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What's New in this Release

New Features in RME 4.3

What's New in this Release

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Resource Manager Essentials 4.3 is the latest release of RME and it forms a part of the LAN Management Solutions (LMS) 3.2 bundle release. This release is an update to RME 4.2 (LMS 3.1). 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 4.3, see New Features in RME 4.3

New Features in RME 4.3

The following are the new features and enhancements in Resource Manager Essentials 4.3:

Port and Module Configuration

Apart from the existing Device Groups, RME now allows you to create groups based on ports and modules for a selected set of devices or device groups. You can do this using Port and Module Group Administration. See Port and Module Group Administration for further information.

You can create NetConfig jobs for port and modules by selecting the following tasks:

•Port-based tasks

–Manage Auto Smartports (See Manage Auto Smarports for further information.)

–Catalyst Integrated Security Features (See Catalyst Integrated Security Features for further information.)

–PoE (See PoE Task for further information.)

•Module-based tasks

–GOLD Health Monitoring Test (See GOLD Health Monitoring Test Task for further information.)

See Create a NetConfig Job based on Module or Port for further information.

End-of-Sale/End-of-Life Report for Software

You can generate an End-of-Sale (EoS)/End-of-Life (EoL) report for software images based on the information retrieved from Cisco.com at regular intervals. This is apart from the existing EoS/EoL report available for hardware.

You can generate the EoS/EoL Software report to know the end-of-sale, end-of-life, and the end-of-engineering dates for the software image versions running on the devices in your network.

See EoS/EoL Software Report for further information.

Virtual Switching System Enhancement

During VSS Conversion, the Select Interface list box lists all the VSS capable 10 Gigabit interfaces. RME allows you to select more than two interfaces for each device. The number of interfaces selected must be the same for both devices.

You can also enter the switch priority value for both the switches. A switch with a higher value becomes the Active Switch and the second switch becomes the Standby Switch. The priority value should not be the same for both devices.

See Converting Switches from Standalone to VSS Mode for further information.

Perform In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

RME supports In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) process that allows Cisco IOS software images to be updated without rebooting the device. This increases network availability and reduces downtime caused by planned software upgrades.

See Support for In Service Software Upgrade for further details.

Compare Config Enhancement

You can compare the base configuration of a device with the latest configuration version of different devices. The base configuration can be any Running, Startup, or User archives.

See Compare base config vs. Latest configuration version of multiple devices for further information.

Search Archive Enhancement

RME now allows you to search for configuration archives using the following date range types:

•As on—Search config archives on or before the specified date and time.

•From—Search config archives for the specified period.

•Last—Search config archives for the last N number of days. Where N is the value entered for the number of days.

See Searching Archive for further information.

New Technology Support

Apart from the existing technology support, RME also supports configuration and reporting for following technologies:

•Catalyst Integrated Security Features (CISF) (See Catalyst Integrated Security Features for further information.)

•Smartports/Auto Smartports (See Support for Auto Smartports and Smartports for further information.)

•PoE/ePoE (See PoE Task for further information.)

Smart Call Home Messages link in Device Center

You can generate a Call Home History Report for a Smart Call Home (SCH) device that is registered through Cisco.com. You can do this from the Device Center page. The report displays all SCH messages, such as changes to inventory, configuration and Syslog at regular intervals.

See Smart Call Home Report Generation for further information.

Smart Call Home NetConfig Job Enhancement

If a Netconfig job is created for a Smart Call Home task, then the Job Summary page displays a URLfor the devices that are pending registration for SCH messages.

You can click the URL to register the devices that are pending to process SCH messages at Cisco.com. See Viewing Job Details for futher information.

NetConfig Task Selector Enhancement

All NetConfig System-defined tasks are categorized into various task groups in the Tasks Selector. You can select individual tasks by expanding the applicable task group category. See Using System-defined Tasks for further information.

Newly added NetConfig tasks

You can create NetConfig jobs for devices, ports and modules using the following tasks:

•Device-based tasks

–Auto Smartports

•Port-based tasks

–Manage Auto Smartports

–Smartports

–Catalyst Integrated Security Features

–PoE

•Module-based tasks

–GOLD Health Monitoring Test

Newly added Inventory and Syslog Reports

Using RME, you can generate the following Inventory and Syslog reports:

•Inventory Reports

–POE Port Level report

–PSE report

–EoS/EoL Software report

•Syslog Analyzer Reports

–Catalyst Integrated Security Features report

–PoE Max Power Violation report

IPv6 Support

RME provides IPv6 support for the following tasks:

•Assign an IPv6 Address to a Layer 3 device or VLAN

•Retrieve software files from a device

•Distribute different versions of software to a device

•Schedule retrieval of software from a device

•Retrieve configuration files from a device

•Distribute a new configuration to a device

•Distribute a historical configuration file to a device

•Schedule distribution of configuration files to a device

See IPv6 Support for further information.

Open Database Schema Support

LMS 3.2 supports exposing few database views and definitions.

You can access the created views using the database access methods such as JDBC and ODBC, from a local or remote server. To enable the access to applications database, you must run the dbaccess.pl utility from the command line.

See the Open Database Schema Support for LAN Management Solution 3.2 document for more information on exposed database views and definitions.

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