Cisco Prime Network Registrar is comprised of these components:

• An Authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) protocol service

• A Caching DNS service

• A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service

Cisco offers these components as individually licensed applications or in a mix of suites.

Before you install Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1, review the system requirements and licensing information available in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 Installation Guide.

Note	If you are migrating to Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 from an earlier version of Cisco Prime Network Registrar, you must review the release notes for the releases that occurred in between, to fully understand all the changes.

Cisco Prime Network Registrar DHCP, Authoritative DNS, and Caching DNS components are licensed and managed from the Cisco Prime Network Registrar regional server. All services in the local clusters are licensed through the regional cluster. Only a regional install requires a license and only the regional server accepts new licenses. Then the regional server can authorize individual local clusters, based on available licenses.

Note

Licenses for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.x or earlier are not valid for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.x. You should have a new license for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.x. For the 11.x regional, if one has 10.x CDNS clusters, the 10.x CDNS licenses must be added on the regional server (10.x CDNS clusters will use 10.x licenses, 11.x CDNS clusters will use 11.x licenses).

Warning

You MUST upgrade the Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.x local clusters to 10.1.1 or later before upgrading the regional to 11.x. You should not upgrade the local clusters to 11.0 (or later) directly, as you will not be able to register with the regional until it is upgraded to 11.0 (or later).

Note

Smart Licensing is enabled by default in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1. Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.x regional, working in Smart License mode, does not support pre-11.0 local clusters. For more details, see the "Using Smart Licensing" section in "Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 Installation Guide".

For more details about Licensing, see the "License Files" section in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 Installation Guide.

The Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 kit contains the following files and directories:

• Linux—Cisco Prime Network Registrar RPM application for RHEL/CentOS 7.3 or later, and RHEL 8.x/AlmaLinux 8.6

• Docs—Pointer card, Bugs, and Enhancement List

• Container—Container for Docker on Red Hat UBI 8.6

• Kubernetes—Sample YAML files for deployment of Cisco Prime Network Registrar container on Kubernetes

The Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1.0.1 also ships as a virtual appliance which includes all the functionality available in Cisco Prime Network Registrar along with the AlmaLinux 8.6 operating system. The Cisco Prime Network Registrar virtual appliance is supported on VMware ESXi 7.x platforms, and OpenStack. For more details, see the "Cisco Prime Network Registrar Virtual Appliance" section in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 Installation Guide.

Note	The Linux distribution packaged with the optional pre-built VM downloads for Cisco Prime Network Registrar is Open Source software and not owned or supported by Cisco. Customers seeking support for Linux should reach out to third party software providers.

Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 supports both Smart Licensing and traditional licensing. However, it does not support the hybrid model, that is, you can use only one of the license types at a time. For a more detailed overview on Cisco Licensing, go to cisco.com/go/licensingguide.

Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.x is licensed in two parts: Permanent License and SIA License. The SIA License entitles upgrades to future releases. If you are on SIA from Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.x, or on unexpired SWSS contract from Cisco Prime Network Registrar 9.x, you can upgrade until either of those entitlements expire. For PAK-based licensing, you must install the PAK onto the Cisco Prime Network Registrar regional server. For Smart Licensing, the licenses are delivered to your Smart Account. Smart Licensing is enabled by default in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1, but can be overridden after installation. For Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1, the licensing is done according to the services that you require. For more information, see the "License Files" section in Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 Installation Guide.

Note	You should not delete any of the individual licenses loaded from the file. If required, you may delete older versions of DNS and DHCP licenses after the upgrade. Older versions of CDNS licenses must be retained if the servers are not upgraded.

Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 uses individual component licenses. This allows users to purchase and install DHCP services, Authoritative DNS services, and Caching DNS services individually, or as a suite.

If you need additional DNS caching licenses, you should order them based on Server count since DNS caching is a server based license.

To install and manage DHCP, DNS, and Caching DNS licenses, you must deploy a regional server. The regional server, among other things, is used to install, count, and manage licensing for these components.

The synchronization between version 11.1 and pre-11.1 local clusters must be done from a 11.1 regional cluster. Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 protocol servers interoperate with versions 9.0 or later.

Starting Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1.0.1, the OVA and QCOW2 kits are available.

For more information on a specific bug or to search all bugs in a particular Cisco Prime Network Registrar release, see Using the Bug Search Tool.

This section contains the following information:

• Resolved Bugs

• Enhancement Features

• Using the Bug Search Tool

See Cisco Prime Network Registrar Documentation Overview for a list of Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.1 guides.

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