Table of Contents
Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.2 Release Notes
Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2
Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager2.1.2
Unidirectional TE Tunnel Bandwidth Change Frequency Requirement
TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
Reconciliation Report Limitations
Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
Get Information About Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Contents
This document contains the following information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.2:
Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2
- L2TP alarms are now generated when Cisco EPN Manager establishes or drops a connection with Cisco Converged Broadband Router-8 (cBR-8) devices.
- A new dashboard provides interactive graphs capturing various metrics for the cBR-8 routers in your network, including software versions, high availability, licensing, and cable modems.
- The Interface tab in the cBR-8 chassis view now supports additional filters (Type and Properties) for Cisco cBR-8 logical interfaces. The interfaces can be grouped based on interface types - upstream, downstream, bundle, WAN, and DPIC interfaces.
- Improved inventory sync time for Cisco cBR-8 devices.
- Utilization of Cisco cBR-8 L2TP links and L2TP neighbors is displayed in the Link Details view.
- Ability to detect Cisco switches connected to Cisco cBR-8 devices enabled with CDP.
- Ability to manage Cisco cBR-8 devices running Cisco IOS-XE version 16.6.
- A job is now created for “Force Delete” of a circuit/VC and its progress can be monitored in the Jobs dashboard. Once the job is completed, the circuit/VC is removed from the Cisco EPN Manager database.
- The “Force Delete” action now makes a best effort attempt to remove the service configurations from the devices as well as from the Cisco EPN Manager database.
- New EFP column in the Circuits/VCs & Network Interfaces table shows the number of EFPs that Cisco EPN Manager has provisioned. If all the EFPs are provisioned, the number of EFPs will match the number of services.
- Enhancements to the configuration details panel for circuits/VCs provide more information in an improved layout and enable you to launch the Device 360 view from the configuration details panel.
- Circuit 360 for deleted circuits can now be launched form the Deleted Circuits/VCs table.
- Ability to launch the chassis view for a device from the Interface 360 view.
- Ability to do a side-by-side comparison of the high-level information and status for selected devices, interfaces, circuits and VCs, and links.
- Internal IDs no longer appear in displayed device and interface names.
Chassis view is now supported for Cisco NCS 6008 and Cisco CAT 6504-E devices.
- Ability to configure BGP with IPv6 neighbors.
- A new option to remove the configured password encryption and labels is available for the BGP neighbors.
- Device configuration changes deployed to Cisco IOS-XE devices are now deployed to both the device's start-up and running configuration.
- SDR Support: You can now view the VM based Secure Domain Routers (SDRs) details in the Device 360 view and on the Device Details page of Cisco NCS 6000 devices.
- You can now configure the controller modes on Cisco ASR 900 Series Route Switch Processor 2 (RSP2A) modules (A900-RSP2A-128) that are supported on Cisco ASR 920, Cisco NCS4202, and Cisco NCS 4206 devices.
- You can configure card modes 5G and 10G on the following cards and also reserve the slots with bandwidth values of 80 or 100 Gbps:
– NCS4200-1T8S-10CS card on Cisco ASR 903, Cisco ASR 907, Cisco NCS 4200, and Cisco NCS 4000 devices.
– NCS4200-1T16G-PS cards on NCS42xx devices
- FPD upgrade is available for NCS 4000 IOS-XR devices.
- Upgrade analysis is now supported on all Cisco IOS-XR devices with the exception of Cisco ASR 9000 devices.
- Ability to automatically allocate VLAN ID for a UNI.
- Comma-separated VLAN IDs are not supported on ME1200 devices. Cisco EPN Manager creates one EVC control entry for each VLAN ID.
- When creating a new UNI and a specific port cannot be selected, there is an alert icon next to the UNI name in the Port table to show why the port cannot be selected.
- Creation and provisioning of X.21, C37.94, and EM-Voice services.
- Support for provisioning of CEM services on 3G Eomer line cards.
- Import of fibers, device locations, and managed links from a KML file.
