Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3 Release Notes
Co-Existence With Other Network Management Applications
New and Enhanced Features in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3 Bugs
Fixed Anomalies in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.3
Fixed Anomalies in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.2
Fixed Anomalies in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.1
Cisco Prime Access Registrar (Prime Access Registrar) is a high performance, carrier class, 3GPP-compliant, 64-bit RADIUS/Diameter solution that provides scalable, flexible, intelligent authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services.
Prime Access Registrar comprises a RADIUS/Diameter server designed from the ground up for performance, scalability, and extensibility for deployment in complex service provider environments including integration with external data stores and systems. Session and resource management tools track user sessions and allocate dynamic resources to support new subscriber service introductions.
Note Prime Access Registrar can be used with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x and 8.5 or CentOS 7.x operating system. Also, Prime Access Registrar is qualified with VMWare ESXi 7.0 Update 3, OpenStack Xena.
This section describes the system requirements to install and use the Prime Access Registrar software.
Table 1 lists the system requirements for Prime Access Registrar 9.3.
You must have the 64-bit rpm files for the relevant RHEL versions while installing Prime Access Registrar. For the list of required rpms for the relevant OS versions, see Required 64-bit rpms for Relevant RHEL OS Versions. |
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Prime Access Registrar supports JDK versions 1.8.x and 11.x. Also, Prime Access Registrar is qualified with VMWare ESXi 7.0 Update 3, OpenStack Xena.
Note These are the minimum system requirements to have Prime Access Registrar up and running. This may vary based on the deployments. Please contact your BU team to know the specific system requirements for your deployment.
Required 64-bit rpms for Relevant RHEL OS Versions
To achieve optimal performance, Prime Access Registrar should be the only application running on a given server. In certain cases, when you choose to run collaborative applications such as a SNMP agent, you must configure Prime Access Registrar to avoid UDP port conflicts. The most common conflicts occur when other applications also use ports 2785 and 2786. For more information on SNMP configuration, see the “Configuring SNMP” section in the “Configuring Cisco Prime Access Registrar” chapter of the Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3 Administrator Guide.
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3 provides the following features:
The graphical user interface (GUI) for Prime Access Registrar has been upgraded to Angular Spring Boot framework to address the security vulnerabilities with the existing Struts framework. All the GUI features are maintained intact with the current migration.
Following are the criteria that an admin user password should meet as per the strong password policy settings in Prime Access Registrar.
Also, we recommend that the password:
Note While upgrading from an existing version to Prime Access Registrar 9.3, all admin user passwords will be reset to the default password Aicuser@123.
For information on a specific bug or to search all bugs in a particular Prime Access Registrar release, see Using the Bug Search Tool
This section contains the following information:
Table 2 lists the anomalies fixed in Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.3 release.
Table 3 lists the anomalies fixed in Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.2 release.
Table 4 lists the anomalies fixed in Prime Access Registrar 9.3.0.1 release.
Use the Bug Search tool (BST) to get the latest information about Cisco Prime Access Registrar 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.
When you open the Bug Search page, check the interactive tour to familiarize yourself with these and other Bug Search features.
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. The Bug Search page opens.
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.
Step 2 To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Return.
Step 3 To search for bugs in a particular release:
a. In the Search For field, enter the product name and the release version, e.g. Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3, and press Return. (Leave the other fields empty.)
b. When the search results are displayed, use the filter and sort tools to find the types of bugs you are looking for. You can search for bugs by severity, by status, how recently they were modified, according to the number of support cases associated with them, and so forth.
For a complete list of Cisco Prime Access Registrar documentation, see the Cisco Prime Access Registrar 9.3 Documentation Overview.
Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.