Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Release Notes
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 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
Troubleshooting Maintenance Release Installs in High Availability Implementations
Renewing AAA Settings After Installing a New Prime Infrastructure Version
Migrating from Previous Releases of Cisco Prime Infrastructure
DMVPN Monitoring Support for IWAN
System Monitoring Dashboard Enhancements
Application Visibility Control Configuration Support
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
This is the fifth maintenance release for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.
You can install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Maintenance Release on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.1.4 versions. You must install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Device Pack 6 or higher version over 3.1.x before installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5.
Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Maintenance Release file PI_3_1_5-1.0.44.ubf is approximately 730 MB. The downloading time depends on the available network connection in the enterprise environment. Ensure that you have adequate bandwidth and are not running into high latency issues.
Cisco End User License Agreement
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 .
System Requirements
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.
Installation Guidelines
The following sections explain how to install the maintenance release.
- Recommended Licensing Updates
- 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
- Troubleshooting Maintenance Release Installs in High Availability Implementations
Recommended Licensing Updates
Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 supports token-based licensing model for Lifecycle and Assurance licenses. The license consumption is based on token weight per device type. For example, if you add an ASR 1001 device having token weight 3, the Lifecycle license/tokens consumed for managing the device is 3.
Due to this token-based licensing, a Prime Infrastructure instance consumes more tokens than what were consumed before. To avoid this overhead to the existing customers, Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 supports generation of a one-time grandfathered license file for managing the existing devices without the need to buy additional licenses. This special privilege is provided to the existing customers as a one-time activity upon installation of Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 update on Prime Infrastructure 3.1. or 3.1.1. The grandfathering license privilege will not be available if you install Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 on Prime Infrastructure 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.1.4.
- You must have Prime Infrastructure 1.x or 2.x license or both 1.x and 2.x licenses to avail the grandfathering license privilege.
- The grandfathered license file is a permanent license file and can be added/downloaded like other license files.
- The grandfathered license file is encrypted and is not node locked.
To Avail the Grandfathered License Support
– Go to Administration > Licenses and Software Updates > Smart Software Licensing.
– Choose Traditional Licensing .
– Check whether the Register button is disabled to confirm the selection of Traditional Licensing.
- Only 20,000 grandfathered tokens can be generated per Prime Infrastructure instance.
- Assurance tokens will be generated only when Assurance permanent licenses are added on a Prime Infrastructure instance before applying Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5.
- The number of grandfathered Assurance tokens generated is same as the number of grandfathered Lifecycle tokens.
After installing Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5, you can check the token consumption per device type in the Traditional Licensing Dashlet under Administration > Dashboards > Licensing Dashboard .
Before You Begin Installing 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. If the backup is a Prime Infrastructure 3.1 backup, restore the backup on Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server before applying the Maintenance Release 3.1.5.
3. If the backup is taken on a Prime Infrastructure 3.1.x server, install Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 and then restore the backup.
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. For more details, see Restoring From Application Backups in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Administration Guide .
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 3.1.5 Administration Guide .
Installing the Maintenance Release from Cisco Site
Caution If you have a High Availability (HA) environment, remove the HA setup before proceeding to install this Maintenance Release. For more details, see Installing the Maintenance Release in High Availability Mode.
Make sure that you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release and Recommended Licensing Updates.
To install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 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 3.1.5 Maintenance Release file name PI_3_1_5-1.0.44.ubf .
Step 7 Click Install to install the maintenance release.
Step 8 Click Yes in the popup dialogue box to install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5. 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 All Maintenance Releases are cumulative in nature and usually involve updates to database; it generally takes more time to upgrade a Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 as compared to an environment in which a Prime Infrastructure 3.1.x is upgraded to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5.
Installing the Maintenance Release from Local Storage
Caution If you have a High Availability (HA) environment, remove the HA setup before proceeding to install this Maintenance Release. For more details, see Installing the Maintenance Release in High Availability Mode.
Make sure that you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release and Recommended Licensing Updates.
To install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 from the local storage, follow these steps:
Step 1 Download the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_5-1.0.44.ubf from Home > Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Network Management Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.1 > Prime Infrastructure Patches-3.1.5 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_5-1.0.44.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 3.1.5. 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 All Maintenance Releases are cumulative in nature and usually involve updates to database; it generally takes more time to upgrade a Prime Infrastructure 3.1 server to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 as compared to an environment in which a Prime Infrastructure 3.1.x is upgraded to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5.
Installing the Maintenance Release in High Availability Mode
Download the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_5-1.0.44.ubf from Home > Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Network Management Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.1 > Prime Infrastructure Patches-3.1.5 and save the file in your local system .
