Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2.1 Release Notes

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2.1 Release Notes

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First Published: 30 August, 2018

Contents

This document contains the following information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2.1:

• Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1
• Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1
• Supported Installation/Upgrade Paths
• Important Notes
• Cisco EPN Manager Bugs
• Related Documentation
• Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1

Functionality Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1

This section lists the new features/functionality delivered in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1.

Note Features marked “BETA” provide limited functionality in this release. The intention is to fully support these features in the next release.

GUI - General

• Enhancements to GUI accessibility for visually and physically impaired users, including background images, contrast ratio, font size, and tab focus.

Device Lifecycle Management

• Chassis view support for:

– ASR 9XX IOT family (ASR 902U, ASR 903U, ASR 920U)

– ASR 9906 device running IOS-XR 6.3.2

– N520-X-4G4Z-A device running IOS-XE 16.8.1

– Fabric card A99-SFC2 in ASR 9912 device

• Display of the NCS 2000 TNC board Active or Standby state in the Chassis view.
• Display of the OCH circuit physical path in the Chassis view and the topology map.

Device Configuration

• Ability to deploy a default, out-of-the-box template to configure the manageability settings for IOS-XR/E devices.
• “Partial Collection Failure” status is now “Completed with Warning” on the Last Inventory Collection Status.
• Ability to configure card protection on A900-IMA8CT1Z-M and A900-IMA8CS1Z-M cards in Cisco ASR 9xx devices and NCS4200-48T1E1-CE and NCS4200-48T3E3-CE cards in Cisco NCS 4200 devices.

Management of Cable Devices

• Integration with Smart PHY 1.2.16 versions, with intelligent sync mechanism to refresh system data with Smart PHY changes.
• Certification provided for cBR-8 devices running IOS-XE versions 16.8, 16.8.1 and 16.8.2.
• Management of RPD global parameters such as configuring static routes, validating software compatibility, persisting running configuration and setting a time interval to make configuration changes persistent.
• Ability to use Mac Domain Split during RPD Service Profile creation for multicast traffic.
• Ability to visualize OCML connectivity between RPD and intermediate switches as a physical link in the topology in an IPv4/IPv6 network using cBR-8 as the seed device. Third party devices are not supported for this functionality.
• Ability to create RPD definitions and pair them with RPD MAC Addresses during field deployment, with options to split such pairing at any point to pair up with another RPD.
• Ability to clear RPD pairing information with cBR-8 devices and to view the history of RPD state changes.
• RPD Association page and RPD bulk import file headers have been updated to be consistent with CableLabs terminologies.
• Ability to configure the RPD polling interval by editing a property file.
• Ability to view bandwidth utilization for cable controllers, mac domains and fiber nodes.

QoS

• Validation provided for the NCS 4000 6.1.42 for QOS on LAG
• Classification based on VLAN ID parameter

Circuits/VCs - General

• Ability to resynchronize circuits/VCs (CE, CEM, L3VPN, MPLS-TE).

Carrier Ethernet

• Ability to change the name of a UNI when modifying a service.
• Ability to use CLI templates to specify/modify the way L2CP packets are handled.
• Support for configuring CFM logging for a CE service using configuration templates.
• Additional OAM performance monitoring profile for point-to-point EVCs on NCS 540 devices (Performance Monitoring 4).
• BETA: Discovery and configuration of segment routing services
• Validation of CE provisioning on LAG port for NCS 4000 devices running IOS-XR 6.1.42.

L3VPN

• Ability to change the name of a UNI when modifying a service.
• Ability to modify the OSPF configurations when modifying an L3VPN service.
• Ability to add a unique VPN ID for an L3VPN service.
• Ability to configure OSPFv3 for PE-CE routing between devices in an L3VPN service.

Serial

• Ability to enable or disable interfaces for C37.94 and E&M service types.
• Ability to provision the RS422 service type.
• Ability to enable the synchronous mode of RS232 for the Raw Socket service.

MPLS-TE

• BETA: Ability to integrate Cisco EPN Manager with a WAE server to calculate the explicit path for an MPLS TE tunnel.
• Performance improvements in MPLS-TE tunnel LSP processing.

Optical

• Chassis view shows the route of an optical circuit through the device.
• Ability to view information about a failure that occurred in an Optical circuit in the Circuit History page.
• Ability to configure Alien Wavelength for source and destination nodes in an OCH circuit.
• Support for creating LMP links between Cisco NCS 20xx and Cisco CRS devices.
• Discovery of OTU links between the 400G-XC trunk ports, when GCC is enabled on a Cisco NCS device with 400G-XC trunk ports.
• Ability to add manual links:

– Between two trunk ports on Cisco NCS 2000 series devices with 400-G-XP linecards. This link must be created as a managed OTU link.

– From a Cisco NCS 2000 series device with 400-G-XP linecard and a Cisco NCS 4000 series device with 4H-OPW-QC2 linecards. This link must be created as a managed OTU link.

• Secondary proxy support provided for ENE network element (NCS 2000).
• Slice configuration of NCS 1000 devices cannot be deleted if the admin state of any of the client ports is UP.
• Ability to configure remote TXP shelf node for OCH-Trail UNI circuit provisioning on a network that uses NCS 2000 transponders.
• Ability to configure Ethernet controller module of NCS 1000 devices.
• Passive Device Inventory support for NCS 1000 devices (R6.3.2). Ability to manually match passive units with similar values.

