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Cisco Prime Network

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Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group

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Agenda
Prime Network Introduction
Network Element Management
Network and Services Support
Integration and Customization
Redundancy
Cisco Prime Network Function Scope
Network Information Integration Layer Traditional Integration Event Forwarding

Mediation MTOSI, 3GPP BQL SNMP, email
Network Fault
Network Element Operation and Administration
Management
Inventory OS-Image Fault Troubleshooting

Reports Management Correlation Methods
Configuration File Configuration Virtual Connectivity

Network Topology Display
Backup/Restore Audit Views
Event Monitoring Alarm Management

Device Component and Feature Configuration
Traps, Syslogs, Polling and Display
Element Logical/Physical
Discovery Inventory
Agenda
Redundancy
Device Discovery and Administration
• Physical Containment
- Chassis
- Shelves and cards
- Ports and parameters
- Sensors and more
• Logical Inventory
- Routing and circuit tables
- Label-switching tables
- Traffic profiles
- PWs, tunnels, services and more
• Network Element Administration
- Over 200 available command scripts
• Map Network-to-Business
- Add business tags to network resources
Exceptional Fine-Grained Visibility into Physical and Logical Inventory

Network Element Discovery
• Physical and logical inventory sync in

real time with the device by change
event (default) or by polling cycles
• Physical Containment
• Detailed Technologies Discovery
• Logical inventory grouped by

category
• Alarm indication on faulty objects
• Hyperlinks to easily switch from

logical to physical components or to
jump from one device to its adjacent
device
Multi Chassis
Prime Network
supports multi-Chassis
modeling for following
platforms
• Nexus 7000/5000/2000
• ASR 9000 + Satellite
and Cluster
• CRS
• UCS
ASR 9000 Network Virtualization (nV)
ASR 9000 Cluster
• Prime Network manages ASR 9000 cluster as a single node

• Prime Network also represents:
- Device/Execution status
- Redundancy status
- Redundancy relationship
CPT 50 Satellite
• Prime Network shows ASR9000 host and Satellites as a

multi chassis view
• Supported on 9000v, CPT 50, ASR 901 and ASR 903
vCenter VNE
• A simple and single view of virtualization

• Support for Cisco and non Cisco servers
• VM monitoring without physical servers
• Mapping to physical servers
• Mapping to virtual device or service
• Fault Correlation
• Discovers UCS, HP, IBM, DELL servers and link them to virtualization inventory if ESX is installed
• Discovers Virtual Elements (Nexsus 100v, VSG and CRS1000v) running on a VM
• Easly locate any VM managed by a vCenter VNE
Virtual Elements
• Basic logical and physical

Inventory for Nexsus 100v, Virtual
Security Gateway (VSG) and
CRS1000v
• Basic faults
• Cross launches from Virtual

Elements to vCenter VNE and
vice versa
• Physical links between Virtual
Element and Compute Server
UCS (B-Series and C-Series)
• Prime Network supports both UCS C-Series and B-Series (6120 and 6140 Fabric Interconnect)
• When VMWare ESX is installed, it discovers virtualized details and VM
• It discovers FIC to Chassis interconnections and blade servers topologies on a Chassis
Non-Cisco Compute Servers
• For Non Cisco servers, Prime

Network implements a
Generic Compute Server
mechanism
• By leveraging SYESTEM-
MIB, IF-MIB and HOST-
RESOURCES-MIB standard
MIB, can discover DELL, HP
and IBM Servers
• When VMWare ESX is
installed, it can discover
virtualized details and VM
ASR 5000/5500
Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) Access Point Name (APN)
• Multi-Context support
• 3G Full support (GGSN and APN)
• 4G Support (P-GW and S-GW LTE equivalent of GGSN and APN)
ASR 5000/5500 (Cont.)
Operator Policy Active Charging Service
• GTPP and EGTP tunnel protocols

• ACS (Active Charging Service)
Supports also
• PDSN and ePDG Solutions
• SGSN
Change and Configuration Management
• Dedicated web interfaces to

manage the software and device
configuration changes that are
made to devices in your network.
Device configuration management
tools are provided by the
Configuration Management
function, and software image
management tools are provided
by the Image Management
function
• HTTP Dashboard
• Exec reports
• Most recent configuration
changes
Change and Configuration Management (Cont.)
• Can be used as stand alone

component or cross-launched via
Prime Network Vision
• Change and Configuration
Management supports Evolved
Programmable Network (EPN),
Mobility, Data Center architectural
plays
• New VNE support released with
device packages approach
• Framework ready for non-Cisco
devices
- Validated with Juniper M10i
Configuration Management
• Archival or backup of configurations

