Cisco Prime Network User Guide, 5.2

Access pseudowire Router

Cisco ASA device

ATM switch

Basic rate access (BRA)

Cisco 7600 series router

Cisco ASR 1000 series router

Cisco ASR 5000 series router

Cisco ASR 9000 series router

Cisco CRS series router

Cisco IOS XR 12000 series router

Cisco MWR 3941

Cisco ME-3800 and Cisco ME-3400 series routers

Cisco Nexus 1000 series

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) 6100 series

Cloud

Digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM)

Ethernet switch

Generic Server

Generic SNMP device

Ghost, or unknown device

ICMP device

Lock, or security violation; viewable by a user with a higher permission level

Missing icon, displayed in either of the following situations:

• A device has been deleted using the Administration client, but remains in the map.
• A unique icon for an element (physical or logical) does not exist.

Cisco MDS device

Nexus 5000 Series device

Nexus 7000 Series device

Sun Netra server

PC

Printer

RFGW-10 device

Service control switch

UBR 10012 device

UCS C Series device

vCenter device

Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) device

WiFi element

Aggregation or root node

Backup pseudowire edge

• Local IP address
• Peer IP address
• Attach Business Tag button
• Inventory button
• Properties button

Business IP interface

• Connection termination point (TP)
• Ethernet flow point (EFP)
• MToP service

Ethernet Flow Points may display:

• Type, such as Trunk, Access, Dot1Q Tunnel, and so on
• Match criteria

Customer

EFP cross-connect

Ethernet service

• Number of edge EFPs

Ethernet virtual connection (EVC)

• Number of instances of domains (VPLS, EoMPLS, bridge, or cross-connect) with a maximum of four 5.2

Label-Switched Path (LSP) endpoint

• (Applies to both working and protected)
• Bandwidth
• Attach Business Tag button
• Properties button

LSP midpoint

• Forward bandwidth
• Reverse bandwidth
• Reverse in and out labels
• Attach Business Tag button
• Inventory button
• Properties button

Network LSP

Network pseudowire

Network TP tunnel

MPLS TP tunnel:

• Attach Business Tag button
• Properties button

Network VLAN

• Name in card body
• Number of switching entities
• Number of edge EFPs

Protected LSP

Pseudowire edge

Pseudowire switching entity

Site

Subnet

Switching entity

TP tunnel endpoint

• Tunnel identifier
• Attach Business Tag button
• Inventory button
• Properties button

Virtual router

VPLS forward

• VPN identifier
• Number of core pseudowires

VPLS instance

• Number of access EFPs
• Number of access pseudowires
• Number of VPLS forwards

VPN

• Attach Business Tag button
• Properties button

Working LSP

Access Lists
ATM Traffic Profiles
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Clock
DTI Client
Ethernet LMI
Fiber Node
Frame Relay Traffic Profiles
IP SLA
IP Pool
Dynamic Config Templates
QoS
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Modular OS
Operating System
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP)
Session Border Controller
Spanning Tree Protocol
Tunnel Traffic Descriptors
BBA Groups
Policy Container

Access Gateway
ARP Entity
Bridges
Ethernet Link Aggregation
GRE Tunnels
ICCP Redundancy container
IMA Groups
Local Switching
LSEs
MLPPP
MPBGPs
Multicast
Multiple Spanning Tree protocol (MST) instance
OSPF Processes
Pseudowires
Routing Entities
Traffic Engineering Tunnels
VC Switching Entities
VRFs
VSIs
VPC Domain
BNG
DHCP Service

AAA Group
MAC Domain
Narrowband Channels
QAM Domain
Wideband Channels

Probe

Y.1731 Probe

Bridge

May also display this information:

• Name in card title and body
• Number of Ethernet flow points

Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Association

CFM Maintenance Domain

Connectivity Fault Management

Context, for devices that support multiple virtual contexts

Cross-VRF

Encapsulation

ICCP Redundancy group

Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) group

Label switching

Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (TP) peer

Logical inventory

Virtual Switch Interface (VSI)

VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP)

