Table Of Contents

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - X -

Index

A

accessing

geographical HA gateways using the GUI 12-22

active alarms and event history

displaying 9-1

active alarms and event history 9-2

active sessions

displaying 6-20

adding

upstream OSS hosts 9-11

views to the Navigation Tree 7-35

adding and removing, properties 3-13

alarm and event properties

displaying 9-6

alarm events

displaying 9-8

alarm or event details

displaying 9-8

alarms

active alarms and event history 9-2

and event filter dialog box other pane 9-5

and events A-2

bulk statistics 7-29

by device properties 8-5

displaying by device from the alarms window 9-11

sent to e-mail addresses, configuring 9-13

sent to OSS hosts, configuring 9-13

alarms and events, filtering 9-4

alarms and events, managing 9-3

alarms and events in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

alarms by device

displaying 8-6

algorithms

creating 7-45

algorithms, editor 7-46

and editing device polling groups

creating 8-22

and removing properties from property views

adding 3-13

a new polling group

creating 8-23

application audit logs, displaying 11-7

architecture

local HA 12-13

Prime Performance Manager 1-4

archived, messages 11-14

archived messages, displaying 11-13

assigning devices, polling group 8-24

attributes

notification 9-17

authentication

local 6-9

PAM, TACACS+, and LDAP 6-7

Solaris and Linux 6-9

auto expand, report summary tables 3-10

B

backup directory

changing 14-3

backup directory, changing 14-3

backup logs, displaying 11-5

bulk statistics

alarms 7-29

bulk statistics device configurations, removing 7-28

bulk statistics reports, setting up 7-24

C

capability polling 7-18

changing

report settings 7-14

changing, poller settings 3-13

chart legends, editing color 3-8

CISCO-EPM-2 trap, notification attributes 9-19

CISCO-PRIME trap

notivation attributes 9-16

CISCO-PRIME trap, notification attributes 9-16

CLI command log, displaying 11-5

client access, limiting access to servers 2-9

color

setting chart legend colors 3-8

command line interface A-3

command reference B-1

commands

changing system properties 11-8

hacommands B-36

ppm B-5

ppm addunitconf B-6

ppm adduser B-7

ppm backup B-8

ppm backupdir B-10

ppm badloginalarm B-12

ppm badlogindisable B-12, B-13

ppm certtool B-13

ppm changes B-14

ppm checksystem B-14

ppm clitimeout B-14

ppm cmdlog B-15

ppm console B-16

ppm consolelogsize B-16

ppm countnodes B-16

ppm datadir B-17

ppm delete B-18

ppm deletesnmpcomm B-19

ppm deleteunitconf B-19

ppm deluser B-20

ppm disablepass B-20

ppm disableuser B-21

ppm discover B-22

ppm diskcheck B-22

ppm diskmonitor B-22

ppm enablepwdage B-24

ppm enableuser B-21, B-24

ppm eventautolog B-24

ppm eventconfig B-25

ppm eventlimitsconfig B-25

ppm eventsnmpserversconfig B-26

ppm eventtool B-26

ppm evilstop B-28

ppm export B-28

ppm exportcustnames B-28

ppm exportusers B-28

ppm gatewayname B-29

ppm habackupflag B-35

ppm happmtimeout B-36

ppm help B-29

ppm ifnameformat B-30

ppm inactiveuserdays B-31

ppm installlog B-32

ppm inventoryimport B-32

ppm iosreport B-32

ppm ipaccess B-33

ppm ipslaftpfilesize B-33

ppm jspport B-34

ppm keytool B-34

ppm listusers B-35

ppm logger B-37

ppm logsize B-37

ppm logtimemode B-38

ppm maxasciirows B-39

ppm maxhtmlrows B-39

ppm maxpagesize B-40

ppm maxrepqueries B-40

ppm mldebug B-40

ppm modifyunitconf B-42

ppm motd B-42

ppm msglog B-43

ppm msglogage B-43

ppm msglogdir B-44

ppm netlog B-44

