- Installation Overview
- Installation Requirements
- Preparing for Installation
- Preparing the Oracle External Database
- Installing the Prime Network Gateway and Units Using the Installation Wizard
- Installing the Prime Network Gateway Using CLI
- Installing Prime Network Units
- Installing the Vision, Events, and Administration Clients
- Installing the Prime Network Integration Layer
- Upgrading and Rolling Back Prime Network
- Uninstalling Prime Network
- Next Steps
- Using Chinese Characters in Business Tags
Cisco Prime Network Installation Guide, 4.3.2
- Updated:
- June 13, 2018
Chapter: Installation Overview
Installation Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Prime Network installation process:
- Installation Options lists the installation options and provides links to available information for each option.
- Installation DVDs lists the DVDs that contain the Prime Network software and the contents of each DVD.
Installation Options
The Prime Network installation includes the installation of the following components in a Linux environment:
- Gateway (with an embedded or external database). The gateway installation is supported on physical servers or on VMware.
- One or more units.
- GUI clients.
- Prime Network Integration Layer (PN-IL), which can be installed to allow Prime Network to be used with Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) and 3GPP northbound interfaces. The PN-IL is mandatory if Prime Network is being installed in suite mode, that is integrated with Prime Central.
The following table shows where you will find the information you need for the various installation options.
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For CLI installation: Chapter6, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway Using CLI” For GUI installation: Chapter5, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway and Units Using the Installation Wizard” |
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Install the gateway with local or geographic high availability |
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For CLI installation: Chapter7, “Installing Prime Network Units” For GUI installation: Chapter5, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway and Units Using the Installation Wizard” |
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Upgrade from a previous Prime Network release with RHEL 5.5- 5.8, and 6.4 |
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Chapter 2, “Installation Requirements” and Chapter 3, “Preparing for the Installation” |
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Installation DVDs
Table 1-2 lists the contents of the DVDs that contain the Prime Network 4.3.2 installation files.
Note
The database binary files (linuxamd64_12c_database_1of2.zip, linuxamd64_12c_database_2of2.zip) are available in Prime Network 4.2 DVDs, and the files required for upgrading to Prime Network 4.0 are available in Prime Network 4.0 DVDs.
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