GUI - General

Ability to add, configure LDAP servers and integrate Cisco EPN Manager with LDAP servers.

Ability to warn users about license non-compliance and expiration

Device Configuration

• Ability to view software image details such as family type, version and size for NCS5000 series

• devices on IOS-XE.

• Ability to view storage recommendation details and verification state for NCS 5000 series devices.

• Ability to view list of ports and all the applicable type of every ports based on the device

• Ability to validate IOS-XR & IOS-XE CE services name using EPNM for Point-to-point and Multi-point services.

• Inventory Enhancements

  • Ability to disable Archive Configuration after Inventory Sync

  • Ability to specify a VRF name for file transfer

• Ability to recover devices in "Completed with Warning" state using the Retry job and by performing the recommended actions suggested by EPNM.

• Basic inventory and fault management options provided for generic devices not officially supported by EPNM.

• Managing the continuous syncing of devices due to event inflow, using the Burst Event rate flow controller.

Circuit Emulation

• Support for SDH with SNCP protection

• Support for SDH with MSP 1+1 protection

• SDH support on NCS42xx/ASR9xx with IOS-XE devices

• Ability to select the Framed SATOP frame type while provisioning E1/E3 services.

Circuits/VCs - General

• Ability to choose Deploy Later, and Schedule Deployment before you save or schedule a provisioning order.

• Enhancements

  • Service MTU promotion: MTU range for service UNI and Service MTU is enhanced to 64 to 65535

  • Ability to view partial multilayer details (with an error message and appropriate solution) in the multilayer trace view

  • Ability to set the time interval at which the tables in topology page on Circuit/VCs will be refreshed.

Carrier Ethernet

• Ability to Resynchronize services that are related to top-down service discovery.

• Ability to edit the service and update or change the A or Z point after a service has been provisioned.

• Ability to configure PW ID for Point-to-point services.

• Discovery and configuration of segment routing services.

  • Support for discovery of Segment Routing traffic engineering(SR-TE) policies through inventory.

  • Support for Promotion and reconciliation of CE services with SR-TE preferred path.

• Support for CFM promotion and reconciliation for point-to-point and multipoint services.

• Support for Y1731 service promotion for point-to-point and multipoint services.

L3VPN

• Ability to set authentication type while configuring OSPFv3 for PE-CE routing between devices in

  an L3VPN service.

• Ability to configure Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) configuration for L3VPN

• Support for IPv6 6vPE in the Circuit 360 and extended details view.

• Ability to view HSRP details in the circuit 360/extended details and overlay views.

Serial

• Ability to enable or disable interfaces for C37.94, 4 Wire E&M, and Serial variants.

• Full support for RS422 service type.

• Full support for synchronous mode of RS232 for the Raw Socket service.

• ASynchronous RS-232 support for ASR9XX/U devices on IOS-XE

• E2E signaling for Asynch in IOS-XE devices

MPLS-TE

• Ability to integrate Cisco EPN Manager with a WAE server to calculate the explicit path for an MPLS-TE tunnel.

• Ability to select any existing BFD template by the user.

• Support for service promotion of Unidirectional and Bidirectional tunnels.

• Ability to force delete an MPLS TE tunnels and Layer 3 link for the selected services in the circuit VCs.

• Reconciliation support for L3 Link (MPLS + LLDP/CDP link) Granular Inventory.

Optical

• CFP2-DCO support for Cisco ASR 9000, NCS 55A2 devices.

• NCS2000 2-way integration with CNP for NCS2000 provisioning.

• Cisco NCS 2000 device support for R11.0

  • TNCS2 and TNCS2-O support with chassis-view images

  • OTDR Enhancements: Fiber loss and Reflection visualization on Geo Map

  • 400G-XP new payload support

  • TL1 templates for NE defaults

  • New pluggable support

• NCS2000, OMS link management.

• NCS 4000 device support for Fabric Chassis (Chassis View) and Rack view.

• NCS 2000 ODU circuit end to end circuit provisioning and discovery with NCS 4000 - with Protection.

• Support for 400G-XP OTNXC card mode configuration options.

• Ability to enable client ports to be put in service as part of the OCHCC creation process.

• Alarm Display to include a node column rather than just showing node name within the Failure Source field.

• Ability to configure the Cisco NCS 2000 devices to limit the machine (EMS) account with single session.

