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Installing and Migrating to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2
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Notices
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Preface
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Chapter 1: Overview of Cisco Prime LMS 4.2
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Chapter 2: Prerequisites
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Chapter 3: Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LMS 4.2
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Chapter 4: Setting Up Cisco Prime LMS in High Availability and Disaster Recovery Environment
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Chapter 5: Setting Up Cisco Prime LMS for VMware High Availability and Live Migration Using VMware VMotion
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Chapter 6: Performing Installation of Cisco Prime LMS 4.2
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Chapter 7: Migrating Data to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2
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Chapter 8: Troubleshooting and FAQs
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Appendix A: User Inputs for Installation
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Appendix B: User Tracking Utility
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Appendix C: Installing the Remote Syslog Collector
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Appendix D: Supported Server Time Zones and Offset Settings
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Appendix E: Syntax and Usage for Backup Script
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Appendix F: Syntax and Usage for Restore Script
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Index
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Feedback
Table Of Contents
Overview of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2
Overview of Upgrade and Migration
Upgrading Master-Slave Server Setup
New Features and Enhancements in LMS 4.2
Creating Configuration Templates
Data Synchronization between LMS and CAAM
Hardware Configuration-based MIB Objects Polling
Poller Management Enhancements
Troubleshooting Workflow Changes
Fault Management Generic Device Package Support and Traps Support
Enhancement in Unused POE Report
Enhancement in Custom Inventory Report
VLAN Fetch Support for SCP and RCP
Third-Party Software and Tool Changes
Supported Network Management Systems
Overview of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2
This chapter provides overview of LMS 4.2 and data migration from earlier versions of LMS to LMS 4.2.
This chapter contains:
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New Features and Enhancements in LMS 4.2
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Product Overview
LMS 4.2 provides powerful features that enable you to configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco networks. It also supports new Cisco technologies such as Identity, EnergyWise, Auto Smartports, Medianet, and Smart Install.
This document describes procedures for new and upgrade installation of LMS 4.2. It contains:
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If you already have an earlier version of LMS and want to migrate to LMS 4.2, see Migrating Data to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
The licenses in LMS 4.2 are based on number of devices and you can manage the following functionalities for the devices:
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There are additional licenses available for managing performance collectors.
See System and Browser Requirements for Server and Client and Application Scaling Numbers for more details.
Install and Upgrade Behavior
LMS 4.2 provides a single install experience to you. For complete details on installation, see Performing Installation of Cisco Prime LMS 4.2.
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Overview of Upgrade and Migration
Upgrading is overwriting the existing LMS version with a new LMS version. You have to freshly install LMS 4.2 and then perform data migration.
You can upgrade using either of these methods:
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You can do a remote upgrade to LMS 4.2 from LMS 4.1, LMS 4.0.1, and LMS 3.2 SP1. For earlier versions of LMS, refer Table 1-2.
Upgrading Master-Slave Server Setup
Table 1-1 provides you details on Upgrading Master-Slave Server Setup
Table 1-1 Details on Upgrading Master-Slave Server Setup
Table 1-2 describes the recommended sequence to upgrade, and migrate your data from earlier versions of LMS to LMS 4.2.
Table 1-2 Upgrade and Data Migration Procedure
LMS 4.1
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Direct inline upgrade to LMS 4.2 is not supported.
The suggested upgrade path is:
LMS 2.6/LMS 2.6 SP1/ LMS 3.0/LMS 3.0 December 2007 update/LMS 3.1> LMS 3.2 >LMS 4.0 > LMS 4.01 > LMS 4.2
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From LMS 4.0.1 to LMS 4.2, you can perform direct inline or remote upgrade, click here for more details.
LMS 2.2, LMS 2.5, LMS 2.5.1
Remote migration
Direct inline upgrade to LMS 4.2 is not supported.
The suggested upgrade path is:
LMS 2.2 / LMS 2.5 / LMS 2.5.1 > LMS 2.6 > LMS 4.0 > LMS 4.0.1 >LMS 4.2
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From LMS 4.0.1 to LMS 4.2, you can perform direct inline or remote upgrade, click here for more details.
New Features and Enhancements in LMS 4.2
This section explains the new features in LMS 4.2.
See the Online help of LMS 4.2 applications for a detailed explanation on new features in LMS 4.2.
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Creating Configuration Templates
CLI templates are user-defined templates that are created based on your own parameters. CLI templates allow you to choose the elements in the configurations. LMS provides variables that you replace with actual values and logic statements.
For more information, see Ceating Configuration Templates in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Idle Timeout Settings
If UI is kept idle for the set time period then a pop-up redirecting the page to idle page will be displayed. You can click cancel to avoid redirecting to the idle page.
