Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4 Release Notes
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4 Release Notes
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
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Introduction
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.
- For information on server and web client requirements, see the Understand the System Requirements section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4 Quick Start Guide .
- For information about installing this release of Prime Infrastructure, see the Installation Options section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4 Quick Start Guide.
- For information about upgrading from previous releases of Prime Infrastructure, including the list of versions from which you can upgrade, see the How to Perform an Inline Upgrade section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4 Quick Start Guide.
- For detailed information on licensing, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x Ordering and Licensing Guide.
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Supported Devices
To see the list of devices supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure:
Step 1 Log in to Prime Infrastructure.
Step 2 Click the wheel icon at the top right, then click Supported Devices.
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
Note Prime Infrastructure does not support non-admin virtual device context (VDC) on Nexus devices.
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Table 1 lists the Prime Infrastructure supported devices for switches, WLCs, Access Points (APs), ISEs, and MSEs.
Catalyst 3560 Series Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE] Catalyst 3650 Series Ethernet Stackable Switch* Catalyst 3750 Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE] Catalyst 3850 Series Ethernet Stackable Switch* |
Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller Cisco 8510 Wireless Controller Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Cisco 5508 Wireless Controller Cisco 4400 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller Cisco Flex 7510 Wireless Controllers Cisco Wireless Service Module (WiSM) Cisco Wireless Service Module 2 (WiSM2) Cisco Wireless Controller on Cisco Services-Ready Engine (WLCM2 on SRE) |
Cisco ISE 1.4 with the required patch1 |
Cisco Aironet 3800i AP Cisco Aironet 3700i AP Cisco Aironet 3600i AP Cisco Aironet 3600e AP Cisco Aironet 3500i AP Cisco Aironet 2800i AP Cisco Aironet 2700i AP Cisco Aironet 2600i AP Cisco Aironet 1850i AP Cisco Aironet 1815i AP Cisco Aironet 1810 OfficeExtend Series AP Cisco Aironet 1700i AP Cisco Aironet 1600i AP |
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Catalyst 6500 Switches [Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SXI] and [Cisco IOS XE 03.07.00.E] |
Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller (STACK) The following Cisco Mobility Express Controllers are supported: |
Cisco Aironet 1562I AP Cisco Aironet 1552C AP |
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If you are using Cisco ISE 1.4, you must have the patch ise-patchbundle-1.4.0.253-Patch3-141133.x86_64.tar.gz, which you can get from the following location:
https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=283801620&flowid=26081&softwareid=283802505&release=1.4&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest.
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New Features and Enhancements
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 3.4 Data Sheet at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/datasheet-listing.html
Wired
- Recent Configuration Dashlet—This new dashlet displays the Top N Devices with most recent configuration changes in the network. Navigate to Dashboard > Network Summary > Overview. and click Settings > Add dashlet to add this dashlet in the current dashboard.
- Reset Dashlet Time Frame Filter—This new option available in the Settings > Manage Dashboards, helps you to reset the time frame of the all dashlets in the current dashboard to the global time frame filter.
- Composite Template — Navigate to Configuration > Templates > Features & Technologies > Composite Templates > Composite Templates. Port based configuration option is introduced to deploy composite templates based on template type Port using the wizard.
- CLI Templates — Configuration > Templates > Features & Technologies > CLI Templates > CLI Templates. Port based configuration option is introduced to deploy CLI templates based on template type Port using the wizard.
- Ports Group—New Port Group attributes (Admin Status and Operational Status) are added in Add Port Dynamically workflow to dynamically create the port groups.
- Device and Port groups—Allows you to use wild cards such as *,? when specifying the matching criteria for device name and port name, to add a new element in the group dynamically.
- Scheduled Reports—Allows you to export a report to an external repository using SFTP protocol. Before scheduling a report, you must add the repository in the server settings.
- Device Reports—Shows the unused ports for greater than the amount of time mentioned in the Reporting Period field in the Port Claim report.
Change Audit Dashboard has been enhanced to display the following audit logs,
- Logging (Changes in the log level and Downloads the log file)
- User Groups (Enable/Disable the task permission)
- Virtual Domain (Create/Update Delete the Virtual Domain)
- Change Audit Notification Settings
- Wireless Maps (Create/Edit/Delete the Site maps)
- Wireless Configuration (Create/Edit/Deploy/Delete the Controller Template)
- Grouping (Create/Update/Delete the group)
- Device discovery (Create/Update/Delete the Discovery Settings)
- Inventory (Device export with/without credentials)
- Reports (Run/Save/Schedule/Export/Delete the Reports)
- SWIM (Distribution/Activation of Software images)
- Configuration Archive (Schedule Archive, Schedule Overwrite, Schedule Rollback, Schedule Deploy)
- Notification Policy (Create/Edit/Delete the Notification Policy)
- Notification Destination (Create/Update/Delete the Trap Receiver/Email Notification)
User Permissions and Device Access Enhancements
– A new task permission “Admin Templates Write Access” is included under Network Configuration. By default, this task permission is disabled and you are restricted to do operations (for example Save, Edit, Delete and Run etc) in admin owned templates and admin owned Job Dashboard.