ppm netlogger B-45

ppm newlevel B-45

ppm optimizecapabilitypoll B-45

ppm osinfo B-46

ppm passwordage B-46

ppm patchlog B-47

ppm ping B-47

ppm poll B-47

ppm premotd B-48

ppm primecentralintegration B-48

ppm primeha B-49

ppm print B-50

ppm printreportstatus B-50

ppm props B-50

ppm purgedb B-51

ppm pwdchangeinterval B-51

ppm pwdchangelimit B-52

ppm pwdchangerestrict B-52

ppm readme B-53

ppm reboot B-53

ppm redistributenodes B-53

ppm redundancygroups B-54

ppm reloadbulkstats B-55

ppm repdir B-56

ppm rephelp B-56

ppm restart B-56

ppm restore B-57

ppm restoreprops B-58

ppm rootvars B-58

ppm sechelp B-58

ppm seclog B-59

ppm servername B-59

ppm setpath B-60

ppm setpctrapdestination B-61

ppm showcreds B-61

ppm showsnmpcomm B-61

ppm showunitconf B-62

ppm singlesess B-62

ppm smtpport B-75

ppm snmpcomm B-63

ppm snmpconf B-63

ppm snmpget B-63

ppm snmphelp B-66

ppm snmpmaxrows B-66

ppm snmpnext B-66

ppm snmpwalk B-69

ppm ssl B-71

ppm sslstatus B-72

ppm starbuild B-72

ppm start B-73

ppm statreps B-73

ppm status B-75

ppm syncunits B-76

ppm tac B-77

ppm topxxsize B-77

ppm traceroute B-77

ppm uninstall B-78

ppm unknownage B-78

ppm updateuser B-78

ppm useraccess B-79

ppm userpass B-79

ppm version B-80

ppm who B-80

ppm xmlpoll B-81

configuring

gateway and unit communication 13-3

gateways and units for firewalls 13-2

unit and device communication 13-6

web client and gateway communication 13-3

connected clients and system status, displaying 11-2

console log, displaying 11-5

console log archived messages, displaying 11-7

creating

custom device star graphs 7-12

custom report views 7-34

device bulk statistics configuration 7-27

device polling groups 8-22

device-to-unit maps 12-6

report groups 7-42

report policies 7-20

star graphs 7-12

unit protection groups 12-8

creating, a new polling group 8-23

creating, thresholds 10-1

credentials for Cisco Carrier Packet Transport devices

adding 5-10

cross launch, enabling from Prime Network 5-4

CSV

exporting 7-5

custom device star graphs, creating 7-12

customizing

date and time 7-7

report display 7-9

custom report view

creating 7-34

custom report views, creating 7-34

D

daily alarm and event archives, displaying 9-9

dashboards

editing the display 7-32

enabling and disabling 7-31

managing 7-31

menu bar 7-33

dashboards, managing 7-31

data

accessing, from the web 10-1

collection 8-20

data center

device support 5-12

supported devices and technologies 7-22

deleting

device-to-unit maps 12-7

SNMP credentials 5-6

Telnet/SSH credentials 5-9

deleting, thresholds 10-9

device

average poll responses 8-7

changing history limit 3-8

contacts and locations 8-9

details 8-18

details in prime style 8-10

details when cursor is placed over a link 3-8

discovery A-2

discovery overview 1-6

discovery requirements 5-1

distributions 8-5

management actions A-2

name settings, changing 3-8

properties 8-2

show domain name 3-8

up time 8-8

vendor information 8-10

device bulk statistics configuration

creating 7-27

device contacts and locations, displaying 8-9

device credentials, managing 5-5

device discovery

from Prime Performance Manager 5-10

device name and web port, editing 8-13

device polling groups, creating 8-22

device poll responses, displaying 8-7, 8-8

devices

assigning to polling groups 8-24

assigningto report policies 7-21

discovering 5-4

importing from Prime Network 5-2

devices in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

devices in the network-level view, managing 8-11

