Lab Evaluation Installations

This appendix contains the following sections:

Lab Evaluation Installations

This appendix describes how to install, upgrade, and uninstall Cisco Prime Network Registrar regional and local clusters on a single Linux machine to support smaller test configurations for evaluation purposes.


Note

You cannot install both the local and the regional cluster on a single Windows machine.


Caution

Installing the regional and local cluster on a single machine is intended only for lab evaluations, and should not be chosen for production environments. The aggregated regional cluster databases are expected to be too large to be reasonably located with a local server that is also running DNS or DHCP services. Running out of free disk space causes these servers to fail.

Installing Cisco Prime Network Registrar in a Lab

To install Cisco Prime Network Registrar on a single machine for evaluation purposes:

Procedure

Step 1

Check whether the machine has enough disk space to accommodate two separate installations of Cisco Prime Network Registrar.

Step 2

Install or upgrade the local cluster on the Linux machine, according to the procedures in Installing Cisco Prime Network Registrar. Specify the Local cluster installation.

Step 3

Install or upgrade the regional cluster on the same machine, according to the same procedures. Specify the Regional cluster installation.

Testing the Lab Installation

To test the installation:

Procedure

Step 1

Start and log in to the web UI for the local cluster, using the URL appropriate to the port number. By default, the local port numbers are 8080 for HTTP connections and 8443 for HTTPS (secure) connections.

Step 2

Add DNS zones and DHCP scopes, templates, client-classes, or virtual private networks (VPNs) as a test to pull data to the regional cluster.

Step 3

Start and log into the web UI for the regional cluster, using the URL appropriate to the port number. By default, the regional port numbers are 8090 for HTTP connections and 8453 for HTTPS (secure) connections.

Step 4

Test the regional cluster for single sign-on connectivity to the local cluster. Try to pull DNS zone distributions, DHCP scopes, templates, client-classes, or VPNs from the local cluster to the regional replica database.

Uninstalling in a Lab Environment

If you need to uninstall Cisco Prime Network Registrar, follow the procedure in Uninstalling on Linux.

No option exists to uninstall only the regional or local cluster in a dual-mode installation environment.