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Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.2

Release Notes

June 15, 2012

OL-26465-01

This document provides an overview to Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.2 and helps you

understand it at a high level.

Note You can access the most current Prime Performance Manager documentation, including these release

notes, online at

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11715/tsd_products_support_series_home.html.

Contents

These release notes contain the following sections:

• Introduction, page 2

• New Features and Enhancements, page 3

• Using the Bug Toolkit, page 7

• Related Documentation, page 8

• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 8

Summary of content (8 pages)

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Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.2 Release Notes June 15, 2012 OL-26465-01 This document provides an overview to Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.2 and helps you understand it at a high level. Note You can access the most current Prime Performance Manager documentation, including these release notes, online at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11715/tsd_products_support_series_home.html.
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Introduction Introduction Cisco 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.
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New Features and Enhancements • 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.
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New Features and Enhancements – Security: PSB - SEC-IP-IPv6. – Support IPv6 addresses during installation on Solaris. • Additional EMS alarms and alarm types for TCAs. • Automatic disk space reclamation to prevent automatic shutdown. • Command changes: – ppm backupdata – ppm backupreps – ppm maxpagesize – ppm servername: change gateway/unit on same machine • CSV BulkStats collection from the Cisco ASR 5000 running StarOS. • Test handling duplicate HSRP IP address from StarOS.
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New Features and Enhancements • Added device details to the Node Availability tab. • Allow dashboards to be displayed under the Devices window. • Display the unit name and location in the SNMP Timeout window. • Added the ability to export only the current page to CSV from the reports table view. • Added a device details popup that appears a when the cursor is moved over a device link. • Moved Prime Performance Manager to the Cisco Prime XWT-based GUI.
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New Features and Enhancements • Prime Central – Send traps in Prime EPM format – SSO and RBAC – Inventory and fault cross launching – Installation and health monitoring Report Enhancements Prime Performance Manager 1.2 report enhancements include: • DragonWave Horizon Compact Plus. • L2 interface reports for MWRs for EFPs. • IPSEC Phase-II reports for SAMI.
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Using the Bug Toolkit Using the Bug Toolkit This section explains how to use the Bug Toolkit to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a Prime Performance Manager release. Step 1 Go to http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit. Step 2 At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In. The Bug Toolkit page opens. Note If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.
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Related Documentation c. Click Save. All bugs retrieved by the search are exported. If you cannot export the spreadsheet, log into the Technical Support website at http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html or contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). Related Documentation You can access the following Cisco Prime Performance Manager guides on the Cisco Prime Performance Manager page on Cisco.com: Note • Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.