Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Quick Start Guide
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Quick Start Guide
About Cisco Prime Infrastructure Licensing
Understanding System Requirements
Improving Performance on Gen2 Appliances
If You Are Upgrading From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
If You Are Running Multiple Prime Infrastructure Versions
Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure Deploying the OVA from the VMware vSphere Client
Migrating Data From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
Assurance Data after Migration
Resynchronizing WLC Configurations
Logging in to the Prime Infrastructure User Interface
Getting Started Using Prime Infrastructure
Ports Used by Prime Infrastructure and Assurance
Removing the Prime Infrastructure Virtual Appliance
Navigation and Documentation Reference
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Quick Start Guide
Overview
This section provides basic information about the product and this Guide.
About This Guide
This guide describes how to install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
For detailed information about configuring and managing this product, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide and the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide .
This guide explains how to install Prime Infrastructure as an OVA on customer-supplied hardware. Prime Infrastructure is also available as a hardware appliance. For information on how to install the appliance, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide .
Product Overview
Prime Infrastructure provides a single integrated solution for comprehensive lifecycle management of the wired or wireless access, campus, and branch networks, and rich visibility into end-user connectivity and application performance assurance issues. Prime Infrastructure accelerates the rollout of new services, secure access and management of mobile devices, making “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) a reality for corporate IT. Tightly coupling client awareness with application performance visibility and network control, Prime Infrastructure helps ensure uncompromised end-user quality of experience. Deep integration with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) further extends this visibility across security and policy-related problems, presenting a complete view of client access issues with a clear path to solving them.
Key Features
- An overview of Prime Infrastructure features and benefits, see the latest Cisco Prime Infrastructure Data Sheets .
- Information about frequently used Prime Infrastructure features, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide.
- Information about features intended for administrators, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide.
About Cisco Prime Infrastructure Licensing
Prime Infrastructure licenses control the features that you can use and the number of devices you can manage using those features. For more information about:
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure license types and how to order them, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Ordering and Licensing Guide .
- How to apply purchased licenses, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide.
Before You Install
Complete the tasks in the following sections before installing Prime Infrastructure.
- Understanding System Requirements
- Scaling Prime Infrastructure
- If You Are Upgrading From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
Understanding System Requirements
Prime Infrastructure comes in two main forms:
- Virtual : The Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance is packaged as an Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) file, which must be installed on a user-supplied, qualified server running VMware ESXi. This form allows you to run on the server hardware of your choice. You can also install the virtual appliance in any of four configurations, each optimized for a different size of enterprise network. For hardware requirements and capacities for each of the virtual appliance’s size options, see Virtual Appliance Options .
- Physical : The physical appliance is packaged as a rack-mountable server, with Prime Infrastructure pre-installed and configured for you. For physical appliance hardware specifications and capacities, see Physical Appliance Options.
Virtual Appliance Options
During installation, you can choose one of four deployment configuration options. Table 1 summarizes the minimum server requirements for each option.
You can install any of the Prime Infrastructure options as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA), running under VMWare ESXi, on your own hardware. If you choose this implementation, the server that you supply must meet or exceed the requirements shown in the table for the option that you select.
Prime Infrastructure is also available pre-installed on Cisco-supplied hardware as a physical appliance. See the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide for more information.
For maximum management capacities for each installation option, see Scaling Prime Infrastructure.
Physical Appliance Options
Prime Infrastructure is available on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Appliance. Prime Infrastructure 3.0 is not supported on the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 1). Prime Infrastructure 3.0 is supported on Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based). You can upgrade a Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 2, UCS Based) appliance running Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x to Prime Infrastructure 3.0. Table 2 describes the physical appliance options.
Table 2 Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance Options for the Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based)
Max groups2
Improving Performance on Gen2 Appliances
For better performance on the Prime Infrastructure Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based), make sure you configure the virtual drive Write Policy to Write Back Good BBU. To configure the virtual drive Write Policy, follow these steps:
Step 1 Launch the CIMC web interface (see “ Setting Up the Appliance ” in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Appliance Hardware Installation Guide ).
