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Release Notes for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.1
New Features for Release 3.0.1
Changes to the Address Management Interface
Changes to the Multicast Trace Interface
Changes to the Video Probe Page
Changes to the Global Polling Page
Changes to the Video Probe Status Page
Changes to Video Probe Status—Outage Flow
Change to the Tree Changed Report—Router Status
Quick Trace Selection in the Trace Menu Renamed to Show Groups
Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Polling—Enabling or Disabling Packet Flow at Ingress Routers
Installing the CMM 3.0.1 Patch
Requirements for the Patch Release
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
Release Notes for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.1
Revised: July 28, 2009Contents
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New Features for Release 3.0.1
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Introduction
Cisco Multicast Manager is a web-based network management application that is designed to aid in the monitoring and troubleshooting of multicast networks. Enterprises running video delivery systems or financial market data applications can greatly benefit from deploying Cisco Multicast Manager. Service providers or cable operators also benefit from:
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New Features for Release 3.0.1
Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.1 provides the following new features:
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Changes to the Address Management Interface
CMM 3.0.1 provides the following enhancements to the address management interface:
New Source Description pages —A Source Description—Summary page has been added to the Address Management options. The Source Description—Summary page lists each source IP address and descriptive text that you specify using the Source Description Add/Modify page. The text that you enter to describe the source IP address is displayed on the Multicast Flow Trace page when a trace is run on the multicast group.
New Transport Description pages—Using the Transport Description page, you can launch the Address—Transport Add/Modify page to specify text that describe the transport stream for a specified source IP address and group IP address. The Address—Transport Description page lists the transport descriptions that have been entered. If you specify a transport description, this description is included in the trace summary at the top of the Multicast Flow Trace page and for any events where the transport stream is present.
If no transport description is specified for a transport stream, then CMM retrieves a description from the Group Description Table.
For details on the interface, see the User Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.
Changes to the Multicast Trace Interface
CMM 3.0.1 contains several enhancements to the Multicast Trace interface:
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Group (Group_Description) transport (Transport_Description) Source (Source_Description), for example "Tracing multicast group 211.22.2.0 (Midwest Region) transport (TBS Sports Network) Source (Region One)."
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For traces using probes other than the iVMS, BridgeTech, and Mixed Signal probes, clicking on the video probe icon for the probe launches a video probe application page.
For details on the interface, see the User Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.
Changes to the Video Probe Page
The pull-down list for the Application Type field on the Add/Rediscover a Video Probe page now contains a new option, Others, which allows you to add video probes for additional vendors other than iVMS, MixedSignal, or BridgeTech.
Changes to the Global Polling Page
The Global Polling page now provides a Forward Mixed Signal Traps check box. Checking this check box enables forwarding of traps from the MixedSignal probe to other applications. The traps are forwarded northbound, but are not displayed on the Trap Viewer page. If you click Save on the page, a message appears instructing you to start the snmptrapd processes to cause the changes in Mixed Signal trap forwarding to take effect.
Changes to the Video Probe Status Page
If a Transport description is provided for a transport stream, the descriptive text for the transport stream is now displayed on the Video Probe Status page, in the Description column.
If no transport description is specified for a transport stream, then CMM retrieves a description from the Group Description Table.
Changes to Video Probe Status—Outage Flow
The Multicast Trace page and the Video Probe Status page in the Diagnostics interface will display outage flows for Bridgetech and iVMS 4.x probes. Outage flows are indicated by a black icon indicating that the DF value equals 5000.
Change to the Tree Changed Report—Router Status
The Tree Changed Report display now indicates whether a router in the trace diagram has been removed or added to the tree. Routers that have been removed are highlighted in red in the baseline trace, and routers that have been added are highlighted in green in the baseline trace.
Quick Trace Selection in the Trace Menu Renamed to Show Groups
In the menu hierarchy for the Trace section under Discovery & Trace, the item formerly called "QuickTrace" has been changed to Show Groups.
Changes to RP Polling
The following changes have been made to RP polling functionality:
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Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Polling—Enabling or Disabling Packet Flow at Ingress Routers
On the SSM Polling Configuration page, a Configure threshold at ingress router check box has been added. Checking this check box configures CMM to monitor the packet rate at ingress routers. If you leave the check box unchecked, CMM does not monitor the packet rate at ingress routers.
System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.1.
Supported Hardware
Linux
On Linux systems, the following hardware is supported:
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A 2.4-GHz processor is recommended for a large enterprise network (more than 500 devices).
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Sun Microsystems Servers
Cisco Multicast Manager supports the following hardware on Sun Microsystems servers:
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Operating System Requirements
Linux
CMM 3.0.1 can run on the following Linux versions:
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Sun Systems
CMM 3.0.1 can run on the following Sun Solaris versions:
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Memory Requirements
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Supported Browsers
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Installing the CMM 3.0.1 Patch
This section contains:
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Requirements for the Patch Release
Before installing the CMM 3.0.1 patch release. ensure that you have a Linux/Solaris machine with CMM 3.0 installed.
