- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Setting Up Devices and Using the GUI Clients
- Working with the Cisco Prime Network Vision Client
- Viewing and Managing NE Properties
- Device Configurations and Software Images
- Working with Prime Network Vision Maps
- Working with Links
- Labeling NEs Using Business Tags
- Working with the Prime Network Events
- Tracking Faults Using Prime Network Events
- Working with Tickets in Cisco Prime Network Vision
- Working with Reports
- Using Cisco PathTracer to Diagnose Problems
- Monitoring Carrier Ethernet Services
- Monitoring Carrier Grade NAT Properties
- Monitoring DWDM Properties
- Monitoring Ethernet Operations, Administration,and Maintenance Tool Properties
- Monitoring Y.1731 IPSLA Configuration
- IPv6 and IPv6 VPN over MPLS
- Monitoring MPLS Services
- Viewing IP and MPLS Multicast Configurations
- Monitoring MToP Services
- Viewing and Managing SBCs
- Monitoring AAA Configurations
- Monitoring IP Pools
- Monitoring BNG Configurations
- Monitoring Mobile Technologies
- Monitoring Data Center Configurations
- Icon and Button Reference
- Glossary
- Index
Preface
This guide describes Cisco Prime Network (Prime Network) 3.11. Prime Network serves as an extensible integration platform for network and service management. At its core is a virtual network mediation model that is rich, open, and vendor-neutral, and supports the management of diverse multiservice and multivendor networks. Additionally, Prime Network provides the following mature NMS functionality:
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Network topology discovery and visualization.
•Element management, providing near real-time inventory.
•Fault management, event correlation, root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
•Network service support.
This preface contains the following sections:
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Audience
The intended audience for this guide includes:
•Network viewers who monitor the network and perform basic (nonprivileged) system functions.
•Network operators who perform day-to-day operations such as creating business tags and maps, and managing alarms.
•Network configurators who activate services and configure network elements.
•System administrators who manage and configure users, network elements, the Prime Network system, and overall security.
•System managers or administrators who periodically review and manage the events list using Cisco Prime Network Events (Prime Network Events).
•Networking engineers who are interested in understanding how the Prime Network Events fault and root cause analysis mechanism works. These engineers should have networking knowledge at Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) level, and should have received Cisco Prime Network Vision (Prime Network Vision) basic and administrative training.
Document Organization
This guide contains the following sections:
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Describes the suite of GUI tools that offer an intuitive interface for managing the network and services, and for performing required system administration activities. |
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Chapter 2 "Working with the Cisco Prime Network Vision Client" |
Describes the user access roles required to use Prime Network Vision, the Prime Network Vision working environment, and how to access Prime Network Vision tools and commands. |
Describes the user access roles required to use Prime Network Vision and how to view network element physical and logical properties in any mapped network. |
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Describes the features that Change and Configuration Management provides, some initial setup tasks you must perform, and how to work with the GUI. |
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Describes how to work with the topological maps displayed in the content pane of the Prime Network Vision window. |
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Describes how to view information about static and dynamic links using the Prime Network Vision user interface. |
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Describes how to manage and view Prime Network Vision business tags and business elements. |
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Describes the Prime Network Events application and the options you can use to view system events and tickets that are generated within the Prime Network system. |
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Describes how to use Prime Network Events to track faults. |
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Chapter 10 "Working with Tickets in Cisco Prime Network Vision" |
Describes viewing tickets in Prime Network Vision, how to manage tickets that represent fault scenarios of selected devices or network elements, and fault impact analysis. |
Describes how to use Prime Network Report Manager to generate, customize, view, and export a variety of reports about events, traps, tickets, syslogs, software versions, elements, and network services. |
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Describes how to perform end-to-end route tracing and the performance information displayed simultaneously for the multiple networking layers. |
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Describes how to view Carrier Ethernet services in Prime Network Vision and how to work with VLANs, pseudowires, overlays, VPLS instances, and Ethernet services. |
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Describes the Carrier Grade Name Address Translation (NAT) properties available in Prime Network Vision. |
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Describes how to view and monitor IP over dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) properties in Prime Network Vision. |
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Chapter 16, "Monitoring Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Tool Properties" |
Describes how to use Prime Network Vision to monitor Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) tools. |
Describes how to view Y.1731 IP Service Level Agreement (SLA) configurations for the OAM functionality in Ethernet networks. |
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Describes how to use Prime Network Vision to view IPv6 and 6PVE properties. |
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Describes how to view and manage aspects of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) services using Prime Network Vision, including the MPLS service view, business configuration, and maps. This chapter also describes the inventory properties specific to MPLS VPNs, including routing entities, label switched entities (LSEs), BGP neighbors, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP), VRF instances, pseudowires, and traffic engineering (TE) tunnels. |
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Describes how to view multicast configurations and how Prime Network Vision supports multicast on MPLS and routing entities. |
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Describes Mobile Transport over Packet (MToP) services and how to view their properties in Prime Network Vision. |
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Describes the Session Border Controller (SBC) properties available in Prime Network Vision. |
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Describes how to view Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) configuration, which is a security architecture for distributed systems that determines the access given to users for specific services and the amount of resources they have used. |
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Describes how to view IP pool properties in Prime Network Vision. An IP pool is a sequential range of IP addresses within a certain network. Prime Network provides the flexibility of assigning IP addresses dynamically for services running on a network element. |
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Describes how to view Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) configuration in Prime Network Vision. |
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Describes how to configure and view the mobile technologies in Prime Network Vision. |
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Describes the Data Center components and how to view their configurations in Prime Network Vision. |
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Identifies the icons and buttons used in Prime Network Events and Prime Network Vision. |
Conventions
This guide uses the following conventions:
Related Documentation
Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
Cisco Prime Network 3.11 Integration Developer Guide is available on the Cisco Prime Network Technology Center website. This guide describes how to use Prime Network integration interfaces.
The Prime Network Technology Center is an online resource for additional downloadable Prime Network support content, including help for integration developers who use Prime Network application programming interfaces (APIs). It provides information, guidance, and examples to help you integrate your applications with Prime Network. It also provides a platform for you to interact with subject matter experts. To view the information on the Prime Network Technology Center website, you must have a Cisco.com account with partner level access, or you must be a Prime Network licensee. You can access the Prime Network Technology Center at http://developer.cisco.com/web/prime-network/home.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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