GUI - General

• In service performance Top N End-point traffic, customer would like to add min/max columns.

• Configurable separator for reports and export.

• User Interface response time and performance benchmark.

• Service performance monitoring capabilities - Namely, C37.94, 4 Wire E&M, and Serial variants.

• Heartbeat polling feature at NE level for the supported protocols and raise system events, when any of them becomes unreachable.

• EPNM device console capability should provide audit trail capability.

• Cleanup job that does not require to run.

Device Configuration

• BETA: Add support in EPNM for IOS-XR 7.0.1 for the NCS560

• BETA: EPNM support of IOS-XR 7.0.1 on ASR9k

• BETA: EPNM support of IOS-XR 7.0.1 on Cisco NCS 540-24Z8Q2C-M Router

• BETA: EPNM support of IOS-XR 7.0.1 on NCS5500

• Limited Availability: EPNM Support for NCS 540X-12Z16G-SYS-(A|D) (12x1G SFP + 4x1G Cu + 12x10G ) IOS-XR 7.0.1

• Limited Availability: EPNM Support for NCS 540X-16Z4G8Q2C-(A|D) (16x10G+ 4xCu+8x25G+2x100G) IOS-XR 7.0.1

• IOS XE 16.12.1 Validation on NCS4200

• IOS XE 16.12.1 Validation on ASR900

• Limited Availability: IOS XR 6.5.28 validation on NCS4K

• ME1200 3.24 validation

• EPNM Avoid long running Sync of given device

• For XR, when there is configuration commit error, EPNM should run ‘show configuration failed’ command

• EPNM Inventory - Quality Improvement

• Sync state indication.

• Copy and activate a port configuration from one port to a new port.

• Edit and retry a failed provisioning order - For CLI Template.

• Support for AINS Port state.

• BITS frequency/ BITS Interface should support line coding and line build out in MBC.

• 1+1 Electrical Protection: New timers support (Hold off Timers).

• Avoid continous sync - Ability to enable/disable Granular Inventory per device.

• EPNM should support Other(Windows native:ZipCrypto) zip encoding when exporting inventory as zip files.

• Application of device manageability configuration profile.

• EVC naming should reuse the EVC name on Service instance when available.

• NCS2k basic support for R11.1.

• Automatically and/or manually arrange for a replacement network element.

• IOS XE 16.12.1 Validation on ASR9XXU.

• EPNM - ISSU on NCS560-4 on IOS-XR 7.0.1.

• Management VRF interface support for Configuration Archiving.

• To be able to support 64 bit upgrade/SWIM for ASR9k.

• DB backup retry option for the NCS 2k.

• EPNM should support SWIM / SMU for Third party or Yocto packages for NCS5500.

• Restoring admin configuration for XR devices.

Installation

• License check for classic and smart ""Advanced"" licenses.

• EPNM Requirement to Support Bonding/ teaming to keep redundancy between Servers.

• At least 5 different NTP-Servers must be configurable.

• NBI, SBI, admin and internal communication segregated into different, virtual networks.

Circuit Emulation

• Circuit Emulation Service Types has been renamed as per standards in EPNM Provisioning Wizard.

• SDH Promotion and Reconciliation.

• CEM: Add missing DS1/DS3 and Sonet counters from SNMP mibs.

• UPSR/SNCP Admin functions: enable protection switching.

• Channelization configuration on DS3 interfaces upon circuit deletion behavior improvements.

• DS3 CEP mode support on the NCS 4200 provisioning.

Circuits/VCs - General

• NCS2k remote TXP configuration for OCH provisioning.

• NCS2k 11.1 support for 10 x 10G card with 400G-XP.

• NCS1004 PM collection full support.

• NCS1004: OCHTrail with 3rd party or no ROADMS.

• NCS2k device 360. Add action to resync conditions.

• EPNM To support Provisioning, Discovery, Fault, Assurance, Performance for Segment Routing.

• EPNM should support EVPN-VPWS service for Discovery, Provisioning , Assurance similar to other VPN services.

• C37.94 64kbps version.

• FlexLSP: EPN-M shall support the auto-bw keyword, SRLG diverse, Sticky and Non-revertive keywords.

• Save & Schedule Provisioning order: Handling UNI planning and planned versions.