– A new task permission “Compliance Audit Profile Edit Access” is included to enable users other than Root, Admin and Super User, to create or edit a compliance audit profile.
– North Bound API User- No access restriction for admin owned templates.
- PSIRT and EOX Reports—Includes new columns named “Vulnerable” and “Match Reason” under Device PSIRT table, explaining the vulnerability of a particular device and why the PSIRT is applicable for that device.
- Inventory—Allows you to mandate the SSH key validation for the added device, by selecting the Strict host check key for SSH check box in the Administration > Settings > System Settings > Inventory> Inventory page. This enables you to specify the algorithm and SSH key under Telnet/SSH Parameters.
Alarms, Events, and Syslog Enhancements
- Unclassified Alarm Policies— Unclassified Alarm Policies allows you to control the unclassified alarms on network conditions, thereby reducing noise in the system. The Unclassified Alarm Policy displays all supported event types that are not associated with another policy type. The available conditions and actions for unclassified policies are similar to other available policy types.
- Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Alarms and Events—Allows you to suppress an existing alarm for a specific duration or permanently by creating a new alarm policy.
- Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Alarms and Events—Allows you to change the severity of an existing alarm by creating a new alarm policy.
- Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Syslog Viewer—A new tab SnapShot is included to view static syslogs for current date and time.
Services > Application Visibility & Control > Health Rule—Allows you to exclude Instances from Health Scoring.
Wireless
- 1560 Series
- 1815 Series: 1815i, 1815w, 1815m
- 1540 Series
- Autonomous AP Support— Autonomous AP 1570 is now supported in Prime Infrastructure.
- Mobility Express Support in Site Maps— Wireless Site Maps in Prime Infrastructure now provide support for Mobility Express APs. Site Maps now display ME APs with a new icon and can also display the adjacent APs managed by a Mobility Express controller.
- AP Group Configurations Enhancement—Prime Infrastructure now supports AP Group configurations for ME controllers.
- AP On-boarding—You can now automatically provision ME APs when they are discovered in Prime Infrastructure.
- WLAN Configuration for ME—
– You can now configure per-user, per-SSID, and per-WLAN rate limits on a WLAN for ME controllers with version 8.7 onwards.
– You can also configure maximum clients per radio for ME controllers with version 8.7 onwards.
- RLAN Configurations for ME Controllers—You can now configure RLAN type WLAN for ME Controllers using templates in Prime Infrastructure.
- EAP-TLS and EAP-PEAP Authentication Support—Prime Infrastructure now support configuration EAP-TLS and EAP-PEAP authentication using 802.1x supplicant feature. This feature is supported for controllers with version 8.7.
- Certificate Download Support for MEs—You can import the EAP certificates and NA Server CA Certificates to a master ME AP.
- Better HA Monitoring and Management —You can now monitor power supply and fan status of both units in an WLC redundancy pair with version 8.7 onwards.
- Network Assurance Enhancements— cmca2.cer now comes pre-installed in Prime Infrastructure.
- Maps Usability Enhancement—Azimuth and Orientation parameters are now locked together for APs with internal antennas.
- AP Labeling Enhancements—Wireless Site Maps can now display Tx Power in dBm and Antenna Angles for all radios in Floor View.
- Support Vectorized Images Derived from CAD—Prime Infrastructure now supports importing vectorized images from the map archive.
Important Notes
This section contains important notes about Prime Infrastructure.
- Adding location groups to profile instances while bulk importing or exporting of device profiles into Plug and Play profiles, is not supported. You can create rules under corresponding location groups to dynamically add the managed devices.
- The System job “Post PnP Image Upgrade” under “Infrastructure” runs on demand from Post PnP configuration for Mobility Express Controllers to perform Software Image Distribution and Activation. Once Mobility Express controller inventory collection is completed, this job will get triggered only if applicable. You can check image upgrade status for each devices under the job details.
- User group task list will be updated due to addition of new tasks after an upgrade. You must update the task list on remote ACS using the new set of task attributes on the upgraded Prime Infrastructure instance for seamless remote authentications.
Open Caveats
Table 2 lists the open caveats in Prime Infrastructure Release 3.4.
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
The following caveats were resolved in this release. You can view additional information about these caveats in 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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