Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.6 Release Notes
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.6 Release Notes
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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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 3.6 Quick Start Guide .
- For information about installing this release of Prime Infrastructure, see the Installation Options section in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.6 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 3.6 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* |
Catalyst 9800-40 Wireless Controller Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud 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 3.6 Data Sheet at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/datasheet-listing.html
Wired
Administration Dashboard Enhancements
- Administration > Dashboards > Job Dashboard> User Jobs - New user job “Device Bulk Edit” is created when you perform bulk edit operation for more than nine devices under Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices.
- Administration > Dashboards > Job Dashboard> Job Approval - New column name “Approved By” and “Status” is included to view the job approver and the current status of the job. Also included new expandable pane to view the device details for which the job is triggered.
- Also included new filter options such as “Pending-Approval”, “Approved”, “Rejected” and “Expired_Before_Approval”. Default filter option is “Pending-Approval”.
- Administration > Dashboards > System Monitoring Dashboard > Overview dashboard - New Virtual domain summary dashlet is included to view the association between virtual domains and the users. Also the members without virtual domain association. It allows you to export the list of respective associations.
Administration Settings Enhancements
– Under Mail and Notification > Job Notification Mail - Included separate job status options named Success and Failure.
– Under Mail and Notification > Mail Server Configuration - A new check box, Enable TLS, is added to allow users to transfer data through an encrypted connection.
- Dashboard -> Performance -> End user experience - A new dashboard filter named ‘Client’ is included.
- Monitor > Monitoring Tools > IPSLA Real Time Monitoring- Allows you to analyze and monitor the devices to extract detailed information on various parameters.
- Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Manage and Monitor Servers - Allows you to troubleshoot any of the available Cisco Prime Infrastructure Servers by selecting a desired option from the Actions list box that appears after clicking the Troubleshoot button.
Wireless
New column introduced in Configuration / Network / Network Devices / Unified Access Points page to track the downtime of Unified APs.
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Controller Enhancements
Prime Infrastructure 3.6 supports the following features for Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller:
– Native Profiling Configuration
- LAG (Link Aggregation) for FlexConnect
- Device level configuration for RF Tag (Configuration / Network Devices / Wireless Controller / 9800 Series Wireless Controller for Cloud / Device / Configuration / RF Group)
- Device level monitoring for Site Tag (Configuration / Network Devices / Wireless Controller / 9800 Series Wireless Controller for Cloud / Device / Device Details / Site Groups)
- Create Users with Lobby Admin role (Configuration / Templates / Features and Technologies / Controller / Management / Local Management User)
In release 3.6, Prime Infrastructure introduces support for:
– Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series (Autonomous) APs.
– Cisco Catalyst 9115AX Series and Catalyst 9117AX Series APs.
- Configuration / Templates / Features and Technologies / Controller / FlexConnect / You can now create FlexConnect Group Templates, and add users and APs to them in bulk using a.csv file.
- You can now configure 802.11ax parameters for WLANs.
- Hyperlocation configuration on an AP group is now merged into a one-step process.
Reports
– Under Report Type filter - Includes new category named “Unused Up and Down”.
– Under Report By filter- Includes new category named “Port Groups”.
– Allows you to create new alarms, events, or syslog reports.
– Allows you to export the scheduled report results to a csv file.
– Allows you to export the saved report results to a csv file.
– Under edit report criteria, during device selection it will display the Host name for all the devices in the report filter criteria.
Important Notes
This section contains important notes about Prime Infrastructure.
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure does not support Data Center from Release 3.6. For more information see End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Data Center.
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure does not support monitoring for Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module, because ACE has been moved to end-of-life and does not respond to related monitoring MIBs.
- In Prime Infrastructure after backup and restore, the huge amount of empty partitions from Alarm table fails to drop the old partitions. For more information see Techzone on how to drop partition.
- Prime Infrastructure can handle 7k interfaces per device. It takes only a few hours for the inventory sync-up to complete for the devices within this range. For devices with more than 7k interfaces, a few days will be required for the sync-up and if the interfaces range exceeds 10k, server downtime is experienced.
- When you migrate to Catalyst 9800 devices from the Prime Infrastructure-DNA Center co-existence tool, the Catalyst 9800 devices support aided for DNA Center 1.2.8 and above moves the WLC to DNA Center and the devices to the collection failure sync state on Netconf feature failure. This is because the Catalyst 9800 devices support expects you to enter a value for the “Netconf Port” field and the SSH credentials so as to be managed by DNA Center. You can also manage the Catalyst 9800 devices manually by entering a value for the Netconf Port field and the SSH credentials in DNA Center and then re-sync.
- Clear Air monitoring does not support 9800 series WLANs from the following Prime Infrastructure references :
– Reports > Report Launch Pad > Device > Inventory
Open Caveats
Table 2 lists the open caveats in Prime Infrastructure Release 3.6.
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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