Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.8 Release Notes

events, you can set Prime Network Events to operate in Find mode. In this mode, no events will be 
retrieved from the database when you open the application or switch between tabs, and you can click the 
Find button in the toolbar to search for the events you need.

To enable and use Find mode:

In Prime Network Events, select Tools > Options.

Check the Find mode check box and click OK. 

The window will be cleared of events. The following text will appear under the events table: “Find mode 
(No automatic data retrieval).”

Click the Find button in the toolbar and define a query to display specific events.

Change and Configuration Management provides support for the Cisco ASR 5000 series, Cisco ASR 
901, and Cisco ASR 903 routers in Prime Network 3.8.1. The following topics describe the support 
information in detail:

In addition, please note the following:

Change and Configuration Management does not support special characters for any of the editable 
fields in the GUI, including filters. In the Configuration and Image Management Settings pages, 
Change and Configuration Management does not support the following special characters:

For Password fields—>, <, ', and "

For all other fields—‘, ~, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), +, =, |, {, }, [, ], ', ?, >, <, and "

For ACE cards on Cisco 7600 devices, Configuration Management supports only TFTP protocol for 
image baseline, backup, and restore operations.

For Cisco ASR 5000 series devices, you can follow the same workflow as that of the Cisco IOS devices. 
The following enhancements or changes have been made in Change and Configuration Management for 
Cisco ASR 5000 series devices in Prime Network 3.8.1:

The two types of configuration files for Cisco ASR 5000 series devices are: the running (current 
operating) configuration and the boot configuration. For a boot configuration file, the version of the 
archived configuration is always displayed as ‘1’ in the Archived Configurations page.

The following processes are not applicable for the boot configuration files of Cisco ASR 5000 series 
devices:

Restoring a configuration from the archive to the device

Synchronization of out-of-sync devices 

The Device Properties window displays a priority list for the Cisco ASR 5000 series devices. The 
priority list displays various combinations of a configuration file and an image file in priority order 
for the device. This information is retrieved from the device configuration.