Mobile node

GGSN / SAE-GW / P-GW / S-GW / EGTP / GTPP container

GGSN / SAE-GW / P-GW / S-GW / EGTP / GTPP

GTPU

APN container

APN

ACS

Operator policy

APN profile / APN remap

Virtual data center

Data store

Data stores container

Host server or hypervisor

Host servers/hypervisor container

Virtual machine

Virtual machines container

VSAN

Compute Resource Pool

Chassis

Cluster

Satellite

Shelf

Slot/Subslot

Port/Logical Port

Unmanaged Port

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Unknown

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

Physical layer

Border Gateway Protocol

Private Network-to-Network Interface

Business link

Point-to-Point Protocol

Ethernet

Pseudowire

Frame Relay

Serial

Generic Routing Encapsulation

MPLS TE Tunnel

Internal

MPLS TP Tunnel

IP

VLAN

Link aggregation group

IPv6 VPN over IPv4-MPLS

Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol

VPN

MPLS

Fiber Channel

Entity Association

Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol

Open Shortest Path First Protocol

Virtual Switching System

Control Link

Critical

Critical alarm is on the link.

Major

Major alarm is on the link.

Minor

Minor alarm is on the link.

Normal

Link is operating normally.

Selected

Link is selected.

Solid line—Physical, topological, or service link, such as a link between two devices.

Dashed line—Association or business link between such elements as EVCs, VPLS service instances, or VPN components.

Normal—Contains links of the same group. Available groups are:

• Business
• GRE
• MPLS-TP
• Pseudowire
• VLAN
• All others

Wide—Aggregated links that contain links of different groups.

When viewing a map at a low zoom level, aggregated links cannot be distinguished in the client.

Tunnel—The center color represents the severity of any alarms on the link.

No arrowhead—Bidirectional link.

Arrowhead Unidirectional link, with the flow in the direction of the arrowhead.

Opens the Network Elements tab.

Creates a new map in the database.

Opens a map saved in the database using the Open dialog box.

Adds a network element to the map or to the subnetwork selected in the navigation pane and displayed in the content pane.

Saves the current map (the background and the location of devices) to the database.

Displays the map view in the Vision client content pane (the button toggles when selected or deselected).

Displays the list view in the Vision client content pane (the button toggles when selected or deselected).

Displays the links view in the Vision client content pane (the button toggles when selected or deselected).

• Chooses and displays an overlay of a specific type on top of the elements displayed in the content pane in the map view. Ethernet Service
• MPLS-TP Tunnel
• Network Clock
• Pseudowire
• VLAN
• VPLS
• VPN
• None—Removes the existing overlays.

When an overlay is selected, all the elements and links that are part of the overlay are colored, and those that are not part of the overlay are dimmed.

Displays or hides a previously defined overlay of a specific type on top of the elements displayed in the content pane in map view.

Note Overlays do not reflect changes that occur in the selected service. As a result, the information in an overlay can become stale.

Refreshes the overlay.

Moves up a level (goes to parent) in the navigation pane and map pane to enable you to view different information.

Opens the Link Filter dialog box, enabling you to display or hide different types of links in the map and links views.

If a link filter is applied to the map, the Link Filter Applied button is displayed instead.

Indicates a link filter is currently applied to the map and opens the Link Filter dialog box so you can remove or modify the existing link filter.

If no link filter is applied to the map, the Link Filter button is displayed instead.

Opens a window displaying an overview of the network.

Finds the previous instance of the search string entered in the Find in Map dialog box.

Opens the Find in Map dialog box, enabling you to find a device or aggregation in the map by its name or IP address.

Finds the next instance of the search string entered in the Find in Map dialog box.

Opens the Find Business Tag dialog box, enabling you to find and detach a business tag according to a name, key, or type.

Defines the way in which the NES are arranged in the Vision client map view: circular, hierarchical, orthogonal, or symmetric.

Fits the entire subnetwork or map in the map pane.

Activates the normal selection mode.

Activates the zoom selection mode, which enables you to select an area in the map pane to zoom in on by clicking and dragging.

