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Cisco Prime Central 1.0 Release Notes
Features and Functionality in Prime Central 1.0
Open Bugs in Prime Central 1.0
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Prime Central 1.0 Release Notes
April 11, 2012
These release notes describe the bugs for Cisco Prime Central 1.0. These release notes accompany the Cisco Prime Central 1.0 User Guide and the Cisco Prime Central 1.0 Quick Start Guide.
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You can access the most current Cisco Prime Central documentation, including these release notes, online at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11754/tsd_products_support_series_home.html.
Contents
These release notes contain the following sections:
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Features and Functionality in Prime Central 1.0
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Open Bugs in Prime Central 1.0
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
The Cisco Prime for IP NGN portfolio of enterprise and service provider management offerings supports integrated lifecycle management of Cisco architectures and technologies based on a business-centric framework. Built on an intuitive, workflow-oriented user experience, Cisco Prime products dramatically increase IT productivity, network scalability, and control of the network infrastructure and endpoints.
Cisco Prime for IP NGN includes the following suite components, which are accessible through the Cisco Prime Central portal:
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Cisco Prime Fulfillment—Provides automated resource management and rapid, profile-based provisioning capabilities for Carrier Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and Packet Transport technologies.
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Cisco Prime Network—Provides management of packet networks, including access, aggregation, edge, and MPLS core.
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Cisco Prime Optical—Provides efficient and productive optical infrastructure management for fault, configuration, performance, and security.
Features and Functionality in Prime Central 1.0
The Prime Central portal provides:
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A single point of access (single sign-on) to the suite components.
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Central access to the experience lifecycle tasks.
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Support for LDAP, TACACS+, and RADIUS authentication plugins.
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Virtualization on VMware configurations.
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Common user management with role-based access control (RBAC).
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Grouping-to-suite component mapping.
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Common adopted installation framework.
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Database and application monitoring.
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Common physical inventory management:
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Detailed physical inventory views.
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Filter and search capabilities.
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Seamless drill-down to individual domain managers.
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Common cross-domain alarm management:
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Aggregation, correlation, and deduplication of alarms.
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Portlets with customized views and filters.
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Full alarm lifecycle support.
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Seamless cross-launch of the source domain manager.
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Seamless access from alarms to common inventory.
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Pregenerated reports for active and historical alarms.
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SNMP forwarding (OSS integration).
Open Bugs in Prime Central 1.0
The following table lists bugs that are open against Prime Central 1.0.
Table 1 Open Bugs in Prime Central 1.0
Bug ID DescriptionPrime Optical GateWay/CORBA stops sending events, thereby impacting the Prime Central Common Inventory portlet, which relies on Prime Optical notifications for device inventory synchronization. If a device is added to Prime Optical while Prime Optical GateWay/CORBA stops sending events, the Prime Central device inventory might be out of sync. Common Inventory must wait for the next daily synchronization cycle to update its inventory.
This problem occurs when you use the Prime Optical GateWay/CORBA northbound interface to connect to a CORBA client or connect to Prime Central (in suite mode).
In Firefox 3.6, some Prime Central windows, menus, and dialog boxes (such as the About dialog box and the main menu bar) are partially obscured by the Alarm Browser portlet. This problem is related to a known Java applet and Firefox 3.6 issue as described in http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6646289. To avoid this problem, minimize the Alarm Browser portlet before you open a new dialog box on the same page.
You cannot cross-launch Prime Optical from the Prime Central portal or from Prime Network Vision. The browser displays an "Unable to connect" error. This problem occurs when you cross-launch into Prime Optical, and Prime Optical is installed on a Solaris workstation.
Prime Central logs capture granular and verbose data unnecessarily, which obscures debugging information. This problem occurs in a Prime Central log file.
The emdbctl --restore command displays options to restore a database backup for dates that occur prior to the previous restore. For example, if you perform a restore operation on December 14, 2011 (12-14-2011) and then run the emdbctl --restore command, you should not be able to restore dates older than 12-14-2011. However, the command gives you the following options, which are invalid:
[~]# emdbctl --restore
- Reading DB Parameters
Select the date to which to restore the database:
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1) 12-10-2011
2) 12-11-2011
3) 12-12-2011
4) 12-13-2011
5) 12-14-2011
(1 - 5) [default 1]
While using Prime Network, a missing batch file client error is generated. This problem occurs when you try to launch:
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Device proxy options for Prime Network.
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User-defined cross-launch points with automatically downloaded scripts.
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Prime Fulfillment from Prime Network in a Cisco Prime for IP NGN suite environment, in order to create or edit a service.
Related Documentation
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We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
The Prime Central documentation set comprises the following guides:
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Release Notes for Cisco Prime Central 1.0—This document.
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Cisco Prime Central 1.0 Quick Start Guide—Describes the system requirements and installation procedure for Prime Central.
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Cisco Prime Central 1.0 User Guide—Describes the structure and features of Prime Central and how to use it.
See also the following suite component documentation:
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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