If you are redirected to the idle page then click click here link to return to your previous page. The default idle timeout is 120 minutes.
Standard Discovery
Standard Discovery allows you to discovery devices with minimum settings.
For configuring Standard Discovery, you need to provide the input for Seed Devices and SNMP
Credentials.
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For more information, see Inventory Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
CAAM Features
LMS 4.2 supports the following Compliance and Audit Manager (CAAM) features:
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Data Synchronization between LMS and CAAM
CAAM database should always be in sync with LMS database. When a new device is added to LMS or an unmanaged device is managed, and if the CAAMServer process is down, the device will not be added to CAAM database. When the CAAMServer process comes up, the device will be added to CAAM database but the device details such as Inventory, Config and Show Commands will not be updated in CAAM database. You have to manually perform Inventory, Config, and Show Commands collection to update the CAAM database.
For more information, see Using Compliance and Audit Manager Feature in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Managing Policy Groups
Policy Group is a collection of Policies. Policies are defined by a set of rules. LMS 4.2 supports 293 policies. In addition to the system-defined Policy Groups, you can create your own Policy Groups by selecting a set of system-defined policies. LMS allows you to add, clone, edit, and delete policy groups.
For more information, see Using Compliance and Audit Manager Feature in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Managing Policy Profile
Policy Profile is a set of Policy Groups where each Policy Groups are mapped with set of devices/device groups. LMS allows you to add, clone, edit, and delete policy profile. It also allows you to run the compliance check and view the job history.
For more information, see Using Compliance and Audit Manager Feature in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Fixing Profile Violation
The Profile Violations Fix Report lists all the devices that do not comply with a defined user profile. A profile is defined as a policy or a set of policies applied on either a device or a set of devices. LMS provides configuration commands for fixing the violation.
For more information, see Using Compliance and Audit Manager Feature in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Compliance Data Collection
This feature allows you to schedule the Compliance Data Collection System Job. The Compliance Data Collection job runs daily by default.
For more information, see Compliance and Audit Settings in Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
CAAM Offline Update
This feature allows you to download and install the patches related to CAAM Server manually.
For more information, see Compliance and Audit Settings in Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
CAAM Online Update
Enables you to download and install the patches related to CAAM Server online.
For more information, see Compliance and Audit Settings in Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Import Contracts
This feature enables you to import customer contracts into the CAAM Database.
For more information, see Compliance and Audit Settings in Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
CAAM Reports
CAAM reports provide compliance status of the network, lifecycle and contract information about network devices, security advisory, and service reports based on device and software capabilities, and the services that are enabled.
Using CAAM, the following reports can be generated and viewed in the reports job browser:
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For more information, see Compliance and Audit in Reports Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Service Reports
Service reports provide information about the status of all the services on network nodes. These reports also include a Capability Report section that provides information on what a user needs to do like upgrading the software or hardware for supporting a given service.
Life Cycle Management Reports
Life Cycle Management Reports provide information about the lifecycle state of the network. This report includes End of Life and Contract Management Reports.
Compliance Reports
The Compliance Reports provide information about the compliance state of the network for specific compliance requirements.
Compliance Reports include the following device reports:
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Hardware Configuration-based MIB Objects Polling
When LMS server with specific hardware configuration polls MIB objects more than the recommended number, a warning message is displayed.
For more information, see Hardware Configuration-based MIB Object Polling Support in Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Poller Management Enhancements
In this release, Poller Management UI displays the polling preference types namely, Poll All Instances, Poll by Pattern, and Poll by User Selection. Poll by Pattern is a new polling preference type introduced in this release.
For more information, see Creating a Poller in Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Troubleshooting Workflow Changes
Device Information portlet in the Device Troubleshooting workflow is enhanced and it displays additional information such as CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and so on.
For more information, see Device Information in Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Fault Management Generic Device Package Support and Traps Support
In this release, LMS Fault Management functionality supports unknown devices and non-Cisco devices with limited functionalities.
Unknown devices here refer to Cisco devices for which device package updates are not installed and available on LMS server.
Unknown devices and non-Cisco devices together referred as Generic devices in LMS.
For more information, see Understanding the Detailed Device View in Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
In this release, Trap support is provided for SNMPv3 configured devices, SNMPv2 configured devices, unknown devices, and non-Cisco devices.
For more information, see Configuring SNMP Trap Receiving and Forwarding in Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Enhancement in Unused POE Report
You can view an unused PoE report with detailed information of PoE-enabled devices managed by LMS along with the information of the ports that are not connected to the end points.
For more information, see Generating an Unused PoE Report in Reports Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Enhancement in Custom Inventory Report
New Inventory Groups are added and few attributes have been added to the existing Inventory Groups.
