Cisco Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 Installation Guide

Follow these steps to log into the Cisco Prime Assurance Manager user interface through a web browser:

Launch one of the Supported Browsers (see 

) on a different computer from the one on 

which you installed and started Prime AM.

In the browser’s address line, enter https://IPaddress, where IPaddress is the IP address of the server on which you 
installed Prime AM. The Prime AM user interface displays the Login window.

When you access Cisco Prime Assurance Manager for the first time, some browsers will display a warning that the site 
is untrusted. If this happens, follow the prompts to add a security exception and download the self-signed certificate 
from the server. After you complete this procedure, the browser will accept the server as a trusted site in all future login 
attempts. 

Enter the default administrator username and password, which are root and Public123, respectively.

If any licensing problems occur when you first login, a message appears in an alert box. If you have an evaluation 
license, the number of days until the license expires is shown. You are also alerted to any expired licenses. You have the 
option to go directly to the Administration > Licenses page to address these problems. 

Click Login to log into Cisco Prime Assurance Manager. The Prime AM home page appears. 

To ensure system security, select Administration > Users, Roles & AAA > Change Password to change the password for 
the root administrator.

To exit the user interface, close the browser page or click Logout under your username in the upper right corner of the 
page. Exiting a user interface session does not shut down Prime AM on the server.

If a system administrator stops the Prime AM server during your session, your session ends and the browser displays 
this message: “The page cannot be displayed.” Your session does not reassociate when the server restarts; you must exit 
the session and start a new session.

After you install Cisco Prime Assurance Manager, you must perform additional tasks to begin managing your network. These 
tasks are all listed in the 

 of the Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 User Guide. After you complete 

these tasks, you are ready to monitor end-to-end application performance, troubleshoot problems, optimize WAN performance, 
and assure consistent network service delivery. 

This section provides information about navigational paths to access Prime AM features, and the details of the sections where 
the features are covered in Prime AM documentation.