Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Release Notes
Cisco End User License Agreement
Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release
Installing the Maintenance Release from Cisco Site
Installing the Maintenance Release from Local Storage
Installing the Maintenance Release in High Availability Mode
Migrating from Previous Releases of Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Prime Infrastructure Report Data Retention Periods
Support for -B Regulatory Domain for Access Points
Cisco Aironet 2800 Series and 3800 Series APs
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
This document contains the following sections:
This is the first maintenance release for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.
You can install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.
Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release file PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf is approximately 225MB. The download and install can take up to 20 minutes depending on the available network connection in the enterprise environment.
You can reduce the install time by:
Manually downloading the file to your local storage. Choose Administration > Software Updates > Upload and to upload the downloaded file in Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server. Click Install to install the update.
Directly installing the update from the Software Updates web page. The overall install time can be reduced if you have enabled network proxy to cisco.com.
For more details, see Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
This software is governed by the Cisco End User License Agreement available at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/general/warranty/English/EU1KEN_.html
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 collects anonymous usage data to help improve the product. By using this product, you are providing your consent to collect your usage data.
For more information, or to opt out at any time, go to System Settings > General > Help Us Improve.
For more information on server and web client requirements, see the Understanding System Requirements section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
The following sections explain how to install the maintenance release.
Since the maintenance release is not removable, it is important to have a way to revert your system to the original version in case hardware or software problems cause the maintenance release installation to fail.
To ensure you can do this, take a backup of your system before downloading and installing this UBF maintenance release.
To restore the backup of the Prime Infrastructure 3.1 installation, follow these steps:
1. Reinstall Prime Infrastructure 3.1 from an OVA or ISO distribution.
2. Restore the data from the backup that you made before applying the maintenance release 3.1.1
Similarly, if you are running Prime Infrastructure 3.1 in a Virtual Machine (VM) and your organization permits taking VM snapshots, stop Prime Infrastructure and use the VMware client to take a VM snapshot before applying this maintenance release. Store the snapshot in an external storage repository, and restore from the snapshot if the maintenance release installation is unsuccessful.
If you are installing this maintenance release as part of a High Availability (HA) implementation, see Before You Begin Setting Up High Availability in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Administration Guide.
Make sure that you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release.
To install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 from the Cisco site, follow these steps:
Step 1 Log in to the Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server.
Step 2 Choose Administration > Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update.
Step 4 Log in with your cisco.com credentials and click Yes or No in the Remember Credentials pop-up dialogue box.
Step 5 Click Show Details in the Critical Fixes pane to view the updates.
Step 6 Click Download corresponding to the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release file name PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf.
Step 7 Click Install to install the maintenance release.
Step 8 Click Yes in the popup dialogue box to install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1. The Cisco Prime Infrastructure server will restart automatically.It may take approximately 25 to 35 minutes for the installation process to complete.
Step 9 You can verify the maintenance release installation from Prime Infrastructure Login under Critical Fixes by clicking View Installed Updates and also by logging into the server and choosing Administration > Software Update. You should see a listing for the maintenance release in the Updates tab, with Installed in the Status column.
Note We recommend you to take backup immediately after successful installation of Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1.
Make sure that you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release.
To install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 from the local storage, follow these steps:
Step 1 Download the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf from Home > Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Network Management Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.1 > Prime Infrastructure Patches-3.1.1 and save the file in your local system.
Step 2 Log in to Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server.
Step 3 Choose Administration > Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update.
Step 4 Click Upload and browse to the location where you have saved the maintenance release file. Click OK to upload the file.
Step 5 In the Status of Updates pane, click the Files tab and check whether PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf is listed under FileName column.
Step 6 In the Critical Fixes pane, click Install.
Step 7 Click Yes in the popup dialogue box to install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1. The Cisco Prime Infrastructure server will restart automatically.It may take approximately 25 to 35 minutes for the installation process to complete.
Step 8 You can verify the maintenance release installation from Prime Infrastructure Login under Critical Fixes by clicking View Installed Updates and also by logging into the server and choosing Administration > Software Update. You should see a listing for the maintenance release in the Updates tab, with Installed in the Status column.
Note We recommend you to take backup immediately after successful installation of Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1.
Download the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf from Home > Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Network Management Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.1 > Prime Infrastructure Patches-3.1.1 and save the file in your local system.
To install the downloaded Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_1-1.0.60.ubf in High Availability mode follow the below steps:
Note Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 can be applied only in primary and secondary standalone servers. The server will restart automatically once the installation is complete. The restart typically takes 25 to 35 minutes. You cannot apply Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 when HA is enabled.
For more details, see Removing HA Via the GUI in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure3.1 Administrator Guide.
If you are unable to apply this maintenance release in a High Availability (HA) implementation, check whether your network bandwidth, throughput and latency meets the network requirements recommended in Network Throughput Restrictions on HA section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Administration Guide. In a few cases, continued or intermittent throughput problems can cause a complete failure. If you believe this has occurred, contact Cisco TAC for support.
If you are unable to verify that this maintenance release has been successfully installed on a Prime Infrastructure server, or one or both of the servers fails to restart properly after installing the maintenance release, you may need to re-image the server as explained in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release before continuing.
In all cases, you can use the backup-logs command on one or both servers to get information on the source of the failure. For more information, see the backup-logs section in the Command Reference Guide for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.