Step 2 Click the Storage tab, click on the SAS Modular Controller name, click the Virtual Drive tab, then click Edit Virtual Drive .
Step 3 Click OK on the dialog box that appears.
Step 4 In the Write Policy field, select Write Back Good BBU , then click Save Changes .
Web Client Requirements
Prime Infrastructure users access the product using a web browser client. Web client requirements are:
- Hardware—A Mac or Windows laptop or desktop compatible with one of the following tested and supported browsers:
– Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, or 11 (No plug-ins are required.)
- Display resolution—Prime Infrastructure supports 1366 x 768 or higher, but we recommend that you set the screen resolution to 1600 x 900.
If you are using Google Chrome version 44, you may get an error that says “ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE”. This is a known Chrome issue, which you can read about at the following URL: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-discuss/4ctMmhOTDFg .
Google is planning to fix this issue in Chrome version 45. See the following URL for status: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=473390
To work around this issue, use signed certificates (recommended) or downgrade Chrome to version 43. For information about creating a signed certificate, see Obtaining and Importing CA-Signed Certificates in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Scaling Prime Infrastructure
Prime Infrastructure comes with a variety of server installation options (see Understanding System Requirements ). Ensure that you select an option appropriate for the size and complexity of your network.
Table 3 lists the maximum number of devices, clients, events, NetFlow-related data flows, and other scale parameters for each option. For example, the Professional option can manage 200,000 wireless clients and 50,000 wired clients.
Table 3 Supported Scale for Prime Infrastructure Installation Options (includes Assurance)
Changing Clients (every 5 minutes)4
NetFlow Rate (flows per second)5
Groups: User-Defined + Out of the Box + Device Groups + Port Groups
3.Compliance is supported on the Professional virtual appliance (OVA) and the Gen 2, UCS-based physical appliance only. It is not supported on: Express, Express Plus, or Standard OVAs; OVAs that have been resized to Professional; Gen 1 physical appliances. If you are running Prime Infrastructure on an unsupported OVA or physical appliance and want to enable Compliance, you must perform a fresh install of the 3.0 Professional OVA or Gen2 UCS appliance, then use backup/restore to migrate data from your old server to the new server. See Enabling Compliance Services in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide.
Scaling for Operations Center
When using Operations Center, we recommend you:
- Use the Standard OVA installation option.
- Ensure that your network is providing the following performance levels between Operations Center and its managed devices:
– Latency—up to 5 ms. This is not a hard requirement, but Operations Center will only be as fast as its slowest managed instance. The higher the latency, the slower the overall performance. Use the Network Latency column on the Operations Center Manage & Monitor Servers page to spot managed instances that may be acting as bottlenecks.
Table 4 lists the Operations Center parameters.
See Table 2 for physical appliance options and Table 3 for installation option scaling information. For more information, see Setting Up Operations Center in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Scaling for Data Center
Table 5 lists the Data Center parameters.
If You Are Upgrading From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
You can upgrade the following Prime Infrastructure versions to Prime Infrastructure 3.0:
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.3
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.2
- Data Center Technology Package 1.0.0 for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.1
- Wireless Technology Package 1.0.0 for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.1
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.1
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2
If your product/version is not in this list, to upgrade to 3.0, you must first upgrade to version 2.2.x at a minimum.
You cannot upgrade to Prime Infrastructure 3.0 if you installed version 2.2.x in FIPS mode.
Prime Infrastructure Installation and upgrade files downloaded from Cisco.com are all archive files. Please extract them before using them to install or upgrade.
If you are running multiple versions of Prime Infrastructure from which you want to migrate data, see If You Are Running Multiple Prime Infrastructure Versions .
Remember that backups can only be restored to a new Prime Infrastructure server that is the same size or bigger than your previous server. See Scaling Prime Infrastructure .
