Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1Release Notes

March 2, 2012OL-25975-01

This document provides release information for the Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 release, including the 1.1.1 patch release.

ContentsThis document includes the following topics:

• Introduction, page 2

• Features and Benefits, page 2

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1 Enhancements, page 3

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1 Fixed Caveats, page 5

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Enhancements, page 6

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Fixed Caveats, page 8

• Known Caveats, page 8

• Related Documentation, page 9

• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 9

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Introduction

IntroductionCisco Prime Performance Manager is a simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use, unified management system that helps you monitor an all-Cisco or multi-vendor and multi-technology network. It allows you to view reports and perform administrative tasks, using a Web 2.0 user interface.

Prime Performance Manager is an integral part of the Cisco Prime product family. You can use it with Cisco Prime Network to provide a seamless user experience to view performance reports, integrated with network and service topologies.

Prime Performance Manager:

• Collects network performance information and generates statistics on delay, jitter, and packet loss in a packet network.

• Monitors performance statistics for IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, and mobile backhaul networks. Using a web-based user interface, you can view over 1100 reports in the following areas:

– Application traffic

– Availability

– IP Protocols

– IP QOS

– IP SLA

– Mobile statistics

– Resources

– Security

– Transport statistics

• Allows you to integrate and install cross-launch scripts on Cisco Prime Network gateways, which enables Prime Performance Manager reports to be launched from the Prime Network GUI.

• Synchronizes device lists, credentials, and business tags from Prime Network.

• Provides a simple administrative interface that allows you to manage gateways and units, assign devices to units, administer autodiscovery, manage users, administer reports, and other tasks.

• Reduces time to troubleshoot and recover from problems that affect service.

For detailed information on Prime Performance Manager features, see the Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 User Guide.

For information on prerequisites, system requirements, and installation, see the Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Quick Start Guide and the Readme file that is provided with the Prime Performance Manager distribution.

Features and BenefitsPrime Performance Manager features and benefits include:

• Carrier class scale—Prime Performance Manager can manage 25,000 devices with up to 1.1 million interfaces and 50 GUI clients. Prime Performance Manager is designed for low startup and administrative costs with support for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Linux, and VMware.

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The Prime Performance Manager embedded database eliminates third-party license and maintenance costs. Its distributed architecture provides reliability, deployment flexibility, and horizontal scaling to grow with the network.

• Prepackaged reports—Prime Performance Manager can generate more than 900 prepackaged reports on a wide range of network services, technologies, and devices. These reports provide visibility into the network and service performance characteristics of core, aggregation, and access network devices. Reports are automatically generated and do not require complex customization or configuration.

• Data collection and processing—Prime Performance Manager standards-based data collection can be applied to any device enabled for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Summarized reports can be generated in 5-minute, 15-minute, hourly, or daily intervals and can be viewed using in the Cisco Prime Performance Manager web interface. They can also be generated as a comma-separated value (CSV) data files for integration with a third-party OSS.

• Multi-technology support—Prime Performance Manager supports many network services, technologies, and devices. It facilitates proactive service assurance by allowing you to quickly detect network congestion and other issues.

Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1 EnhancementsDevice Support

The following devices are supported in Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1:

• Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches

• Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches

Operating System Enhancements

The following IOS and operating system versions are supported in Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1

• IOS XR 4.2.

• Solaris 11

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Report Enhancements

• Additional dashboard reports.

• Processes and users reports.

• Detailed CPU and disk statistics from servers.

• Individual memory reports for different memory pool types.

• IPSLA, HTTP, VoIP, and RTP reports.

• IPSEC reports for SeGW on SAMI.

• Juniper firewall reports.

• Lawful intercept status statistics using CISCO-TAP2-MIB.

• Memory buffer pool statistics support from MWTM using the CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB.

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• Mobility:

– Additional CSG reports on SAMI.

– EPC on SAMI reports: LTE EPC SPGW, LTE EPC GGSN, LTE EPC PDNGW, and LTE EPC SGW.

• OSPF SPF reports.

• TelePresence reports.

• VIP/RealServer reports for a content application engine running on Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine.

• BGP reports using prefix assertion list (PAL).

• Added BGP version table through PAL.

• Added notes files for CNR, DNS, and DHCP reports.

• Version number processing for devices reporting unknown version: CPT/ONS/CNR/UBR/ACE.

