Cisco Cisco Prime Central 1.0 Release Notes

Cisco Prime for IP NGN includes the following suite components, which are accessible through the 
Cisco Prime Central portal:

Cisco Prime Fulfillment—Provides automated resource management and rapid, profile-based 
provisioning capabilities for Carrier Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and Packet 
Transport technologies.

Cisco Prime Network—Provides management of packet networks, including access, aggregation, 
edge, and MPLS core.

Cisco Prime Optical—Provides efficient and productive optical infrastructure management for fault, 
configuration, performance, and security.

The Prime Central portal provides:

A single point of access (single sign-on) to the suite components.

Central access to the experience lifecycle tasks.

Support for LDAP, TACACS+, and RADIUS authentication plugins.

Virtualization on VMware configurations.

Common user management with role-based access control (RBAC).

Grouping-to-suite component mapping.

Common adopted installation framework.

Database and application monitoring.

Common physical inventory management:

Detailed physical inventory views.

Filter and search capabilities.

Seamless drill-down to individual domain managers.

Common cross-domain alarm management:

Aggregation, correlation, and deduplication of alarms.

Portlets with customized views and filters.

Full alarm lifecycle support.

Seamless cross-launch of the source domain manager.

Seamless access from alarms to common inventory.

Pregenerated reports for active and historical alarms.

SNMP forwarding (OSS integration).