Cisco Prime Network Installation Guide, 5.2

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.

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.

Table 1-1 Where to Find Information for the Prime Network Installation Options
For this Option...	Go To...
Install the gateway with an embedded database	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”
Install the gateway with an external Oracle database	“Preparing the Oracle External Database,” For CLI installation: Chapter6, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway Using CLI” or For GUI installation: Chapter5, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway and Units Using the Installation Wizard”
Install the gateway with local or geographic high availability	Cisco Prime Network 5.2 Gateway High Availability Guide
Install a unit	For CLI installation: Chapter7, “Installing Prime Network Units” For GUI installation: Chapter5, “Installing the Prime Network Gateway and Units Using the Installation Wizard”
Launching the Prime Network GUI Clients	Chapter12, “Launching the Prime Network GUI Clients”
Install the Prime Network Integration Layer (PN-IL)	Chapter9, “Installing the Prime Network Integration Layer”
Upgrade from a previous Prime Network release and rolling back to earlier Prime Network and Oracle version	Chapter10, “Upgrading and Rolling Back Prime Network”
Pre-installation tasks	Chapter 2, “Installation Requirements” and Chapter 3, “Preparing for the Installation”
Post-installation tasks	Next Steps

Table 1-2 lists the contents of the DVDs that contain the Prime Network 5.2 installation files.

Table 1-2 Contents of Cisco Prime Network 5.2 Installation DVDs
Disk	DVD Components
Disk 1: New Install Files for a new Prime Network 5.2 gateway and unit installation, including Red Hat High Availability.
Server	Apache Server 2.4.38 Prime Network 5.2 gateway and unit installation files: – install.bin (GUI installation) – install.pl – install.properties – ivne-drivers.tar RH_ha.zip and install_ha.pl—High availability installation files jws directory
Disk 2: Software and Documentation
Client Installation Files	Cisco Prime Network Vision Cisco Prime Network Administration Cisco Prime Network Events
Integration	Standalone Integration Layer ESB tar files (sil-esb-2.2.0.tar.gz) PNIntegrationLayer_v2.2.bin (GUI installation)
Documentation	Cisco Prime Network Documentation Overview, 5.2
Disk 3: Upgrade files
Upgrade from Prime Network, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, or 5.0, 5.1 to 5.2	Prime_Network_upgrade directory that has upgrade and rollback dependent scripts ivne-drivers.tar file PNIntegrationLayerUpgrade_1.0.0.0-2.2.0.tar.gz embedded_upgrade_12.2 directory
Disk 4: Database Binaries
Embedded database installation	linuxx64_12201_database.zip
Disk 5: Operations Reports
Installation of Prime Network Operations Reports and the Infobright database on the Prime Network gateway. Note Operations Reports are only available to customers with Operations Reports license prior to May 2018. For re-installation of Operations Reports contact a Cisco customer support representative.	infobright_integ.zip CiscoPrimeNetwork52OperationsReports.pdf