Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Release Notes
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Release Notes
Upgrading Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
New Mobility Support for Cisco 2500, 3650, 3850, 5508, and WiSM2 Platforms
Support for Cisco Catalyst 3650
Application Visibility: Preview Option
Application Visibility: Defining AVC Policy per Interface
Application Visibility: Adding Visual Indication for Activated Interface
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Release Notes
Last Updated: 10 October, 2014
These release notes contain the following sections:
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Installation Guidelines
- Upgrading Cisco Prime Infrastructure
- Submitting Feedback
- Prime Infrastructure Licenses
- Supported Devices
- Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
- New Features and Enhancements
- Important Notes
- Open Caveats
- Resolved Caveats
- Related Documentation
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
The Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management tool that supports lifecycle management of your entire network infrastructure from one graphical interface. Prime Infrastructure provides network administrators with a single solution for provisioning, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting both wired and wireless devices. Robust graphical interfaces make device deployments and operations simple and cost-effective.
Prime Infrastructure provides two different graphical user interfaces (from which you can switch back and forth by clicking the downward arrow next to your login name):
- Lifecycle view, which is organized according to the home, design, deploy, operate, report and administer menus. For more information on features of the Prime Infrastructure Lifecycle view, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 User Guide .
- Classic view, which closely corresponds to the graphical user interface in Cisco Prime Network Control System 1.1 or Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS). For more information on features of the Prime Infrastructure Classic view, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Classic View Configuration Guide for Wireless Devices, Release 2.1 .
System Requirements
For more information on server and web client requirements, see the System Requirements section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Quick Start Guide
Installation Guidelines
For detailed information about installing this release of Prime Infrastructure, see the Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Quick Start Guide
Upgrading Cisco Prime Infrastructure
For detailed information about upgrading from previous releases of Prime Infrastructure, including the list of versions from which you can upgrade, see the Upgrading Cisco Prime Infrastructure section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Quick Start Guide .
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Prime Infrastructure Licenses
For detailed information on Prime Infrastructure licensing, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Ordering and Licensing Guide .
Supported Devices
To see the list of devices supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure:
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You can also view the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Supported Devices list at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/products-device-support-tables-list.html
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Table 1 lists the wireless devices and their software versions that are supported by Prime Infrastructure 2.1.
For detailed information on the software compatibility for the Cisco wireless devices, see the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html
To view the Prime Infrastructure supported devices for switches, wireless LAN controllers, access point images, Identity Services Engine (ISE), and mobility services engines (MSE), see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Supported Devices list at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/products-device-support-tables-list.html
New Features and Enhancements
This section provides a brief description of what is new in this release. For more information about the features and benefits, as well as hardware and software specifications, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Data Sheet at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/products_data_sheets_list.htmlNew Mobility Support for Cisco 2500, 3650, 3850, 5508, and WiSM2 Platforms
- Hierarchical Mobility is referred to as New Mobility in the wireless LAN controller configuration. Prime Infrastructure 2.1 supports the new mobility functionality for Cisco 2500, Cisco 5508, and WiSM2 platforms that run Cisco WLC 7.6.
- Mobility work center discovers 5508 and WISM 2 upgraded to 7.6 image and provide necessary operations related to building hierarchical mobility architecture involving device types such as 2500, 5508 and WISM 2.
- Mobility work center discovers 3650 and 3850 as Mobility Agents.
- When deploying the hierarchical mobility architecture, the wireless features such as WLAN, VLAN, security, guest anchor can be configured on Cisco 5508 and WiSM2 using the LifeCycle view.
- Deploying the flat mobility architecture on Cisco 5508 and WiSM2 would be supported only in classic view and entire wireless configuration would be left as it is in classic and LifeCycle view.
