CH A P T E R 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 This chapter lists the necessary information that prepares you to perform an installation of LMS 4.1 on both Soft Appliance, Windows and Solaris systems.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Terms and Definitions Used in LMS Installation Framework While installing, you will come across these terms: • LMS Admin Password An administrative password used while logging into the LMS server as administrator. Use a minimum of five characters. Ensure that you have noted down the password. You are prompted to enter this password in both Typical and Custom modes of installation.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Before You Begin Installation • Cisco.com Cisco.com user ID and password. This information is used while performing tasks such as downloading software images, downloading device packages, etc. You are prompted to enter these credentials only while installing the LMS Integration Utility. You can also change the System Identity Account password, select Admin > Trust Management > Multi Server > System Identity Setup.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Before You Begin Installation The destination folder should not contain the following special characters: – On Solaris and Soft Appliance: !@#$%^&*()+|}{":[];'?<>,.`=~ – On Windows: !@#$%^&*()+|}{"[];'/?<>,.`= • If errors occur during installation, check the installation log file: – On Solaris and Soft Appliance, check the installation log file /var/tmp/Cisco_Prime_install_YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.log for LMS 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Before You Begin Installation If you want to install from a local hard drive, you must copy the contents from the DVD to the local hard drive. Ensure that you copy the entire contents from the DVD to the hard drive. You must preserve the timestamp when you copy the contents from the DVD to the hard drive. To preserve all the attributes including timestamp: a.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Installation Notes (For Soft Appliance Only) • Ensure that your system meets the recommended hardware and software specifications specified in Server Requirements on Soft Appliance Systems. • Soft Appliance OVA software can be installed only on VMware environment. • We recommend that you disable the virus scan software on your system. • In VMWare, the resources should not be in shared mode.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Note The product DVD kit for LMS 500, LMS 1000, LMS 2500, LMS 5,000 and LMS 10,000 license types, contains a DVD for Windows Operating System, a DVD for Solaris Operating Systems. Downloading LMS 4.1 Evaluation Software and Ordering Digital PAK To ensure the faster delivery of the product, this option has been introduced. With this option, you can now: • Download the LMS 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product This section contains: • Available Licenses for LMS 4.1 • Major Upgrade Kit Licenses for LMS 4.1 • Upgrading to a Higher SKU on Soft Appliance Systems See Application Scaling Numbers for further deployment related information. Available Licenses for LMS 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Licensing SKUs for Ordering Base Media Kit Without PAKs If you want to order for the LMS 4.1 base media kit without any PAK, you must use the following product number: Base Media Kit Product Number Permitted number of Devices LMS 4.1 LMS-4.1-SW-K9 100 devices Note This is the default number of devices allowed to manage in the evaluation version of the product.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Licenses SKUs For Traditional Ordering of LMS 4.1 Major Upgrade Kit If you have opted to order the physical Product DVD kit (Physical software and Software claim certificate paper with PAK), you must use the following SKUs: Licenses (SKU) to upgrade from LMS 2.x, 3.x Permitted Number of Devices LMS41-100-UP-K9 LMS 4.1 100 Device Restricted Upgrade for LMS 2.x, 3.x users LMS41-300-UP-K9 LMS 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Licenses SKUs For Ordering LMS 4.1 Minor Upgrade Kit Digital PAK If you have opted to order the physical Base Media Kit or download the evaluation software, you must use the following SKUs to order the Digital PAK through eDelivery: Licenses (SKU) to upgrade from LMS 4.0 Permitted Number of Devices R-LMS41-50-MR-K9 LMS 4.1 100 Device Upgrade for LMS 4.0 users R-LMS41-100-MR-K9 LMS 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product You must provide your PAK ID while you are registering the product. See Understanding Product Ordering Options and Product Authorization Key for information on PAK ID. You must also enter the licensing SKU type according to the one you have purchased with the LMS 4.1 product. See License Information to furnish the appropriate license file. You will receive the license file after the registration is completed.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Note When you want to specify the location of the License file in the Soft Appliance server, you must use FTP/SFTP/SCP commands to transfer files to the Soft Appliance server. See Transferring Files to Soft Appliance Server for more information.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product To transfer a file from the Soft Appliance, use the below command: sftp>put FILE_NAME • SCP command Ensure that the file to be transfered is available in the SCP server. scp [[user@]from-host:]source-file [[user@]to-host:][destination-file] Note Step 4 Ensure that you provide the appropriate path to the navigate to the folder where the file is located.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Guidelines to Avoid Necessary Devices Being Moved to Suspended State To avoid necessary devices being moved to suspended state, follow any one of the procedure mentioned below: • Install the appropriate purchase license while installing the product. Or Before applying the 50 SKU license, you can select the particular set of 50 devices by configuring the Group Policy.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product Step 3 Click Next. Step 4 Click Next. The System Requirements dialog box appears. The installation program calculates the minimum disk space, RAM and Swap space required to install the product. To install NFR license of the product, the required RAM space is 4GB and Swap space is 8 GB. You can also apply NFR license after the installation is completed.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Licensing Your Product To license your product and install the license file, you must: Step 1 Log onto Cisco.com to get your license file. If you are a registered user of Cisco.com, get your license file from: http://www.cisco.com/go/license If you are not a registered user of Cisco.com, get your Cisco.com user ID from: http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do. Once you have obtained your Cisco.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.
Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1 Application Scaling Numbers Concurrent Users Supported LMS 4.1 can support: • 3 concurrent users for upto 500 devices • 5 concurrent users for 500 to 2500 devices • 10 concurrent users for 5000 and 10 K devices. Multiple number of simultaneous users can affect system performance. The maximum recommended concurrent users depends on the size and configuration of the server.
