This section lists the new features/functionalities delivered in Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.0.

GUI - General

• Report export in XML format

• Ability to export data from custom MIB reports

• Support for large L3VPNs with more than 500 endpoints

• Support for L2VPN to L3VPN mapping

Device Support

Support for:

• NCS 540 (18X1G SFP + 6X1/10GSFP+) N540-6Z18G-SYS-A/D XR 7.8.1

• IOS XR 7.8.1 and NCS5500/NCS5700

• IOS XR 7.8.1 and Cisco 8000

• IOS XR 7.8.1 and NCS540

• IOS XR 7.8.1 and NCS560

• IOS XR 7.8.1 and ASR9000 64bit

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and Cisco 8000

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and ASR9000

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and NCS540

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and NCS560

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and NCS5500

• IOS XR 7.7.2 and NCS5700

• IOS XR 6.9.2 and ASR9K 32 bit

• Cisco 8111-32EH for 7.8.1

• Advantage(Full) on N520-X-20G4Z-A and IOS-XE 17.3.5

• NCS1010 with topology discovery and visualization

• NCS1010 NBI

• NCS1004 2x400G line card with 400Ge NCS1K4-2-QDD-C-K9

• Device model support for Catalyst 8000 and Catalyst 9000 (C8300-2N2S-4T2X Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series and C9300L-24P-4X Cisco Catalyst 9300L Stack Series)

Struts to Angular Migration

Menu	Sub Menu	Device Types
System	Summary	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
System	Memory	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
System	Power options & Fans	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series, All Packet Devices
System	Modules	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
System	Physical Ports	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	All Interfaces	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	WDM Side Interfaces	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	SONET/SDH Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	Optics Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
Interfaces	Ethernet Interfaces	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	IP Interfaces	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series, All Packet Devices
Interfaces	OTS-OCH Interfaces	Cisco NCS 1000 Series
Interfaces	STS/VC Interfaces	Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	OTU Interfaces	Cisco NCS 4000 Series, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
Interfaces	GCC Interfaces	Cisco NCS 4000 Series
Interfaces	OCH Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	OTN Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	FC/FICON Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	Video Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	Data Storage Interfaces	Cisco NCS 2000 Series
Interfaces	Coherent DSP Interface	NCS1002, NCS1004
Interfaces	ODU Interfaces	NCS1004, NCS40XX
Interfaces	DWDM Controllers	Cisco NCS 4000 Series, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
Settings	Loopback	Cisco NCS 1000 Series, Cisco NCS 2000 Series, Cisco NCS 4000 Series, Cisco NCS 5500 Series, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, Cisco 82XX Router, Cisco NCS 55A2, Cisco NCS 540 Series Routers, Cisco NCS-57C1, Cisco NCS-57C3
Optical	Automatic Laser Shutdown	Cisco NCS 2000 Series

Chassis View consolidation - always ON chassis view with merged logical and device details view (Logical View is removed, Logical View is merged with Device Details)

Following features/functionalities/Menus were deprecated in Cisco EPN Manager 6.1 and have been removed from Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.

• Removal of support for setting GPS location for device groups

• Topology Map functionality:

  1. Grouping settings under system Settings

  2. Hover information on links in Topology

  3. Print\Save of map

  4. Map dashlet

• General Features:

  1. Main Navigation Menu Options:

     • Administration>Dashboards​> Job Dashboard> System Jobs - APIC-EM Integration

     • Administration>Dashboards​> Job Dashboard>System Jobs - Assurance & Health summary

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     • Administration>Dashboards​> Job Dashboard> System Jobs - Wirecless Monitoring

     • Administration>Servers> ACS View Servers>ACS View Servers

     • Administration>Servers> APIC-EM Controller​> APIC-EM Controller​

     • Administration>Settings>Logging>SNMP Log

     • Administration>Settings>Logging>Syslog

     • Administration>Settings>Certificate> Certificate - System Key & Certificate

     • Administration>Settings> System Audit​> System Audit​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> General - Guest Account​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> General - Help Us Improve​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> General - Proxy

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> General - Software Request​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings>General - Cisco DNAC Center​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Network & Device - CLI Session​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Network & Device - Controller Upgrade

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Network & Device - Unified AP Ping Reachability

       ​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Network & Device - Plug & Play​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Switch Port Trace - Auto SPT​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Switch Port Trace - Manual SPT​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Switch Port Trace - SPT Configuration

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Switch Port Trace - Known Ethernet MAC​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Inventory - Datacenter Settings​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Client & User - All sub menu​

     • Administration>Settings> System Settings> Services - Service Container Management