Carrier Ethernet

• ME1200: Y.1564

• Validate Y.1731 with XR 6.5.28 on NCS4K

• Support Y.1564 testing with XR 6.5.26 (was 6.5.3) on NCS4K (loopback only)

• ME1200: Support for ""On Demand"" Y.1731

• Support/Validate LAG/Portchanel in the core.

L3VPN

• Association of route policy with on-demand color for L3VPN VRF.

• EPNM should support a larger number of VRFs (500 to start with).

• Improve the EPNM overlay presentation for HSRP with L3VPN.

Service - Assurance

• EPNM - OAM for Segment Routing.

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

• New MPLS link dashboard added.

• New dashlets added for SONET/DS1/DS3 interfaces in the Sonet/TDM dashboard.

• Support for NCS1004 perfromance data.

• Support of Ethernet PCS counters for NCS 1004.

• Support BERT on Elboron card.

• Support for Y.1731 on-demand test & Y.1564 test on NCS4K XR 6.5.28.

• Support for "On Demand" Y.1731 for ME1200.

• Support for Y.1564 testing for ME1200.

Security

• CT1140: SEC-CRY-LOG: Log cryptographic connection setup and teardown.

• CT1564: SEC-LOG-ATTACK: Log indications of attack or abuse (SQL and LDAP injections).

• CT1665: SEC-WEB-RESP-3: Specify type and encoding in HTTP responses.

• CT477: SEC-SW-OPENCLOS: Identify open and closed execution spaces.

Segment Routing

• Support for provisioning of Segment Routing TE Policies on XR devices from Provisioning Wizard.

• Support for ODN policies provision through CLI templates

• Only user defined adjacent SID is supported, the auto allocated adjacent SID cannot be used for segment-list creation.

MPLS-TE

• Support for LSP Attribute list for Unidirectional tunnels.

• Support for creation of Bidirectional and Unidirectional tunnels over the LAG core.

• Support for Sticky and Non-revertive for Unidirectional tunnels and Bidirectional tunnels for XE devices.

Optical

• Enable Configuration tab of the chassis view of NCS5504.

• NCS2k port remains in service after fiber cut.

• Layer correlation on interface LINE-1-2-3-RX.

• EPN-M shall allow longer retention periods for 30s and 15m Optical PM.

• EPNM support for NCS4200-1T8S-20CS (NCS 4200 1x10G MR + 8-port Low Rate - 10G CEM, iMSG & OTN LC) XE 16.12.1.

• EPNM Chassis view support for Cisco CRS-1 8-Slot Line Card Chassis - OID:1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1658.

• EPNM chassis view support for Optics modules (shown below) w.r.t NCS55xx.

• NCS1004: Circuit provisioning with NCS2k ROADM.

• NCS1004: Circuit provisioning with NCS2k ROADM that requires electrical regeneration.

• NCS2k: Optical restoration with NCS1004.

• NCS1004: wavelength recolouring after restoration.

• NCS1004 ITU ports wavelengths settings on flex grid.

• NCS1004: OTU4 support on Client.

• NCS1004 gmpls uni / lmp configuration for OCH provisioning.

• NCS1004 slice configuration on chassis view.

• NCS4k: Template to configure squelch timing with idle (6.5.26).

• NCS1004: Topology Discovery via LMP.

• NCS2k R11.0 Regen support in no validation mode.

• NCS2k R11.0 test otdr scan on NCS2002.

• NCS540 Alarm Description is coming as ""null"" for optical interfaces.

Cable Technologies

• BETA: Support Reactive Inventory for Cable Utilization Dashboard.

• BETA: Cable Scale Testing for 3.1.

• BETA: CBR8 : Support Remote-PHY Compact Shelf [6 x 12] and [3 x 6].

• BETA: CBR8 : Support IOS-XE 16.12.1 for cBR-8 devices.

• BETA: Support New DPIC Card 2X100G introduced in the release

• BETA: Consume RPD traps real time from cBR-8, update RPD attributes and build correlation logic.

• BETA: cBR-8 Service Group Utilization: Capture cBR-8 DS/US Data & Video controller, associated profile and DEPI information in EPNM.

• BETA: CBR8 : Ability to get data related to RF health for all channels (SNR, FEC).

• Cable modem utilization on per modem basis.

• Hardware Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & Identify failed units on CBR8.

• Provide the option to integrate SmartPHY in Read-Only mode.