Before you upgrade from Prime Operations Center 2.2.x to 3.0, make sure you upgrade any Prime Infrastructure instances that are managed in Prime Operation Center from Prime Infrastructure 2.2.X to Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
To back up your data from a previous supported version of Prime Infrastructure, follow these steps:
Step 1 If you have not already done so: Set up a remote backup repository for the Prime Infrastructure version you are currently running. For details, see Using Remote Backup Repositories in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 2 Take an application backup of the Prime Infrastructure version you are currently running, and store the backup in the remote repository. For details, see Taking Application Backups in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 3 Verify the integrity of the backup as explained in Validating Your Backup .
If You Are Running Multiple Prime Infrastructure Versions
If you are running multiple previous releases of Prime Infrastructure (for example, you are running version 2.2 and 2.2.1 or 2.2.2), you must select one version from which to restore data. You cannot restore data from more than one Prime Infrastructure version. To combine data from multiple Prime Infrastructure versions:
1. Perform the restore operation for one Prime Infrastructure system running a previous Prime Infrastructure version. See Migrating Data From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure .
2. Export your device inventory and maps from other Prime Infrastructure systems and import the information into the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 system.
Validating Your Backup
You should check the validity of your Prime Infrastructure backup data by setting up an additional Prime Infrastructure server (either a spare Prime Infrastructure appliance or a new Prime Infrastructure virtual machine) and perform the restore operation as explained in Restoring From Application Backups in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide . If you do not have an additional Prime Infrastructure system to validate the backup, take at least two backups to reduce the risk of losing data.
If the restore operation does not work, or there are problems with the backed up image, try taking another backup from a production system, or try restoring from an earlier Prime Infrastructure backup.
If you cannot create a verified backup before installing this version of Prime Infrastructure, open a support case with Cisco TAC.
Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Follow the instructions in this section to install Prime Infrastructure.
- Before You Begin Installation
- Performing an Inline Upgrade
- Deploying the OVA from the VMware vSphere Client
- Installing the Server
Before You Begin Installation
Before installing Prime Infrastructure on a virtual machine, you must:
- Ensure that VMware ESXi is installed and configured on the machine that you plan to use as the Prime Infrastructure server. See the VMware documentation for information on setting up and configuring a VMware host. If you are using VMware ESX 5.5, you must use vSphere Client or ESX5.5U2 Client to manage the virtual machine. Do not edit the virtual machine settings and do not extend or manually add additional disks to the configuration.
- Check that the installed VMware ESXi host is reachable. See the VMware documentation on how to install the VMware vSphere Client. After the virtual host is available on the network, you can browse to its IP address to display a web-based interface from which you can install the VMware vSphere Client.
- Ensure that the Prime Infrastructure OVA is saved to the same machine where your VMware vSphere Client is installed. Depending on your arrangement with Cisco, you may download the OVA file from Cisco.com or use your Cisco-supplied installation media.
- If you download the OVA: Extract the PI-VA-3.0.0.0.78.ova file contained in the PI-VA-3.0.0.0.78.ova.zip archive file downloaded from Cisco.com. Then ensure that the extracted file matches the following checksums:
– MD5 Checksum: eb20a7542d48d97740a4ad412c82f0cf
– SHA512 Checksum: 54850a0a35009fad54b707624605cd3715ffe0ea66fc446db4053c399d563c4374fcf8a0122ff4d447e072f27764fc0523f6b140a995d33daacf706a9c3f2134
Note Prime Infrastructure 3.0 does not support FIPS mode installation. You cannot perform an inline upgrade or restore from a backup Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x in FIPS mode to Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
Performing an Inline Upgrade
Inline upgrade is simpler than system migration, and requires no new hardware. The following steps explain how to upgrade from Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x to Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
Note If you are upgrading from a Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x virtual machine, you should create a new virtual machine with the same deployment configuration option you used previously (for example, Express, Express-Plus, Standard, or Professional), back up your existing virtual machine, and then restore it on the new virtual machine. Perform an inline upgrade from Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x, then delete the old virtual machine after the upgraded virtual machine is fully operational.
