System Requirements
Review the system requirements before installing the Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.2 software:
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Java—Ensure that you have Java Development Kit (JDK) 11 installed on your system.
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Any 64-bit Java 11 is supported for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.2 and it has been tested with the Java 11 OpenJDK package.
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Operating System—Ensure that your Cisco Prime Network Registrar machine runs on the Linux Operating Systems as described in the Server Requirements table below. Cisco Prime Network Registrar requires a 64-bit operating system.
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User Interface—Cisco Prime Network Registrar currently includes two user interfaces: a web UI and a CLI:
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The web UI has been tested on Microsoft Edge 100, Mozilla Firefox 99, and Google Chrome 100. Internet Explorer is not supported.
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The CLI runs in a Linux command window.
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Tip |
Include a network time service in your configuration to avoid time differences between the local and regional clusters. This method ensures that the aggregated data at the regional server appears consistently. The maximum allowable time drift between the regional and local clusters is five minutes. If the time skew exceeds five minutes, then the installation process will not be able to correctly register the server with the regional. In this case, unset and set the password on the regional cluster, and sync again. |
Component |
Requirement |
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OS version1 |
RHEL 8.x/AlmaLinux 8.x 64-bit Note: The newest level tested with this release are RHEL 8.8 and AlmaLinux 8.8. |
Minimum disk space |
200 GB For best performance, Cisco recommends use of SSD drives. |
Minimum memory |
16 GB |
Minimum CPUs2 |
4 CPUs |
Note |
The operating system version used for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.2 virtual appliance is AlmaLinux 8.8. |
Note |
Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.1 is the last release to support Windows. |
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Based on the type of clusters you are planning to deploy, see the Capacity and Performance Guidelines appendices for more details. |
Important |
Treat these system requirements as minimal guidelines. We advise you to monitor your deployment and adjust based on the actual usage level you are seeing. Cisco Network Registrar has been tested against Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 8.8 and AlmaLinux 8.8. However, it is anticipated that the end users apply patches and maintenance releases to keep their OS upto date with OS-related bug fixes and security patches. Cisco does not anticipate that these patches/maintenance updates within the same OS major version will cause issues, but as always, it is highly recommended that any updates be lab tested before they are applied to production servers. |
System Requirements for Linux OS
The following x86_64 (64-bit) packages (over and above the JDK) are required to install Cisco Prime Network Registrar on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or AlmaLinux. If you use the yum or dnf commands to install Cisco Prime Network Registrar, then these packages are installed as part of the installation process if required. If you use the rpm command to install Cisco Prime Network Registrar, then you must install these packages separately.
Package Name |
Package Version |
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For RHEL 8.x/AlmaLinux 8.x |
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glibc |
2.28 or later |
krb5-libs |
1.17 or later |
ldns |
1.7.0 or later |
libcurl (built with OpenSSL) |
7.61.1 or later |
libevent |
2.1.8 or later |
libgcc |
8.3.1 or later |
libicu |
60.3 or later |
libstdc++ |
8.3.1 or later |
libxml2 |
2.9.7 or later |
net-snmp-libs |
5.8 or later |
openldap |
2.4.46 or later |
openssl-libs |
1.1.1c or later |
tcl |
8.6.8 or later |
zlib |
1.2.11 or later |
libnghttp2 |
1.33.0 or later |
To find out the packages required, you can also issue the following command on your Linux system if you have downloaded the RPM:
rpm -qpR rpm_package_file
The installer will report any packages that may be missing before beginning the installation process.
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To know the kind of Linux system you are on, use the following command:
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Recommendations
When Cisco Prime Network Registrar is deployed on virtual machines, review the following recommendations:
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Do NOT deploy HA DNS or DHCP failover partners on the same physical server (in separate VMs). This will not provide high availability when the server goes down. Ideally, the high available/failover partners should be sufficiently "separate" that when one fails (because of a hardware, power, or networking failure), the other does not.
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When deploying multiple Cisco Prime Network Registrar VMs on the same physical server (or servers served by a common set of disk resources), you should stagger the automatic nightly shadow backups (by default, they occur at 23:45 in the server's local time). To know how to alter this time, see the "Setting Automatic Backup Time" section in the Cisco Prime Network Registrar 11.2 Administration Guide.
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It may be acceptable to not follow the above recommendations for lab environments; but they must be followed for production. |