For more information, see Creating an Inventory Custom Report Template in Reports Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Enhancement in TrustSec
Till LMS 4.1, Identity was a seperate feature. In LMS 4.2, Identity, which is now called as 802.1x, and Secured Group Access Configuration (SXP, SGT, and SGACL) are grouped under a common feature called TrustSec.
TrustSec Version
When you launch the Getting Started/Readiness Assessment page from Work Centers > TrustSec > Getting Started/Readiness Assessment for the first time, you will be guided to select the TrustSec version (TrustSec 1.99 and TrustSec 2.0) inorder to list the TrustSec-capable devices. By default TrustSec 2.0 is selected.
TrustSec Limited Compatibility Devices
In the TrustSec Getting Started/Readiness Assessment page, the pie chart is enhanced with TrustSec Limited Compatibility Devices. If devices are running with minimum supported image version for the selected TrustSec version and if the devices are not having the required modules installed then those devices will be known as TrustSec Limited Compatibility devices.
For more information, see TrustSec Readiness Assessment in Technology Work Centers in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Secured Group Access Configuration
Secured Group Access Configuration cross-launches the Template Center page, where you can select the template and deploy configuration.
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For more information, see Secured Group Access Configuration in Technology Work Centers in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
EnergyWise Enhancement
In the EnergyWise Policy Override portlet,Wake the host option is newly added.
In the Current Power Consumption portlet, a new field "Category" has been added.
In the Work Center > EnergyWise > Configure > Manage Endpoint Groups flow, a new field "Category" has been added.
For more information, see Technology Work Centers in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Report Designer Enhancement
Earlier, Syslog and Inventory Custom Report templates were combined as a single workflow. In LMS 4.2, Syslog and Inventory Custom Report are available as two seperate flows.
For more information, see Report Designer in Reports Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
In the Inventory Custom Report template, Report Attributes and Rules for Attributes are available as two different sections, where the generated report will display only the attributes selected under Report Attributes section.
For more information, see Creating Inventory Custom Reports in Reports Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
VLAN Fetch Support for SCP and RCP
You can set the protocol order for Configuration Management features such as Archive Management, Config Editor, and NetConfig jobs to download configurations and to fetch configurations. For NetShow and VLAN Fetch, you can set the protocol order to download configurations.
For more information, see Configuring Transport Protocols in Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Template Center Enhancement
In LMS 4.2, you can create Configuration templates using IF and FOREACH statements.
For more information, see Guidelines for Creating Configuration Templates Using IF and FOREACH Statements in Configuration Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2.
Third-Party Software and Tool Changes
The following are the changes in the third-party software and tools in this release:
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Data Migration Overview
You can freshly install LMS 4.2 and then perform remote data migration. LMS 4.2 supports direct inline upgrade from LMS 4.1, and LMS 4.0.1.
Data Migration to LMS 4.2 can be done using the following methods:
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The following migration paths are available for the customers.
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For the following versions, you must migrate to LMS 3.2 SP1, and then install LMS 4.2:
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See Migrating Data to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2 for more details on data migration.
Supported Network Management Systems
Table 1-3 lists the Network Management Systems (NMS) supported by Integration Utility 1.11, which is part of LMS 4.2.
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See Importing From Remote NMS in the Inventory Management Online Help for information about importing devices from third party NMS.
Network Management Integration Data Bundle (NMIDB) 1.0.089 is shipped with LMS 4.2.
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For more information about HP NNMi and Cisco Prime LMS Integration,
refer the User Guide for Integration Utility 1.11 on Cisco.com.
Supported Devices
As additional device packages become available, you can download the Service Packs (formerly called IDUs) that contain them from Cisco.com.
Registered Cisco.com users can access the latest Device Package Updates, and download the latest device updates for CiscoView, Topology Device Package Updates, Fault Management Device Package Updates and Inventory Config And Image Management Device Package Updates from:
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/type.html?mdfid=283434800&flowid=19062
See the following documentation to know more information about supported devices:
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CiscoView manages and configures different types of Cisco devices. You can refer this document for information on supported devices. This document is available on Cisco.com at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps4565/products_user_guide_list.html
To see the list of installed application's device packages, select Admin > System > Software Center > Device Update from the LMS menu.
To download Device Package Updates:
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You must be a registered Cisco.com user to access this Software Download site. The site prompts you to enter your Cisco.com username and password in the login screen, if you have not logged in already.
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The device packages corresponding to the selected product version display at the right of the web page.
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See the Supported Devices Tables for LMS 4.2 for more information about supported devices:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/
device_support/table/lms42sdt.html
