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Table Of Contents
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Release Notes
New Features and Significant Changes in Prime Network 3.9
Change and Configuration Management
Prime Network Events and Fault Management
Mobile Technology Support in Prime Network 3.9
New Device Support Information
Open Bugs in Prime Network 3.9
Installation/Upgrade/High Availability Bugs
Device and Software Version Specific Bugs
Change and Configuration Management (CCM) Bugs
Bugs Resolved in Earlier Releases but Still Open in Prime Network 3.9
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Release Notes
This document contains the following sections:
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New Features and Significant Changes in Prime Network 3.9
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New Device Support Information
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Open Bugs in Prime Network 3.9
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 provides service providers and other network operators with a comprehensive assurance and device management solution for IP next-generation networks (NGNs). It is offered as a standalone application and as a fully integrated component of the Cisco Prime IP NGN suite for customers needing end-to-end network management lifecycle capabilities.
Cisco Prime Network users can easily discover network elements (NEs), administer them, diagnose problems, and restore changed configurations. These monitoring, validating, troubleshooting, and administration tasks can be accomplished using the Prime Network GUI client applications.
This document provides information on the new and enhanced features introduced in Cisco Prime Network 3.9. It also lists the open and resolved bugs in this release.
All enhancements and new features are described in New Features and Significant Changes in Prime Network 3.9.
New Features and Significant Changes in Prime Network 3.9
The following topics describe the new features and enhancements in Prime Network 3.9:
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Change and Configuration Management
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Prime Network Events and Fault Management
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Mobile Technology Support in Prime Network 3.9
Prime Network Administration
These new Administration features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Administrator Guide.
Event Notification Service
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For tickets or events included in an ENS, there are now options for choosing the type and severity.
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For the event source, there is an option to include or exclude events from the source.
Archiving and Purging
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Job purging can be configured so that jobs which do not comply to the configured policy are automatically purged. The administrator must configure this policy.
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Tickets older than a specified time and severity are automatically cleared by the system. This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by selecting Event Management Settings >Auto-Clear Tickets.
Embedded Database
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The database backup time can be changed and rescheduled using emdbctl --change_backup_time.
VNE-Specific Features
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When a VNE is updated to a new driver, it is no longer necessary to restart Prime Network to apply the changes. Only the VNE has to be restarted.
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Newly-created VNEs will automatically use the driver from the latest installed DP (the newest DP that is installed on the gateway or unit).
Prime Network Vision
These new Vision features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 User Guide.
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The Tickets pane contains a Latest Events tab. It lists all network events generated by elements in the map, from the time the map was opened. Events are removed from the Latest Events tab after 6 hours or when a maximum of 15000 events is reached (oldest events are removed first).
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A new Scheduled Jobs GUI (Tools >Scheduled Jobs) allows Administrators to monitor scheduled reports and Command Builder jobs, and to reschedule a job if necessary.
Change and Configuration Management
These new Change and Configuration Management features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 User Guide.
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Support for Cisco ASR 5500 devices.
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Change and Configuration Management supports TFTP, SCP, and FTP for image baseline operation on the Application Control Engine (ACE) cards on Cisco 7600 series routers. (The image should be available in the Cisco 7600 supervisor module filesystem for the import operation.)
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Archived configurations can be exported to a server on a periodic basis.
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Backup jobs can be scheduled simultaneously for all devices in a device group. If devices are added to or deleted from the device group after job creation, Prime Network updates the job accordingly such that all the devices available in the group at the time of execution of the job are considered for backup.
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Images can be imported from all devices in a group. If devices are added to or deleted from the device group after job creation, Prime Network updates the import job accordingly such that all the devices available in the group at the time of execution of the job are considered.
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Change and Configuration Management supports import and export servers with IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
Prime Network Events and Fault Management
These new Events and fault management features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 User Guide.
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A new Find mode is available for Prime Network Events GUI client. In this mode, events are only retrieved from the database when a user searches for those events. No other events are retrieved from the database. In this way, users can get the specific event information they need without having to wait for all the events to be retrieved from the database.
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By default, the Prime Network Events window now displays events from the past two hours instead of the past two days. This reduces the time it takes to display data in the window. Users can still search for specific events that are not currently displayed in the window.
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Ticket notes can be added, updated, or viewed.
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User audit information includes information on which ticket-related actions were carried out by specific users, and when the actions took place. External usernames (for example, Netcool) are displayed along with the Prime Network username.
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Tickets can be filtered by username of the person who acknowledged or cleared the ticket.
Report Manager
These new report features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 User Guide.
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New hardware reports in the Inventory Reports category:
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Hardware Summary Detailed—Provides detailed hardware information for each device.
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Hardware Summary (By Property)—Provides hardware information for each device based on a selected entity.
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Modules Summary (By Type)—Provides module information for each device filtered by module type.
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Reports can be scheduled to run immediately or at a later point in time (using the Scheduling tab in the Run Report dialog box). The reports can also be monitored using this same feature.