• For small deployments, tested Prime Network and Prime Performance Manager installed on the same Linux server.

Documentation Enhancements

• Updated the online help.

• Updated firewall deployment information.

• Updated documentation for 1.1 enhancements.

Command enhancements:

• Reinstated and enhanced the ppm iosreport command.

• Included the device credentials in the ppm exportcwv3 command.

• Added the ppm ipslaftpfilesize command to set the IPSLA FTP file size.

General Enhancements

• Support for additional special characters in report categories and report names.

• Updated and help tip formats.

• Added the ability to regenerate SSL keys and certificates on servers with a collocated gateway and unit.

• Support four-level device names with dashes.

• Support threshold values below 1.0.

• Adjusted the default sorting of interface availability reports.

• Set Ignore Flag From Device Action Menu Maintenance Mode and Also Set Poll Group Visible

• Support showing disk values in KB, MB, GB.

• Updates to report settings and dashboard behavior.

• Support LeafGraphs inside dashboard web reports.

• In inventory synchronization, added the ability to handle masked passwords in the Prime Network Telnet sequence.

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Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1 Fixed CaveatsTable 1 lists the caveats that were fixed in Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1.

Table 1 Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1 Fixed Caveats

Caveat Description

CSCtu41624 Correctly reflect missing data when a PWE3 is deleted and then added again.

CSCtx71349 Default sort tables by the maximum when the average columns are hidden.

CSCtx57632 Reports graph table views do not display data in same format for the utility tag.

CSCtx12053 Error occurs if a user repeats a node relocation to same unit and then does a normal poll.

CSCtx03647 Exception occurs while changing the password a second time

CSCtx37119 Exception occurs if a device is relocated or moved in some situations.

CSCtx19626 Display SNMPv3 credentials as a password field based on the server side option.

CSCtx04581 Error occurs after configuring an IP access address with ./ppm ipaccess add.

CSCtx47827 IPSLA MPLS OAM report missing the target value.

CSCtx08160 Null service policy when same in both directions in classmap reports

CSCtx55781 One hour merged file with 5-minute data is not created as expected.

CSCtx41826 Optimize capability For TelePresence and SCTP report checking.

CSCtx04974 Duplicate entry in the Network Status Archives web page.

CSCts71549 Device goes into the wrong status if a user repeats maintenance non maintenance on the Cisco ANA/Prime Network side.

CSCtx07007 Import unknown element type VNEs from Prime Network.

CSCtx65090 Display -float maximum value instead of a null in ICMP Ping reports.

CSCtx07133 r ppm redundancygroup command can not distinguish hostname only.

CSCtx73824 Remove falling threshold from CPU report.

CSCtw85431 Some devices remain displayed in the GUI as unknown units after the ppm delete node command is run.

CSCtx07054 During a strict import with Prime Network/Cisco ANA, the device is set as unmanaged if the VNE is moved on Prime Network/Cisco ANA.

CSCtx04522 A user-defined polling group does not work for a remote unit's devices.

CSCtx96035 The device name in Prime Performance Manager is not synchronized with Prime Network/Cisco ANA.

CSCtx02088 Incorrect L2VPN-TDM crosslaunch.

CSCtx88288 Error appears in the sgmConsole if the install path includes extra slashes at end.

CSCtx98165 Pressing the green play button does not refresh latest data.

CSCty11981 Display VNE name not device system name when the business tag is detached in Prime Network/Cisco ANA.

CSCty17182 A null pointer exception occurs when switching to a report in a cascading menu.

CSCty16725 XML definitions and RFCs links fail under an alternate installation directory.

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Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Enhancements

Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 EnhancementsPrime Performance Manager 1.1 provides many additional reports, support for additional devices, GUI enhancements, Prime Network integration enhancements, and many other features and functions.

Key Enhancements

• Ability to define threshold crossing alerts for report key performance indicators (KPIs), including onset and abate thresholds for multiple alarm severities.

• Ability to create polling groups to apply custom polling parameters to one or more devices.

• Ability to create report policies to apply custom report parameters to one or more devices.

• Ability to add Telnet and SSL credentials for Y1731 and Ethernet Flow Point reports.

• N+1 high availability for units.

• SNMPv3 support.

• IPv6 support.

• Dashboard reports that display data from multiple sources on one page.

• Weekly and monthly reports.

• Cisco Prime Network integration.

• Interactive graphs

• Increased scale.

