Cisco Cisco Prime Optical 9.8 Release Notes

Cisco Prime Optical manages the entire Cisco optical portfolio, including: 

Metro core

Metro dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)

Metro edge and access products 

New Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) System products

Prime Optical also serves as a foundation for integration into a larger overall Operations Support System 
(OSS) environment by providing northbound gateway interfaces to higher-layer management systems.

 describes new features and enhancements in Prime Optical 9.8.

Third-party tools

The following third-party tools have been upgraded for Prime Optical 9.8: 

Apache 2.2.24

Java 1.7.0_25 (only for Prime Optical servers on Windows operating 
systems)

Java 1.6.0_x (only for Prime Optical clients for cross-launch compatibility)

Mozilla Firefox 17 or 20 (ability to launch the Cisco Prime Optical portal)

Chrome 25 (ability to launch the Cisco Prime Optical portal)

Ability to install Prime Optical on RHEL 
5.7, 5.8, or 6.2

You can install and run the Prime Optical server and client on Red Hat Enter-
prise Linux (RHEL) 5.7, 5.8, or 6.2 (64-bit OS, with or without VMware ESXi 
4.1 or 5.0).

New EMS alarm on Tablespace usage 

Prime Optical 9.8 supports the new EMS alarms on tablespace usage. The alarm 
is raised when the Oracle tablespace usage crosses the thresholds specified by 
the user.

Password Encryption 

The EMS encrypts the Users passwords using SHA384.