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Cisco Prime Optical Release Notes, 10.6

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Updated:August 10, 2016

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Cisco Prime Optical 10.6 Release Notes

Contents

Introduction

New Features and Enhancements

Prime Optical-Supported NE Software Releases

Deprecated and Removed Features

Using the Bug Search Tool

Related Documentation

Accessibility Features in Prime Optical 10.6

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Cisco Prime Optical 10.6 Release Notes

August 10, 2016

These release notes provide an overview of the release and describe how to access bugs for Cisco Prime Optical 10.6.

Note You can access the most current Prime Optical 10.6 documentation, including these release notes, online at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-optical/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Contents

These release notes contain the following sections:

Introduction

Cisco Prime Optical (formerly Cisco Transport Manager) is a carrier-class, multitechnology management system that integrates the end-to-end management of traditional transport networks and new carrier packet transport networks. It can help maintain the integrity of existing services, plus deliver interactive, content-based services and high-bandwidth applications.

Cisco Prime Optical manages the entire Cisco optical portfolio, including:

  • Metro core
  • Metro dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)
  • Metro edge and access products
  • Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 2002, NCS 2006, and NCS 2015
  • Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) System products

Prime Optical also serves as a foundation for integration into a larger overall Operations Support System (OSS) environment by providing northbound gateway interfaces to higher-layer management systems.

New Features and Enhancements

Table 1 describes new features and enhancements in Prime Optical 10.6.

 

Table 1 New Features and Enhancements in Prime Optical 10.6

Feature Update
Description

Device Management

Basic support for the following NEs:

  • NCS 2000
  • ONS 15454 MSTP NEs
  • CRS 6.11

Third-party tools support

The following third-party tools have been upgraded for Prime Optical 10.6:

  • RHEL 6 and RHEL 7
  • Windows 7 and Windows 8
  • Java 7 and Java 8
Optical Enhancements

Support for new cards

Prime Optical 10.6 provides the basic support for the following new cards:

  • NCS2K-20-SMRFS-CV
  • TNCS-O
  • 60V ECU-S

CPAK SR4 support

CPAK SR4 support for the following cards:

  • 100G-CK-C
  • 100GS-CK-LC
  • 200G-CK-LC
  • MR-MXP

DWDM Enhancements

Support for the following functionalities:

  • Ability to update the wavelength of the existing WSON circuits. You can edit the wavelength of the existing circuit from Circuit Report and Circuit Search using Edit DWDM circuit functionality.
  • Support for new circuit preroute state for Preroute functionality in Circuit Report.
  • Display the preferred or required wavelength of the WSON or UNI circuit in the Properties panel of the Circuit Report along with the provisioned wavelength.

Note Applicable to preroute and protected circuits.

  • Include and exclude constraints functionality is disabled for Edit DWDM operation.

WSON circuit enhancement

Alarm support and circuit activation enhancements for WSON Circuits for the following functionalities:

  • Restoration
  • Re-Route
  • Revert
  • Circuit Activation
  • Circuit Deletion

Trail Trace Identifier (TTI) Enhancements

Support for the TTI tabs to display the section and path information simultaneously.

Mixed Requirements

Prime Optical 10.6 now provides the ability to support the following new functionalities:

  • Circuit Table can also be launched from NE Explorer > Configuration menu.
  • New label for Squelch parameter for the following cards:

– 40G-MXP-C

– 40E-MXP-C

– 40G-TXP-C

– AR_XPE

CRS NE Enhancements

Support for the CRS NE:

  • New Ethernet parameter for History Level and PM Layer fields on the PM tab.
  • A new warning message is displayed when CRS - PLIM PM statistics are cleared from PM tab and PM table.
  • Parameters must be displayed in tabular format for PM and Ethernet Status tab.
  • New Clear button in the Ethernet Status tab.
  • Received String must display values even when Expected String is empty on the TTI tab.

FIPS Support for MR-MXP Card

Encryption support on the MR-MXP card and also the network element can be in FIPS-CC (Federal Information Processing Standard-Common Criteria) mode.

Multi-Shelf Mode Management

Prime Optical 10.6 provides multi-shelf mode support for the NEs.

UI Enhancements
  • The Prime Optical GUI has a new look and feel for the following windows:
  • Circuit Report
  • Spans Report
  • CTP Report
  • WSON Report
  • WSON Constraints

Disabled or grayed out elements are now readable for the following panes:

  • Modify Link from Link Report
  • Edit DWDM Circuit

New faceplate images for the following cards:

  • 100G-CK-C
  • TNC-E
  • TSC-E
  • TNC
  • 80-WXC-C
  • OPT-EDFA-24
  • OPT-AMP
  • 100G-CK-C

Passive Shelves Support

Improves the usability of the passive patch panel modules on the NCS2K-MF-6RU (14 modules), NCS2K-MF10-6RU (10 double-slot modules) and NCS2K-MF-MPO-20LC shelves with the following support:

  • Inventory
  • Alarm management
  • Termination Points
  • Provisioning

Note You can view only the provisioning details.

The following passive modules are provisioned in NCS2K-MF-6RU:

  • MF-2MPO-ADP
  • MF-4X4-COFS
  • MF-6AD-CFS
  • MF-DEG-5
  • MF-UPG-4
  • MF-MPO-8LC

The following passive modules are provisioned in NCS2K-MF10-6RU:

  • MF-MPO-16LC
  • MF-MPO-20LC
  • MF-10AD-CFS
  • MF-16AD-CFS
  • MF-16AE-CFS
  • MF-8x10G-FO

The following cards are not part of passive patch panel modules support:

  • MD_48_ODD
  • MD_48_EVEN_E
  • MD_48_CM_E

Prime Optical-Supported NE Software Releases

Before updating the software image on an NE, verify whether the NE software version is supported in this Prime Optical release. If you add an unsupported NE software version, the Prime Optical server might not communicate with one or more NEs in the domain, causing erroneous behavior.

For a list of NE software releases supported in Prime Optical 10.6, see Cisco Prime Optical 10.6 Supported Devices.

Deprecated and Removed Features

Table 2 lists the deprecated and removed features as of Prime Optical 10.6 release.

 

Table 2 Deprecated and Removed Features

Feature
Status
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Using the Bug Search Tool

This section explains how to use the Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.

Step 1 Go to https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/.

Step 2 At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password then, click Log In. The Bug Toolkit page opens.

Note If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.

Step 3 To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Enter.

Step 4 To search for bugs in the current release:

a. To search for bugs in the current release, click Select from list link.

The Select Product page is displayed.

b. Choose Cloud and Systems Management > Optical Management > Cisco Prime Optical > Cisco Prime Optical 10.6.

c. Click OK.

d. When the search results are displayed, use the filter tools to find the types of bugs you are looking for. You can search for bugs by status, severity, modified date, and so forth.

Note In the search results, the headlines and Release-note enclosures might contain both Cisco Prime Optical and Cisco Transport Manager product names. For example, if a bug applies to both Prime Optical 10.6 and CTM 9.2, the headline and Release-note enclosure contain the earlier CTM product terminology.

Tip To export the results to a spreadsheet, click the Export Results to Excel link.

 

Related Documentation

See the Cisco Prime Optical 10.6 Documentation Overview for a list of Prime Optical 10.6 guides.

Accessibility Features in Prime Optical 10.6

All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics and some charts. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in the “Related Documentation” section.

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