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 6-22

adding

upstream OSS hosts 9-12

views to the Navigation Tree 7-49

adding and removing, properties 3-16

alarm and event properties

displaying 9-7

alarm events

displaying 9-9

alarm or event details

displaying 9-9

alarms

active alarms and event history 9-2

and event filter dialog box other pane 9-5

and events A-2

bulk statistics 7-41

by device properties 8-6

displaying by device from the alarms window 9-12

sent to e-mail addresses, configuring 9-14

sent to OSS hosts, configuring 9-14

alarms and events, filtering 9-5

alarms and events, managing 9-3

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

alarms by device

displaying 8-6

algorithms

creating 7-59

and editing device polling groups

creating 8-29

and removing properties from property views

adding 3-16

a new polling group

creating 8-30

application audit logs, displaying 11-7

architecture

local HA 12-13

Prime Performance Manager 1-5

archived, messages 11-14

archived messages, displaying 11-14

assigning devices, polling group 8-31

attributes

notification 9-18

authentication

local 6-8

PAM, TACACS+, and LDAP 6-7

Solaris and Linux 6-8

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 7-41

bulk statistics device configurations, removing 7-40

bulk statistics reports, setting up 7-36

C

capability polling 7-24

changing

report settings 7-20

chart legends, editing color 3-8

CISCO-EPM-2 trap, notification attributes 9-20

CISCO-PRIME trap

notivation attributes 9-17

CISCO-PRIME trap, notification attributes 9-17

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-38

ppm B-5

ppm addunitconf B-7

ppm adduser B-7

ppm backup B-9

ppm backupdir B-11

ppm badloginalarm B-13

ppm badlogindisable B-13, B-14

ppm certtool B-14

ppm changes B-15

ppm checksystem B-15

ppm clitimeout B-16

ppm cmdlog B-16

ppm console B-17

ppm consolelogsize B-17

ppm countnodes B-18

ppm datadir B-19

ppm days B-10, B-11

ppm delete B-20

ppm deletesnmpcomm B-21

ppm deleteunitconf B-21

ppm deluser B-21

ppm disablepass B-22

ppm disableuser B-23

ppm discover B-23

ppm diskcheck B-24

ppm diskmonitor B-24

ppm disnable B-84

ppm enablepwdage B-25

ppm enableuser B-23, B-26

ppm eventautolog B-26

ppm eventconfig B-26

ppm eventlimitsconfig B-27

ppm eventsnmpserversconfig B-27

ppm eventtool B-28

ppm evilstop B-29

ppm export B-29

ppm exportcustnames B-30

ppm exportusers B-30

ppm fastinterval B-30

ppm gatewayname B-31

ppm getbackuptimes B-31

ppm happmtimeout B-38

ppm help B-32

ppm ifnameformat B-32

ppm inactiveuserdays B-33

ppm installlog B-34

ppm inventoryimport B-34

ppm iosreport B-34

ppm ipaccess B-35

ppm ipslaftpfilesize B-36

ppm jspport B-36

ppm keytool B-36

ppm listusers B-37

ppm localhabackupflag B-38

ppm logger B-39

ppm lognum B-39

ppm logsize B-39

ppm logtimemode B-41

ppm manage B-42

ppm maxhtmlrows B-42

ppm maxpagesize B-43

ppm maxrepqueries B-43

ppm mldebug B-43

ppm modifyunitconf B-45

ppm motd B-45

ppm msglog B-46

ppm msglogage B-46

ppm msglogdir B-47

ppm netflow B-47

ppm netflowport B-48

ppm netflowservfile B-48

ppm netlog B-49

ppm netlogger B-49

ppm networktopology B-49

ppm newlevel B-49

ppm nontoerrcount B-50

ppm numfastthreads B-50

ppm numslowthreads B-51

ppm optimizecapabilitypoll B-51

ppm osinfo B-51

ppm passwordage B-52

ppm patchlog B-52

ppm ping B-53

ppm pingpolldelay B-53

ppm poll B-53

ppm premotd B-54

ppm primecentralintegration B-54, B-56

ppm primeha B-55

ppm print B-56

ppm printreportstatus B-57

ppm props B-57

ppm purgedb B-57

ppm pwdchangeinterval B-58

ppm pwdchangelimit B-58

ppm pwdchangerestrict B-59

ppm readme B-59

ppm reboot B-59

ppm redistributenodes B-60

ppm redundancygroups B-60

ppm reloadbulkstats B-61

ppm repdir B-62

ppm rephelp B-62

ppm resolvehostnames B-62

ppm restart B-63

ppm restore B-63

ppm restoreprops B-64

ppm rootvars B-65

ppm sechelp B-65

ppm seclog B-65

ppm servername B-66

ppm setpath B-66

ppm setpctrapdestination B-67

ppm showcreds B-67

ppm showsnmpcomm B-68

ppm showunitconf B-68

ppm singlesess B-69

ppm smtpport B-82

ppm snmpcomm B-69

ppm snmpconf B-69

ppm snmpget B-70

ppm snmphelp B-72

ppm snmpmaxrows B-72

ppm snmpnext B-73

ppm snmpwalk B-75

ppm ssl B-78

ppm sslstatus B-78

ppm starbuild B-78

ppm start B-79

ppm statreps B-79

ppm status B-81

ppm syncunits B-82, B-83

ppm tac B-83

ppm toerrcount B-83

ppm topxxsize B-84

ppm traceroute B-84

ppm uaenable B-85

ppm uninstall B-85

ppm unknownage B-85

ppm updateuser B-86

ppm useraccess B-86

ppm userpass B-87

ppm version B-87

ppm who B-88

ppm xmlpoll B-88

ppm zipoldbackups B-88

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 7-14