Cable Technologies

• cBR-8 Service group configuration details and Fiber Node utilization dashboard for cBR-8 devices

• Ability to show RPD and CBR-8 devices in a specific geographical location based on user defined location coordinates and radius information provided.

• Ability to discover RPDs connected from 3rd party RPD aggregator switches leveraging LLDP

• Ability to view cable modems under the serving RPD and configured Fiber Nodes

• Support of various RPD MIBs viz. DOCS-RPHY-CTRL, DOCS-RPHY-PTP, DOCS-RPHY-MIB

• Certification provided for cBR-8 devices running IOS-XE versions 16.9.1 and 16.10.1

• Ability to view new contextual RPD information under RPD360, viz. RPD firmware version, RPD Service group details, Software Version, Cable Modems etc.

• Ability to configure RPD and CBR-8 software compatibility matrix from EPNM

• Architectural changes to make the cable solution scalable to handle large number of RPDs.

• Architectural changes to improve cBR-8 device inventory sync time to display cBR-8 device interfaces in Chassis View.

• OUI and Vendor mapping for cable modems including an option to customize such mappings.

• Enhancements made to the filtering mechanism in the Interfaces Performance Dashboard.

• Support of Kobol-R and 250G Supervisory line card for cBR-8 devices.

• Ability to configure RPD polling information, by providing polling time interval and device IP addresses.

• Integration with Smart PHY 2.0.2 and 2.1.2 versions.

Topology and Geo Map

• Ability to configure, per user, different refresh rates for alarms and topology tables.

• Ability to view and perform actions on planned Circuits/VCs

• Import and Export KML was enhanced to include manual devices, networks and links

• Ability to filter devices according to geographic location, civic address, device location and radius.

• Ability to view auto discovered OMS link when two ROADM devices are connected by means of sequence of OTS links.

• Service options to support Segment Routing: Ability to receive free text route names from technology providers

• OTDR usability enhancements: Fiber loss and Reflection visualization on Geo Map on NCS2k devices

User Management Feature

• Ability to use LDAP for user authentication and access privileges, without any external 3rd party integration.

• Ability to support up to 50 custom user groups.

• Ability to Allow an admin to rename custom user groups.

• Ability to force a password change when a new user is created by administrative user.

• Immediate logging of security relevant user activity.

Fault Management

• In NCS55A2 and IOS XR 6.5.2, OIR is supported only in version 6.6.1 and above.

RESTCONF NBI

• Supporting API Access to predefined and customized user groups

• CE Service Provisioning - Support user specified PW-ID

• API for retrieve, create, update, delete Link Aggregation Group (LAG)

• Support new query parameters in TL retrieval API to allow optional retrieval of performance metrics(power tx/rx, span direction/loss) and fiber related attributes for Optical Topological Link

• Support error codes in restconf API error responses.

• OCH/MCH CC and Trail Circuit Retrieval – support Validation mode and zone attributes

• Set TP API Support for changing of M13 framing on T3 and SONET STS-1 controllers

• Support for accepting source/destination device as input in PW/CFM Ping & Traceroute API

• Support for tunnel information in EVPL service retrieval API

• Service promotion support for FlexLSP and Unidirectional Tunnel provisioning API

• Support for specifying BFD templates in Flex LSP and Unidirectional tunnel provisioning API

• Support for retrieving user configured explicit paths in OCH CC service retrieval

• Support retrieval of Segment Routing Policy as a Virtual Connection

• Support IPv6 6vPE, Authentication for OSPF and OSPFv3 in L3VPN Service Provisioning and Retrieval

• Support Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) in L3VPN Service Provisioning and Retrieval

• SDH Protection (MSP 1+1) Support (Cisco IOS-XE 16.7.1 or above)

• Removed 1522 limit on MTU in CE service provisioning

• Increased the limit for number of simultaneous provisioning requested accepted

• Once a service has been provisioned, it should be possible to edit the service and update or change the A or Z point (ex. EPL/EVPL service)

• Scheduling feature for non-optical services (Only schedule supported. Save is not supported)

• Support E1 and E3 SATOP for framed modes on NCS42xx/ASR9xx with SDH

• Support SDH with SNCP (SDH version of UPSR)

MTOSI NBI

• Support error codes in mtosi API fault responses for specific API - Explicit Path, Protection Profile, TL, TP and SNC API