device snmp ip addresses, editing 8-16

device SNMP time out alarms, displaying 8-7

device software versions, displaying 8-9

devices to units, relocating 8-16

device-to-unit assignment

changing 12-8

device-to-unit assignments, changing 12-8

device-to-unit assignments, managing 12-5

device-to-unit assignments, viewing 12-6

device-to-unit maps

creating 12-6

device-to-unit maps, creating 12-6

device-to-unit maps, deleting 12-7

device-to-unit maps, editing 12-7

device type distributions, displaying 8-4

device up time, displaying 8-8

disabling 7-16

passwords 6-17

users 6-17

disaster recovery, manual 12-26

discovering

network devices from Prime Network 5-2

discovery

from Prime Performance Manager 5-10

XEN and KVM TLS requirements 5-14

discovery, overview 5-1

discovery requirements

hypervisor 5-14

displaying

active alarms and event history 9-1

alarm and event properties 9-6

alarm events 9-8

alarm or event details 9-8

alarms by device 8-5

alarms by device from the alarms window 9-11

alarms by device type 8-6

alarms by device type from the alarms window 9-11

an alarm summary 9-4

application audit logs 11-7

archived messages 11-13

backup log 11-5

cli command log 11-5

connected clients and system status 11-2

console log 11-5

console log archived messages 11-7

daily alarm and event archives 9-9

dashboards status 7-31

data center reports 7-22

detailed gateway and unit information and performance 12-3

device contacts and locations 8-9

device details for an alarm 9-9

device details in cisco prime format 8-10

device icmp ping responses and availability 8-8

device poll responses 8-7

device snmp TIME out alarms 8-7

device software 8-9

device-to-unit assignments 12-6

device type distributions 8-4

device up time 8-8

device vendors 8-10

event automation log 11-6

gateway and unit information 12-1

gateway and unit software versions 2-8

gateway and unit status 2-6

geographical HA status 12-19

group reports 7-48

individual device information 8-17

information and error messages 11-11

install log 11-4

network and device reports 7-6

network-level device information 8-1

patch log 11-4

poller settings 11-9

Prime Performance Manager information 3-14

Prime Performance Manager version 2-8

report definitions 7-22

reports 7-1

reports settings 11-10

security log 11-6

system check log 11-5

system logs 11-4

system messages 11-11

system properties and settings 11-8

system security log 6-21

system settings 11-8

threshold parameters from the alarms window 10-6

user actions 11-12

web configuration properties 11-9

web settings 11-9

display settings, changing 3-9

duplicating, thresholds 10-7

E

editing

dashboard display 7-32

device credentials 8-13

device name, web port, and time zone 8-13

device SNMP IP addresses 8-16

device-to-unit maps 12-7

polling group assigned to a device 8-15

polling group parameters 8-23

report policy assigned to a device 8-15

report policy parameters 7-20

snmp credentials 5-6

thresholds from the alarms window 10-6

thresholds from the threshold editor 10-5

upstream OSS hosts 9-12

views 7-40

editing polling group parameters, polling 8-23

enabling

Prime Network cross-launch 5-4

reports and report intervals 7-18

secure user access 6-11

SSL on a gateway or collocated gateway and unit 6-3

SSL on gateways and units 6-2

SSL on remote units 6-4

user accounts and passwords using the CLI 6-18

enabling and disabling

reports 7-16

thresholds 10-8

error messages, information 11-11