custom report views 7-46

device bulk statistics configuration 7-39

device polling groups 8-29

device-to-unit maps 12-6

report groups 7-56

report policies 7-25

star graphs 7-14

unit protection groups 12-8

creating, a new polling group 8-30

creating, thresholds 10-1

credentials for Cisco Carrier Packet Transport devices

adding 5-11

CSV

exporting 7-6, 7-9

custom device star graphs, creating 7-14

customizing

date and time 7-9

report display 7-11

custom report view

creating 7-48

custom report views, creating 7-46

D

daily alarm and event archives, displaying 9-10

dashboards

editing the display 7-44

enabling and disabling 7-44

managing 7-43

dashboards, managing 7-43

data

accessing, from the web 10-1

collection 8-26

data center

device support 5-13

supported devices and technologies 7-28

deleting

device-to-unit maps 12-8

SNMP credentials 5-7

Telnet/SSH credentials 5-9

deleting, thresholds 10-10

device

average poll responses 8-7

changing history limit 3-8

contacts and locations 8-11

details 8-24

details in prime style 8-12

discovery A-2

discovery overview 1-7

discovery requirements 5-1

management actions A-2

name settings, changing 3-7

properties 8-3

show domain name 3-8

up time 8-8

vendor information 8-12

device bulk statistics configuration

creating 7-39

device contacts and locations, displaying 8-10

device credentials, managing 5-5

device discovery

from Prime Performance Manager 5-11

device name and web port, editing 8-17

device polling groups, creating 8-29

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

devices

assigning to polling groups 8-31

assigningto report policies 7-27

discovering 5-4

importing from Prime Network 5-3

devices in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

devices in the network-level view, managing 8-16

device snmp ip addresses, editing 8-20

device SNMP time out alarms, displaying 8-7

device software versions, displaying 8-9, 8-10

devices to units, relocating 8-21

device-to-unit assignment

changing 12-8

device-to-unit assignments, changing 12-8

device-to-unit assignments, managing 12-6

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 12-8

device-to-unit maps, editing 12-7

device type distributions, displaying 8-5

device up time, displaying 8-8

disabling 7-22

passwords 6-19

users 6-19

disaster recovery, manual 12-26

discovering

network devices from Prime Network 5-3

discovery

from Prime Performance Manager 5-11

XEN and KVM TLS requirements 5-15

discovery, overview 5-1

discovery requirements

hypervisor 5-15

displaying

active alarms and event history 9-1

alarm and event properties 9-7

alarm events 9-9

alarm or event details 9-9

alarms by device 8-5

alarms by device from the alarms window 9-12

alarms by device type 8-6

alarms by device type from the alarms window 9-12

an alarm summary 9-4

application audit logs 11-7

archived messages 11-14

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 9-10

dashboards status 7-44

data center reports 7-28

detailed gateway and unit information and performance 12-4

device contacts and locations 8-10

device details for an alarm 9-11

device details in cisco prime format 8-12

device icmp ping responses and availability 8-8

device poll responses 8-7

device snmp TIME out alarms 8-7

device software 8-9, 8-10

device-to-unit assignments 12-6

device type distributions 8-5

device up time 8-8

device vendors 8-11

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 7-60

individual device information 8-23

information and error messages 11-12

install log 11-4

network and device reports 7-7

network-level device information 8-2

patch log 11-4

poller settings 11-9

Prime Performance Manager information 3-17

Prime Performance Manager version 2-8

report definitions 7-27

reports 7-1

reports settings 11-10, 11-11

security log 11-6

system check log 11-5

system logs 11-4

system messages 11-12

system properties and settings 11-8

system security log 6-23

system settings 11-8

threshold parameters from the alarms window 10-7

user actions 11-13

web configuration properties 11-9

web settings 11-9

display settings, changing 3-9

duplicating, thresholds 10-8

E

editing

dashboard display 7-44

device credentials 8-18

device name, web port, and time zone 8-17

device SNMP IP addresses 8-20

device-to-unit maps 12-7

polling group assigned to a device 8-20

polling group parameters 8-30

report policy assigned to a device 8-20

report policy parameters 7-25

snmp credentials 5-6

thresholds from the alarms window 10-7

thresholds from the threshold editor 10-6

upstream OSS hosts 9-13

views 7-53

editing polling group parameters, polling 8-30

enabling

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 6-3