Step 1 If you have not already done so: Set up a remote backup repository for the Prime Infrastructure version you are currently running. For details, see Using Remote Backup Repositories in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 2 Take an application backup of the Prime Infrastructure version you are currently running, and store the backup in the remote repository. For details, see Taking Application Backups in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 3 Verify the integrity of the backup as explained in Validating Your Backup .
Step 4 Remove any existing High Availability configuration from your primary and secondary Prime Infrastructure servers. You can do this using either of the following options:
Step 5 Download the PI-Upgrade-3.0.0.0.78.tar.gz.zip archive file from Cisco.com and verify the archive’s integrity using the checksum listed for it on Cisco.com.
Step 6 Extract the upgrade file, PI-Upgrade-3.0.0.0.78.tar.gz, from the downloaded ZIP archive and ensure the extracted file matches the following checksums:
Step 7 Copy the extracted and verified upgrade file to the default repository:
Step 8 Stop the Prime Infrastructure server by entering the command ncs stop .
Step 9 Run the application upgrade:
This step can take 40 minutes or more to complete, depending on the size of the application database.
Step 10 When the upgrade is complete:
- Verify that the application is running by entering the ncs status command in the admin console.
- Instruct users to clear the browser cache on all client machines that accessed an older version of Prime Infrastructure before they try to connect to the upgraded Prime Infrastructure server.
- If you were using external AAA (RADIUS or TACACS) before the upgrade, see Renewing AAA Settings in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
- If you are using Prime Infrastructure to manage Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, see Resynchronizing WLC Configurations .
- Synchronize your devices as explained in Synchronizing Devices in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide .
Deploying the OVA from the VMware vSphere Client
Make sure that all of the system requirements are met before you deploy the OVA. Review the sections Understanding System Requirements and Before You Begin Installation .
Step 1 Launch your VMware vSphere Client and connect to the ESXi host or vCenter server.
Step 2 Choose File > Deploy OVF Template .
Step 3 Click Browse to access the location where you have saved the OVA file on your local machine, then click Next .
Step 4 Verify the details on the OVF template details page, then click Next .
Step 5 In the End User License Agreement window, click Accept , then click Next .
Step 6 In the Name and Location window, specify:
Step 8 In the Deployment Configuration window, select the desired configuration (for example, Express, Standard, Professional, etc.) and view the resources required for the configuration you selected.
Note We recommend you reserve 100% of CPU and memory resources for optimal performance.
Step 10 In the Host/Cluster window, select the host or cluster on which you want to deploy the OVF template, then click Next . (If the vSphere Client is connected directly to an ESXi host, this option does not appear.)
Step 11 In the Storage window, select the datastore that has the required space requirements described in Understanding System Requirements , then click Next .
Step 12 In the Disk Format window, select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed to provision the virtual machine virtual disks, then click Next . Do not select Thin Provision because if there is no free disk space when the virtual machine needs it, Prime Infrastructure will fail.
Step 13 In the Network Mapping window, select a network for the virtual machine to use, then click Next .
Step 14 In the Ready to Complete window, review your settings, select Power on After Deployment , then click Finish.
Depending on your network speed and the IOPS of the server, the deployment can take a few minutes to complete.
Installing the Server
After you deploy the Prime Infrastructure OVA, you must configure the virtual appliance to install and start Prime Infrastructure.
Step 1 If the virtual machine is not already powered on, in the VMware vSphere Client, right-click the deployed virtual appliance and choose Power > Power On .
After the server boots up, you’ll see the localhost login prompt.
Step 3 At the localhost login prompt, enter setup .
Step 4 The console prompts you for the following parameters:
- Hostname—The host name of the virtual appliance.
- IP Address—The IP address of the virtual appliance.
- IP default netmask—The default subnet mask for the IP address.
- IP default gateway—The IP address of the default gateway.
- Default DNS domain—The default domain name.
- Primary nameserver—The IP address of the primary name server.
- Secondary name servers—The IP address if the secondary name server, if available. You can add up to three secondary name servers.
