Release Notes

Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Release Notes

OL-31014-01

New Features and Enhancements

parameter values will be included in the event description displayed in Prime Network Vision or

Events, making it easier to identify, at a glance, what the event is about without having to drill down

to the event details.

Prime Network Integration Layer

Prime Network 4.1 introduces the following new integration layer features and enhancements:

• New GUI installation wizard for quicker and easier installation of the PN-IL. For details, see the

Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Installation Guide.

• 3GPP alarm operations, including acknowledge, unacknowledge, set comment, clear, and get alarm

list.

• Real-time, on-demand status of any 3GPP asynchronous inventory operation (3GPP Get Status and

Get Active operations).

• GPON support—MTOSI operations have been enhanced to retrieve information about optical units

in a Gigabit capable passive optical network. This includes:

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New operation to retrieve ONU’s connected to an OLT port.

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Enhanced PTP retrieval operation to support ONU ports.

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Supported notifications for ONU and its ports.

• Additional logical inventory support for SGSN and MME in mobility networks.

• REST component that allows communication with any server exposing a REST API as a service in

a standalone mode or in a Service Mix environment.

• Enhanced high availability and maintainability support, including:

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Geo DR for PN-IL in suite mode.

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Support for Red Hat 6.4.

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Virtualized local HA utilizing RHCS and ESXi.

For details on the various operations supported in this release, please refer to the Cisco Prime OSS

Integration Guide for MTOSI and 3GPP and the Cisco Prime Network BQL Integration Guide

New Device Support Information

Prime Network 4.1 introduces new device support and also incorporates all the device support additions

that were provided in the May, July, August, and October 2013 Device Packages. For more information,

see Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Supported Cisco VNEs. Additional device support will be available in the

next DP. This will be available for download on the Prime Network download site on Cisco.com and will

be documented in Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Supported Cisco VNEs—Addendum.

Documentation Improvements

• User Guide—Information has been streamlined into setup, device management, fault management,

and network management sections. The document includes a new chapter that explains and contains

illustrations showing how Prime Network responds to incoming events.

• Supported VNEs Addendum—Contains device support information for all CCM functions and

command scripts.