst 9800-40 Wireless Controller
– Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller
– Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud
Prime Infrastructure 3.5 introduces a new configuration model for Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers. This new model extends support for the following key features:
- Configuring OpenDNS
- Configuring Flex Sxp Profiles
- Configuring Airtime Fairness Policies
- Configuring Remote LAN Policies and Profiles
- Configuring Guest Anchor
- Rule Based Deployment
To verify if your Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller successfully continues to exchange operational data, you can check its Telemetry Status on Monitor > Network Devices page.
Important Notes
This section contains important notes about Prime Infrastructure.
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.5 is the final version to support Data Center. For more information see End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Data Center.
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure does not support monitoring for Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module, because ACE has been moved to end-of-life and does not respond to related monitoring MIBs.
- In Prime Infrastructure after backup and restore, the huge amount of empty partitions from Alarm table fails to drop the old partitions.
- Prime Infrastructure can handle 7k interfaces per device. It takes only a few hours for the inventory sync-up to complete for the devices within this range. For devices with more than 7k interfaces, a few days will be required for the sync-up and if the interfaces range exceeds 10k, server downtime is experienced.
- When you migrate to eWLC from the Prime Infrastructure-DNA Center co-existence tool, the eWLC support aided for DNA Center 1.2.8 and above moves the WLC to DNA Center and the devices to the collection failure sync state on Netconf feature failure. This is because the eWLC support expects you to enter a value for the “Netconf Port” field so as to be managed by DNA Center. You can manage the eWLC manually by entering a value for the Netconf Port field in DNA Center and then re-sync.
- You may face a difference in the audit as the default values of the QoS profile templates are changed on 8.5.x devices.
Open Caveats
Table 2 lists the open caveats in Prime Infrastructure Release 3.5.
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the caveat. This information is displayed in the Bug Search Tool. You can track the status of the open caveats using the Bug Search Tool.
Resolved Caveats
The following caveats were resolved in this release. You can view additional information about these caveats in the Bug Search Tool.
Related Documentation
You can access additional Cisco Prime Infrastructure documentation at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, 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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