Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.8

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Prime Network 3.8 introduces the following platform-level enhancements:

Gateway server high availability using Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) and Oracle Active Data Guard 
(ADG)—Simplified commands for performing switchover and failover and stopping and resuming 
data replication.

Security enhancements:

Support for devices behind firewalls or NAT devices, with a new mechanism that creates a 
device proxy feature that routes connections from the client through the gateway server to a unit 
that can reach the device.

Support for unit servers behind firewalls or NAT devices using standard ports.

Support for gateway server behind firewalls or NAT devices, when ports are opened on the 
firewall and the gateway has a publicly addressable IP address. 

Support for permissive scopes, which means users can view both ends of links even if one 
endpoint it outside their assigned device scopes. Permissive scoping is enabled by default.

A platform-level job scheduler to manage and execute activation scripts.

Prime Network  Vision includes the following enhancements:

Link visualization enhancements that provide the ability to view links from managed to unmanaged 
NEs, which allow links within the managed network sections to be viewed.

Users can view a link if at least one endpoint is in the user’s scope. 

The Link Properties window contains Tickets and Events panes that list tickets and events for 
the selected link.

Link filtering API that allows external applications to retrieve links for a selected link type.

Event browser is now displayed within Prime Network Vision, providing efficient access to ticket 
and network event information from within a map context. The Options dialog box contains a new 
Events tab that allows you to specify the number of hours to use when determining the events to 
display in the events tabs in the inventory window.

The Prime Network Vision window includes tabs that list all NEs, VTP domains, and Ethernet flow 
domains.

The IP Interfaces table (Logical Inventory > Routing Entities > Routing Entity) contains the 
VRRP Group column which indicates whether a VRRP group is configured on the interface.

The navigation pane includes up to two badges for each element for alarm, STP, REP, redundancy 
service, VNE communication, and VNE investigation states.

If multiple BFD links exist between two elements, Prime Network displays a session for each link.

If multiple MP-BGP IPV6 links exist between two elements, Prime Network identifies each link.

Aggregation thumbnail borders reflect the color of the current alarm severity.