Report Enhancements

• Added dropped packets to Class Map QoS reports.

• Added DragonWave metrics.

• Added ICMP statistics: ParmProbs.

• Aggregate reports for PWE3 and EVCs.

• Cisco Network Register (CNR) reports:

– DNS

– DHCP

• CPU, memory, disk, and interface utilization on Solaris/Linux servers: EMS/PCRF.

• Device availability/latency based on ICMP ping only for non SNMP devices.

• Display ifDescr in RMON reports to show monitored interface.

• Display VC type in PWE3 reports.

• EFM 802.3ah reports: Ethernet First Mile.

• EVC and EFP ASR9K reports using XML Collector.

• IPSLA: added LeafGraph and drill-down options.

• Mobility:

– CSG SAMI reports

– CSG Gx SAMI reports using CISCO-MOBILE-POLICY-CHARGING-CONTROL-MIB

– Implemented MWTM LTE EPC GGSN/SLB format for SAMI devices

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Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Enhancements

• Multicast: L3 multicast VPN and traffic per multicast group.

• NBAR MIB: application distribution.

• Optical:

– Dashboard for SONET interface reports.

– New reports supporting Cisco ASR 9000.

• PCRF host and Oracle Statistics.

• SCTP reports.

• Server monitoring.

• Skip QoS Rows for Unrouted VLANs and Blank Interface Names report.

• Add UBR10K support to existing Prime Performance Manager reports.

• Add memory reports for the Nexus5K.

• Swap space report for servers.

• UBR10K support and DOCIS/CABLE MIB reports for CMTS.

• Updated latest IETF standard MIBs.

• Use ifAlias in Name of Interface For Showing Customer Assign Interface Names report.

• Add dashboard reports for VidMon.

• VOIP support for IPSLA: MOS Scores.

• Add Y1731 reports using XML collector.

Device Support

The following devices are supported in Prime Performance Manager 1.1:

Small CPE and Access

• Cisco 800 Series Routers

Pre-Aggregation and Small Aggregation

• Cisco ME 6500 Series Ethernet Switches

• Cisco ASR 901 Series Aggregation Services Routers

• Cisco ASR 903 Series Aggregation Services Routers

Aggregation and Edge

• Cisco uBR10000 Series Universal Broadband Routers

GUI Enhancements

• Stacked bar charts for interface and available leaf graphs.

• Ability to select multiple device seed files in the device discovery page.

• Dynamic graphing widgets using HighCharts.

• Changed summary table titles to Top 10.

• Cross launch menu to device HTTP server for NAM and other appliances.

• Display the uptime calendar time in device details and device summary updates.

• In device distribution summaries, clicking a device type displays all devices of that type.

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• Support web report filter options.

• Ability to browse notes files and RFCs.

• Added search support in the graph series selector.

Prime Network Integration Enhancements:

• Prime Network 3.8 inventory import.

• Added a device discovery source column to the device summary table to indicate whether the device was discovered through Prime Network or through Prime Performance Manager device discovery.

• Added additional cross-launch points to Prime Network

Other Enhancements

• Automatic SNMP polling parameter adjustments based on device type.

• Enhancements to global and device report controls and status displays.

• Ability to view device distributions per unit.

• Upgrade OpenSSL to openssl09r and improve SSL/user access setup usability.

• Optimized system capability polling.

• Required MIB view display in report help files.

Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Fixed CaveatsTable 2 lists the Prime Performance Manager 1.1 fixed caveats.

Known CaveatsTable 3 lists the open caveats in Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1

Table 2 Cisco Prime Performance Manager Release 1.1 Fixed Caveats

Caveat Description

CSCto99324 A device managed by two units on the same gateway disappears from the GUI.

CSCtr20696 Disable CSV reports without requiring server restart.

CSCtr47651 User/password appears in clear text in POST body.

CSCts68295 Device discovery failed and is deleted automatically.

CSCtt43945 Wrong capability entries in SystemCapability.

Table 3 Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1.1

Caveat Description

CSCtu01242 Device and network-level reports display duplicated data during a unit protection group failover and fall back.

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Related Documentation

Related DocumentationYou can access the following Cisco Prime Performance Manager guides on the Cisco Prime Performance Manager page on Cisco.com:

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Quick Start Guide

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 User Guide

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Documentation Overview

• Open Source Used In Cisco Prime Performance Manager

• Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.1 Release Notes (this document)

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