Cisco Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 Installationsanleitung

Cisco Prime Assurance Manager is licensed based on the number of managed network interfaces. To use Prime AM, you must 
have one of the following licenses:

Evaluation license—Valid for 60 days and 100 interfaces. You can obtain an evaluation license at 

Base license—Purchased base licenses are available in sizes of 50, 100, 500, 1000, or 5000 interfaces. You must purchase a 
single base interface count to use Prime AM unless you are purchasing Prime AM as an add-on to an existing NCS (WAN) 
installation. If you already have NCS (WAN) installed with a base license, you need only purchase add-on licenses to use 
Prime AM. You can obtain a base license at 

 using the Product Authorization Key (PAK) 

provided as part of your order and the Virtual Unique Device Identifier (VUDI) obtained from your installed instance of 
Prime AM. 

Add-On licenses—Purchased add-on licenses are available in sizes of 50, 100, 500, 1000, or 5000 interfaces. You can 
purchase add-on licenses as your interface count increases. Add-on licenses are available at 

 using your PAK and VUDI.

Prime AM license files are node-locked to the virtual machine based on the Virtual Unique Device Identifier (VUDI), which 
consists of the product identification and a uniquely generated serial number. You can view this information in the Prime AM 
web interface by choosing Administration > Licenses.

For more information about ordering Prime AM licenses, refer to the license information at 

.

Meet the requirements and complete the tasks in the following sections before installing Cisco Prime Assurance Manager.

VMware ESX or ESXi Server 4.1.x (or later) software is required on the server. 

Table 2 lists the minimum server requirements for each of the Cisco Prime AM OVA options. In this table, “Flow Records” 
includes NetFlows and flow records generated by NAM polling.

Hardware—A Mac or Windows laptop or desktop compatible with one of the supported browsers: 

Internet Explorer 8.0 with the Flash and Chrome plug-ins

Mozilla Firefox 7.0

<1,000 records per 
second

10 (with polling 
enabled for 5)

RAM—8 GB 

Disk Space—200 GB 

Processors—4 virtual CPUs at 2.93 GHz or faster

<15,000 records per 
second

80 (with polling 
enabled for 25)

RAM—16 GB

Disk Space—400 GB

Processors—8 virtual CPUs at 2.93 GHz or faster

<80,000 records per 
second

400 (with polling 
enabled for 40)

RAM—24 GB

Disk Space—1.2 TB

Processors—8 virtual CPUs at 2.93 GHz or faster