event automation log, displaying 11-6

F

failovers and switchovers

local HA 12-14

features

security 1-6

filtering

alarms and events 9-4

report information 7-13

floating IP address

changing 12-15

floating IP address, changing 12-15

forwarding

traps to hosts 9-14

G

gateway

HA operations notes 12-13

high availability architecture 12-13

gateway and unit, properties 12-2

gateway and unit connectivity, managing 12-5

gateway and unit information, displaying 12-1

gateway and unit status, displaying 2-6

gateway high availability, managing 12-11

gateways, restarting 2-4

gateways, starting 2-2

gateways, stopping 2-3

gateways and units

properties 12-3

starting using the CLI 2-1

gateways and units, discovering 5-2

gateways and units, version 2-8

gateway-to-unit connectivity 13-1

geographical and local high availability, managing 12-25

geographical HA

configuring 12-21

geographical HA gateway data

backing up and restoring 12-22

geographical HA gateways, freezing and unfreezing 12-22

geographical HA gateways, synchronizing 12-21

geographical high availability, managing 12-18

graph, time span bar 7-12

graph bar and data display options 7-11

groups

protection 12-10

provided 7-43

GUI, optimize for slow connections 3-9

GUI polling refresh setting, changing 3-13

H

HA, failovers and switchovers 12-14

hypervisor, discovery requirements 5-14

I

individual device information, displaying 8-17

individual devices, managing 8-21

information

error messages 11-11

from the Help Menu 3-5

information and error messages, displaying 11-11

install log, displaying 11-4

integrating

Prime Performance Manager with Prime Central 4-1

IPv6

Prime Performance Manager support A-1

troubleshooting A-3

J

JVM, checking versions 6-8

L

last login date and time, changing 3-9

launching,web interface 3-1

LDAP 6-7

local HA

architecture 12-13

failovers and switchovers 12-14

operations notes 12-13

local high availability, managing 12-12

log files, managing 11-7

logging in

as the Root user 2-1

login window 3-2

log messages, RHCS 12-16

M

managing

alarms and events 9-3

alarms and events in geographical HA gateways 12-23

dashboards 7-31

device credentials 5-5

devices in geographical HA gateways 12-23

devices in the network-level view 8-11

device-to-unit assignments 12-5

gateway and unit connectivity 12-5

gateway high availability 12-11

geographical and local high availability 12-25

geographical high availability 12-18

individual devices 8-21

local high availability 12-12

log files 11-7

report groups 7-47

reports 7-1

reports, views, and groups in geographical HA gateways 12-23

thresholds 10-5

thresholds and upstream alarm hosts in geographical HA Gateways 12-24

user access and security 6-1

users and user security 6-12

users in geographical HA gateways 12-23

manual, disaster recovery 12-26

master report settings, changing 7-14

menus, navigation 3-4

merging

view charts 7-40

message of the day, configuring 6-19

messages

display, changing 11-7

messages of the day 6-19

creating 6-19

modifying

custom report views 7-37

password policy 6-9

N

navigation

menus 3-4

network alarms by device properties 8-5

network-level device information 8-1

network-level device information, displaying 8-1

network-level device properties, displaying 8-2

new bulk statistics schemas or counters

adding 7-28

new polling group

creating 8-23

new report policy

creating 7-21

new users

adding 6-12

Nexus switches in VDC mode, discovering 5-13

notes to alarms or events

adding 9-7

