Cisco Cisco Prime Central 1.2 Release Notes

 lists the new features and enhancements in Prime Central 1.2.

Cisco IP NGN has been renamed as Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN). Keep this name 
change in mind when viewing the suite and application documentation for the upcoming Cisco Prime 
Carrier Management release.

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This section contains the following information:

Multi-instance application support Supports multiple instances of Prime Network and Prime Optical.

Customer and service model

Manages customers and associates them with discovered services.

Grouping

Creates static and dynamic groups of inventory objects.

Alarm tagging

Aggregates and tags inventory objects or groups with alarm counts and severity.

Data center dashboard

Supports data center dashboards that provide a higher level of detail for the selected 
compute service resource or VPN. In addition to information that is specific to a 
particular resource (such as the number of active virtual machines running on a 
hypervisor or the status of physical interfaces on a VPN), these dashboards provide alarm 
information and performance metric charts.

360º views

Supports 360º views of devices, virtual machines, hypervisors, VPNs, data stores, and 
customers.

Root cause analysis

Implements root cause analysis use cases in the data center domain.

Service impact analysis

Analyzes service impact for data center services such as virtual machines, hypervisors, 
and VPNs.

Customer impact analysis

Analyzes events that impact specific customers.

Ability to enable and disable 
functionality

Enables and disables functionality such as service impact analysis, customer impact 
analysis, virtualization, or the northbound interface.

Alarm lifecycle management

Supports the alarm lifecycle across applications.

MTOSI and 3GPP NBI extension

Extends the standards-based northbound interface.

Credential integration

Exposes credential APIs outside of Prime Central. 

Extensive device support

Supports mobility, Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (NGN), data center, and cable 
devices.