• CBR8 : Ability to capture the DOCSIS version of all modems on a node.

• BETA: CBR8 : Ability to monitor and raise alarm based on OFDM Profile Quality Metrics.

• BETA: CBR8 : Ability to get US RF metrics on a per RPD as well as per MAC Domain basis.

• BETA: CBR8 : Ability to show or filter by device type of modem.

• BETA: CBR8 : Show RPD events in EPNM and build basic correlation.

• BETA: cBR-8 Service Group Utilization.

• Add support for flap list trouble shooting across multiple CBR8 and provide consolidated view in dashlet.

Topology and Geo Map

• Improve the Overlay presentation for HSRP with L3VPN.

• Support a larger number of VRFs, up to 500.

• Support multiple virtual domains and user roles for Active Directory scenario.

• Support "Classic" and "Advanced" licenses.

• SR path visualization without SR-TE.

• Option to update Alarms and status on topology view every 30 seconds.

• Circuit/VC, Link and Alarm table export shall contain an additional default column containing the full path of the device group.

• [UH-VIZ:77] Topology to show only the devices containing alarms (and suppress the rest).

User Management Feature

• EPNM -The Number of concurrent UI users shall scale to a higher number.

• Support multiple virtual domains and user roles for Active Directory scenario.

• EPNM- Maximum number of parallel session for a User is restricted and configurable in the user profile.

• Auto-generated, initial user password (without admin knowing the password).

• Ability to kill an active session and log out that user.

• EPN-M: Harden oracle file access rights.

Fault Management

• EPNM- Services Alarm List.

• Raise an alarm when a configurable, maximum number of total user sessions has been exceeded.

RESTCONF NBI

• Support for provisioning L3VPN over SR-TE

• Include empty slot names in node/equipment data retrieval

• Support alarm notifications to filter by node fdn, cause type and probable cause

• Support termination point directionality with source(A end) and sink(Z end) designation in VC data retrieval

• Support for using path constraints in OCH Trail UNI Provisioning

• Support for audit logging of all Restconf NBI and provide a new API to retrieve the audit log information.

• API to Re-synchronize a Circuit/VC

• Support Provisioning and Notifications for Segment Routing Service

• Support Provisioning, Retrieval and Notifications for EVPN-VPW Service

• Support for service impacting information in alarm data in both alarm retrieval and notification

• Support for edit and retry a failed CLI Template execution

• Support for AINS Port configuration

• Changes in SDH/Sonet Terminology for service sub-type in SDH/Sonet provisioning and retrieval

• Support DS3 CEP mode on the NCS 4200 provisioning

• Support for classic and advanced license validation in NBI Authorization

• Support service promotion of SDH services.

• Support Regen constraints and restore alternate configurations in SSON and WSON circuits provisioning

• Support lock down, sticky, srlg and non-revertive configuration for working , protected and restore paths for MPLS TE tunnel provisioning

• BETA: supported saving a service provisioning request to be used in deploying the same at later point in time.

  Note

  In TP retrieval (get single or get all), the termiation-point(TP) data retrieved does not include some attributes that are not applicable based on the layerrate of the TP being retrieved. For Optical Ethernet TP on DWDM devices (e.g. NCS2k), the layerrate values are changed to follow packet ethernet TP layerrate value naming convention - for example, the lr-dsr-100gigabit-ethernet is chaged to lr-hundred-gigabit-ethernet. Example for full FDN for Optical Ethenet TP is "MD=CISCO_EPNM!ND=cvg-bosshogg-101.cisco.com!CTP=name=HundredGigECtrlr0/0/0/2;lr=lr-hundred-gigabit-ethernet". Example for get TP by ethernet layerrate is " https://<host>/restconf/data/v1/cisco-resource-ems:termination-point?layerRate=lr-hundred-gigabit-ethernet". TP instances with layerrate values that contains "lr-dsr-*-ethernet" do not carry useful information and should be ignored.

MTOSI NBI

• MTOSI NBI is deprecated and disabled. OSS integration users looking for Northbound APIs, RESTCONF NBI should be used.

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 540L 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

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

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches—New Operating System Support

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 CLI Templates for Configuring PTP Commands

On ASR920 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.

LINK_DOWN alarm on sub interfaces in Gig Port

LINK_DOWN alarms will not be generated when link is down on sub interfaces in Gig Port.