• View, differentiation, removal, export, search, and
restoration of configurations
• Synchronization of devices with different running
and startup configurations
• Configuration of change history, logs, and reports
• Configuration audit to compare with baseline
configuration (policies) and template fix
• Schedule, i.e.: during authorized maintenance
window
• Periodic configuration exports
• Operations scheduled to act on dynamic device
groups
• Backup Configuration for all Boot Priority configured
on ASR 5000/5500
• Editing of archived configurations
• Restoration in overwrite mode support
Image Management
• Image repository integrated with cisco.com (it requires • Upgrade analysis to help ensure that the network
a CCO account) element is compatible with the image
• Offline servers can import from the local file system or • Cisco IOS® XR Software updates from cisco.com or
from an external server Cisco Prime Network server
• Image distribution and activation per device or per • Cisco IOS XR Software specific image lifecycle
image file • Boot configuration file and priority for ASR 5000/5500
• Email notification upon completion
• Warm upgrade and NSSU support
• Booting ASR903 in Sub-package mode
Install Install Install

Install Add Activate Deactivate Remove
Install Commit
Install Rollback
Agenda
Redundancy
The Challenge of Network Faults
Syslog: Lost
!
Syslog: Lost
!
!
Neighbor
Connectivity Syslog: Lost
IP Backbone
BGP Neighbor
Syslog: Lost
!
!
OSPF neighbor
!
Unmanaged Trap: Link Syslog: Lost
Network Down
! !
OSPF neighbor
Trap: DLSw Syslog: Lost
!
Peer Down BGP Neighbor
Syslog: LSP
Reroute Trap: DLSw
Peer Down !
Syslog: HSRP
Standby 
!
Syslog: Lost
OSPF neighbor !
Trap: Link
Down ! Syslog: Lost
Connectivity !
Active
Syslog: FR
DLCI Down !
Ping: Device
Unreachable !
Syslog: LSP
Reroute ! Syslog: Lost
BGP Neighbor !
Ping: Device
Unreachable !
Network Fault
• Network health at a glance
• Network elements list and status
• Root cause alarm
• Probable cause and recommended

action (ASR 5000/5500)
Network Fault (Cont.)
Affected Parties Alarm History
• Complete alarm history with every single trap/syslog or service alarm correlated by an outage
• Hierarchical correlation tree, representing the causal relationships between the alarms, starting
from the "topmost" root cause alarm
• Potential and actual services affected by a fault
Troubleshooting Info
A string suggesting the

costumer how to trace
the source of the
problem, how to proceed
with fixing it, and when it
will be cleared
Generic Events
Prime Network can apply parsing

methods to create events for any SNMP
trap or syslog notification where Prime
Network does not provide specific
mapping rules
• Association to the managed element
• Severity information for generic trap
or syslog is extracted from the
syslog’s text
• Alarm type and nature set to
"Unknown"
• Immediately archived
• Disabled by default
ASR 5000 Alarm Synchronization
• Resync ticket reporting the resync internal, cleared once retrieving events is completed
• Only available on the ASR 5500 and ASR 5550, Prime Network syncs with device events after
disconnections
Reduced Fault Resolution Time
• Automatically suppression of duplicate events: Grouping Causality
- Regular-expression filters
- Flapping events Events Alarms Tickets
• Group related events for convenient review

Non-actionable events
• Synchronous poll for network status to confirm
suspicion
• Automatically correlation of alarms to identify Card
Out
causality Link Link
- No code book or rules to develop Down Down
- Local correlation: alarms emitted within a single Line Line

OSPF
Down Neighbor
network element Down
Down
- Topology-based correlation: alarms from multiple LDP Neighbor
network elements Down
50:1 average event reduction
Root-Cause Analysis
50:1 Average Event Reduction
Card
Out
• Topology-based
Link Link correlation
Down Down
• No correlation rules to
create and maintain
Line OSPF
Line
Down
Down
Neighbor • Quick and effortless
Down deployment
LDP Neighbor
Down
Network Alarms
• Syslog and traps - 1000 events per second, with bursts of well over 3000 events
• Incoming alarm notifications for offline analysis
• Northbound notifications to other systems
High-Volume Trap and Syslog Management

Network Discovery
• Users can select devices from the discovery

result list and assign VNE preferences before
adding them to the system
• Based on user defined templates

