This chapter describes the system recommendations and requirements for Cisco IP Solution Center (ISC). ISC is a web-based application you install on a Sun Solaris server, along with a web server and other supporting packages. You access ISC using a web browser.
The recommendation is to thoroughly review this list before even planning your installation, to be sure you have all the hardware and software you must successfully install.
The recommendations are explained in the following topics:
You must have a CD-ROM drive to install the ISC 5.1 product.
For the Sun™ Solaris server, the minimum recommendations are as shown in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1 Minimum Sun Solaris Server Recommendations for ISC Applications
Class
Applications
Minimum Sun Solaris Server
RAM
Swap Space
Disk Space
Entry
Cisco MPLS Diagnostics Expert
or
L2VPN and L3 MPLS with a total of up to 1500 attachment circuits
Note: Not recommended for API use.
Sun™ SPARC T1000 or T2000, 1 CPU, 1 GHz
2 GB
4 GB
73 GB hard drive
Mid-range
Traffic Engineering Management (TEM) of up to 5000 TE tunnels
or
L2VPN and L3 MPLS with a total of up to 10,000 attachment circuits
Sun™ SPARC T5220, Quad-core CPU, 1.2 GHz
4 GB
8 GB
73 GB hard drive
High End
Traffic Engineering Management (TEM) of more than 5000 TE tunnels
or
L2VPN and L3 MPLS with a total of more than 10,000 attachment circuits
Sun™ SPARC M4000, 2 CPUs, 2.15 GHz
16 GB
32 GB
146 GB hard drive
Notes:
The recommended servers in this table are examples for typical installations. Relative performance can be impacted by many factors. Please contact your Cisco account representative if you need assistance in selecting the correct server.
The default Oracle and Sybase database layouts are sufficient for ISC. Further optimization is your preference.
ISC Server Solaris Configuration
Solaris 10 is supported in this release. Solaris 10 with recommended patches of at least 118822-30 for the kernel level of the patch cluster and JDK 1.6.0_07 patches are found at: http://sunsolve.sun.com. As a minimum, you must get your system up to the 118822-30 Kernel patch level. For installation instructions, see the README file which is at the same location as the patch bundle.
Before installing ISC, configure the server to be able to perform hostname to IP address translations. Ensure that Domain Naming System (DNS) or an alternative is configured.
Install Solaris 10 on the Sun Sparc server following these guidelines:
Full Distribution—Install the full distribution, which includes the following required packages. If you did not install the full distribution, you can install these packages at any time.
—SUNWldap—LDAP libraries
—SUNWbzip—The bzip compression utility
To check if your installation includes these packages, enter:
pkginfopackage
where: package is one of the packages listed above.
Note When you install Solaris 10, be sure to choose either the Developer System Support or the Entire Distribution software groups. Do not choose the End User System software group. The Developer System Support and Entire Distribution software groups contain the software required for a correct operating system installation (such as the SUNWbtool and SUNWsprot packages).
Caution Make sure that the file descriptor limit is not set in the ISC workstation login shell file (which can be the .login file, the .cshrc file, the .profile file, or the .kshrc file). If the login shell file contains a line with the ulimit -n command (for example, "ulimit -n <number>"), comment out this command line in the file. Log out and then log back in to ensure that the ulimit is no longer set.
ISC cannot override the file descriptor limitation setting in the login shell file. If the value is set incorrectly, ISC might experience operational problems.
ISC Client
The following is needed for the ISC client:
•A web browser is needed for the client machine on which to run ISC. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 for Windows, and Mozilla Suite 1.7 for Solaris are supported.
Note In Internet Explorer, we recommend disabling the script debugging feature. To do this, navigate to Tools > Internet Options and click the Advanced tab. Select the check box Disable script debugging and click OK.
Note When using Mozilla Firefox and launching ISC in a second window, you might lose the information in the first ISC window. To avoid this, stay in ISC and launch a new ISC from a tab or a hyperlink within ISC.
If launching a new Firefox window is necessary, do so with a different Firefox profile.
•Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Web Start must be installed on the client machine to run Inventory Manager. Java 6.0 Update 7 is supported.
Note When using more than one ISC 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 ISC logins in tabs within the same browser window or in browser windows launched from existing browser windows.
IOS XR Device Setup
The following are the minimum patches for IOS XR, PIEs:
•mini.pie - Always required
•mpls.pie - Always required for ISC
•mcast.pie - Required for ISC layer 3 multicast functionality
•mgbl.pie - Required for ISC layer 2 and layer 3 deployment to work (because they use the XML agent); not required for TEM
•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:
•ISC 5.1 testing on an Oracle database has been on Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64 bit Production. If you would like to use another version of Oracle, see Oracle's compatibility information.
•CEs are supported with Cisco IOS 12.1 or later if the CE is a router, and if connecting using Ethernet then it must have a VLAN ethernet interface. The Management Customer Edge router (MCE) can be any CE.
•The MPE can be any of the PE devices in the following tables.
The devices and related software supported are listed in the following tables:
* Cisco IOS and IOS XR MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute must be configured to use version 3 of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) label switched path (LSP) Ping draft (draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-03.txt). For details of how to configure the Cisco IOS and IOS XR MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute version, see the Cisco MPLS Diagnostics Expert 2.1.3 User Guide on ISC 5.1. ** Cisco IOS 12.0(32) S10 supports MPLS OAM RFC.
Table 1-8 specifies the version of software supported on alphabetically listed TEM devices.
Table 1-8 Traffic Engineering Management (TEM) Devices and Related Software Supported with ISC 5.1
P and PE Network Devices
Traffic Engineering Management (TEM) Supported with Specified Software
Cisco 7200 Series Routers
Cisco IOS 12.0(22) S, 12.0(22) S2, 12.0(24) S, 12.0(26) S, 12.0(26) S2, 12.0(27) S, 12.0(27) S4, 12.0(28) S, 12.0(28) S5, 12.0(31) S, 12.0(32) S, and 12.2(31) SB5** ** No Fast Re-route (FRR) support for 12.2(28) SB
Cisco 7500 Series Routers
Cisco IOS 12.0(22) S, 12.0(22) S2, and 12.0(27) S4
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