user accounts and passwords using the CLI 6-20

enabling and disabling

reports 7-22

thresholds 10-9

error messages, information 11-12

event automation log, displaying 11-6

F

failovers and switchovers

local HA 12-14

features

security 1-7

filtering

alarms and events 9-5

report information 7-15

floating IP address

changing 12-16

floating IP address, changing 12-16

forwarding

traps to hosts 9-15

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 12-12

gateways, restarting 2-5

gateways, starting 2-2

gateways, stopping 2-4

gateways and units

properties 12-3

starting using the CLI 2-2

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

groups

protection 12-10

provided 7-57

GUI, optimize for slow connections 3-9

H

HA, failovers and switchovers 12-14

hypervisor, discovery requirements 5-15

I

individual device information, displaying 8-23

individual devices, managing 8-28

information

error messages 11-12

from the Help Menu 3-5

information and error messages, displaying 11-12

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

log messages, RHCS 12-16

M

managing

alarms and events 9-3

alarms and events in geographical HA gateways 12-23

dashboards 7-43

device credentials 5-5

devices in geographical HA gateways 12-23

devices in the network-level view 8-16

device-to-unit assignments 12-6

gateway and unit connectivity 12-5

gateway high availability 12-12

geographical and local high availability 12-25

geographical high availability 12-18

individual devices 8-28

local high availability 12-12

log files 11-7

report groups 7-59

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 6-2

users and user security 6-12

users in geographical HA gateways 12-23

manual, disaster recovery 12-26

master report settings, changing 7-20

menus, navigation 3-4

merging

view charts 7-53

message of the day, configuring 6-21

messages

display, changing 11-7

messages, sending to online users 6-22

messages of the day 6-21

creating 6-21

modifying

custom report views 7-51

password policy 6-9

N

navigation

menus 3-4

network alarms by device properties 8-6

network-level device information 8-2

network-level device information, displaying 8-2

network-level device properties, displaying 8-3

new bulk statistics schemas or counters

adding 7-40

new polling group

creating 8-30

new report policy

creating 7-26

new users

adding 6-12

Nexus switches in VDC mode, discovering 5-14

notes to alarms or events

adding 9-8

notification, attributes 9-18

notification attributes

CISCO-EPM-2 trap 9-20

number of backup days, setting 14-3

O

operations notes

local HA 12-13

P

page size 7-6

parameters

polling group 8-30

passwords, changing user 6-17

patch log, displaying 11-4

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) 6-7

poller settings, displaying 11-9

polling

creating a new polling group 8-30

editing polling group parameters 8-30

polling group parameters 8-30

polling, capability 7-24

polling group

assigning devices to 8-31

parameters 8-30

polling group assigned to a device, editing 8-20

polling group parameters, editing 8-30

polling group parameters, polling 8-30

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 4-6

post integration commands and procedures 4-6

troubleshooting 4-5

Prime Network, importing devices 5-3

Prime Performance Manager

about iii-xvii

architecture 1-5

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 1-4

database 1-6

device discovery 5-4

discovering devices 5-11

displaying information about 3-17

features and functions 1-1

integrating with Prime Central 4-1

IPv6 A-1

ports 13-3

ports 13-3

reports overview 1-3

restarting gateways and units 2-5

server 5-1

SNMP traps 9-17

starting gateways and units 2-2

stopping gateways and units 2-4

supported browsers 3-1

user levels 6-9

user levels 6-10

web interface

archived messages 11-14

logs

command     1

console     1

event automation     1

security     1

Prime Performance Manager, architecture 1-5

Prime Performance Manager bulk statistics schema file, updating 7-41

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 3-3

Prime Performance Manager with Prime Central, integrating 4-1

properties

tables, sorting 3-16

properties, adding and removing 3-16

properties, detailed gateway and unit 12-3

properties, gateway

and unit 12-2

protection, groups 12-10

provided, groups 7-57

R

redundant units, in active status 12-11

reference, commands B-1

relocating

devices to units 8-21

removing

bulk statistics device configurations 7-40

report chart, adding to clipboard tool 7-12

report graphs

add to star charts tool 7-12

export to image tool 7-13

report group

creating 7-58