• Can use Ping Sweep to ping each IP address (support
both IPv4 and IPv6) in a given range, or a seed device
where discovery protocols (CDP, OSPF and others)
can be used to find its neighbors
Multilayer Maps
BGP Topology
• Protocol topologies representing MPLS, BGP and

other to represent protocol adjacencies between
devices
• Service topologies showing at a glance how services
are traversing the network
Physical Topology
• Physical topologies leveraging CDP, REP, LAG and

other, plus Ethernet port MAC for neighbor discovery
Detailed Networking Feature Discovery
• Converged MPLS core and service edge

MPLS-TP Service View - MPLS-TP (working and protect configurations), MPLS/IP, OSPF, LDP, BGP, and
Layer 2 and 3 VPNs
• Carrier Ethernet
- Dot1q, ISL, QinQ, LAG and EtherChannel, VTP, STP, VPLS, PW-HE, LFA,
VLAN mappings, and E-OAM (E-LMI, IEEE 802.3ah, and IEEE 802.1ag)
• Access and RAN backhaul (IP-RAN)
- xDSL, ATM, Frame Relay, PPP,
Ch-T1, Ch-T3, SONET (OC3-OC12),
MLPPP, and ATM and TDMoPW (PWE3)
• Mobile
EVC Service View
- GGSN, APN, GGTP, GTPU, EGTP, and DHCP
- P-GW and S-GW
- Home Agent, Subscriber, HA SPI List, AAA Group, Route Map, Route Access
List, and Proxy DNS Intercept List
- Active Charging, RuleDef, RuleBase, AccessRuleDef and GroupOfRuleDef
• Datacenter – UCS, Nexus, datacenter connectivity and virtualization
• Tunneling – GRE, L2TP, and pseud wires
• IPv6 - 6VPE (IPv6 VPN over MPLS core)
Virtual Connection (Services) Assurance
VLAN Topology
• Auto-Discovery
- Layer 3 MPLS VPNs + CsC
- Ethernet Virtual Connections (EVCs)
- Pseudowires, VPLS and VLANs
- MPLS-TP and MPLS TE
- GRE tunnels
• Multilayer service maps

• Service path tracing
- Across circuits, layers, and technologies
Multilayer Service Path

Activation Scripts
• 200+ predefined Command Builder Scripts

grouped by categories
• Create, preview and execute user defined
scripts via GUI wizards
• Simple CLI command sequences or
programmable Bean shell scripts
• Can be defined on any physical or logical
entity
• Offers programmatic controls
• Publishing capabilities to extend to all
devices
• Easy access browsing SubMenu Options
Command Orchestration
• Create and execute commands from Command Manager repository

• Create and execute command sequences
• Run same command/sequence on user defined scope
• Schedule options
Create and execute command/sequence limited to Device Level only

Integrated Reporting Tool
Events Reports
• Private and public user defined reports

• Events, inventory and network service reports
• Customizable reports based on existing
templates
Inventory Reports
Operations Manager
Optional add-on component to

Cisco Prime Network that
provides extended reporting
functionality
Network Domains
• Physical inventory
• Fault
• Data Center
• Mobility
Out of the Box folders

and reports
• Easy navigation
• Charts and tables
• Input parameters
• Drill-down reports
Operations Manager (Cont.)
Interactive Reports
• Drag and drop report creation
• Easy selection of data
• Sort, filter, grouping and totals capabilities
• Input parameters
• Inline editing
• Custom Cisco report template
• Multiple formats
• Pre-packaged samples
• Sharing between users
• High performance
Agenda
Redundancy
NMS and Operations Support System
• Northbound interfaces for NMS and

OSS integration:
- BQL over XML
- SNMP Notification System
- E-mail Notification System
- MTOSI for packet networks
- 3GPP for mobile networks
(ASR 5000/5500)
• Pretested integration solutions:
IBM Tivoli Netcool for Prime, Prime
Performance Manager
• Reduced replication of mediation
and abstraction layers
• Common source of network-derived
inventory
Prime Network Information Model
Query with Retrieval Specification
• TM Forum TMF-513/608-compliant hierarchical
specification of entire information model
• Easy-to-use XML query language (BQL), through
web services API or simple Telnet
• Synchronous (get and execute) or asynchronous
(register)
Information Model Hierarchy
MTOSI and 3GPP Interface Overview
• MTOSI Interface
- Standard complaint Web Services for service providers to access inventory
information in MTOSI format
- Synchronous in nature
• 3GPP Interface
- Standard complaint Web Services for service providers to access inventory data
collected from mobile network managed by Cisco Prime Network in 3GPP format
- Asynchronous in nature
- Inventory data stored in files
- Inventory functionality and data model as per 3GPP recommendations
Event Notification Service
• Event type selection

