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 Scope
Network Information
Mediation
Integration Layer
MTOSI, 3GPP
Traditional Integration
BQL
Event Forwarding
SNMP, email
Device Component and Feature Configuration
Network Element Operation and Administration
Logical/Physical
Inventory
Inventory
Reports
OS-Image
Management
Configuration File
Backup/Restore
Element
Discovery
Configuration
Audit
Network Fault
Management
Event Monitoring
Traps, Syslogs, Polling
Fault
Correlation
Network Topology Display
Virtual Connectivity
Views
Alarm Management
and Display
Troubleshooting
Methods

Agenda
Redundancy

• 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 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
• 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

Image Management
Install Add Install
Activate
Install
Deactivate
Install
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

Agenda
Redundancy

The Challenge of Network Faults
Unmanaged
Network
IP Backbone
Syslog: 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 !
Syslog: Lost
BGP Neighbor !
Trap: DLSw
Peer Down !
Syslog: Lost
OSPF neighbor !
Syslog: Lost
OSPF neighbor !
Syslog: Lost
BGP Neighbor !
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

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

50:1 average event reduction
Events Alarms Tickets
Non-actionable events
CausalityGrouping
Card
Out
Link
Down
Line
Down
Line
Down
Link
Down
OSPF
Neighbor
Down
LDP Neighbor
Down
• 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

Card
Out
Link
Down
Line
Down
Line
Down
Link
Down
OSPF
Neighbor
Down
LDP Neighbor
Down
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
templates
Inventory Reports
Events 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

• 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 TicketEvent
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

• 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 send
an e-mail to its contact person.
Cross Launch External Applications

Customization tools
Extend and Customize
Comprehensive Customization Toolkit
Soft Properties
Add 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

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
GUI
Clients
WWW
Web
Clients
Customer
OSS/BSS
Server P1
(Primary ANA)
Server P2
(Primary Oracle)
Heartbeat
Prime Network
Gateways
External Storage
Dual-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-Availability
N+M High-Availability Deployment
Prime Network Gateway
Prime Network Unit Prime Network
Unit
Prime
Network Unit
Prime 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:
prime-network@cisco.com
• Technical support:
https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/Prime-Network/bd-
p/nms_apps_prime_network

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&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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