Release Notes

Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Release Notes

OL-31014-01

New Features and Enhancements

New Technology Support in Prime Network 4.1

Prime Network 4.1 adds device-level inventory modeling and event generation for the technologies listed

below. For information on which technologies are supported on which Cisco devices, see

Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Supported Cisco VNEs.

Carrier Ethernet

• Support for Remote Loop Free Alternate (LFA) which enables a quick reroute and recovery in case

of network failure. Includes modelling and new service event support.

• Ability to locate and view the L2 and L3 Ethernet Virtual Connections related to an Ethernet or LAG

port.

• Modeling of pseudowire headend (PW-HE) virtual interfaces that allow termination of access or

aggregation pseudowires into an L2 or L3 domain.

• Support for Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) 9.7, including:

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Modeling and topology view of CPT 50 single homed linear and closed rings and dual homed

closed rings.

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CERENT alarms

MPLS-TP

• Linear protection where a protected LSP takes over transmission of data when a working LSP fails.

Prime Network 4.1 provides commands that enable you to switch normal traffic from a working LSP

to a protected LSP and vice versa.

Mobility

• Support for Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) physical, logical, and service modeling,

including profiles, Class of Services (COS), Link Aggregation Groups (LAG), firmware

configuration, services and bridges, DHCP relay agent, OLT and ONU physical inventory, and

routing entities.

• Small cell technology support with modeling of Home eNodeB gateway and Home Node B gateway.

• Generic syslog support for ASR 5000 and ASR 5500 devices.

• IuPS enhancement in SGSN technology and IuPS service support for ASR 5000 and ASR 5500

devices.

• Support for SGSN in Infobright database with IuPS and RNC support for ASR 5000 and ASR5500

devices.

• Fault resync support for ASR 5000 and ASR 5500 devices.

Data Center 1.0 Enhancements

• Nexus VDC to port mapping—ability to view the VDC context and port allocation details for a

Nexus 7000 device

• VDC impact in event description.

• Mapping of Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) to server/hypervisor and of VEM to physical server,

including topology visualization.

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Full modeling of QoS class of service, service policies, policy groups, and policy mapping to

network services on ASR 9000, ASR 901/903, CPT, and ME3600X devices.