- Export of fibers, device locations, and managed links to a KML file.
- Basic management of fibers.
- Ability to view fibers in the geo map.
- Civic address is now shown in the device and group panels in the geo map (if it is defined for the device/group).
- Ability to show/hide optical devices that serve as line amplifiers in the map.
- Groups are now included when viewing the members of a cluster in the geo map and you can drill down within the members table to see the members of the groups.
- Visualization of OSPF topology on the map for IOS-XR and XR-XE cross-platform devices.
- Animation of the route direction for circuits with non-symmetrical paths, i.e., unidirectional circuits and bidirectional non-symmetrical circuits.
- Display of two different route directions for one service.
- Ability to switch the view to show the opposite route direction where relevant or to select specific endpoints to see the route between them.
- Ability to view partial circuits where either a device, link, or endpoint are missing.
- Legend for SRRG values.
- New notification pop-up for critical alarms.
- Ability to export events related to a particular alarm.
– CEM tab—New dashlets that indicate the number of L-bits, N-bits, P-bits, and R-bits that have been generated and received for the selected Circuit Emulation (CEM) circuit. Enable the new CEM monitoring policy to see data in these dashlets.
– Top N CE/L3VPN tab—A new tab that lists the circuits/VCs with the highest values for parameters such as delay and jitter.
– Optical SFPs tab—A new tab that provides details and operating metrics for the selected Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Transceiver Module interface.
- Ability to retrieve and view cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error data (after you have enabled the collection of this data).
- CEM performance monitoring has been enhanced by the support of counters for SONET pointer justification events that indicate the clock variations of the SPE payload transported over CEM. The SONET counters are supported for devices running 16.4.1 and above. To see the existing counters and the new counters, both PWE 3 and CEM monitoring policies must be enabled.
- Support for fault and optical/OTN performance monitoring for IPoDWDM line card on NCS55xx devices.
- Traffic statistics are displayed for interfaces and services on ME1200 devices.
- PCR (min/avg/max) and PMD (min/avg/max) added for NCS 2000 devices.
- Support for inner & outer VLAN configuration for Y.1564 test.
- Full support for generation of a report indicating the power level (Rx and Tx) for optical Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver modules which are monitored and polled on every link discovered in Cisco EPN Manager.
- Removed Ethernet OAM reports and monitoring policy.
- New Carrier Ethernet performance reports:
– Flapping: Number of flapping events that occurred in a device during a given time period.
– Link Utilization: Interface utilization for CDP/LLDP enabled links.
- Power level reports that display the Tx and Rx power levels of the A and Z end devices and their interfaces. These reports are supported only for Optical SFP and to generate this report data you must activate the "Optical SFP” monitoring policies.
- IPSLA reports that represent the trends of IPSLA performance measurements over time, including delay, jitter, packet loss and availability. To generate this report data, you must activate the "IPSLA” monitoring policy.
- Updates to Get/Set TP to support VCOP.
- Updates to Get/Set TP to support fiber type and fiber length.
- Optical path computation support.
- LMP link creation and deletion between NCS 4000 and NCS 2000 devices.
- Support for OTDR link scan and retrieval of results as an SOR file.
- Support for MediaType Controller mode setting.
- Support for provisioning EVPL service with auto VLAN allocation.
- Support force delete option on service termination.
- Enhancements to multilayer trace retrieval to support uni-directional TE tunnels carrying VC FDN.
- Support for configuring Automatic IN Service (AINS) for cards.
- Support for additional L3 link parameters during provisioning.
- QoS support in EVPL provisioning.
- Support for provisioning ODU UNI hairpin service.
Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2
This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2. For a list of all support information, click the gear icon at the top right of the web GUI and choose Help > Supported Devices.
Note “Beta support” means that the device/operating system has not yet been released but Cisco EPN Manager has been tested on the Beta version.
Installation/Upgrade Paths
The following table lists the installation/upgrade paths for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2.
