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Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Documentation Overview

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Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Documentation Overview

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You can access the following Cisco Prime Network end-user documentation on Cisco.com at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11879/tsd_products_support_series_home.html.

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Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.

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Documentation Title	What Is Included
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Release Notes	•New features, enhancements, and device support. •Known caveats and workarounds, and resolved caveats.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Quick Start Guide	•Planning, installation, and postinstallation tasks. •Applies to fresh installations with 100 devices or less, with no gateway high availability.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Installation Guide	•Installing and upgrading to Prime Network 3.9, including installation of gateways (with or without gateway server high availability), units, and clients. •Applies to all deployments of Prime Network.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 VNE Device Package Installation Guide	•Installing Cisco VNE Device Packages (DPs) using the ivne script and verifying the installation. (DPs can include device support for new software versions, topologies, modules, technologies, service events, traps, syslogs, Change and Configuration Management, and reduced polling.) •Uninstalling Cisco VNE DPs.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Third-Party VNE Device Package Installation Guide	•Installing third-party VNE DPs using the ivne script and verifying the installation. •Uninstalling third-party VNE DPs.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 User Guide	•Introduction to the Prime Network Vision and Events GUI clients. •How to view network element physical and logical inventories, network topologies, and network and service maps. •How to view, track, and resolve fault trends using the reporting, fault management, and path-tracing capabilities of Prime Network. •How to resolve fault trends, and identify and isolate network problems.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Change and Configuration Management User Guide	•Introduction to the Prime Network Change and Configuration Management GUI client. •How to manage the software and device configuration changes that are made to devices in your network.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Administrator Guide	•Introduction to the Prime Network Administration GUI client. •How to manage and configure the server, database, units, AVMs, and VNEs. •How to perform both basic and advanced administration tasks on the gateway and VNEs.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Customization Guide	•How to extend the network element property information displayed by the GUI clients and manage threshold crossing alarms using the Soft Properties feature. •How to execute a programmable sequence of SNMP or Telnet command lines using the Command Builder feature. •How to create workflows (logical flows of commands), including creating and configuring Prime Network activation scripts, wizards, and workflows, and how to view results using the Workflow feature. •How to create activation scripts using the Activation feature. •How to extend support for NEs, modules, and events, using the VNE Customization Builder. •How to launch external applications from Prime Network Vision. •How to manage rules using Drools.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Reference Guide	•VNE reference, which lists the devices, software versions, topologies, modules, and technologies supported by Prime Network. •Technologies and topologies support ed by Prime Network •Alarms, events, traps, and syslogs supported by Prime Network. •Command scripts packaged with Prime Network.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Supported Cisco VNEs—Addendum	•New VNE support provided in DPs that can be downloaded from Cisco.com and installed on Prime Network 3.9. DPs can include device support for new software versions, topologies, modules, technologies, service events, traps, syslogs, Change and Configuration Management, and reduced polling.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Device Package Third Party VNE Reference Guide	•Third-party devices supported by Prime Network 3.9. •Software versions, topologies, modules, technologies, service events, traps, and syslogs that Prime Network 3.9 supports for each third-party device type. •Extending the information model for third-party devices by adding support for new events and modules using VCB templates. •Includes new support can be added by downloading and installing third-party DPs.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Integration Developer Guide	•Broadband Query Language (BQL) and Information Model Objects (IMOs) and functions. •How to run BQL over web services (WSDL) connections and over HTTP interfaces, and how to manage SNMP notifications.
Open Source Used in Cisco Prime Network 3.9	•Lists of licenses and notices for open source software.

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