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Cisco Prime Carrier Management provides end-to-end management, from access to the core, helping enable carrier-class delivery of next-generation voice, mobile, cloud, and managed services. With the modular architecture, you have the flexibility to deploy the entire integrated suite or do it incrementally as you grow your business, depending on your needs.
The Cisco Prime Carrier Management solution consists of the following applications, which are accessible through the Cisco Prime Central portal:
Cisco Prime Network—Provides management of packet networks, including access, aggregation, edge, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) core, and Evolved Packet Core (EPC).
Cisco Prime Optical—Provides efficient and productive optical infrastructure management for fault, configuration, performance, and security.
Cisco Prime Performance Manager—Provides performance statistics and reports for service provider and large enterprise networks, including access, edge, distribution, core, mobile backhaul, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS core, and EPC networks.
Cisco Prime Provisioning—Provides automated resource management and rapid, profile-based provisioning capabilities for Carrier Ethernet, Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul, MPLS, and Packet Transport technologies.
Prime Central is compatible with the application versions listed in Table 1.
1.*Since Prime Performance Manager will be released every two months, the version names are expected to change. For example, 1.7.0.1701, 1.7.0.1611 versions reflect year and month.
New Features and Enhancements
Table 2 lists the new feature in Prime Central 2.1.
Table 2 New Features in Prime Central 2.1
Features
Description
RHEL upgrade support
Supports new RHEL 6.9.version for fresh installation and in-line upgrade.
Oracle Patches
Supports latest Oracle Critical Patch Updates (CPUs), July 2018.
Java Support
Supports Java 1.8.161 update.
Bulk User Management enhancements
Supports scope functionality during creating, updating and retrieving bulk user operations.
Digital certificate
Supports notifications with severity prior to Digital certificate expiration.
Disable session timeout
Allow disabling session time-out value for specific users.
Browser version support
Supports Firefox, ESR v52 32 bit browser version.
Direct upgrade
Supports direct path to Prime Central 2.1 release.
Supports upgrading of Prime Central and Prime Central-Fault Management directly from 1.5.1 to 2.1, 1.5.2 to 2.1, 1.5.3 to 2.1 and 2.0 to 2.1.
Struts upgrade version support
Supports upgrade of struts version to 1.2.9.
Table 3 lists the Customer Enhancements addressed in PC 2.1 release.
Table 3 Enhancements to Customer Found Defects in Prime Central 2.1
MD5 jars related to Alarm Browser need to be re-signed. Oracle JRE will no longer trust MD5-signed code by default, so some third party jars have to be upgraded.
Allow to disable User Login timeout in order to allow applications to stay open indefinitely for specific users.
Prime Central 2.1 Bugs Using Bug Search Tool
Use the Bug Search tool (BST) to get the latest information about Cisco Prime central bugs. BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and it aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version.
Bug Search allows you to:
Quickly scan bug content
Configure e-mail notifications for updates on selected bugs
Start or join community discussions about bugs
Save your search criteria so you can use it later
When you open the Bug Search page, check the interactive tour to familiarize yourself with these and other Bug Search features.
a. Enter Prime Central 2.1 in the Search For field and hit Return. (Leave the Product, Software Type, Release, and Show Bugs fields empty.)
b. When the search results are displayed, use the filter and sort tools to find the types of bugs you are looking for. You can search for bugs by severity, by status, how recently they were modified, according to the number of support cases associated with them, and so forth.
If you know the bug ID, simply enter it in the Search For field and hit Return.
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