Cisco Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0

Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces these features.

Cisco Prime AR 6.0 provides the identity and access management for the smart grid solutions on IPv6 
networks. This is achieved using the Elliptic Curve Crytographic (ECC) based certificate validation and 
also supports TACACS+ authentication and command accounting. For EAP services, in addition to RSA 
certificates, Cisco Prime AR supports verification of ECC certificates. ECC uses elliptic curves to 
encrypt data when creating keys which enables you to create shorter and stronger keys for better 
efficiency. This is achieved using the Cisco SSL library APIs. TACACS+ supports ASCII, PAP, and 
CHAP Authentication type, login and enable services, and LDAP, OCI, and ODBC services in addition 
to Local service. TACACS+ also tracks and maintains the executed command details in the command 
accounting. For more information about TACACS+ SNMP support, see 

Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces network wide licensing. The license is applicable across the network. A 
base server is needed per region.

Licensing can be based on either existing Transactions Per Second (TPS) model or the new number of 
Concurrent Online/Active Subscriber/Device Sessions (SUB) model.

Cisco Prime AR 6.0 introduces the Prime Graphical User Interface for better usability, look and feel. 

Cisco Prime AR 6.0 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Clustering. A two-node cluster is built 
with the help of Red Hat Clustering (RHCS) suite such that Cisco Prime AR will be running initially in 
the primary node. If there is a failure in the Cisco Prime AR service which means either the service is 
stopped or crashed, Cisco Prime AR service will automatically failover to the secondary node without 
any manual intervention.