To install the downloaded Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Maintenance Release PI_3_1_5-1.0.44.ubf in High Availability mode follow the below steps:
- Make sure that you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing the Maintenance Release.
Note Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 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 3.1.5 when HA is enabled.
- If you are installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure Maintenance Release 3.1.5 on High Availability (HA) paired servers, you will get the following error message:
For more details, see Removing HA Via the GUI in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure3.1.5 Administrator Guide.
- Continue the patching once HA removed completely. For more details, see the Patching New High Availability Servers section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Administration Guide .
Troubleshooting Maintenance Release Installs in High Availability Implementations
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 3.1.5 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.
Renewing AAA Settings After Installing a New Prime Infrastructure Version
If you are using external RADIUS or TACACS+ user authentication, before migrating your existing data to a new version of Prime Infrastructure, you must transfer the expanded Prime Infrastructure user task list to your AAA server. To know how to add tasks to AAA server refer Creating ACS Policy Elements or Authorization Profiles for RADIUS and Creating ACS Policy Elements or Authorization Profiles for TACACS+ . After you upgrade Prime Infrastructure, you must re-add any permissions on the TACACS+ or RADIUS server and update the roles in your TACACS server with the tasks from the Prime Infrastructure server. For more details, see Setting the AAA Mode section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Administration Guide.
Migrating from Previous Releases of Cisco Prime Infrastructure
You can restore the backup from following Prime Infrastructure versions to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5:
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0.0.78
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0.1
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0.2
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0.3
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.0.0.132
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.1
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.2
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.3
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.4
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 3.1.5 server:
You can apply the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 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 Upgrading From Previous Releases of Prime Infrastructure section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide .
Physical Appliance Options
Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 is supported on the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 1). For more information on installation, upgrade, and migration from Prime Infrastructure 3.0.x to Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Gen 1 Appliance, see the Prime Infrastructure 3.1.4 Generation 1 Upgrade and Migration Guide .
Hyper-V Support
Cisco Prime Infrastructure on Microsoft Hyper-V extends Cisco networking benefits to Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V deployments.
Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based server-virtualization product that improves utilization, consolidates server workloads, and reduces costs. To achieve this, Cisco Prime Infrastructure on Hyper-V uses hardware virtualization to enable multiple operating systems to run on a single host, and allows the operating systems to share the same underlying physical hardware.
You can deploy Cisco Prime Infrastructure on Hyper-V in a standalone role or as an installable product. For more details, see Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Installation and Migration Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine .
Prime Infrastructure Operations Center is not supported on Microsoft Hyper-V.
Submitting Feedback
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Step 1 If you have configured your mail server, go to Step 4.
Step 2 Choose Administration > Settings > System Settings > Mail and Notification > Mail Server Configuration .
Step 3 In the Mail Server Configuration page, enter the mail server details, then click Save to save the configuration settings.
Step 4 Choose Administration > Settings > System Settings > General > Help Us Improve .
Step 5 In the Help Us Improve Cisco Products page, select Yes, collect data periodically , then click Save .
Step 6 Click the Settings icon, then select Feedback > I wish this page would ... .
Step 7 Enter your feedback, then click OK .
Prime Infrastructure Licenses
For detailed information on procuring a license for Prime Infrastructure, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Ordering and Licensing Guide .
Supported Devices
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.htmlFor 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
New Features and Enhancements
This section provides a brief description of new features and enhancements in this release.
Wireless Feature Enhancements
Note Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 3.1.5 supports the following features of Cisco WLC Release 8.4.
- Support for Flexible Radio Assignment (FRA) configuration to determine the role of new Flexible Radio (2.4 GHz, 5GHz, or Monitor) on Cisco Aironet 2800 and 3800 Series Access Points.
- Support for DHCP server on Cisco Mobility Express controllers.
- Enhancement on Cisco controller for simplified integration with Cisco ISE
- Support for MAC filtering capability for Lobby Ambassador or Guest Users.
- The following dashlets are newly added under Overview dashboard. These dashlets work only on site filter selection criteria. The data is displayed based on the latest snapshot data available in Cisco Prime Infrastructure database.
To view these dashlets, navigate to Dashboard > Overview > Client dashboard:
– Client Distribution By Connection Score
– Client Distribution By Connection State
– Client Capability By Max Protocol
– Client Distribution By Connected Protocol
– Client Distribution By Data Rate
– Client Distribution By EndPoint Type
- The following dashlets are newly added under Performance dashboard. These dashlets compute and display information for the last 24 hours of data available in Cisco Prime Infrastructure database. These dashlets work only on site filter selection criteria.
To view these dashlets, navigate to Dashboard > Performance > Site dashboard.