• Fine tune filtering for
syslogs/traps and
service alarms
• Multiple notification
services for same IP
address
• Additional Ticket\Event
information to populate
in the user customized
fields
Process Management
• Prime Network leverages XDE procedure to

provide Process Management for Command
Builder scripts
• It replaces Workflow Engine (from
LiquidBPM)
• Prime Network transactions can be executed
via BQL NBI
• Prime Network provides an HTTP interface -
Transaction Manager – who leverages XDE
to:
- Execute/Schedule transaction
- Select devices and input parameters
- Monitor transaction jobs execution and edit
scheduled one
Transactions will be created using Eclipse SDK

Performance Manager Integration
• GUI-driven integration reduces the

cost of systems integration
• Contextual cross-launch of reports
from Prime Network
• Threshold Crossing Alerts (TCA) trap
integration
• Device list, credentials, and business
tag synchronization
Reduce Deployment Time from Weeks to Hours

Performance Manager Integration
Dynamically extends right-click menu to launch PM reports
Device Reports
Interface Reports
Cross Launch External Applications
Dynamically extends right-click menu to launch device data sheet, find it in Google maps, or send
an e-mail to its contact person.
Extend and Customize
Customization tools
Soft Properties VNE Customization Builder (VCB)

Add new properties to an existing network element Field extension for additional device modules,
or network element family. events, and software releases
Support template variables (for example,$ifindex$)

Extend network element drivers, customize events,
for instance-referencing, parsing rules, and regular
and support new devices and releases.
expressions.
Comprehensive Customization Toolkit

Cisco Developer Network
Cisco Developer Network (Cisco

DevNet) is an online community
for integration and customization
engineers who use Cisco Prime
Network’s APIs
• Access the Cisco DevNet at
https://developer.cisco.com/
(direct link on Prime Network on
the last page)
• Requires a www.cisco.com
login
• Partner training and support is
available through Cisco DevNet
Partner Program
Partner, Developer and Community Support

Advanced Services
Customization tools
• Broad range of services available

provide customized assistance to
help ensure smooth deployment.
• Multiple technical support programs
to accelerate customer success.
• Cisco Services helps you protect
your network investment, optimize
network operations, and prepare the
network for new applications.
Advanced Services, Training, and Technical Support

Agenda
Redundancy
Prime Network Redundancy Components
• Gateway and Database Local Redundancy • Local Unit Protection Groups

- Active Standby - N+M Hot Standby
- Automatic Failover
• Software Process Protection
- Veritas or Red Hat Cluster Suite
- Local Watchdog process
• Gateway and Database Geographic
Redundancy
- Active/Standby
- Manual Failover
- Veritas or Oracle Active Data Guard
Cisco Prime Network Gateway and Unit Redundancy
Dual-node cluster
External Storage
• Redundancy solutions for Cisco Prime Server P1 Server P2

(Primary ANA) (Primary Oracle)
Network gateway
Heartbeat
- Integrated local redundancy with Red Hat PrimeNetwork
Prime Network
Cluster Gateways
Gateways
- Embedded replication for Geographical

redundancy (Linux platforms) GUI
Clients
- Integrated solutions for local and geographic
Customer
redundancy with Veritas WWW
OSS/BSS
Web
• N+M stateless standby Cisco Prime Clients
Network Unit redundancy with automatic Prime Network
Units
graceful failover
Local GW redundancy
Scalable, Reliable, High Availability

Cisco Prime Network Unit High-Availability
N+M High-Availability Deployment
• Administrators can create new protection groups and customize the High-Availability servers assignments
• Create new Protection Group(s) to define the cluster of Prime Network Units protected by a specified Stand-by
Prime Network Unit
• Use Administration Perspective, System Settings to define one or more Protection Groups
- The default-pg protection group was created by default
- Multiple protection groups can be created and assigned to a subset of those Prime Network units, thus having a
stand-by unit covering a specified group of units
Prime Network Gateway
Prime Network Prime Network Unit Prime Network Prime

Prime Network
Unit Unit Network Unit
Protection Group A Protection Group B Unit(s) (Stand-by)
Red Hat/Oracle Solutions – Key Features
• Affordable cost for Local

Redundancy
• Two independent solutions
• No additional cost for Geographic
Redundancy
• Single installation process
• Leverages Embedded Database
Red Hat/Oracle: Cost Effective Redundancy