Mobile Technology Support in Prime Network 3.9
Prime Network 3.9 provides the following mobile technology support for Cisco Aggregation Service Router (ASR) 5000 series mobile gateways:
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Gateway General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (GGSN)
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Access Point Name (APN)
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GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) User Plane (GTPU)
GGSNs, APNs, and GTPUs are configured using command-line interface (CLI). They are grouped under the respective containers in the logical inventory. You can use Prime Network Vision to view the properties and characteristics of GGSNs, APNs, and GTPUs configured on the system.
VNE Customization Builder
These new VNE Customization Builder (VCB) features are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Customization Guide.
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System events are now generated for Add and Override operations performed using the VCB tool, and these events can be viewed in Prime Network Events.
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The SysOID of unsupported devices or modules now appears in the description of the Unsupported Device/module event. This makes it easier for users to retrieve the SysOID of the unsupported device (in order to add support for it using the VCB).
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Export of customizations is now supported in the VCB GUI. (Previously, export could only be done using the CLI.)
External Launch
These new external launch enhancements are described in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Customization Guide.
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NE IMO properties can be filtered, and external launch points can be applied to the properties that match the filter criteria.
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Ability to create an external launch point on a property of a contained IMO.
Activation Changes
Pre-defined activations are no longer shipped with Prime Network and no longer appear in the Activation window. If you require reference configuration examples, please contact Cisco Advanced Services. The Cisco Prime Network Activation 3.8 User Guide and Cisco Prime Network Activation 3.8 Customization Guide have been discontinued and relevant content has been moved into the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Customization Guide.
New Device Support Information
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Prime Network 3.8.x with Device Package 5.0 or later: After upgrading to Prime Network 3.9, you must install the latest Device Package (DP) from Cisco.com in order to have the same level of device support that you had in your earlier installation. This is because Prime Network 3.9 includes all of the support that is provided up to Prime Network 3.8.x with DP 4.0.
Prime Network 3.9 incorporates all the device support additions that were provided in Prime Network 3.8.x DP 4.0. To get the latest VNE support, please download and install the latest Prime Network 3.8.x DP from the Prime Network download site on Cisco.com.
For detailed information about new device support in Prime Network 3.9, please see Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Reference Guide.
Open Bugs in Prime Network 3.9
The following sections identify bugs that are open in Prime Network 3.9, according to the following criteria:
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All catastrophic and severe bugs (if any).
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Customer-found bugs.
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Moderate, minor, and enhancement bugs that are considered likely to affect the customer's experience with Prime Network.
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Bugs that were fixed in previous releases of Prime Network but are still open in the current release because they were identified too late in the Prime Network 3.9 development cycle.
The open bugs have been grouped in the following categories:
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Installation/Upgrade/High Availability Bugs
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Device and Software Version Specific Bugs
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Change and Configuration Management (CCM) Bugs
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Bugs Resolved in Earlier Releases but Still Open in Prime Network 3.9
Installation/Upgrade/High Availability Bugs
Device and Software Version Specific Bugs
Network Discovery Bugs
Table 3 Network Discovery Bugs
Bug ID DescriptionTop navigation tool bar disappears
Unable to add vne with comma (",") in the telnet sequence
Technology-Related Bugs
Command Builder Bugs
Table 5 Command Builder Bugs
Bug ID DescriptionAdding a command builder script to Logical Inventory sub-menus remains in running state
Change and Configuration Management (CCM) Bugs
Fault Management Bugs
Path Trace Bugs
VNE Bugs
AVM/Unit Bugs
Table 10 AVM/Unit Bugs
Bug ID DescriptionProxy for AVM 25 does not work in high availability (HA) scenarios
Spelling/grammar errors in webcontrol script
AVM becomes unreachable in a large CE setup
Bugs Resolved in Earlier Releases but Still Open in Prime Network 3.9
The bugs listed in Table 11 were identified too late in the Prime Network 3.9 development cycle to be fixed for this release. The fixes for these bugs have been provided to customers running older versions of the product as needed and are scheduled for inclusion in the next release.
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Resolved Bugs
Table 12 identifies bugs that were listed as open bugs in the Prime Network 3.8.1 release notes and have since been resolved.
Closed Bugs
Table 13 identifies bugs that were listed as open bugs in the Prime Network 3.8.1 Release Notes and have since been closed.
Related Documentation
A complete list of the documentation, and hyperlinks directly to them, is provided in the Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Documentation Overview.
Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Integration Developer Guide is available on the Prime Network Technology Center. This guide describes how to use Prime Network integration interfaces.
The Prime Network Technology Center is an online resource for additional downloadable Prime Network support content, including help for integration developers who use Prime Network application programming interfaces (APIs). The website provides information, guidance, and examples to help you integrate your applications with Prime Network. It also provides a platform for you to interact with subject matter experts. To view the information on the Prime Network Technology Center website, you must have a Cisco.com account with partner level access, or you must be a Prime Network licensee. You can access the Prime Network Technology Center at: http://developer.cisco.com/web/prime-network/home.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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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