Topology and Geo Map

• Ability to create and manage SRRG pool types and resource pools in order to group SRRGs into categories for identification and ID allocation purposes.
• Ability to launch the chassis view from the map from the overlay of an OCHCC circuit to see the physical route of the circuit through a specific device.
• Bandwidth utilization visualization enhancements:

– Bandwidth utilization is now shown for all supported link types at the same time. Previously, only one link type at a time could be displayed.

– Bandwidth utilization is now enabled/disabled by clicking on the arrow next to the Bandwidth Utilization icon in the top right corner of the map and selecting the Utilization check box.

– Bandwidth utilization data is provided in all link-related views and tables, even if bandwidth utilization visualization is disabled.

Fault Management

• Polling of physical and LAG interfaces every 5 minutes to collect the link down status and update the Alarms tables.
• Alarm clearing mechanism is now supported for certain packet devices such as NCS 42xx. For the NCS 42xx devices, the alarm severity that is configured on the device will overwrite the alarm severity that is configured in Cisco EPN Manager.
• Generating or clearing alarms based on the inventory status for pseudowires, auto-backup tunnels, physical interfaces, LAG interfaces, tunnels, BGP, ISIS, and LDP,
• Alarm synchronization after node recovery from failure for PSU, FRU, Module Failure.

Performance

• Set a baseline for optical performance data against which current values can be compared.
• The following dashlets were moved from Dashboard/Performance/Y1731 tab to Dashboard/Network Summary/Top N Y1731 tab:

– Top N Frame Loss

– Top N One-Way Jitter

– Top N One-Way Delay

– Top N Two-Way Delay

• Usability and performance improvements to optical performance dashboards. Separate tabs are now provided for each layer (ODU, OTU, SDH, etc.) to show statistics related to that layer.
• OTDR usability enhancements - ability to stop the scan and see progress indication.
• Enhancements to OTDR scan export functionality
• Independent authorization for setting the OTDR test baseline - Root, Super users and Admin
• The service performance dashboard now has an additional dashlet which shows end-to-end performance statistics for service probes and provides a cross-launch to the IPSLA dashboard for EVCs or to the Y.1731dashboard for L3VPN services.
• Errors and discards metric has been changed from a percentage to the packet rate (pps)

Reports

• Ability to filter and customize report data using user-defined fields.

RESTCONF NBI

• Support for synchronizing devices via NBI.
• Support for NCS 2000/4000 LMP link configuration on REST (Wavenid/NCS 4000 to NCS 4000).
• API to manage LAG, including get LAG as part of TP retrieval, create, delete, assign, and unassign LAG operations.
• CFS retrieval enhancements:

– Added configured explicit path details (ERO) for OCH-CC/NC/Trail circuits.

– Supported ceased state data

– Supported port constraints as link constraints

• MLT (Multi-Layer Trace) retrieval enhancements - path role data updated.
• Performance improvements in VC (Virtual Connection) and MLT (Multi-Layer Trace) retrieval.
• Support for color-aware configuration for Y1564.
• Support for PW ping/trace and CFM ping/trace status.
• Notification filter enhancements, for example, filtering on virtual connections.
• Alarm notification filter enhancements - severity filter improvements.
• Support for LOGO parameters for aggregated termination points.
• OCH Client/Trunk termination points support OSNR attribute.
• Ability to rename UNI interfaces.
• VC retrieval enhancement to support OSPF configuration for L3VPN.
• Support for fixed VPN-ID prefix for L3VPN provisioning.
• Retrieval of preferred paths (MPLS/SR TE tunnels) for underlying CE and CEM services.
• SDH support for T1/E1, T3/E3, VC11/VC12 and DS0 services on NCS42xx/ASR9xx devices running IOS-XE 16.6.1/16.7.1.
• Flexible way to specify Y1731 configuration parameters.

Device/OS Support Added in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1

This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1. 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” means that the device/operating system has not yet been released but Cisco EPN Manager has been tested on the Beta version.

Supported Installation/Upgrade Paths

The following table lists the supported paths for installing/upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1 from previous versions.

See the relevant i nstallation guide for installation prerequisites and procedures for Cisco EPN Manager versions.

For point patch installation instructions, see the readme file supplied with the patch file on the on the Software Download site on Cisco.com.

Important Notes

• Upgrade Issues
• Reconciliation Report Limitations
• Limitations on ME 1200 Devices
• Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1
• Limitations on IoT Devices Running IOS-XE 16.9.1
• EIGRP and RIP Not Supported
• Deprecation of Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00
• Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only

Upgrade Issues

After upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1:

• FTP and TPTP will be disabled by default after installing the maintenance pack.
• Active threshold crossing alarms (TCA) for temperature will remain active and will not be cleared. Please clear these alarms manually.
• Devices must be resynced in order to view ISIS links and ISIS LTPS.
• LDP-enabled devices must be resynced in order to view LDP feature-related information.
• TCAs for inbound/outbound errors and inbound/outbound discards must be recreated in the Interface Health monitoring policy.

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Note Matlab processes have been removed from EPNM, starting Release 2.2.1.

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Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

• Open Bugs
• Resolved Bugs

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Related Documentation

For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2 Documentation Overview. The documentation overview also lists several Cisco Prime Infrastructure documents because the content of those documents is relevant to Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1.

Accessibility Features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1, please contact accessibility@cisco.com.

All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics and some charts. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, using the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.

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