Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.3 Getting Started Guide

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CISCO PRIME INFRASTRUCTURE 2.2
At-A-Glance
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Overview of Platform Updates
Effective network management is more than uptime percentages. It’s about intelligence 
and speed: making smart, real-time decisions and responding quickly to changing 
conditions. To do that, you need a tool that simplifies the management of your network, 
end-to-end and all in one. 
 is the One Management platform from Cisco. It 
simplifies and automates the management of your network, from the wireless user in 
the branch, across the WAN, through the access layer, and now to the data center - 
both network and compute. With it, you can speed up how you deploy network devices 
and services. You can catch issues sooner and troubleshoot them faster. You can 
help employees work in their own way on their own devices - at any time, and with 
the ability to work better with each other - from anywhere. Cisco Prime Infrastructure 
lets you manage your network more efficiently and effectively, so you can achieve the 
highest levels of wireless and wired network performance, application visibility, and 
end-user experience.
With this release, we’ve added network topology mapping, improved product 
security, automated workflows and templates for efficient deployment, and enhanced 
monitoring for fast troubleshooting and resolution. And between releases, we’re issuing 
Technology Packs.
Spotlight on Platform Capabilities
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 includes a wide array of platform enhancements and 
new capabilities. Some of the new capabilities include: 
Network topology mapping: Makes management more intuitive with graphical 
representations of devices and links (Figure 1):
 
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Enhanced grouping lets you organize devices by location or by user-defined 
groups, which are displayed in a graphical map showing the linkages between 
them. 
 
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Clickable device icons include badges indicating current state, such as whether 
there is an alarm. Just click an icon to navigate into a particular device. 
 
- The 
“n-hop” 360-degree view shows you which devices are connected to the 
device you’ve managing, and how many hops away they are.
Figure 1.  Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Network Topology Mapping
Credential profiles and bulk device editing: Speed up and simplify inventory 
management while reducing human error. Administrators can create credential 
profiles and associate them with one or more devices (Figure 2). Bulk device editing 
allows users to select multiple devices and edit credentials or other user-defined 
fields on all devices at the same time, a huge time saver in large networks.
Figure 2.  Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Bulk Editing of Credential Profiles