Cisco Prime Provisioning Installation Guide, 7.2

Prime Provisioning Server Hardware

You must have a DVD drive to install the Prime Provisioning 7.2 product.

For information on NSA's configuration guidance for operating systems, see

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml

To access the platform hardening guide for RHELv5, click

http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/hardening-rhel5.pdf

To access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Guide, click

https://www.uvm.edu/~fcs/Doc/RedHat/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Security_Guide-en-US.pdf

To access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Guide, latest version, click

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Security_Guide/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Security_Guide-en-US.pdf

For the Linux server, the minimum recommendations are as shown in Table 1-1 .

In addition to Linux platforms, Prime Provisioning supports UCS/VMware platforms. Specific platforms supported include:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 64 bit version, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, and 7.2.

Note You need to install a list of Linux RPMs for a successful Prime Provisioning GUI mode installation. For more information on the list or RPMs, refer to Prerequisites of Prime Provisioning GUI installation.

• VMware virtualization, including running the embedded database.
• Linux UCS B-series blade servers.
• Linux UCS C-series servers.

Prime Provisioning Client

The following is needed for the Prime Provisioning client:

• A web browser is needed for the client machine on which to run Prime Provisioning. For list of supported browsers, see the Web Browser Support section.
• The screen resolutions that are recommended are 1024x768 pixels and 1280x1024 pixels. To view the fonts and colors correctly, the system display must be set to use a color quality of (at least) 32-bits.

Note Adobe Flash player (version 10.3.183.7) and its plug-in must be installed to support the web browser and to enable the main bar and charts in the Prime Provisioning GUI.

Note In Internet Explorer, we recommend disabling the script debugging feature. To do this, navigate to Tools > Internet Options and click the Advanced tab. Check the check box Disable script debugging and click OK.

Note When using Mozilla Firefox and launching Prime Provisioning in a second window, you might lose the latest changes made using the the first Prime Provisioning window. To avoid this, launch the second Prime Provisioning session using a tab or a hyperlink from within the first Prime Provisioning session.

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Web Start must be installed on the client machine to run the Inventory Manager. The supported Java version is Java 8.

Note Prime Provisioning supports JRE version 7 (update 21) through to JRE version 7 (update 45) without issue. If using JRE version 7 (update 51) or later, the JRE security level must be reduced from ‘High’ to ‘Medium’ in order to launch the TE Topology Tool.

Note When using more than one Prime Provisioning login, ensure each login is using a different HTTP session. To do so, run each session in a separate browser launched from the command line or by clicking on the browser icon on the desktop or Start menu. Do not run parallel Prime Provisioning logins in tabs within the same browser window or in browser windows launched from existing browser windows.

For operations that last longer than the amount of time predefined by the browser, you may get a warning message that says

“Warning: Unresponsive script. A script on this page may be busy, or may have stopped....”

Examples of tasks during which this warning message occurs are:

• editing a customer device with many interfaces,
• editing user details when there are many users.

Workaround- Increase the browser timeout value.

• For Mozilla Firefox, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unresponsive_Script_Error
• For Internet Explorer 8, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175500#LetMeFixItMyselfAlways

Web Browser Support

• Prime Provisioning GUI is supported by the following browsers:

– Firefox browser version ESR 24, 31and 52.

– Firefox browser version 30, 31, 37 and 55.

– Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11.

• The recommended screen resolutions for both browser windows are:

– 1024 x 768 pixels

– 1280 x 1024

To view fonts and colors correctly, the system display must be set to use a color quality of at least 32-bits.

• Prime Provisioning supports JRE version 7 (update 21) through to JRE version 7 (update 45) without issue. If using JRE version 7 (update 51) or later, the JRE security level must be reduced from ‘High’ to ‘Medium’ in order to launch the TE Topology Tool.
• The zoom functionality only works properly in the Prime Provisioning GUI if the Firefox browser menu option View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only is unchecked.
• Adobe Flash player (version 10.3.183.7) and its plug-in have to be installed to support the web browser and allow viewing of the main bar and charts in the GUI.
• If the Service Request Chart (pie chart) displays both very large and very small numbers, the pie section representing very small numbers is also very small and consequently difficult to access.
  Workaround: Try selecting individual subsections (broken, working, or to be deployed).
• For some operations that last a long time, the browser may issue a message like “Warning: Unresponsive script. A script on the page may be busy....” Two examples of this are when editing a customer device with many interfaces, and when editing user details, if there are many users.
  Workaround: Increase the browser timeout value.

IOS XR Device Setup

The following are the minimum patches for IOS XR, PIEs:

• mini.pie - Always required
• mpls.pie - Always required for Prime Provisioning
• mcast.pie - Required for Prime Provisioning layer 3 multicast functionality
• k9sec.pie - Required only if using Secure Shell (SSH)

Supported Cisco Network Devices and Software Versions

The following hardware and software are recommended and required as specified:

• Cisco Prime Provisioning can configure a managed CPE in the case of Layer 3 VPN services. It supports any device running IOS or IOS-XE version 12.1 or newer.
• The Network-facing Provider Edge (NPE) and User-facing Provider Edge (UPE) can be any of the PE devices.

The devices and related software supported are listed in the Supported Devices Table for Prime Provisioning.