For more information about the new mobility functionality on Cisco WLC, see the Hierarchical Mobility (New Mobility) the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Lightweight Access Points for Release 7.3.112.0 Release Notes at:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn7_3_112_0.html#wp105455 7
Support for Cisco Catalyst 3650
Prime Infrastructure 2.1 enables you to manage Cisco Catalyst 3650. For more information about Cisco Catalyst 3650, see
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3650-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-729449.htmlSupport for New Access Points
Prime Infrastructure 2.1 enables you to manage Cisco WLC Releases 7.5.102.0 and 7.6.100.0 with the features of Cisco WLC 7.4.121.0 and earlier releases. Prime Infrastructure 2.1 does not support any features that are introduced in Cisco WLC Releases 7.5.102.0 and 7.6.100.0 except the new access point platforms and the new mobility feature. Prime Infrastructure 2.1 supports the following access points.
- Cisco Aironet 3700 Series Access Points are supported. For more information, see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13367/index.html .
Note Cisco Aironet 3700p Series Access Points, which are dual-band Cisco WLC-based 802.11a/g/n/ac APs for high-density environments, with narrow beam width and high-gain antennas, are supported. Heat map is generated for all the supported antennas of 3700P access point.
- 3700I/E
- 3700P
- Cisco AP3600 with 802.11ac
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- Cisco Aironet 1530 Series Outdoor Access Points are supported. For more information, see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12831/index.html .- 1530I/E
- 3600P
- Cisco Aironet 3600 Series Access Points are supported with 802.11ac module.
Changes to Antenna Band Mode
The 1530E AP model (with external antennas) operates the 5.0 GHz band in one of two antenna band modes. In the single band mode, the 5.0 radio uses antenna ports 3 and 4, each with a single band antenna, while the 2.4 radio uses antenna ports 1 and 2, each also with its own single band antenna. In the dual band mode, only two dual band antennas are used, connected to ports 1 and 2. In this case, both radios share these antennas. This can be configured from AP config page and by using AP templates.
Zone-Based Firewall
In Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 2.1, you can specify the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port range in the firewall rule service. When you add a new rule or edit an existing rule under the Service column, click object selector to assign the TCP / UDP, and click OK . You can define the port numbers in the text box that appears near the protocol icon. Also, you can define the port range in the format of <start-port-number>-<end-port-number>, and this range can be configured for that specific protocol (TCP or UDP).
Application Visibility: Preview Option
In Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 2.1, you can preview the Application Visibility CLIs before deploying the CLIs. From the DWC > Configuration > Application Visibility > AVC Interfaces , click Enable Preview from the toolbar. You can toggle between enable or disable to preview the CLIs.
After the Preview is enabled, you can select the interfaces, and click Enable pre-defined ARC Policy or Disable pre-defined AVC Policy . A pop-up window appears which contains all the commands that are to be deployed to the device. The CLI preview window contains all the commands that are necessary for configuring the specific device to the pre-defined configuration and only the difference between the intended configuration and the current configuration on the device is sent.
For example, if the device was previously deployed with the same set of configuration and no other CLI is necessary to configure the device then the preview window does not display any CLI commands. After reviewing the configuration, you may continue and deploy the configuration on the device. If the preview option is disabled, the configuration will be immediately deployed to the device without displaying the CLI commands in the preview window.
Application Visibility: Defining AVC Policy per Interface
In Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 2.1, the application visibility feature displays the user define AVC policy per interface in application visibility interfaces. In the DWC > Configuration > Application Visibility > AVC Interfaces , the column “ Template Name” has been renamed to “AVC Policy.” There are several options that can be displayed:
- If the application visibility control is configured on the interface using the Application Visibility Template, the Template <template-name> will be shown.
- If the application visibility control is configured for that interface using the “one-click” option, by clicking the Enable AVC Policy on the toolbar, the Default value will be shown.
- If the application visibility control is configured out-of-band, manually by the user via CLI, the Custom value will be shown.