Activates the pan mode, which enables you to move around in the map pane by clicking and dragging.

Opens the Printer Setup dialog box so you can specify your print settings.

Opens the Print dialog box so you can print the displayed network or map to the required printer.

Zooms in on the network or map.

Zooms out of the network or map.

Displays the entire network or map in the Print Preview window.

Find

Searches the current table for the string you enter.

Export to CSV

Exports the information displayed in the list view. Either the selected rows are exported, or, when nothing is selected, the entire table is exported.

Sort Table Values

Sorts the information displayed in the list view (for example, according to element category).

Filter

Filters the information displayed in the table by the criteria you specify.

Clear Filter

Clears the existing filter.

Show All Rows

Displays all table rows that meet the current filtering criteria.

Show Only Selected Rows

Displays only the rows that you select.

All Links

Displays the complete list of links for the selected context (map or aggregation). In other words, the list is not filtered and all the links are displayed, including external links.

External Links

Displays links with only one side of the link in this context (map or aggregation) and the other side either not in the map or outside the selected context.

Flat Links

Displays the links currently visible on the map for the selected context (map or aggregation), excluding any thumbnails.

Deep Links

Displays the links for the current aggregation where both endpoints are within the currently selected context.

Displays the previous page of events in the Events client window.

Displays the next page of events in the Events client window.

Refreshes the events displayed in the log by querying the database. If a filter is active, the refresh is done according to the filter. The log returns to the beginning of the list, displaying the events in ascending or descending order depending on the order of the current list. Descending order means that the last event is displayed first.

Displays the Events client Filter dialog box, which enables you to define a filter for the events displayed in the Events client log.

Toggles automatic refresh of event data on and off. You define the refresh-time period (in seconds) in the Events client Options dialog box. The default is 60 seconds. If a filter is active, the refresh is done according to the filter.

Displays the properties of the selected event or ticket in the Properties pane.

Refreshes the information displayed in the Ticket Properties dialog box.

Acknowledges that the ticket is being handled. The status of the ticket is displayed as true in the ticket pane and in the Ticket Properties dialog box.

If a ticket was acknowledged, and some events were correlated to it afterward, then the ticket is considered to have not been acknowledged.

This button is enabled only if the ticket is not acknowledged.

Requests the relevant Prime Network system to remove the faulty network element from the Prime Network networking inventory. In addition, it sets the ticket to Cleared severity or status (the icon is displayed in green) and automatically changes the acknowledged status of the ticket to true.

This button is enabled only if the severity of the alarm is higher than Cleared or Normal.

Clicking on this ticket will deacknowledge a ticket.

Saves the notes for the selected ticket.

This button is enabled only when text is entered in the Notes field of the Notes tab.

Define Report of This Type

Enables you to define a report of this type that is suited specifically to your environment.

Delete

Deletes one or more folders that you created.

Delete Report

Deletes the selected report.

Move

Moves one or more folders or reports that you created.

New Folder

Creates a new folder

Rename

Renames a folder that you created.

Run

Generates the selected report

View

Displays the selected report in HTML format.

None

Agent Not Loaded

The VNE is not responding to the gateway because it was stopped, or it was just created. This communication state is the equivalent of the Defined Not Started investigation state.

VNE/Agent Unreachable

The VNE is not responding to the gateway. This can happen if the unit or AVM is overutilized, the connection between the gateway and unit or AVM was lost, or the VNE is not responding in a timely fashion. (A VNE in this state does not mean the device is down; it might still be processing network traffic.)

None

Connecting

The VNE is starting and the initial connection has not yet been made to the device. This is a momentary state. Because the investigation state decorator (the hourglass) will already be displayed, a special client decorator is not required.

Device Partially Reachable

The element is not fully reachable because at least one protocol is not operational.

Device Unreachable

The connection between the VNE and the device id down because all of the protocols are down (though the device might be sending traps or syslogs).

