Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.9 Installation Guide

Before adding your devices to the system, you need to run some commands on each device so that Prime Network can model 
the devices accurately and perform management tasks, such as processing syslogs, traps, logging, and so on. This section lists 
the device configuration prerequisites. Please see “Device Configuration Required Before Adding VNEs” in the

 for details.

This section provides step-by-step instructions for installing the Prime Network gateway, unit, and client software:

9770 and 
9771

TCP

Client > Gateway

Prime Network Vision, Administration, Events, Workflow 

9875

TCP

Client > Gateway

Spring JMX console port, used for Change and Configuration 
Management

1. If any of the ports (except for port 514) are unavailable, the installation fails.

Configure devices to send SNMP traps

All Cisco devices to be managed by 
Prime Network

See “Device Configuration Required 
Before Adding VNEs,” in the 

Configure devices to send syslogs

All Cisco devices to be managed by 
Prime Network

“Device Configuration Required Before 
Adding VNEs,” in the 

Configure devices to forward events to 
the server hosting the Prime Network 
Event Collector

All Cisco devices to be managed by the 
Prime Network

For traps: 

snmp-server community public RO 

snmp-server host <IP> public

For syslogs: 

logging <IP> 

where <IP> is the IP address of the server 
hosting the Event Collector (usually the 
gateway).

Enable XML

IOS-XR devices

Prime Network VNEs use XML mode to 
communicate with IOS XR devices. 
Enable XML command:

xml agent tty

Configure Virtual Device Contexts 
(VDCs)

Devices running Nexus operating system “Device Configuration Required Before 

Adding VNEs,” in the