Cisco Cisco Prime Network Control System Appliance Installation Guide

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

For more information on configuring SNMP, see the 

 and 

sections of the 

. Also see the “

” section of the 

, and the 

.

Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization must be configured on all devices in your network as well as on the Prime NCS 
(WAN) server. You can specify the NTP server when you deploy the Prime NCS (WAN) OVA. You can also change the NTP 
server later, in the installed product, by entering the following commands:

 IP address or hostname

 IP address or hostname

Failure to organize time synchronization across your network can result in anomalous results in Prime NCS (WAN).

See 

 for information about setting up the devices in your network.

Before installing Prime NCS (WAN) in a virtual machine, you must ensure that:

VMware ESXi is installed and configured on the machine you plan to use as the Prime NCS (WAN) server host. See the 
VMware documentation for information on setting up and configuring your host machine.

The installed VMware ESXi host is reachable.

The VMWare vSphere Client is installed on the same host. After the virtual host is available on the network, you can browse 
to its IP address to display a web-based interface from which you can install the VMware vSphere client. 

The VMWare vSphere Client is Windows-based. Therefore you must download and install the client from a 
Windows PC. 

After you install the VMWare vSphere client, you can run it and log into the virtual host, using the host name or IP address 
of the virtual host, the root login ID, and the password you configured. You can add the host to a vCenter if you want to 
manage it through vCenter. See the VMWare vSphere documentation for details.

The Prime NCS (WAN) OVA is saved to the same machine where your vSphere client is installed. Depending on your 
arrangement with Cisco, you may download the OVA file from Cisco.com or take it from your Cisco-supplied installation 
media.

Make sure that all of the system requirements are met before you deploy the OVA. Please review the sections 

and

Launch your VMWare vSphere client.

Choose File > Deploy OVF Template.

The Deploy OVF Template window appears.

Click the Deploy from file radio button.

Click Browse to access the location where you have saved the OVA file. 

Click Next.