report groups, creating 7-56

report groups, managing 7-59

report policies

assigning devices to 7-27

creating 7-25

creating new 7-26

editing 7-25

report policies, creating 7-25

report policy assigned to a device, editing 8-20

reports

changing settings 7-20

creating policies 7-25

custom views 7-46

data options 7-23

definitions, displaying 7-27

displaying 7-1

enabling and disabling 7-22

filtering information 7-15

historical statistics settings 7-21

managing 7-1

menu bar 7-5

settings, changing 3-10

viewing 7-7

reports, searching 7-4

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

reports, window 3-3

reports graphs

show chart in full screen tool 7-11

toggle area charts tool 7-12

reports in 3GPP XML format, exporting 7-24

reports settings, displaying 11-10, 11-11

reports table view

hide series tool 7-11

restarting

gateways 2-5

units 2-6

restoring

Prime Performance Manager data files 14-3

RHCS, freezing and unfreezing 12-15

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 7-4

secondary HA gateway, running status 12-20

secure user access

disabling 6-11

secure user access, enabling 6-11

security

client access, limiting 2-9

days before forcing password change 6-18

editing user security 6-17

logs, system 6-23

message of the day 6-21

number of active client sessions 6-18

overview 1-7

passwords, creating 6-9

passwords, disabling manually 6-19

passwords, re-enabling 6-20

user-based access

disabling 6-11

implementing 6-6

user levels 6-9

basic user 6-10

network operator 6-10

system administrator 6-10

view administrator 6-10

users

changing 6-20

listing current 6-23

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 7-21

setting up

bulk statistics reports 7-36

slow connections, optimize 3-9

SNMP and Telnet/SSH credentials

adding A-1

SNMP credentials

adding 5-5

deleting 5-7

editing 5-6

SNMP credentials, deleting 5-7

software versions 8-9, 8-10

Sorting, tables 3-16

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 6-3

key and certificate, displaying 6-5

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 6-3

star graphs, creating 7-14

starting

gateways 2-2

Prime Performance Manager server 5-1

units 2-3

status, gateway and unit 2-6

stopping

gateways 2-4

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 3-13

system logs, displaying 11-4

system messages, displaying 11-12

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 3-16

TACACS+ 6-7

Telnet

adding credentials 5-7

Telnet/SSH credentials, deleting 5-9

Telnet and SSH, credential notes 5-10

Telnet and SSH credentials

adding 5-7

threshold events, viewing 10-10

threshold parameters from the alarms window, displaying 10-7

thresholds

creating 10-1

deleting 10-10

editing 10-6, 10-8

enabling and disabling 10-9

filtering 10-10

managing 10-5

predefined C-1

viewing from Alarms window 10-7

thresholds, deleting 10-10

thresholds, duplicating 10-8

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 10-7

thresholds from the threshold editor, editing 10-6

threshold tools

adding 10-1

trap forwarding A-3

traps to hosts, forwarding 9-15

tuning

event and alarm parameters 9-12, 9-16

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 2-6

units, starting 2-3

units, stopping 2-4

updating

Prime Performance Manager bulk statistics schema file 7-41

upstream alarm hosts

configuring 9-12

upstream OSS hosts, adding 9-12

upstream OSS hosts, editing 9-13

user

access,disabling 6-11

access, enabling 6-11

actions 11-13

authentication 6-6

passwords, configuring 6-8

security levels 6-9

user, editing information 6-13

user access and security, managing 6-2

user accounts and passwords using the CLI, enabling 6-20

user actions, displaying 11-13

user passwords

changing 6-17

configuring 6-8

user preferences

changing 3-7

user preferences, changing 3-7

user reports, editing 6-16

users

changing passwords 6-17

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 6-23

users and passwords

manually disable 6-19

users and user security, managing 6-12

user security settings, editing 6-17

users in geographical HA gateways, managing 12-23

V

view

editor 7-55

graph 7-4

list 7-4

table 7-4

tree 7-4

view charts, merging 7-53

viewing

device-to-unit assignments 12-6

reports 7-7

system properties 11-8

threshold events 10-10

views

copying and pasting 7-50

creating custom 7-48

managing 7-53

modifying custom 7-51

views to the Navigation Tree, adding 7-49

W

web

checking browser settings 3-6

configuration properties, displaying 11-9

settings 11-10

web browser

checking 3-6

web browsers,supported 3-1

web interface, launching 3-1

web settings, displaying 11-9

X

XEN and KVM TLS, discovery requirements 5-15