Release Notes for Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module 6.2

New Features

Smart Licensing

Allows you to extend the evaluation period and permanently use the vNAM without expiration. It also allows you to increase the traffic rate that you can monitor on vNAM, for the purchased license.

See section “SMART Licensing” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

GUI idle timeout

To prevent unauthorized access to the NAM an idle timeout value can be set in Administration > System > Preferences page.

See Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Support for UCSE

vNAM supports deployment on UCSE. You can install UCSE vNAM on VMware ESXi, RHEL KVM Hypervisor.

See Chapter “Installing Cisco UCSE Virtual Network Analysis Module” in Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM) Installation and Configuration Guide for more details.

Support for ACL capture on Nexus 7000 Series

Allows you to configure an ACL capture to selectively monitor traffic on an interface or VLAN. When you enable the capture option for an ACL rule, packets that match this rule are either forwarded or dropped based on the specified permit or deny action and will also be copied to an alternate destination port for further analysis.

See section “Configuring ACL Capture on Nexus 7000 Series” in Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM) Installation and Configuration Guide for more details.

Image signing

Starting with the NAM 6.2 release, NAM images are digitally signed to prevent tampering. Installation of a signed image will abort if the signature is invalid.

See Upgrading the Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software for more details.

Export AVC information through NetFlow Export Templates

NAM allows you create, edit and delete NetFlow Export templates.

See section “Setting Up Data Export” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Video monitor

To monitor the Video streams, choose Analyze > Media > Video Streams from the NAM UI. The Video Streams window allows you to view video stream information, summary statistics on the stream, and per-interval statistics.

See chapter “Monitoring and Analyzing Traffic” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Enhancement or Removed Features

File Sharing to external storage via SMB or SFTP

Allows you to download the NAM data such as capture files and scheduled reports to external storage.

See section “Sharing Files” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

NAM in RISE environment

When NAM is in RISE environment, the VDC selector will be displayed. You can view the VDC selector in Analyze > Managed Device > Interface page.

You can configure LOCAL SPAN session on the SUP using RISE. This option is available for NAM appliance with Nexus 7000 devices only.

See Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Next Generation NAM 2400 Series Appliances

This release provides support for next generation NAM 2440 and NAM 2420 appliances.

See Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) 2400 Series Appliances Installation and Configuration Guide.

High speed ERSPAN  on NAM appliances

The vNAM, NAM 2300 and 2400 series appliances will support ERSPAN termination on the data ports.

See section “Sample Configuration of ERSPAN Source” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

TCP Flags to capture software filters

You can define a software filter to filter based on TCP flag bits.

See section “Understanding Software Capture Filter Options” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Data source labeling and data port aggregation

NAM allows you to combine two or more data sources to generate a consolidated report for analyzing the traffic. Data source labeling is supported on all platforms, whereas data port aggregation is supported only on NAM 2300/2400 and NAM-3.

See section “Aggregating Data Ports Using the Web GUI” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Workflow enhancements

Enhancements include:

• Endpoint global search drill down
• Host conversation detailed views
• Application response time distribution
• Consistency in Application Transaction Time reporting
• NBAR2 protocol pack upload tips
• URL monitoring support on multiple data ports and ERSPAN

See Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Support for secure transfer protocol (sftp/https)

You should enable HTTPS server to allow secure connections to the NAM GUI.

iVxLAN decoding

NAM supports troubleshooting traffic on fabric ports.

Save scheduled exports to local disk

NAM allows you to download and rename a scheduled report.

See section “Scheduling Data Report Exports” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Support site/application/DSCP config's backup and restore

NAM allows you to import or export the site, application, and DSCP details.

See section “Importing/Exporting Configuration Details” in Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.

Dashboard title change

The following dashboard titles have been changed:

Response Time Summary Screen

• From “TOP N Server Response by Server Response Time” to “TOP N Server-Applications by Server Response Time”
• From “TOP N Clients by Transaction Time” to “TOP N Client-Applications by Transaction Time”
• From “TOP N Servers by Bits (In and Out)” to “TOP N Servers by Traffic Rate (In + Out)”
• From “TOP N Clients by Bits (In and Out)” to “Top N Clients by Traffic Rate (In + Out)”

Site Summary Screen

• From “TOP N Site Pairs by Traffic” to “TOP N Application Traffic by Site to Site”
• From “TOP N Sites by Average MOS” to “TOP N Worst Site to Site by Average MOS”

See Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module User Guide for more details.