Cisco prime network 4.1 technical overview

Cisco Prime Network™

Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group

Business Overview

March 2014

Cisco Prime Product Management Team

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Agenda

Prime Network Introduction

Network Element Management

Network and Services Support

Integration and Customization

Redundancy



Cisco Prime Network Function ScopeNetwork Information

MediationIntegration Layer

MTOSI, 3GPPTraditional Integration

BQLEvent Forwarding

SNMP, email

Device Component and Feature Configuration

Network Element Operation and Administration

Logical/Physical Inventory

InventoryReports

OS-ImageManagement

Configuration FileBackup/Restore

ElementDiscovery

ConfigurationAudit

Network Fault Management

Event MonitoringTraps, Syslogs, Polling

FaultCorrelation

Network Topology Display Virtual Connectivity Views

Alarm Managementand Display

TroubleshootingMethods


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• 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

Device Discovery and Administration

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)

• Prime Network manages ASR 9000 cluster as a single node

• Prime Network also represents:- Device/Execution status- Redundancy status- Redundancy relationship

ASR 9000 Cluster

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 andvice 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

• Multi-Context support• 3G Full support (GGSN and APN)• 4G Support (P-GW and S-GW LTE equivalent of GGSN and APN)

Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) Access Point Name (APN)


ASR 5000/5500 (Cont.)Operator Policy Active Charging Service

• GTPP and EGTP tunnel protocols• ACS (Active Charging Service)• PDSN and ePDG Solutions• SGSN

Supports also


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


• 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

Change and Configuration Management (Cont.)


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

New


Image Management

Install Add

Install Activate

Install Deactivat

eInstall

Remove

Install Commit

Install Rollback

• Image repository integrated with cisco.com (it requires a CCO account)

• Offline servers can import from the local file system or from an external server

• Image distribution and activation per device or per image file

• Upgrade analysis to help ensure that the network element is compatible with the image

• Cisco IOS® XR Software updates from cisco.com or Cisco Prime Network server

• Cisco IOS XR Software specific image lifecycle• Boot configuration file and priority for ASR

5000/5500• Email notification upon completion• Warm upgrade and NSSU support• Booting ASR903 in Sub-package mode

New


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The Challenge of Network Faults

UnmanagedNetwork

IP BackboneSyslog: Lost Connectivity !

Trap: DLSw Peer Down !

Syslog: HSRP Standby Active !

Syslog: FR DLCI Down !

Ping: Device Unreachable !

Ping: Device Unreachable ! Syslog: LSP

Reroute !

Syslog: Lost OSPF neighbor !

Syslog: Lost BGP Neighbor !

Syslog: Lost Neighbor !

Syslog: Lost Connectivity !


Trap: DLSw Peer Down !




Trap: Link Down !

Trap: Link Down !

Syslog: LSP Reroute !


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.)

• 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

Affected Parties Alarm History


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

New


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

New


50:1 average event reduction

Events Alarms Tickets

Non-actionable events

CausalityGrouping

CardOut

LinkDown

LineDown Line

Down

LinkDown

OSPFNeighbo

rDown

LDP NeighborDown

• Automatically suppression of duplicate events: - Regular-expression filters- Flapping events

• Group related events for convenient review

• Synchronous poll for network status to confirm suspicion

• Automatically correlation of alarms to identify causality - No code book or rules to develop- Local correlation: alarms emitted within a

single network element- Topology-based correlation: alarms from

multiple network elements

Reduced Fault Resolution Time

Root-Cause Analysis


CardOut

LinkDown

LineDown Line

Down

LinkDown

OSPFNeighbor

Down

LDP NeighborDown

50:1 Average Event Reduction

• Topology-based correlation

• No correlation rules to create and maintain

• Quick and effortless deployment


• 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

Network Alarms

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

• 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 topologies leveraging CDP, REP, LAG and other, plus Ethernet port MAC for neighbor discovery

BGP Topology

Physical Topology


MPLS-TP Service View

EVC Service View

Detailed Networking Feature Discovery

• Converged MPLS core and service edge- 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- 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)


• 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

Virtual Connection (Services) Assurance

Multilayer Service Path

VLAN Topology


• 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

Activation Scripts


• Create and execute commands from Command Manager repository• Create and execute command sequences• Run same command/sequence on user defined scope• Schedule options

