Cisco Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Installation Guide

The purpose of this Quick Start Guide is to get you up and running with Prime Network 4.1, to the point where you can create 
a map to visualize your network and you can take advantage of Prime Network’s many capabilities to monitor and manage your 
network elements and services. This guide will lead you through the planning, installation, and post-installation tasks required 
to get to this point. 

This Quick Start Guide does not replace other available Cisco Prime Network documentation, as it contains the 
minimum subset of information required to get started. For detailed information on any of the subjects mentioned in 
this guide, please see the Cisco Prime Network 4.1 guides listed in 

The Quick Start Guide does not cover the entire spectrum of installation options. It is intended for small-medium deployments 
of Prime Network using an embedded database, with no high availability. 

The recommended hardware for Prime Network quick installation is a one-server setup with a single server acting as both 
gateway and unit. Prime Network one-server setup is certified up to 1000 network elements with 750 events per second and a 
storage for 14 days requiring up to 10 TB of disk space. This document covers the specification for both 200 and 1000 device 
setups. See 

 for more details.

This section also describes the assumptions upon which the information in this Quick Start Guide is based and some examples 
are provided in 

If your Prime Network deployment differs from what is described in these assumptions, see the installation guide. If necessary, 
contact your Cisco account representative for assistance with planning and installation of Prime Network.

This guide assumes that:

This is a new Prime Network installation, not an upgrade from a previous version.

Prime Network is installed as a standalone application, not as a part of a Prime suite.

Prime Network will be used to manage up to 1000 network elements, i.e., a small-medium deployment of Prime Network. 
See 

 for examples.

The network is managed by one Prime Network gateway and one unit, co-located on one server (one-server setup).

For Prime Network embedded database (Oracle 11.2.03) will be used, not an external database.

Prime Network will run in a production environment with database operations for 1000 devices.

0-8 actionable events per second. Actionable events (also called upgraded events) are events that are of interest to the 
Prime Network fault management subsystem. Prime Network has a defined parser for upgraded events. For upgraded 
events, Prime Network will take an action such as deduplication, correlation, impact analysis, and so on. The terms 
actionable and upgraded events are synonymous.

Up to 50 incoming events per second

Up to 300 change and configuration management operations persisted in the database for low rate of database 
operations and up to 50 actionable and 700 generic events per second for high rate of database operations.

The default history size will be retained, i.e., 14 days for events. If a longer history period is required, please consult 
your Cisco account representative.

Only 10 concurrent users running Prime Network.

Telnet and SNMP will be used for device modeling and discovery when adding VNEs to the system, not SSH.

The reader has experience in the Unix environment.

The Quick Start Guide does not cover the following:

Integration

Customization

Package download

Advanced configuration (e.g., polling)