Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 Installation Guide

Before installing, configure your devices to provide Prime Infrastructure with the data it requires, such as SNMP notifications.

To work with Prime Infrastructure, your devices must run at least the minimum required software versions shown in the list of 
supported devices. You can access this list using the Prime Infrastructure user interface: Choose Help > Supported Devices List.

You must also configure your devices to support SNMP traps and syslogs, and the Network Time Protocol (NTP), as explained 
in the following sections.

To ensure that Prime Infrastructure can query SNMP devices and receive traps and notifications from them, you must:

Set SNMP credentials (community strings) on each device you want to manage using Prime Infrastructure.

Configure these same devices to send SNMP notifications to the Prime Infrastructure server.

Use the following IOS configuration commands to set read/write and read-only community strings on an SNMP device:

admin(config)#

 snmp-server community private RW

admin(config)#

 snmp-server community public RW

where private

and

public are the community strings you want to set. 

After you set the community strings, you can specify that device notifications be sent as traps to the Prime Infrastructure server 
using the following IOS global configuration command on each SNMP device:

admin (config)#

 snmp-server host Host traps version community notification-type

where:

s the IP address of the Prime Infrastructure server.

is the version of SNMP that is used to send the traps. 

is the community string sent to the server with the notification operation.

notification-type is the type of trap to send. 

You may need to control bandwidth usage and the amount of trap information being sent to the Prime Infrastructure server 
using additional commands. 

For more information on configuring SNMP, see:

The 

sections of the 

The “

” section and the 

 in the 

Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization must be configured on all devices in your network as well as on the Prime 
Infrastructure server. You must specify the NTP servers during server installation (see 

Note that NTP must be configured and synchronized across all Prime Infrastructure-related servers, including any remote FTP 
servers you use for backups, secondary Prime Infrastructure high-availability servers, the Plug and Play Gateway, VMware 
vCenter and the ESX virtual machine, etc. Failure to organize time synchronization across your network can result in anomalous 
results in Prime Infrastructure.