Command Orchestration

Create and execute command/sequence limited to Device Level only


Integrated Reporting Tool

• Private and public user defined reports• Events, inventory and network service

reports• Customizable reports based on existing

templatesInventory Reports

Events Reports


Operations Manager

Optional add-on component to Cisco Prime Network that provides extended reporting functionalityNetwork Domains• Physical inventory• Fault• Data Center• MobilityOut of the Box foldersand 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


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• 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

NMS and Operations Support System


Prime Network Information Model

• 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

Query with Retrieval Specification


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 oneTransactions will be created using Eclipse SDK


• 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

Performance Manager Integration

Reduce Deployment Time from Weeks to Hours


Dynamically extends right-click menu to launch PM reports

Performance Manager Integration

Device Reports

Interface Reports


Dynamically extends right-click menu to launch device data sheet, find it in Google maps, or sendan e-mail to its contact person.

Cross Launch External Applications


Customization tools

Extend and Customize

Comprehensive Customization Toolkit

Soft PropertiesAdd new properties to an existing network element or network element family.

Support template variables (for example,$ifindex$) for instance-referencing, parsing rules, and regular expressions.

VNE Customization Builder (VCB)Field extension for additional device modules, events, and software releases

Extend network element drivers, customize events, and support new devices and releases.


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

https://developer.cisco.com/

http://www.cisco.com/


Customization tools

Advanced Services

Advanced Services, Training, and Technical Support

• 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.


Agenda





RedundancyRedundancy


Prime Network Redundancy Components

• Gateway and Database Local Redundancy- Active Standby- Automatic Failover- Veritas or Red Hat Cluster Suite

• Gateway and Database Geographic Redundancy- Active/Standby- Manual Failover- Veritas or Oracle Active Data Guard

• Local Unit Protection Groups

- N+M Hot Standby

• Software Process Protection- Local Watchdog process


• Redundancy solutions for Cisco Prime Network gateway- Integrated local redundancy with Red Hat

Cluster- Embedded replication for Geographical

redundancy (Linux platforms)- Integrated solutions for local and

geographic redundancy with Veritas

• N+M stateless standby Cisco Prime Network Unit redundancy with automatic graceful failover

Local GW redundancy

GUIClients

WWW

WebClients

CustomerOSS/BSS

Server P1(Primary ANA)

Server P2(Primary Oracle)

HeartbeatPrime Network

Gateways

External StorageDual-node cluster

Cisco Prime Network Gateway and Unit Redundancy

Scalable, Reliable, High Availability

Prime Network

Gateways

Prime Network Units


• 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

Cisco Prime Network Unit High-AvailabilityN+M High-Availability Deployment

Prime Network Gateway

Prime Network Unit

Prime Network Unit

Prime Network

UnitPrime Network Unit(s) (Stand-

by)Protection Group A

Prime Network Unit Protection Group B


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:[email protected]

•Technical support:https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/Prime-Network/bd-p/nms_apps_prime_network

http://www.cisco.com/go/primenetwork

https://developer.cisco.com/site/tech/networking/service-providers/prime-network/home/

https://developer.cisco.com/site/tech/networking/service-providers/prime-network/home/

http://iwe.cisco.com/web/ese/go_primenetwork

mailto:[email protected]

https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/Prime-Network/bd-p/nms_apps_prime_network

https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/Prime-Network/bd-p/nms_apps_prime_network

Thank you.


Cisco Prime Network for EPN

Deployed at Top Service Providers in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia

Network and Service Management• MPLS, CE, and IPRAN/MToP support• Service discovery and network and

service maps• Service fault management and

troubleshooting• Graphical fault visualization• Complete CE and MToP service activation• Activation using point-and-click GUI or NB

API• Topology-based root-cause analysis• Service impact analysis• Graphical workflow builder

Foundation• Abstract VNE model and mediation layer• Distributed scalability, carrier class, and

high availability• Embedded database• Solaris and Linux server; Windows client• Telnet, web services, and SNMP APIs• NB event, alarm, and ticket notifications• Solution integrations with provisioning,

inventory, and performance systems• Extensible, customizable, and

configurable• Cisco® Developer Network support

Element Management• NE and topology autodiscovery• NE physical and logical Inventory• Network topology• Event, alarm, and user TCA management• Configuration support (script builder)• Built-in configuration scripts• Open toolkit for extensions• NE configuration archiving• NE image management• Security: authentication and RBAC• Over 50 device families and over 300 NE

types


Cisco Prime Network Q&AQ. 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.

http://www.cisco.com/go/prime-sp

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