Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Installation Guide

Follow these steps to log into the Prime Infrastructure user interface through a web browser:

Launch one of the Supported Browsers (see 

) on a different computer from the one on 

which you installed and started Prime Infrastructure.

In the browser’s address line, enter https://ipaddress, where ipaddress is the IP address of the server on which you 
installed Prime Infrastructure. The Prime Infrastructure user interface displays the Login window.

When you access Prime Infrastructure for the first time, some browsers will display a warning that the site is untrusted. 
When this happens, follow the prompts to add a security exception and download the self-signed certificate from the 
Prime Infrastructure server. After you complete this procedure, the browser will accept the Prime Infrastructure server 
as a trusted site in all future login attempts. 

Enter the root administrator username and password, as specified when 

.

If any licensing problems occur, a message appears in an alert box. If you have an evaluation license, the number of 
days until the license expires is shown. You are also alerted to any expired licenses. You have the option to go directly 
to the Administration > Licenses page to address these problems. 

Click Login to log into Prime Infrastructure. The user interface is now active and available for use. The home page 
appears. 

To ensure system security, select Administration > Users, Roles & AAA > Change Password to change the password for 
the root administrator.

To exit the user interface, close the browser page or click Logout in the upper right corner of the page. Exiting a Prime 
Infrastructure user interface session does not shut down Prime Infrastructure on the server.

If a system administrator stops the Prime Infrastructure server during your Prime Infrastructure session, your session 
ends, and the browser displays this message: “The page cannot be displayed.” Your session does not re-associate to 
Prime Infrastructure when the server restarts. You must start a new Prime Infrastructure session.

After you install Prime Infrastructure, you must perform additional tasks to begin managing your network. These tasks are all 
listed in the “Getting Started” chapter of the 

After you complete these tasks, you 

are ready to start monitoring and configuring your network. 

To install and start the Prime Infrastructure Plug and Play Gateway, you should deploy the OVA and configure the virtual 
appliance. 

Starting with Prime Infrastructure release 1.2, the Plug and Play Server is integrated with the Prime Infrastructure server. The 
Plug and Play Gateway automatically starts along with the Prime Infrastructure server and uses the same credentials and 
certificates. This section provides information for installing and using the Plug and Play Gateway as a standalone access server, 
for use in scenarios such as spanning a network DMZ.

The server requirements for the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Plug and Play Gateway OVA are as follows:

VMware ESXi Server version 4.1.0 or 5.0 is required. Version 5.0 is preferred. Prime Infrastructure 2.1 has not been tested 
with VMware ESXi Server versions later than 5.0.

RAM— 4GB 

Disk Space—100 GB (Recommended to use SAN)

Processors—4 virtual CPUs with 2.93 GHz or faster