- Primary NTP server—The IP address or host name of the primary Network Time Protocol server you want to use. (time.nist.gov is the default).
- Secondary NTP servers—The IP addresses or host names of the secondary NTP servers to be used when the primary is not available.
- System Time Zone—The time zone code you want to use . See System Timezones in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide .
- Clock time—The clock time based on the server’s time zone.
- Username—The name of the first administrative user (known as “admin”). This is the administrator account used to log in to the server via the console or SSH. You can accept the default, which is admin.
- Password—Enter the admin user password and then confirm it.
Tip Keep your Prime Infrastructure password in a safe place. If you forget the password, see Recovering Administrator Passwords on Virtual Appliances in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide.
Step 5 When you are done entering these values, the installer application tests the network configuration parameters that you entered. If the tests are successful, it begins installing Prime Infrastructure.
Step 6 When the application installation is complete, you will be prompted for the following post-installation parameters:
- High Availability Role Selection—Enter yes at the prompt if you want this installed server to serve as the secondary server in a high availability implementation. You will be prompted to provide an authentication key to be used for high availability registration. If you enter no at the prompt, the server will act as the primary server (standalone) and the installation will proceed with the following prompts:
- Web Interface Root Password—Enter and confirm the password used for the default root administrator. This is the account used to log in to the Prime Infrastructure web user interface for the first time and set up other user accounts.
Step 7 Select Yes to proceed with the installation, or select No to re-enter high availability options.
Step 8 When the installation is complete, the appliance reboots and you are presented with a login prompt.
Step 9 Log in to the virtual machine using the “admin” username and password that you specified in Step 4.
Step 10 Run the ncs status command (see Checking Prime Infrastructure Server Status in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide ) to verify that the processes have restarted. You should see the following process statuses:
Post-Installation Tasks
Follow the instructions in this section once you have finished installing Prime Infrastructure.
- Migrating Data From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
- Logging in to the Prime Infrastructure User Interface
- Getting Started Using Prime Infrastructure
Migrating Data From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure
To restore your data from Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x to your newly installed Prime Infrastructure 3.0 server, follow these steps:
Step 1 Configure the new Prime Infrastructure host to use the same remote backup repository as the old host. For details, see Using Remote Backup Repositories in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 2 Restore the application backup on the remote repository to the new host, as explained in Restoring From Application Backups in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 3 When the process is complete:
- Instruct users to clear the browser cache on all client machines that accessed an older version of Prime Infrastructure before they try to connect to the upgraded Prime Infrastructure server.
- If you are using Prime Infrastructure to manage Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, see Resynchronizing WLC Configurations .
- Synchronize your devices as explained in Synchronizing Devices in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide .
Step 4 After the new Prime Infrastructure 3.0 server is operational, decommission your previous server.
Assurance Data after Migration
After restoring Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x on a new Prime Infrastructure 3.0 virtual machine or hardware appliance, your Assurance license is automatically applied to the new server.
When you move your data to Prime Infrastructure 3.0, the following Assurance data is not migrated:
- Raw NetFlow information
- Custom NetFlow reports
- Packet capture files
- Processed non-aggregated data, such as PFR data and URLs
Aggregated data is migrated depending on from which version of Prime Infrastructure the data is backed up and then restored:
Resynchronizing WLC Configurations
After you restore the backup of the previous version on the 2.2.x version of Prime Infrastructure, your server’s records of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller configurations might be out of sync with the configurations stored on those devices. Resynchronize them using the following steps before continuing.
Step 1 Log in to Prime Infrastructure.
Step 2 Choose Inventory > Network Devices > Wireless Controller . Prime Infrastructure displays a list of all the controllers it is managing, including all Cisco WLCs.
Step 3 Select a device, then click Sync .
Step 4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all your other WLCs.