     • Configuration> Templates​> Features and Technologies> Feature Templates

     • Configuration> Templates> Switch Location​> Switch Location Table view

     • Configuration> Templates> Switch Location​> Switch Location - Add Template​

     • Configuration> Templates> Switch Location​> Switch Location - Apply Template

     • Configuration> Templates> Scheduled Configuration Task>​ AP Template Tasks

     • Configuration> Templates> Scheduled Configuration Task​> AP Template

     • Configuration> Templates> Scheduled Configuration Task​> Config Group​

     • Configuration> Templates> Scheduled Configuration Task​> WLAN Configuration

     • Configuration> Templates> Scheduled Configuration Task​> Download Software

     • Dashboard​> Performance> BNG Statistics> BNG Statistics Dashboard TAB​

     • Dashboard​> Performance> ME1200 QoS​> ME1200 QoS Dashboard TAB​

     • Dashboard​> Device Trends> Applications​> Applications Trend Dashboard​

  2. Device Details:

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details - CDP Neighbours

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details - Civic Location​

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details - Spanning Tree

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details - VTP

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details - Stacks

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Device Details – VLANs

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>STS/VC Interfaces​

     • Inventory>Device Management>Device Details>Intra Node LMP​

     • Inventory>Device Management> Configuration Archive> Config Archive Device Table - Deploy Config​

     • Inventory>Device Management>Virtual Image Repository​> Image Repository View

     • Inventory>Device Management> Network Audit

     • Inventory>Group Management>Port Groups>System Defined

  3. Device Groups:

     • Device Groups>Location>All Locations>Civic Location

Note	Most of the device details mentioned are applicable for devices with essential license support.

This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.0. For a list of all support information, click the gear icon at the top right of the web GUI and choose Help > Supported Devices.

Cisco Network Convergence System 1004 —New Operating System Support

Device Model	Device OS
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.3.2
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.5.1
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.5.2
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.7.1
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.7.2
Cisco NCS 1004	IOS-XR 7.8.1
Cisco NCS 1010	IOS-XR 7.7.1

The following table lists the valid paths for installing/upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.0 from previous versions.

See the relevant installation 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.

Cisco EPN Manager software is distributed with all the components necessary for its optimized and secure operation, including the Red Hat Linux operating system and the Oracle database. All security-related configurations, regression testing, performance, and scalability metrics are based on the set of components and configurations included in the original Cisco EPN Manager software distribution. Cisco provides periodic EPN Manager software updates that can also contain necessary updates to the packages installed on the operating system or to the database.

Note that if any of the following changes are made to the original distributed Cisco EPN Manager software, Cisco will no longer support the operating environment:

• Configuration changes to the software or operating system, or installation of other components that are not part of the original distribution.

• Direct installation and application of third-party software on the Red Hat Linux operating system embedded within Cisco EPN Manager.

• Application of updates or patches that are not provided by Cisco to individual Cisco EPN Manager components.

• Changes to the internal Cisco EPN Manager settings that are not documented as modifiable in the Cisco EPN Manager User and Administrator Guide on Cisco.com, as these changes may weaken security, disable functionality, or degrade scalability and performance.

Upgrade Issues

• FTP and TPTP is disabled by default.

• Active Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA) for temperature remain active and are not cleared automatically. Please clear these alarms manually.

• You must resync your devices to view ISIS links.

• You must resync LDP-enabled devices to view LDP feature-related information.

• You must recreate the TCAs for inbound/outbound errors and inbound/outbound discards in the Interface Health monitoring policy.

Limitations on Carrier Ethernet Circuit Provisioning

• Promotion of service using old probe name format is now supported. These probes are listed in the user interface with the appropriate standard OAM Profile name after promotion.

• Sample profile: profile PM2_3_8_CoS5_DM type cfm-delay-measurement.

• While custom profile names are supported in EPN Manager, modifying brownfield services with a different naming format deletes the existing custom profile and adds a new profile with a supported naming format.

• Inventory models do not correctly display the profiles that are not associated to a service.

• Validation limit for number of profiles is 100. If you create a new SLA operation profile after 100 existing profiles, the device generates an error and deployment fails.

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 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, you must upgrade these systems. 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

If you have not provided a value for an attribute while provisioning a service, the provisioned value for that attribute is displayed as “Missing” in the reconciliation report. The device may have a default value for this attribute, but Cisco EPN Manager does configure this value.

Limitations on ME 1200 Devices

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

Limitations on Editing Alarm Notification Policies

If the upgrade conditions of existing categories are different from the condition of categories on 5.1, then the conditions post upgrade will not match. As a result, policy might not be created or UI selection might not take place for the unmatched events. In this case, you should delete the upgraded policies and create a new one.

Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1

The following functionalities do 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 and NCS5500 device series do not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

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.

Deprecation of Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00

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 a Gig Port.

• Open Bugs

• Closed Bugs

• Resolved Bugs

• Get Information about Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.0, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 6.1 Documentation Overview.

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