Cisco Prime Network Services Controller Release Notes, Release 3.2.2b
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- Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b Release Notes
- Prime Network Services Controller Overview
- New Features and Changes
- Download Location
- Requirements Overview
- System Requirements
- Hypervisor Requirements
- Web-Based GUI Client Requirements
- Firewall Ports Requiring Access
- Performance and Scalability
- Hypervisor Support
- Important Notes
- Cisco ASA Instances Do Not Register with Prime Network Services Controller
- Cloned Linux Virtual Machines
- Editing Firewall Interfaces
- Online Help Includes InterCloud Management Topics
- Searching with Special Characters
- User Account Password Expiration
- Open Bugs
- Using the Bug Search Tool
- Related Documentation
- Accessibility Features in Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b Release Notes
Prime Network Services Controller Overview
The dynamic nature of cloud environments requires organizations to apply and enforce frequent changes to networks. These networks can consist of thousands of virtual services elements, such as firewalls, load balancers, routers, and switches. Cisco Prime Network Services Controller simplifies operations with centralized, automated multi-device and policy management for Cisco network virtual services. For the latest Prime Network Services Controller release updates and overview, see the corresponding Prime Network Services Controller data sheet.
Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (Prime Network Services Controller) is the primary management element for Cisco Nexus 1000V (Nexus 1000V) Switches and Services that can enable a transparent, scalable, and automation-centric network management solution for virtualized data center and hybrid cloud environments. Nexus 1000V switches and services deliver a highly secure multitenant environment by adding virtualization intelligence to the data center network. These virtual switches are built to scale for cloud networks. Support for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) helps enable a highly scalable LAN segmentation and broader virtual machine (VM) mobility.
Prime Network Services Controller enables the centralized management of Cisco virtual services to be performed by an administrator, through its GUI, or programmatically through its XML API. Prime Network Services Controller is built on an information-model architecture in which each managed device is represented by its subcomponents (or objects), which are parametrically defined. This model-centric approach enables a flexible and simple mechanism for provisioning and securing virtualized infrastructure using Cisco VSG and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 1000V (ASA 1000V) Cloud Firewall virtual security services.
In addition, Prime Network Services Controller supports Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (CSR 1000V) edge routers, and Citrix NetScaler 1000V and Citrix NetScaler VPX load balancers. This combination of virtual services brings numerous possibilities to customers, enabling them to build virtual data centers with all of the required components to provide best-in-class cloud services.
New Features and Changes
Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b adds support for the following devices in VMware environments:
- Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware Release 5.2(1)SV3(1.1)
- Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for VMware vSphere 5.2(1)VSG2(1.2)
The following features are not supported in 3.2.2b:
- Prime Network Services Controller deployment on OpenStack or Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor.
- Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V version 3.11 or 3.11.rebuild.
- Automatic instantiation of network services.
- InterCloud functionality—If you are using a version of Prime Network Services Controller that includes InterCloud functionality, you will not be able to upgrade to 3.2.2b until you remove all InterCloud objects from your current installation. For more information, see the Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b Quick Start Guide.
The following documents have been updated for Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b:All Prime Network Services Controller documentation is available at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-network-services-controller/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.
Download Location
Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b images are available for download from www.cisco.com.
- Go to http://software.cisco.com/download/navigator.html.
- Choose Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Cloud Management > Cisco Prime Network Services Controller > Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2 > Prime Network Services Controller Software.
Requirements Overview
The following topics identify the primary requirements for installing and using Prime Network Services Controller. For a complete set of requirements, see the Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b Quick Start Guide.System Requirements
Requirement Description Prime Network Services Controller Virtual Appliance
Four Virtual CPUs
1.8 GHz
Memory
4 GB RAM
Disk Space
Management Interface
One management network interface
Processor
x86 Intel or AMD server with 64-bit processor listed in the VMware compatibility matrix
Prime Network Services Controller Device Adapter
Two virtual CPUs
1.8 GHz
Memory
2 GB RAM
Disk Space
20 GB
Interfaces and Protocols
HTTP/HTTPS
—
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
—
Intel VT
Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)
Enabled in the BIOS
Hypervisor Requirements
Prime Network Services Controller is a virtual appliance that can be deployed on VMware vSphere. See the VMware Compatibility Guide to verify that VMware supports your hardware platform.
Performance and Scalability
Important Notes
Cisco ASA Instances Do Not Register with Prime Network Services Controller
If you instantiate an ASA 1000V service using the asa871-8.ova image, the service instance will not register with Prime Network Services Controller. Contact Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for help in addressing this issue.
You can contact the TAC over the phone or via the Web:
- Regional phone numbers are available at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/tsd-cisco-worldwide-contacts.html#numbers.
- To use the Web, go to http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html.
Cloned Linux Virtual Machines
When Linux virtual machines are cloned, new MAC addresses are assigned. This causes a MAC address mismatch between the VM settings and the Linux Guest OS. If you encounter this situation, the following message is displayed:
The Guest OS either does not contain interface configuration for the VM NICs or the interfaces are explictly disabled.For information on how to resolve the MAC address mismatch, see the VMware Knowledge Base.
Editing Firewall Interfaces
We recommend that you do not edit the data interfaces of compute or edge firewalls. Changing the data interface via the Prime Network Services Controller GUI will stop communications between the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM link and the firewall, and thereby stop vPath traffic.
If you change the data interfaces of compute or edge firewalls via the Prime Network Services Controller GUI, make the appropriate configuration changes on the Nexus 1000V.
Online Help Includes InterCloud Management Topics
The Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b online help includes InterCloud Management topics even though this release does not support InterCloud functionality.
Searching with Special Characters
Searching for organization names will not work if the organization names include special characters, such as $.
User Account Password Expiration
When adding a user account, the administrator can choose to expire the account password and select the date on which it expires. When the expiration date is reached, the account is disabled and the user cannot log in to Prime Network Services Controller until a user with administrator privileges extends the expiration date.
Open Bugs
The following table lists the open bugs in Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b.
Bug ID Description In a scale setup, if you stop and then start Prime Network Services Controller, Prime Network Services Controller does not recover.
In a high availability setup, a VSG pair sequentially creates the primary and secondary VMs. As a result, the HA pair is not created and the VSG cannot register with Prime Network Services Controller.
The Prime Network Services Controller VM Manager displays a communication error and VMs cannot be deployed.
If you associate and disassociate the same service path multiple times for a port profile, the configuration changes are not reflected in the VSM console.
Prime Network Services Controller does not configure the use source IP address on Citrix NetScaler load balancers. As a result, vPath does not function properly.
Port profiles that are created in Prime Network Services Controller GUI are not deployed in the VSM command-line interface.
Using the Bug Search Tool
ProcedureThis topic explains how to use the Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.
Step 1 Go to http://tools/cisco.com/bugsearch. Step 2 In the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password, and then click Log In. The Bug Search page opens.
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 3 To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Enter. Step 4 To search for bugs in the current release:
Related Documentation
Prime Network Services Controller
The Prime Network Services Controller documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
Cisco ASA 1000V Documentation
The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch Documentation
The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series switch documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager Documentation
The Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
The Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
Accessibility Features in Prime Network Services Controller 3.2.2b
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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