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 5500 Series—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 4000 Series—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 540 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 6000 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 560 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco ASR 900U & ASR 920U Series Aggregation Services Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco NCS 4200 Network Convergence Systems—New Operating System Support

Data Center Switches—New Operating System Support

Cisco NCS 1000 Series Network Convergence Systems—New Operating System Support

Cisco NCS 2000 Series Network Convergence Systems—New Operating System Support

Cisco ONS 15454 Series Multiservice Provisioning Platforms—New Operating System Support

Cisco NCS 520 Series Carrier Ethernet Access Devices—New Operating System Support

Cisco ME 1200 Series Carrier Ethernet Access Devices—New Operating System Support

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches—New Operating System Support

Cisco Carrier Routing System—New Operating System Support

Support for Generic Cisco Devices

The following OIDs are supported:

• SNMPv2 1.3.6.1.2.1.1(system)

• ENTITY-MIB

  1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1(entPhysicalTable)

• IF-MIB

  1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2(IfTable)

• LLDP-MIB 1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.7(lldpLocPortTable)

  1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.2(lldpRemManAddrTable)

  1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1(lldpRemTable)

• CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

  1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.117.1.1.2(cefcFRUPowerStatusTable)

  1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.117.1.4.1(cefcFanTrayStatusTable)

Support for Generic Third Party Devices

The following OIDs are supported:

• SNMPv2

  1.3.6.1.2.1.1(system)

• ENTITY-MIB

  1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1(entPhysicalTable)

• IF-MIB

  1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2(IfTable)

• LLDP

  1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.7(lldpLocPortTable)

  1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.2(lldpRemManAddrTable)

  1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1(lldpRemTable)

Upgrade Issues

After upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 3.0.0:

• 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.

Note	Mixed AUG configurations are not supported in EPNM.

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

TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS

Only Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 is supported for HTTPS and TLS related secured

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. Wherever 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

The Y.1564 performance test does not work if the source/destination is a ME 1200 device.

Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1

The following functionality does not work on NCS 4200 devices running IOS-XE 16.8.1:

• Alarm profile

• Configuration of SONET LOP and CT3 LOP from the GUI

• Admin shut/no shut functionality on SONET/T1/T3 HOP/LOP

Limitations on NCS540 and NCS5500 devices

• NCS540 device series does not support Bidirectional tunnel functionality.

• NCS540 device series does not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

• NCS5500 device series does not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

Limitations on IoT Devices Running IOS-XE 16.9.1

Following are the limitations on IoT devices running IOS-XE 16.9.1:

• RS422 and RS485 works on ports from 0 to 7 only.

• RS232 synchronous mode works on ports 8-13 only.

• If any one of the ports in 0, 1, 2 and 3 is configured with type TO or any other type, then all the four ports 0, 1, 2 and 3 will be automatically configured with the same type.

• If any one of the ports in 4 and 5 is configured with type TO or any other type, then the two ports 4 and 5 will be automatically configured with the same type.

Use CLI Templates for Configuring VRF Based BGP Address Families on XR

Use CLI Templates for configuring any BGP VRF Address families on XR, as there are known issues while configuring the same via Config UI.

Use CLI Templates for Configuring Static Routes

Use CLI Templates for configuring any static routes, as there are known issues while configuring the same via Config UI.

Use ASR 900 series PTP Configuration Composite Templates for Configuring PTP Commands

On ASR 920 devices with software version 16.9.1, IEEE 1588-2008 BC/MC license is required to execute the 1588 PTP commands.

Configuration and Inventory Not Supported for PTP Templates

The behavior of modeling the configurations pushed through PTP templates may not work as expected because the model may not be in place for all the configurations pushed through PTP templates. Configuration/Inventory is not supported for these configurations.

Circuit Emulation

Promotion and Reconciliation functionality not supported for services over SDH controller.

EIGRP and RIP Not Supported

As of Cisco EPN Manager 2.2.1, EIGRP and RIP inventory and configuration support has been discontinued.

Deprecation of Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00

No Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00 ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, and 10.03.00 are no longer supported on Cisco NCS 2002, 2006 and 2015 devices.

Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only

Cisco EPN Manager provides foundation lifecycle support for UCS compute systems, CSR 1000v, and Nexus series devices but does not provide data center topology.