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What's New in this Release

New Features in RME 4.1

What's New in this Release

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Resource Manager Essentials 4.1 is the latest release of RME and it forms a part of the Lan Management Solutions (LMS) 3.0 bundle. In addition to the devices supported, this package contains fixes to both existing and newly discovered problems.

For details about the new features in RME 4.1, see New Features in RME 4.1

New Features in RME 4.1

The following are the new features and enhancements in Resource Manager Essentials 4.1:

Support for 10k Devices

The managing capacity of RME is enhanced to support 10k devices with the minimum requirement of Dual CPU and 4GB RAM. A single server with CS 3.1 and RME 4.1 installed in it is equipped with the capacity of managing 10k devices thus optimizing performance and meeting the scalability prerequisite.

The support for 10k devices for RME is applicable only for CW-LMS-3.0-10K-K9 license of LMS 3.0. For more information on licenses, refer to the Installing and Getting Started with CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 3.0.

Support for IOS Software Modularity Images

Cisco IOS Software Modularity images allow the user to apply Maintenance Packs to overcome critical security issues without the need to upgrade to a new software release.

The RME Software Management component allows for distribution of Cisco IOS Software Modularity images as well as Maintenance Packs.

Software Modularity images can be downloaded from Cisco.com to the Software Repository. For detailed hardware support of Software Modularity images please consult the 12.2SX Release Notes.

For more details, see Support for IOS Software Modularity and Patch Distribution.

PSIRT Summary Report

You can use the PSIRT Summary Report to ascertain security vulnerabilities that could affect the devices running IOS in your network. You can generate this Inventory report by selecting this report option from the Report Generator dialog box under RME Reports.

The Cisco.com Fetch Interval option helps you to set the frequency of retrieving PSIRT information from Cisco.com and store it in the RME database.

The Report Generator, retrieves information from this database. It also queries the RME Inventory to retrieve information about the impacted devices and generates the PSIRT Summary Report.

For more details, see Generating a PSIRT Summary Report and Cisco.com Fetch Interval.

End of Sale/End of Life Report

You can use the End of Sale/End of Life Report to ascertain the End of Sale or End of Life details that impact the devices and modules in your network. You can generate this Inventory report by selecting End of Sale/End of Life report option from the Report Generator dialog box under RME Reports.

The Cisco.com Fetch Interval option helps you to set the frequency of retrieving End of Sale/End of Life information from cisco.com and store it in the RME database.

The Report Generator, retrieves information from this database. It also queries the RME Inventory to retrieve information about the impacted devices and modules and generates the End of Sale/End of Life Report.

For more details, see Generating End of Sale/End of Life Report and Cisco.com Fetch Interval.

Performance Tuning Tool

You can tune system parameters using PTT to improve RME performance. Now you can use PTT to tune Sync Archive, NetConfig, Syslog, Device Management, Check Device Attributes (CDA) and Inventory Collection sub systems of the RME application.

For more details, see Performance Tuning Tool.

External TFTP Server Support

The Remote Staging and Distribution now allows you to use an external TFTP server as the staging server, to distribute images to all the devices available in RME. First the image to be distributed is staged to the external TFTP server manually. Then the staged image is upgraded on all the selected devices.

For more details, see Remote Staging and Distribution.

Device Manageability Status

Now you can use this new reporting option to ascertain possible Inventory or Configuration Collection Failure and take timely actions. You can select the required devices and generate an immediate report. This Device Manageability Status report displays the status of Inventory and Configuration Collection.

For more details, see Device Manageability Status.

Dual Supervisor Support

RME Software Image Management now supports upgrading both active and standby supervisor engines or route processors for the following devices: Catalyst 4500, Catalyst 6500 (running Cisco IOS/Cisco IOS Software Modularity), Cisco 7600 Routers, Cisco 10000 Routers.

Secondary Credentials Fallback

The Secondary Credentials page available under System Preferences tab of RME Admin allows you to enable or disable fallback to secondary credentials when authentication through Primary Credentials is not successful.

For more details, see RME Secondary Credentials.

Notification on Inventory / Configuration Failure

You can use the Collection Failure Notification window to configure the receipt of Trap messages on Inventory Collection or Configuration Fetch failure. This Trap is sent for each device from the RME server whenever the collection does not happen.

Other network management stations can use this Trap to know about RME Inventory or Configuration collection failure status. The destination IP address to which the traps are to be sent can be configured in the env.properties file. Any third party Trap receivers in the host(s) mentioned in the env.properties can receive the Trap messages on Config collection/Inventory collection failure.

For more details, see Collection Failure Notification

Netconfig Reload Task

You can use the Reload Task available under RME NetConfig to reload selected devices in one step. This feature can be accessed from both GUI and CLI.

For more details, see Reload Task.

You can use the NetConfig Reload task in conjunction with Software Management (SWIM). During Software Distribution using SWIM, the images are distributed to the selected devices. You can use the Reload task to reload those devices for which, you have not selected Reboot immediately after download option while scheduling the distribution of the images.

Syslog Support for CSS Devices

From this release, the CSS Syslog messages are also supported.

Software Management Command Line Interface (SWIM CLI)

You can use the new SWIM CLI utility to list software images available in the Software Management Repository as well as export images from the Software Management Repository.

For more details, see Software Management CLI Utility.

CWCLI Support for CDA Jobs

The CDA jobs are now provided CWCLI support. Apart from using the GUIs for CDA jobs, you can use CWCLI to create, list, stop, cancel, delete CDA jobs as well as verify the CDA job status.

For more details, see Running the cwcli inventory cda Command.

GUI Based Write2Start Option

The Write2Start option can now be executed from both CLI and GUI.

For more details, see Push Config To field description in Scheduling a Job.

Enhanced Severity Level Summary Report

This report has been enhanced to provide more comprehensive details about the syslogs for each severity for each device. The syslogs are categorized based on severities as Emergencies, Alerts, Criticality, Errors, Warnings, Notifications, Informational messages and Debug messages.

For each device, count of syslogs is provided for each severity. Clicking on any severity count link corresponding to a device, in the report provides detailed information about the messages for that severity.

For more details, see Generating a Severity Level Summary Report.

GUI Based Option to Export Images from Software Repository

Now you can export software images from Software Repository using the GUI based Export button. For more details, see Exporting of Images from Software Repository.

SysUpTime Attribute for Inventory Custom Reports

SysUpTime is a new attribute added for Inventory Custom Reports.

For more information, see the attributes under the System Report Inventory Group in Adding a Rule.