Cisco Cisco Prime Network Registrar 8.3 Installation Guide

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Cisco Prime Network Registrar IPAM 8.3 Upgrade Guide 
 
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1.2  Planning an IPAM 8.3 Upgrade 
 
To begin planning the upgrade, review the following questions and points: 
1.  What is gained by upgrading IPAM 8.3? 
 
There are many new features obtained in IPAM 8.3. Some of them include: 
 
 
RIR REST Interface - Support for Regional Internet Registry (RIR) REST  
 
 
Clone administrators/roles - Provides the ability to clone an administrator 
or policy.  
 
 
Clone containers - Enables the cloning of a container to copy policies to a 
new container. 
 
 
Domain Audit Report - Provides an audit report for domain changes. 
 
 
DNS Zone Report - Enable administrators to identify which DNS servers a 
given zone has been assigned. 
 
 
DNS Option Sets - Enables an administrator to define a set of DNS option 
values. 
 
 
DHCP Option/Policy Set Assignment View - Enables viewing for a given 
option or policy set to which servers, subnets, pools network links, devices 
and classes it has been assigned. 
 
 
Scope specific policy sets - Provides an analogous feature for Scope specific 
policy sets. 
 
 
Show Effective DHCP Policies - Provides an analogous functionality for 
DHCP policies. 
 
 
Option 82 Reporting - Provides the ability to collect DHCPv4 option 82 
parameters for ISC and CNR DHCP servers and will be displayed with 
active lease information. 
 
 
BIND 9.10 - Supports BIND version 9.10 with improved geo-DNS. With 
response rate limiting support, static-stub and redirect zone types. 
 
 
DHCPD 4.3 - Supports ISC DHCPD version 4.3, including changes in 
DDNS update style and support for DHCPv6 client classes and pool 
options.