Cisco Cisco Prime Performance Manager 1.4 Release Notes

Provides a horizontally scalable architecture with local, geographical, and N+1 high availability 
options.

Supports thresholding, trending, 95th percentile reporting, email reports, and graphical report 
editing.

Provides an extensive REST interface and other options for easy integration into existing systems 
and an advanced web-based reporting with many user-customizable features.

Allows you to integrate with Cisco Prime Central. Prime Central is the presentation tier for the Cisco 
Prime suites, which include Prime Performance Manager, Cisco Prime Network, Cisco Prime 
Optical, and other Cisco Prime applications.

Allows you to discover network devices by importing the Prime Network device inventory or by 
running device discovery from Prime Performance Manager. 

Allows you to install cross-launch scripts on Prime Network gateways, which enables 
Prime Performance Manager reports to be launched from the Prime Network GUI.

Synchronizes device lists, credentials, and business tags from Prime Network.

Provides a simple administrative interface that allows you to manage gateways and units, assign 
devices to units, administer autodiscovery, manage users, administer reports, and other tasks.

Reduces time to troubleshoot and recover from problems that affect service.

Prime Performance Manager features and benefits include:

Carrier class scale—Prime Performance Manager can manage 100,000 devices with up to 1.1 
million interfaces and 50 GUI clients. Prime Performance Manager is designed for low startup and 
administrative costs with support for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Linux, and VMware. 
The Prime Performance Manager embedded database eliminates third-party license and 
maintenance costs. Its distributed architecture provides reliability, deployment flexibility, and 
horizontal scaling to grow with the network.

Prepackaged reports—Prime Performance Manager can generate more than 4400 prepackaged 
reports on a wide range of network services, technologies, and devices. These reports provide 
visibility into the network and service performance characteristics of core, aggregation, access, and 
data center network devices. Reports are automatically generated and do not require complex 
customization or configuration.

Data collection and processing—Prime Performance Manager standards-based data collection can 
be applied to any device enabled for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Summarized 
reports can be generated in 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, hourly, daily, or longer intervals and can 
be viewed using the Cisco Prime Performance Manager web interface. They can also be generated 
as a comma-separated value (CSV) data file for integration with a third-party OSS. 
Prime Performance Manager also supports CLI-based reports by Telnet, SSH, and WSMA. 

For hypervisors, Prime Performance Manager supports:

ESXi/vCenter by SOAP

Hyper-V by WMI CIM

Xen and KVM by libvirtd

Bulk statistics reports—For the Cisco ASR 5000 and Cisco ASR 5500, the ability to generate reports 
based on bulk statistics.

Report aggregation and grouping—Prime Performance Manager provides the ability to create 
reports based on groups of network objects such as interfaces or devices within specified 
regions.The grouping feature works flexibly according to customized algorithms.