notification, attributes 9-17

notification attributes

CISCO-EPM-2 trap 9-19

number of backup days, setting 14-3

O

operations notes

local HA 12-13

options, data 7-11

options, graph bar 7-11

P

page size 7-5

parameters

polling group 8-23

passwords, changing user 6-15

patch log, displaying 11-4

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) 6-7

poller

settings, changing 3-13

poller settings, displaying 11-9

polling

creating a new polling group 8-23

editing polling group parameters 8-23

polling group parameters 8-23

polling, capability 7-18

polling group

assigning devices to 8-24

parameters 8-23

polling group assigned to a device, editing 8-15

polling group parameters, editing 8-23

polling group parameters, polling 8-23

ports

used by Prime Performance Manager 13-3

post integration,commands and procedures 4-6

primary and secondary geographical HA gateways, switching 12-20

primary gateway, running status 12-19

Prime Central

integrating Prime Performance Manager 4-1

Prime Central integration

considerations and next steps 4-5

post integration commands and procedures 4-6

troubleshooting 4-4

Prime Network, importing devices 5-2

Prime Network cross-launch, enabling 5-4

Prime Performance Manager

about 3-xv

architecture 1-4

backing up data files 14-2

back up and restore process 14-1

client and server communication

VPN 13-2

commands B-1

communication 13-1

dashboards overview 1-3

database 1-5

device discovery 5-4

discovering devices 5-10

displaying information about 3-14

features and functions 1-1

integrating with Prime Central 4-1

IPv6 A-1

login window 3-2

ports 13-3

ports 13-3

reports overview 1-3

restarting gateways and units 2-4

server 5-1

SNMP traps 9-16

starting gateways and units 2-1

stopping gateways and units 2-3

supported browsers 3-1

user levels 6-10

user levels 6-10

web interface

archived messages 11-13

logs

command     1

console     1

event automation     1

security     1

Prime Performance Manager, architecture 1-4

Prime Performance Manager bulk statistics schema file, updating 7-28

Prime Performance Manager client, limiting access 2-9

Prime Performance Manager data files

backing up 14-2

Prime Performance Manager data files, restoring 14-3

Prime Performance Manager server, starting 5-1

Prime Performance Manager Window 3-4

Prime Performance Manager with Prime Central, integrating 4-1

properties

tables, sorting 3-14

properties, adding and removing 3-13

properties, detailed gateway and unit 12-3

properties, gateway

and unit 12-2

protection, groups 12-10

provided, groups 7-43

R

redundant units, in active status 12-10

reference, commands B-1

relocating

devices to units 8-16

removing

bulk statistics device configurations 7-28

report chart, adding to clipboard tool 7-9

report graphs

add to star charts tool 7-10

export to image tool 7-10

report group

creating 7-44

report groups, creating 7-42

report groups, managing 7-47

report policies

assigning devices to 7-21

creating 7-20

creating new 7-21

editing 7-20

report policies, creating 7-20

report policy assigned to a device, editing 8-15

reports

changing settings 7-14

creating policies 7-20

custom views 7-34

data options 7-17

definitions, displaying 7-22

displaying 7-1

enabling and disabling 7-16

filtering information 7-13

historical statistics settings 7-15

managing 7-1

menu bar 7-3

settings, changing 3-10

viewing 7-6

reports, searching 7-3

reports, views, and groups in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

