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Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Release Notes
New Features In Cisco Prime AR 6.0
Identity and Access Management for Smart Grid Solutions
Network and Concurrent session based licensing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Clustering
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x Support
TACACS+ SNMP and Statistics Support
M3UA/SIGTRAN connectivity to HLR
Enhancements in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Co-Existence With Other Network Management Applications
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Licensing
Anomalies Fixed in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Known Anomalies in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Release Notes
Cisco Prime Access Registrar is a high performance, carrier class RADIUS/Diameter solution that provides scalable, flexible, intelligent authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services.
Cisco Prime Access Registrar comprises a RADIUS/Diameter server designed from the ground up for performance, scalability, and extensibility for deployment in complex service provider environments including integration with external data stores and systems. Session and resource management tools track user sessions and allocate dynamic resources to support new subscriber service introductions.
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Cisco Prime AR 6.0 can be used with Solaris 10, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3/5.4/5.5/6.0/6.1/6.2 32-bit /64-bit operating system (with 32-bit library is only for 64-bit operating system) using kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 or later versions of 2.6, and Glibc version: glibc-2.5-34 or later.
Contents
This release note contains the following sections:
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New Features In Cisco Prime AR 6.0
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces these features.
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Identity and Access Management for Smart Grid Solutions
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 provides the identity and access management for the smart grid solutions on IPv6 networks. This is achieved using the Elliptic Curve Crytographic (ECC) based certificate validation and also supports TACACS+ authentication and command accounting. For EAP services, in addition to RSA certificates, Cisco Prime AR supports verification of ECC certificates. ECC uses elliptic curves to encrypt data when creating keys which enables you to create shorter and stronger keys for better efficiency. This is achieved using the Cisco SSL library APIs. TACACS+ supports ASCII, PAP, and CHAP Authentication type, login and enable services, and LDAP, OCI, and ODBC services in addition to Local service. TACACS+ also tracks and maintains the executed command details in the command accounting. For more information about TACACS+ SNMP support, see TACACS+ SNMP and Statistics Support.
Network and Concurrent session based licensing
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces network wide licensing. The license is applicable across the network. A base server is needed per region.
Licensing can be based on either existing Transactions Per Second (TPS) model or the new number of Concurrent Online/Active Subscriber/Device Sessions (SUB) model.
Cisco Prime Branding
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces the Prime Graphical User Interface for better usability, look and feel.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Clustering
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Clustering. A two-node cluster is built with the help of Red Hat Clustering (RHCS) suite such that Cisco Prime AR will be running initially in the primary node. If there is a failure in the Cisco Prime AR service which means either the service is stopped or crashed, Cisco Prime AR service will automatically failover to the secondary node without any manual intervention.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x Support
In this version of Cisco Prime AR supports the following versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL 6.0/6.1/6.2.
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TACACS+ SNMP and Statistics Support
Cisco Prime AR 6.0 uses CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB to describe the statistics of Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) protocol. TACACS+ protocol is a terminal access control protocol for routers, switches, network access servers and other network computing devices. The main goal of TACACS+ is to provide separate authentication, authorization, and accounting services. In Cisco Prime AR, TACACS+ provides authentication for login services with PAP, CHAP, and ASCII authentication types. It also tracks and maintains the executed command details in the command accounting. Configuration is supported through the CLI/GUI and statistics are provided through CLI, GUI, and SNMP.
M3UA/SIGTRAN connectivity to HLR
Cisco Prime AR supports SS7 messaging over IP (SS7oIP) via SIGTRAN-M3UA, a new transport layer which leverages Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). Cisco Prime AR supports SIGTRAN-M3UA to fetch the authentication vectors from HLR, which is required for EAP-AKA/EAP-SIM authentication.
Enhancements in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Table 1 gives the details on the enhancements made in Cisco Prime AR 6.0.
System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements to install and use the Cisco Prime AR software.
Table 2 lists the system requirements for Cisco Prime AR 6.0.
Co-Existence With Other Network Management Applications
To achieve optimal performance, Cisco Prime AR should be the only application running on a given server. In certain cases, when you choose to run collaborative applications such as a SNMP agent, you must configure Cisco Prime AR to avoid UDP port conflicts. The most common conflicts occur when other applications also use ports 2785 and 2786. For more information on SNMP configuration, see the Configuring SNMP section, in the Installing and Configuring Cisco Prime Access Registrar, 6.0.
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Licensing
In Cisco Prime AR 6.0, licensing is based on transactions per second (TPS) or concurrent online/active subscribers/devices sessions (SUB). TPS is calculated based on the number of packets flowing into Cisco Prime AR. In Session based licensing model, the license is managed based on the number of sessions that resides in Cisco Prime AR. During Cisco Prime AR startup, either TPS based licensing or session based licensing model should be loaded. For more information on licensing, see the Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Licensing section, in the Installing and Configuring Cisco Prime Access Registrar, 6.0.
Bugs
This section provides information about known anomalies in Cisco Prime AR 6.0 and information about anomalies from previous versions of Cisco Prime AR that have been fixed.
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Anomalies Fixed in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Table 3 lists the anomalies fixed in Cisco Prime AR 6.0.
Known Anomalies in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0
Table 4 lists the known anomalies in Cisco Prime AR 6.0.
Related Documentation
The following is a list of the documentation for Cisco Prime AR 6.0. You can access the URLs listed for each document at www.cisco.com on the World Wide Web. We recommend that you refer to the documentation in the following order:
Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Documentation Guide (OL-26927-01)
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, 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
This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in the "Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Licensing" section.
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