Additional Resources
• Cisco Prime Network on Cisco Employee Connection:

http://www.cisco.com/go/primenetwork
• Cisco Prime Network Tech Center developer support:
https://developer.cisco.com/site/networking/cloud-
system/service-provider/prime-network/home/
• Cisco Prime Network field portal:
http://iwe.cisco.com/web/ese/go_primenetwork
• Email Alias for product inquires:
prime-network@cisco.com
• Technical support:
https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/Prime-Network/bd-
p/nms_apps_prime_network
Thank you.
Cisco Prime Network for EPN
Foundation Element Management Network and Service Management

• Abstract VNE model and mediation layer • NE and topology autodiscovery • MPLS, CE, and IPRAN/MToP support
• Distributed scalability, carrier class, and high • NE physical and logical Inventory • Service discovery and network and
availability • Network topology service maps
• Embedded database • Event, alarm, and user TCA management • Service fault management and troubleshooting
• Solaris and Linux server; Windows client • Configuration support (script builder) • Graphical fault visualization
• Telnet, web services, and SNMP APIs • Built-in configuration scripts • Complete CE and MToP service activation
• NB event, alarm, and ticket notifications • Open toolkit for extensions • Activation using point-and-click GUI or NB API
• Solution integrations with provisioning, • NE configuration archiving • Topology-based root-cause analysis
inventory, and performance systems • NE image management • Service impact analysis
• Extensible, customizable, and configurable • Security: authentication and RBAC • Graphical workflow builder
• Cisco® Developer Network support • Over 50 device families and over 300 NE types
Deployed at Top Service Providers in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia
Cisco Prime Network Q&A
Q. What happened to Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA)?
Cisco Active Network Abstraction has been renamed to and will continue to evolve as Cisco Prime Network.
Q: Why is Cisco Prime Network version 3.9?

Cisco Prime Network 3.8 is the evolution of Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) and continues expanding the functional
scope and features of Cisco ANA plus add the infrastructure for becoming part of the Cisco Prime suite.
Q: Is Cisco Prime Network 3.9 a minor upgrade from Cisco ANA 3.x?
Yes. Cisco Prime Network 3.9 is offered as a minor upgrade from Cisco ANA 3.7.3 and Cisco Prime Network 3.9. Customers
with a valid support contract for versions 3.x of Cisco ANA are entitled to no cost upgrades to Cisco Prime Network 3.8.
Q. Why did you change the name of Cisco ANA to Cisco Prime Network?
Cisco changed the name to Cisco Prime Network to let our customers know that Cisco Prime Network is part of the Prime Suite
of products. For more information on these network management products for service providers, please visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/prime-sp.
Q. Is Cisco Prime Network part of another line of software bundle?

Yes. Cisco Prime Network is part of the Cisco Prime suite of products, assisting service providers in lifecycle management and
inventory and provisioning services as well as metrics reporting.

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Prime Network Introduction

Network Element Management

Network and Services Support

Integration and Customization

Network Information Integration Layer Traditional Integration Event Forwarding

Inventory OS-Image Fault Troubleshooting

Configuration File Configuration Virtual Connectivity

Event Monitoring Alarm Management

Prime Network Introduction

Network Element Management

Network and Services Support

Integration and Customization

Exceptional Fine-Grained Visibility into Physical and Logical Inventory

• Physical and logical inventory sync in

• Detailed Technologies Discovery

• Logical inventory grouped by

• Hyperlinks to easily switch from

• Prime Network manages ASR 9000 cluster as a single node

• Prime Network shows ASR9000 host and Satellites as a

• A simple and single view of virtualization

• Basic logical and physical

• Cross launches from Virtual

• For Non Cisco servers, Prime

• GTPP and EGTP tunnel protocols

• Dedicated web interfaces to

• Can be used as stand alone

• Archival or backup of configurations

Install Install Install

Prime Network Introduction

Network Element Management

Network and Services Support

Integration and Customization

• Network health at a glance

• Network elements list and status

• Root cause alarm

• Probable cause and recommended

Affected Parties Alarm History

A string suggesting the

Prime Network can apply parsing

• Automatically suppression of duplicate events: Grouping Causality

• Group related events for convenient review

- Local correlation: alarms emitted within a single Line Line

50:1 average event reduction

High-Volume Trap and Syslog Management

• Users can select devices from the discovery

• Based on user defined templates

• Protocol topologies representing MPLS, BGP and

• Physical topologies leveraging CDP, REP, LAG and

• Converged MPLS core and service edge

• Multilayer service maps

Multilayer Service Path

• 200+ predefined Command Builder Scripts

• Create and execute commands from Command Manager repository

Create and execute command/sequence limited to Device Level only

• Private and public user defined reports

Optional add-on component to

Out of the Box folders

Prime Network Introduction

Network Element Management

Network and Services Support

Integration and Customization