Logging in to the Prime Infrastructure User Interface
We strongly recommend you use signed certificates to ensure secure connections between clients and the Prime Infrastructure server. For information about creating a signed certificate, see Obtaining and Importing CA-Signed Certificates in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Follow these steps to log in to the Prime Infrastructure user interface through a web browser:
Step 1 Launch one of the Supported Browsers (see Understanding System Requirements ) on a different computer from the one on which you installed and started Prime Infrastructure.
Step 2 In the browser’s address line, enter https: //ipaddress , where ipaddress is the IP address of the server on which you installed Prime Infrastructure. The Prime Infrastructure user interface displays the Login window.
When you access Prime Infrastructure for the first time, some browsers will display a warning that the site is untrusted. When this happens, follow the prompts to add a security exception and download the self-signed certificate from the Prime Infrastructure server. After you complete this procedure, the browser will accept the Prime Infrastructure server as a trusted site in all future login attempts.
Step 3 Enter the root administrator username and password, as specified when Installing the Server .
Step 4 Click Login to log in to Prime Infrastructure. The user interface is now active and available for use. The home page appears.
If any licensing problems occur, a message appears in an alert box. If you have an evaluation license, the number of days until the license expires is shown. You are also alerted to any expired licenses. You have the option to go directly to the Administration > Licenses page to address these problems.
Step 5 To ensure system security, choose Administration > Users, Roles & AAA > Change Password to change the password for the root administrator.
To exit the user interface, close the browser page or click Logout in the top-right corner of the page. Exiting a Prime Infrastructure user interface session does not shut down Prime Infrastructure on the server.
If a system administrator stops the Prime Infrastructure server during your Prime Infrastructure user interface session, your session ends, and the browser displays this message: “The page cannot be displayed.” Your session does not re-associate to Prime Infrastructure when the server restarts. You must start a new Prime Infrastructure session.
Getting Started Using Prime Infrastructure
After you install Prime Infrastructure, you must perform additional tasks to begin managing your network. If you are an administrator, see the following sections in the Administrator Setup Tasks in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide:
- Configuring Data Sources for Prime Infrastructure with Assurance , including enabling NetFlow and Performance Agent.
- Managing Disk Space Issues on Prime Infrastructure servers.
- Renewing AAA Settings .
- Prime Infrastructure Software Updates
For information about installing the Cisco Plug and Play Application, see the Cisco Plug and Play Application Solutions Guide .
Users should complete the tasks listed in the “Getting Started” chapter of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide . After you complete these tasks, you are ready to start monitoring and configuring your network.
Reference Information
The following sections provide reference information about Prime Infrastructure and its support options.
- Ports Used by Prime Infrastructure and Assurance
- Removing the Prime Infrastructure Virtual Appliance
- Navigation and Documentation Reference
- Related Documentation
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Ports Used by Prime Infrastructure and Assurance
Table 6 lists the ports used by Prime Infrastructure and Assurance. These ports must be open in firewalls if you are using these services.
To initiate SSH connection to endpoints during troubleshooting processes
Browser access to Prime Infrastructure via HTTPS (enabled by default). This port is also used to check for software updates between the Prime Infrastructure server and cisco.com.
To configure high availability database connection between the primary and secondary Prime Infrastructure
Authenticate Prime Infrastructure users via RADIUS Remote Access Server
9991 1
Range of ports used for passive FTP file transfers (controller backups, device configurations, report retrieval, and so on)
110116
616177
Removing the Prime Infrastructure Virtual Appliance
Removing Prime Infrastructure using the following method will permanently delete all data on the server, including server settings and local backups. You will be unable to restore your data unless you have a remote backup. For other methods of removal, see Removing Prime Infrastructure in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide .
Step 1 In the VMware vSphere client, right-click the Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance.
Step 2 Power off the virtual appliance.
Step 3 Click Delete from Disk to remove the Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance.
Navigation and Documentation Reference
This section provides information about navigational paths to access Prime Infrastructure features, and the details of the sections where the features are covered in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide .
Related Documentation
The Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Documentation Overview lists all documentation available for Prime Infrastructure:
Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation , which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
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