You can restore the backup from following Prime Infrastructure versions to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1:
If you are running multiple previous releases of Prime Infrastructure (for example, you are running version 3.0.0.78 and 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.1.0.0.132), you must select one version from which to restore data.
See Before You Migrate Your Data in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide before you restore your data from Prime Infrastructure 3.0.x or 3.1 to your newly installed Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 server:
You can apply the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 over Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 upgraded server. For detailed information about upgrading from previous releases of Prime Infrastructure, including the list of versions from which you can upgrade, see the If You Are U pgrading From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
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Step 1 Choose Administration > System Settings > Mail Server Configuration.
Step 2 In the Mail Server Configuration, enter the mail server details.
Step 3 Click Save to save the configuration settings.
Step 4 Choose Help > Help Us Improve Cisco Products.
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For detailed information on procuring a license for Prime Infrastructure, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Ordering and Licensing Guide.
To see the list of devices supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure, follow these steps:
Step 1 Log in to Prime Infrastructure.
Step 2 Click Settings to see the list of settings options
Step 3 Click Supported Devices List under Help.
You can also view the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 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
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
This section provides a brief description of new features and enhancements in this release. For more information about the features and benefits, as well as hardware and software specifications, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 Data Sheet at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/datasheet-listing.html.
Prime Infrastructure no longer displays the recommended software images for the device type you specify. It does not allow you to download software images directly from cisco.com. You must manually download the software image from cisco.com and then import the downloaded image file.
Data deduplication allows you to identify authoritative data sources for the corresponding location groups.
Prime infrastructure stores all the data it receives about network usages from all the sources (including any duplicate data that it may receive from multiple sources). When you specify authoritative data sources, only the data from the specified source is displayed when you view a particular site.
The data deduplication page allows you to specify a data source per a specific site. For example, if you have a Network analysis module (NAM) at a branch office as well as Netflow data that is sent from the same branch, you can choose to see the site information as it is reported by the NAM or netflow data with authoritative data source.
The two authoritative data sources are
Step 1 Choose Services > Application Visibility & Control > Data Deduplication. The Data Deduplication page appears.
Step 2 Click System Detected to identify the data sources in the location group or select the customized to select the data sources.
The report shows hourly, daily or weekly data depending on the data retention period configured by choosing Administration > Settings > System Settings > General > Data Retention. The data is retrieved from the database based on the following conditions.
1. Up to last 1 day, the data is fetched from raw table.
2. From last 2 days to 4 weeks, the data is fetched from a hourly aggregated table.
3. From previous month calendar to last 12 week, the data is fetched from daily aggregated table.
4. From last 6 months to last 1 year, the data is fetched from a weekly aggregated table.
The valid range for performance data retention period is:
1. Short term Data Retain Period:1 to 31 days.
2. Long term Data Retain Period: 2 to 756 days.
3. Medium term Data Retain Period: 7 to365 days.
4. Hourly Data Retain Period: Valid Range: is 1 to 31 hours.
5. Daily Data Retain Period: 7 to 365 hours.
6. Weekly Data Retain Period: 2 to 108 hours.
You can edit the the maximum number of records saved, and the age of the records for each table by clicking Advanced Settings.
Prime Infrastructure now supports APIC-EM GA Release 1.2. You can specify to have Prime Infrastructure use the APIC-EM for Plug and Play. For more details, see APIC-EM and Plug and Play in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure3.1 User Guide.
Support for -B Regulatory Domain (5GHz) on Cisco APs from Cisco Prime Infrastructure has been added.
Cisco 2800 AP and Cisco 3800 AP are highly versatile and deliver most of the functionalities of any access points available in the industry.
The following enhancements have been made to Cisco Prime Infrastructure to support Cisco 2800 AP and Cisco 3800 AP in this release:
The following enhancements have been made to Sitemaps:
Note Prime Infrastructure no longer displays the recommended software images for the device type you specify. It does not allow you to download software images directly from cisco.com. You must manually download the software image from cisco.com and then import the downloaded image file.
You can install Prime Infrastructure 3.1.x on operations center from the Cisco Site, or local storage. You can also install the update in high availability mode if the high availability is available on Prime Operations Center. For more details on how to install the update, see Installation Guidelines.
Note Before installing Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1 in Prime Operations Center disable single sign-on (SSO) on Prime Operations Center and each of the Prime Infrastructure instances that you will manage using Prime Operations Center. For more details on how to enable or disable SSO, see Setting Up Operations Center.
After installing the update enable HA for Operations Center. For more details, see Enabling HA for Operations Center in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Administrator Guide.
– By logging into the APIC-EM server and the PnP profile is deleted.
– A later version of APIC-EM is installed and it is integrated again with Prime Infrastructure that does not have Plug and Play profiles created on it earlier.
– Upgraded APIC-EM causes loss of data that Prime Infrastructure had created earlier.
The workaround for this problem is you should synchronize the data manually by:
– Deleting and recreating the profile again after adding APIC-EM.
– Exporting as CSV and importing it back after creating the corresponding profile for all profiles or device profiles.
– Creating the profiles or device profiles using the user interface.
Table 1 lists the Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 3.1.1.
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.
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.
You can access additional Cisco Prime Infrastructure documentation at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.
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