End-of-Sale Announcement Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 [Cisco Notification Engine]

PRODUCT BULLETIN NO. 2744

Cisco Systems® announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco® CNS Notification Engine 2.0. The last day to order the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 is January 1, 2004. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until January 1, 2007.

Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement.

Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0, which better equips the network operations center (NOC) in maintaining and increasing network uptime while remaining compliant with defined service-level agreements (SLAs). Table 3 provides relevant information for migrating from the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 to the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0.

Information about the replacement product can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps745/index.html

Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0

Milestone	Definition	Date
End-of-Life Announcement Date	The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a product is distributed to the general public.	January 1, 2004
End-of-Sale Date	The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.	January 1, 2004
Last Shipment Date	The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.	April 1, 2004
End of Software Maintenance Releases Date	The last date that Cisco Engineering may release any final software maintenance releases or bug fixes. After this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software.	January 1, 2005
End of New Service Attachment Date	For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.	January 1, 2005
End of Service Contract Renewal Date	The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. The extension or renewal period cannot extend beyond the last date of support.	October 1, 2006
Last Date of Support	The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.	January 1, 2007

Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement

End-of-Sale Product Part Number	Product Description
CNS-NOTE-2.0-CWM	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 for Cisco WAN Manager
CNS-NOTE-2.0-HA	Cisco CNS Notification Engine for High Availability or Development
CNS-NOTE-2.0-MP	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 Media Pack
CNS-NOTE-2.0-SRV	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 Server
CNS-NOTE-2.0-UPG	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 Upgrade

PRODUCT MIGRATION OPTIONS

The recommended replacement for the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0 is the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0. The Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0 has extended device support over the previous version with enhanced rules processing and correlation capability.

Customers can use the Cisco Technology Migration Plan (TMP) to trade in products and receive credit toward the purchase of new Cisco equipment. For more information about Cisco TMP, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/tradein/. The Cisco TMP application requires all users to have a Cisco.com user ID.

Table 3. Product Comparison

Feature	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 2.0	Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0
User-defined filtering, de-duplication, and correlation of device notifications	-	Yes
Collection and processing of Cisco IOS® Software, Cisco Catalyst® Operating System, and Sun OS syslog messages	-	Yes
Distributed processing from the device of notifications	-	Yes
Support for Cisco Reliable Simple Network Management Protocol (RSNMP) notifications	-	Yes
Published messages in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format on the Cisco CNS Integration Bus	-	Yes
Consolidation of network devices to a single MIB	-	Yes
Action or response table	-	Yes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the Cisco CNS Notification Engine 3.0, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps745/index.html or contact your local Cisco account representative or Cisco channel partner.

For more information about the Cisco End-of-Life Policy, go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_end_of_life.html

To subscribe to receive end-of-life/end-of-sale information, go to: http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/FieldNoticeTool/field-notice

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