Application Visibility: Adding Visual Indication for Activated Interface
In Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 2.1, you can add an explicit visual indication for the interface that this activated with the application visibility control. The application visibility control status column displays the status of application visibility control for the specific interface. This is enabled with a V icon if the interface is configured with the application visibility control configuration. The column is left empty if the interface is not configured with the application visibility control configuration.
MSE Admin User Interface
In Cisco Prime Infrastructure release 2.1, you can launch the new MSE Admin UI and configure the MSE services by clicking the MSE name link from Services > Mobility Services Engines page. To view the legacy MSE UI, you should unselect the Use MSE Admin View check box in Administration > User Preferences page. By default, this check box is selected.
The MSE Admin UI allows you to:
- View and manage MSE services
- Configure MSE settings
- View MSE maps
- Get quick information via live tiles
If you have added MSE to Prime Infrastructure using a private VLAN IP address, you will not be able to access MSE Admin UI. However, you can view and configure MSE using the legacy MSE UI.
Important Notes
This section contains important notes about Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
- If you have a large, dynamic network with a high range of roaming, some of the Prime Infrastructure monitoring and configuring screens might show different data for the same devices. For some monitoring screens, Prime Infrastructure displays data it retrieves directly from the devices. For configuration screens, Prime Infrastructure polls the devices, and because polling takes longer because of the network load, the configuration data might not refresh quickly. This limitation occurs primarily on client management screens because of client roaming in wireless networks and the increasing size and client density in such networks. Currently there is no workaround, but in subsequent releases of Wireless Controller software and Prime Infrastructure, enhancements are planned to improve data collection.
- The CCX Client Statistics report does not contain client information from the Cisco 5760 Wireless Controller and Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches.
- Client Statistics—The client statistics data displayed in the CLI output and Prime Infrastructure UI (in the Clients and Users page) are different. This is because the CLI output displays the upstream (data sent to client) and downstream (data received from client) packet/byte count from the AP’s point of view, whereas, the Prime Infrastructure UI displays the upstream (data sent to AP and network) and downstream (data received from AP and network) packet/byte count from client's point of view.
- Support for Cisco 3850 and 5760 devices are available in the Lifecycle view only.
- When an 802.11ac module is installed on an Cisco 3600 AP (which is already present in Prime Infrastructure), it performs a Refresh Config operation from the Controller once the AP comes up. Similarly, when an 802.11ac module is removed from AP 3600 (which is already present in Prime Infrastructure), it performs a Refresh Config from Controller operation once the AP comes up. This behavior is applicable for the WSSI module on Cisco 3600 and 3700 access points.
- The administrator should perform a “Refresh Config from Controller” or “Sync” operation for each of the network devices in Prime Infrastructure after the devices are upgraded (or the version is changed). Similarly, the administrator should perform a “Refresh Config from Controller” or “Sync” operation for each network device in Prime Infrastructure after the Prime Infrastructure server is upgraded from one release to another. These operations should be performed so that Prime Infrastructure can discover all the new features.
- When you add Cisco 3850 and 5760 devices to configuration archive, ensure that TFTP is aware of the VRF default configuration. To do this configuration, use the following command:
- You cannot apply wIPS profile to WLC 7.5 and earlier release using Prime Infrastructure 1.4.x or Prime Infrastructure 2.x with MSE 7.6 release.
- SWIM Image Management—On unified WLC devices, the following features are not supported:
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- NetFlow data from Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is not supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure.
- If your browser prompts you to save your password, make sure click no and do not allow the browser to save any passwords. If necessary, disable the password save option in your browser.
Open Caveats
Table 2 lists the Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 2.1.
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the caveat. This information is displayed in the Bug Search Tool. You can track the status of the open caveats using the Bug Search Tool .
Resolved Caveats
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the caveat. This information is displayed in the Bug Search Tool. You can track the status of the resolved caveats using the Bug Search Tool .
Related Documentation
You can access additional Cisco Prime Infrastructure documentation at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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