- PP = Point Patch
- Cisco EPN Manager 2.x.x = Cisco EPN Manager 2.x Maintenance Pack x. For example, Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 Maintenance Pack 2
- Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.0.x = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 installed with point patch x . For example, Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.0.1 = Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 with PP1.
1. Go to the Software Download site on Cisco.com and check that you have the latest point patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1 installed.
2. If you do not have the latest point patch installed, install it before installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2. Installation instructions can be found in the readme file supplied with the patch file.
1. Go to the Software Download site on Cisco.com and check that you have the latest point patch for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.1 installed.
2. If you do not have the latest point patch installed, install it before installing Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2. Installation instructions can be found in the readme file supplied with the patch file.
Important Notes
- Unidirectional TE Tunnel Bandwidth Change Frequency Requirement
- TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
- Reconciliation Report Limitations
- Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
- Data Migration Issues
Unidirectional TE Tunnel Bandwidth Change Frequency Requirement
When creating and provisioning a unidirectional TE tunnel and using the automatic bandwidth allocation option (Enable Auto Bandwidth checkbox is checked), the Bandwidth Change Frequency should be set to 3600 seconds to avoid performance issues.
TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS
As of Cisco EPN Manager 2.1, only Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 is supported for HTTPS and TLS related secured communication, for example, RADIUS EAP-TLS. Support for TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all versions of SSL has been disabled due to security vulnerabilities.
This means that all peer systems and clients that transact with Cisco EPN Manager using HTTPS/TLS must support TLS 1.2. If they do not support TLS 1.2, they must be upgraded. Where possible, the Cisco EPN Manager documentation highlights the potentially affected systems. Please contact your Cisco representative for support in this regard, if necessary.
Reconciliation Report Limitations
When provisioning a service, if you have not provided a value for any of the attributes, the provisioned value for those attributes will be displayed as “Missing” in the reconciliation report. The device may have default values for these attributes but Cisco EPN Manager does not have any values configured.
Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
- Manual sync required—Configuration changes to ME 1200 devices are not automatically discovered by Cisco EPN Manager. After making a change, you must manually sync the device. To do this, select the required device(s) in the Network Devices table and click Sync.
- QoS profiles are not supported for service provisioning on ME1200 devices.
User Documentation Changes
From Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2 onwards we have one combined installation guide for the main release and all of its maintenance packs. See Installation Guide for Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1 and Maintenance Packs (2.1.x) .
Note that the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1 Installation Guide and the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.1 Installation Guide will no longer be available as individual guides on Cisco.com.
Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
Open Bugs
Table 1 lists the open bugs in Cisco EPN Manager Release 2.1.2 according to the following criteria:
- Severity 1, 2, and high priority severity 3 open bugs
- All open customer-found bugs
- Other bugs considered to be high impact bugs
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the bug in the Bug Search Tool . Use this tool to track the status of the open bugs.
Resolved Bugs
Table 2 lists bugs that appeared as open bugs in the Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.1 release notes that have been resolved in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2.
For more information about the resolved bugs, go to the Bug Search Tool .
Get Information About Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
Use the Bug Search tool (BST) to get the latest information about Cisco EPN Manager bugs. BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and it aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version.
Cisco EPN Manager bugs may be caused by defects in a device's platform or operating system. In those cases, the Cisco EPN Manager bug will be resolved when the hardware/operating system bug is resolved.
Step 1 Log into the Bug Search Tool.
a. Go to https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/ .
b. At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In .
Note If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.
Step 2 To list all bugs for this version, click the Select from list hyperlink that is next to the Product field and select the product.
a. Choose Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager and then select the required product version.
b. When the results are displayed, use the filter and sort tools to find bugs according to their status, severity, how recently they were modified, if any support cases are associated with them, and so forth.
You can also search using bug IDs or keywords. For more information, click Help at the top right of the Bug Search page.
Related Documentation
For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.1.2 Documentation Overview . The documentation overview also lists several Cisco Prime Infrastructure documents because the content of those documents is relevant to Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2.
Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2
For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.1.2, please contact accessibility@cisco.com .
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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