None

Tracking Disabled

The reachability detection process is not enabled for any of the protocols used by the VNE. The VNE will not perform reachability tests nor will Prime Network generate reachability-related events. In some cases this is desirable; for example, tracking for Cloud VNEs should be disabled because Cloud VNEs represent unmanaged network segments.

None

Defined Not Started

A new VNE was created (and is starting); or an existing VNE was stopped. In this state, the VNE is managed and is validating support for the device type. (This investigation state is the equivalent of the Agent Not Loaded communication state.)

A VNE remains in this state until it is started (or restarted) by a user.

Unsupported

The device type is either not supported by Prime Network or is misconfigured (it is using the wrong scheme, or is using reduced polling but the device does not support it).

To extend Prime Network functionality so that it recognizes unsupported devices, use the VNE Customization Builder. See the Cisco Prime Network 5.2 Customization Guide.

Discovering

The VNE is building the model of the device (the device type was found and is supported by Prime Network). A VNE remains in this state until all device commands are successfully executed at least once, or until there is a discovery timeout.

None

Operational

The VNE has a stable model of the device. Modeling may not be fully complete, but there is enough information to monitor the device and make its data available to other applications, such as activation scripts. A VNE remains in this state unless it is stopped or moved to the maintenance state, or there are device errors.

Currently Unsynchronized

The VNE model is inconsistent with the device. This can be due to a variety of reasons; for a list of these reasons along with troubleshooting tips, see the topic on troubleshooting VNE investigation state issues in the Cisco Prime Network 5.2 Administrator Guide.

Maintenance

VNE polling was suspended because it was manually moved to this state (by right-clicking the VNE and choosing Actions > Maintenance). The VNE remains in this state until it is manually restarted. A VNE in the maintenance state has the following characteristics:

• Does not poll the device, but handles syslogs and traps.
• Maintains the status of any existing links.
• Does not fail on VNE reachability requests.
• Handles events for correlation flow issues. It does not initiate new service alarms, but does receive events from adjacent VNEs, such as in the case of a Link Down alarm.

The VNE is moved to the Stopped state if: it is VNE is moved, the parent AVM is moved or restarted, the parent unit switches to a standby unit, or the gateway is restarted.

Partially Discovered

The VNE model is inconsistent with the device because a required device command failed, even after repeated retries. A common cause of this state is that the device contains an unsupported module. To extend Prime Network functionality so that it recognizes unsupported modules, use the VNE Customization Builder. See the Cisco Prime Network 5.2 Customization Guide.

Shutting Down

The VNE has been stopped or deleted by the user, and the VNE is terminating its connection to the device.

None

Stopped

The VNE process has terminated; it will immediately move to Defined Not Started.

Access gateway

An MST or REP access gateway is associated with the element.

Viewing Access Gateway Properties

Blocking

The element associated with this badge has a REP alternate port.

Viewing REP Information in VLAN Domain Views and VLAN Overlays

REP primary blocking

The element associated with this badge has a REP primary port that is also blocking.

Viewing REP Information in VLAN Domain Views and VLAN Overlays

REP primary

The element associated with this badge has a REP primary port.

Viewing REP Information in VLAN Domain Views and VLAN Overlays

Clock service

A clocking service is running on the associated element.

Viewing CEM Interfaces

Lock

The associated network LSP is in lockout state.

Viewing MPLS-TP Tunnel Properties

Redundancy service

The element associated with this badge is a backup pseudowire or a protected LSP.

• Adding an MPLS-TP Tunnel
• Viewing Pseudowire Redundancy Service Properties

Multiple links

One or more links is represented by the visual link and at least one of the links contains a badge.

Viewing REP Information in VLAN Domain Views and VLAN Overlays

Reconciliation

The element with this badge is associated with a network element that does not exist. For example, the device configuration has changed and a network problem exists.

Some elements can be deleted only if their components, such as EFPs, VPLS forwards, or VRFs, display the reconciliation icon.

Labelling NEs to Associate Them with Customers (Business Tags)

STP root

The element associated with this badge is a STP root bridge or the root of an STP tree.

Viewing STP Information in VLAN Domain Views and VLAN Overlays