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Release Notes for the Cisco Application Networking Manager, Release 1.1
Supported Devices and Software
Open Caveats in Software Version 1.1
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for the Cisco Application Networking Manager, Release 1.1
March 18, 2009
This release note applies to the Cisco Application Networking Manager (ANM) 1.1 release.
This release note contains the following sections:
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Supported Devices and Software
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New Features
The Cisco ANM is a networking management application that manages Cisco Application Control Engine (Cisco ACE) modules in your networking environment. It includes:
The Cisco ANM provides the following features:
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Cisco ANM allows you to select the Cisco Catalyst 6500 series chassis and their corresponding ACE modules that you want to import. The method you use to identify and select the chassis and its modules is up to you:
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Regardless of the method you use, if the ACE modules have not been configured before, ANM can provide a configuration file that allows you to import them and then configure them using the ANM interface.
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ACE module management allows you to import the ACE modules you want to manage using ANM, establish static routes, and install, update, or remove ACE module licenses. In addition, you can configure ACE module for high availability to ensure a reliable, fault-tolerant environment.
ACE module management also allows you to extract, modify, and tag configuration templates for auditable, retrievable working configurations and to synchronize configurations between Cisco ANM-maintained configuration files or templates and ACE modules or chassis.
Server management enables you to activate and suspend servers, establish server weight, and set limits on the number of connections for each server.
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Cisco ANM allows you to configure such items as VLANs, SNMP, syslog, ACLs, and SSL on ACE modules. In addition, you can establish traffic policies, load-balancing services with activation and suspension, and fault tolerance to ensure that network services are available to your customers in a reliable manner.
In addition to service load balancing, traffic policies, and configuration templates, you can use virtual contexts to partition an Cisco ACE module into multiple virtual devices. Each virtual context contains its own set of policies, interfaces, and resources, allowing you to more efficiently manage system resources and services. Users can create their own logical groups for ease of management and reference.
You can also create virtual servers, which allow you to further manage system resources. When you add and configure virtual servers, you define their specific properties, load balancing attributes, resources, and policies. In addition to Layer 3/Layer 4 traffic policies, Cisco ANM allows you to configure Layer 7 protocol-specific classes that perform server load balancing based on HTTP traffic, deep inspection of HTTP traffic, or the inspection of FTP commands by the ACE module.
After configuring virtual servers, you can deploy them when appropriate for your environment.
Cisco ANM also allows you to establish resource classes which are sets of resources and allocations available for use by virtual contexts. Resource classes ensure that no single context uses all available resources, and allows you to configure resources in a manner that best meets your customers' needs.
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Monitoring provides real-time device health, performance information, event reporting, and resource utilization via syslog, Trap, and SNMP polling.
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Cisco ANM provides secure, granular, role-based access control that ensures that a user or user group can view only the devices or services or perform the actions that are included in the domains to which they have been given access.
If you encounter a problem with Cisco ANM, you can use the Lifeline feature to report the problem to Cisco Technical Support. Lifeline takes a snapshot of the running system configuration, status, buffers, logs, thread dumps, and messages and allows you to submit a diagnostic package to Cisco to aid in problem resolution.
Supported Devices and Software
For information on Cisco devices supported by ANM 1.1, refer to the Supported Devices Table for the Cisco Application Networking Manager 1.1 located at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6904/products_device_support_tables_list.html
ANM Product Documentation Set
In addition to this release note, the Cisco Application Networking Manager (ANM) documentation set includes the following publications. You can access the ANM documentation on www.cisco.com at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6904/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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Available either on cisco.com or from the ANM online help.
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Documentation Updates
Config > Tools > IP Discovery is an optional feature that discovers your Cisco Catalyst 6500 series chassis and ACE modules by using Telnet credentials (in clear text) combined with a credentials pool that you provide under Config > Tools > Credential Pool. If you want a more secure method of adding your Catalyst 6500 series chassis and ACE modules, you can add the devices in Config > Devices rather than having ANM discover the devices. ANM uses SSH and HTTPS for all configuration activity. For more information, see the "Configuring ACE Modules" chapter of the User Guide for the Cisco Application Networking Manager 1.1.
Open Caveats in Software Version 1.1
Table 1 describes the open caveats in software version 1.1.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
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