reports, window 3-4

reports and report intervals, enabling 7-18

reports graphs

show chart in full screen tool 7-9

toggle area charts tool 7-10

reports in 3GPP XML format, exporting 7-19

reports settings, displaying 11-10

reports table view

hide series tool 7-9

restarting

gateways 2-4

units 2-5

restoring

Prime Performance Manager data files 14-3

RHCS, freezing and unfreezing 12-14

RHCS, log messages 12-16

RHCS cluster server, switching 12-15

RHCS Conga web interface

configuring 12-17

RHCS conga web interface, configuring 12-17

RMI

how it works 13-2

RMI components 13-2

root user

becoming 5-1

login 2-1

Root user, logging in 2-1

RSA, generation 6-3

S

searching

reports 7-3

secondary HA gateway, running status 12-19

secure user access

disabling 6-12

secure user access, enabling 6-11

security

client access, limiting 2-9

days before forcing password change 6-16

editing user security 6-16

logs, system 6-21

message of the day 6-19

number of active client sessions 6-16

overview 1-6

passwords, creating 6-9

passwords, disabling manually 6-17

passwords, re-enabling 6-18

user-based access

disabling 6-12

implementing 6-7

user levels 6-10

basic user 6-10

network operator 6-10

system administrator 6-11

users

changing 6-18

listing current 6-20

security log, displaying 11-6

server

Prime Performance Manager 5-1

server properties

displaying 11-9

setting

number of backup days 14-3

settings

historical reports 7-15

setting up

bulk statistics reports 7-24

slow connections, optimize 3-9

SNMP and Telnet/SSH credentials

adding A-1

SNMP credentials

adding 5-5

deleting 5-6

editing 5-6

SNMP credentials, deleting 5-6

software versions 8-9

Sorting, tables 3-14

SSH

adding credentials 5-7

SSL

configuring on geographical HA gateways and remote units 12-24

disabling 6-6

enabling 6-2

enabling on gateway or collocated gateway and unit 6-3

enabling on remote units 6-4

key and certificate, displaying 6-6

status, displaying 6-5

status and printing certificates 6-5

viewing and exporting certificates 6-5

SSL certificates, exporting 6-5

SSL certificates, printing 6-5

SSL on a gateway or collocated gateway and unit, enabling 6-3

SSL on gateways and units, enabling 6-2

SSL on remote units, enabling 6-4

star graphs, creating 7-12

starting

gateways 2-2

Prime Performance Manager server 5-1

units 2-3

status, gateway and unit 2-6

stopping

gateways 2-3

units 2-4

strict synchronization 5-3

switching

primary and secondary geographical HA gateways 12-20

RHCS cluster server 12-15

synchronizing, geographical HA gateways 12-21

system

menu logs and messages 11-2

system configuration settings, changing 3-11

system logs, displaying 11-4

system messages, displaying 11-11

system properties

statuses, logs, and messages overview 11-1

systemproperties

viewing 11-8

system properties and settings, displaying 11-8

system settings, displaying 11-8

T

tables, sorting 3-14

TACACS+ 6-7

Telnet

adding credentials 5-7

Telnet/SSH credentials, deleting 5-9

Telnet and SSH, credential notes 5-9

Telnet and SSH credentials

adding 5-7

threshold dialog box

adding 10-2

threshold events, viewing 10-9

threshold parameters from the alarms window, displaying 10-6

thresholds

creating 10-1

deleting 10-9

editing 10-5, 10-7

enabling and disabling 10-8

managing 10-5

predefined C-1

viewing from Alarms window 10-6

thresholds, deleting 10-9

thresholds, duplicating 10-7

thresholds, managing 10-5

thresholds, predefined C-1

thresholds and upstream alarm hosts in geographical HA Gateways, managing 12-24

thresholds from the alarms window, editing 10-6

thresholds from the threshold editor, editing 10-5

threshold tools

adding 10-1

time span bar, graph 7-12

trap forwarding A-3

traps to hosts, forwarding 9-14

tuning

event and alarm parameters 9-11, 9-15

U

unit protection groups

creating 12-8

units

configuration A-2

protection group failover scenarios 12-11

redundancy groups and geographical HA 12-25

units, restarting 2-5

units, starting 2-3

units, stopping 2-4

updating

Prime Performance Manager bulk statistics schema file 7-28

upstream alarm hosts

configuring 9-11

upstream OSS hosts, adding 9-11

upstream OSS hosts, editing 9-12

user

access,disabling 6-12

access, enabling 6-11

actions 11-12

authentication 6-7

passwords, configuring 6-9

security levels 6-10

user, editing information 6-13

user access and security, managing 6-1

user accounts and passwords using the CLI, enabling 6-18

user actions, displaying 11-12

user passwords

changing 6-15

configuring 6-9

user preferences

changing 3-7

user preferences, changing 3-7

user reports, editing 6-14

users

changing passwords 6-15

changing preferences 3-7

editing information 6-13

managing through GUI 6-12

setting up access and security 6-1

setting up and managing 6-1

users, list currently defined 6-20

users and passwords

manually disable 6-17

users and user security, managing 6-12

user security settings, editing 6-16

users in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

V

view

editor 7-41

graph 7-3

list 7-3

tab 7-39

table 7-3

tree 7-3

view charts, merging 7-40

viewing

device-to-unit assignments 12-6

reports 7-6

system properties 11-8

threshold events 10-9

views

copying and pasting 7-36

creating custom 7-34

managing 7-40

modifying custom 7-37

views to the Navigation Tree, adding 7-35

W

web

checking browser settings 3-7

configuration properties, displaying 11-9

settings 11-10

web browser

checking 3-7

web browsers,supported 3-1

web interface, launching 3-1

web settings, displaying 11-9

X

XEN and KVM TLS, discovery requirements 5-14