– Top 10 Access Points By Usage
- Support for EoGRE monitoring on Clients and Users page—The following fields are introduced under Monitor> Monitoring Tools > Clients and Users:
The following fields are introduced under Wireless Controller > WLANs page:
- Support for TrustSec feature on Cisco Controllers running Cisco AireOS 8.4 Release.
- Enhancements to URL ACL feature.
- Support for Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT)—You can enable the central DHCP processing to enable NAT and PAT. You can enable or disable NAT and PAT on locally switched WLANs.
Software Image Management
Note In order to download a EULA or K9 software image from cisco.com, you must accept/renew the EULA agreement or K9 agreement periodically.
Prime Infrastructure displays the recommended latest software images for the device type you specify, and it allows you to download the software images directly from cisco.com. Prime Infrastructure does not display deferred software images. For detailed information, see Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Supported Devices list .
If you encounter any error message while importing software image from cisco.com, refer the ASD Exceptions and Error Conditions section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 User Guide.
DMVPN Monitoring Support for IWAN
Prime Infrastructure allows you to view details of routers supporting DMVPN and the active spokes count from Services > Application Visibility and Control > DMVPN Monitor Home .
System Monitoring Dashboard Enhancements
The following dashlets are newly added in the Performance dashboard.
Compliance Job Enhancements
The Compliance Audit jobs is moved from Configuration > Compliance > Jobs to Administration > Dashboard > Job Dashboard .
The following details can be viewed from the Violation Details page.
Application Visibility Control Configuration Support
The Application Visibility feature is supported on the following platforms:
- ASR 1000 series platform from Cisco IOS-XE Release 15.3(1)S1 or later
- ISR G2 platform from Cisco IOS Release 15.2(4)M2 or later
- ISR 4300 and 4400 series platform from Cisco IOS-XE Release 15.3(2)S or later
- CSR platform from Cisco IOS-XE Release 15.3(2)S or later
- ISRv Cisco Integrated Services Virtual Router Release 16.3 or later
- Cisco C881 Integrated Services Router - support added under ISRG2
Important Notes
- In addition to installing Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 on Prime Infrastructure instances, make sure that you also install Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 on Prime Operations Center.
- Prime Operations Center 3.1.5 manages Prime Infrastructure 3.1.x. You must ensure that Prime Operations Center version is the same as the version of the Prime infrastructure instances that it manages. For more details, see Setting Up Operations Center in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Administrator Guide .
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.
After installing the update, enable HA for Operations Center. For more details, see Enabling HA for Operations Center in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5 Administrator Guide .
- When Prime Infrastructure is integrated with an APIC-EM server and the Plug and Play profile created by Prime Infrastructure is deleted due to any of the following reasons, the PnP profile create, edit, or status monitor will fail:
– 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.
- Access Network Workflow—If you could not find the scrollbar in any of the Access Network workflow pages on MAC OS, go to System Preferences > General and set the Show scroll bars option to Always.
- IWAN Workflow—The Interfaces values will not show on the drop-down list in the IWAN configuration page, if you choose All Selected Devices option. If you choose any particular device, the drop-down list will show the interface details corresponding to the selected device.
- You might observe a performance impact (slow/sluggish response) while accessing the Network Health page from Dashboard in Prime Infrastructure server if there are more than 999 location groups and if you choose All Locations instead of selecting a specific location group under Dashboard > Network Summary > Network Health > Site .
- Software Image Management—If you add TFTP protocol with a wrong home directory and click Verify Credentials , as expected the status will report a Failure only if you have installed Cisco Prime Infrastructure Device Pack 7 on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5.
- Monitoring Unified Access Points—Packet capture will happen only if the AP and FTP are in the same subnet.
- Use the following workaround if wireless AP provisioning is not working when APIC-EM GA Release 1.5.0.x is integrated with PNP.
– Uninstall APIC-EM GA Release 1.5.0.
– Download the APIC-EM iso file ( APIC-EM-1.4.3.1009.iso ) and APIC-EM upgrade package ( apic_em_update-apic-GA5-1.5.0.1368.tar.gz) from Cisco.com.
– Install APIC-EM GA Release 1.4.3.1009.
– Once the server is up and running, login to the APIC-EM server as an administrator.
– Click Settings under APIC-EM .
– In the left panel, click Update under Controller Settings .
– Drag and drop the downloaded apic_em_update-apic-GA5-1.5.0.1368.tar.gz file to the Drag & Drop Release Upgrade Package file area.
Open Caveats
Table 1 lists the Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Infrastructure Release 3.1.5.
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
Table 2 lists the bugs resolved in Prime Infrastructure 3.1.5
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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