Installation Procedure
Complete these steps to install the CMM 3.0.1 patch release:
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# cd /tmp# gunzip -c cmm301_solaris.tar.gz | tar xvf - (for solaris)# tar -xzvf cmm301_linux.tar.gz (for Linux)
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The installation script and other files are extracted to the installation folder.
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The installation script checks for the presence of CMM 3.0 on that machine and installs accordingly.
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Messages similar to the following appear:
[root@cmm-as5-04 Linux]# ./setup.shCisco Multicast Manager Version 3.0.1 installation setupCopyright (c) 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Found CMM 3.0 version in this machine cmm-as5-04This patch stops the CMM processes. Do you wish to continue? [y/n]: yStopping CMM Processes ...Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcatUsing CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcatUsing CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcat/tempUsing JRE_HOME: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/jreShutting down MySQL.. [ OK ]Stopping the Polling Daemon..Stopping CLI Proxy Daemon(ssh)..Stopping CLI Proxy Daemon(tel)..Stopping CLI Proxy Daemon(dtv)..Stopping SNMP Trap Receiver..Stopping SNMP Trap Agent..15249CMM Util process stopped successfully...14983CMM Data Service process stopped successfully...Installation Finished.Starting CMM Processes ..Starting the application...Starting mysql server...Starting MySQL... [ OK ]Starting CMM Data service...CMM DataService process startedUsing CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcatUsing CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcatUsing CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/apache-tomcat/tempUsing JRE_HOME: /usr/local/netman/mmtsys/jre/Starting mysql server...Starting MySQL [ OK ]Starting the polling daemon...Starting the CLI proxy daemons...Starting the CLI proxy dtv daemon...Starting SNMP Trap Receiver daemon...Starting SNMP Trap ReceiverStarting SNMP Agent daemon...Starting SNMP AgentStarting CMM Util process...................CMM Util process started
Caveats
The following Cisco IOS caveats affect the operation of CMM 3.0.1.
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Description:
The Top Talkers link on the Diagnostics page does not work if the network device supports the Cisco IOS XR release.
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The user is trying to execute the Top Talkers link on a device running Cisco IOS XR.
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None. This feature was not supported for CMM 2.4. This requires a supporting command set for Cisco IOS XR.
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The user fails to run commands on the Cisco IOS XR devices from the Diagnostics page.
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Consistent.
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The user fails to run the commands on the Cisco IOS XR devices from the Diagnostics page using SSH mode.
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The user is trying to execute the commands on a device running Cisco IOS XR.
Workaround:
Use SSH V1.
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Description:
Discovery will not complete if NIS+ is enabled.
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Consistent.
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Install CMM on a Solaris machine where NIS+ is enabled. The Discovery process in CMM does not complete.
Conditions:
Installing CMM on a Solaris machine where NIS+ is enabled.
Workaround:
Disable any naming service (NIS, NIS+, LDAP) on the gateway machine before installation.
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The Administration tab does not appear in the menu when Configuration Management is selected.
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Very low.
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Install CMM 3.0.1 and launch the application GUI in the Internet Explorer Version 7.0 browser. Click on the Config Management tab after logging into the GUI with administrative level privileges. The Administration tab does not appear.
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Launch and run the GUI in any version of Internet Explorer.
Workaround:
Close the browser and log into the application again.
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MVPN data are not filtered using selected Report Parameters.
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This situation occurs when:
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The report is displayed based on the date parameters selected before the filter parameters were cleared. Reports should be filtered correctly based on the report parameters configured
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Filter Results by selecting Report parameters.
Workaround:
The user can change the date and time settings in the report parameter as needed.
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CMM3.0 does not forward Mixed Signal traps northbound.
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CMM does not display received Mixed Signal traps and forward them to the northbound application at the same time, as it does for Bridgetech, iVMS, and IP Multicast Heartbeat traps.
CMM should display the trap in trap viewer and at the same time it should forward it northbound.
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Mixed signal traps are received by CMM.
Workaround:
None.
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Cannot display graphical topology for more than 3000 simulated devices.
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Consistent.
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Install CMM 3.0.1 and launch the topology page for more than 1500 devices. Graphical topology is not displayed. Instead, a message box is displayed, informing you of the topology restriction.
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Launch and run the topology.
Workaround:
None.
Product Documentation
Table 1 describes the product documentation available for CMM.
Table 1 CMM Documentation
Release Notes for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0.1
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6337/
prod_release_notes_list.htmlDocumentation Guide and Supplementary License Agreement for Cisco Multicast Manager, 3.0
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6337/
products_documentation_roadmaps_list.htmlInstallation Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager, 3.0
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6337/
prod_installation_guides_list.htmlUser Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager, 3.0
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6337/products_user_guide_list.html
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
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:
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