Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.8

The Add Network Element dialog box now contains Severity and Unacknowledged columns that 
indicate the highest severity ticket and the highest severity unacknowledged ticket that are 
associated with the element.

The following new right-click options are available:

If scripts are installed, right-click the devices that support them to show the scripts.

If Prime Performance Manager is installed, you can cross-launch it from Prime Network. To do 
so, right-click an interface from the Inventory window and choose Performance > 
Interface Reports. A performance report is generated and displayed for that specific interface 
on the selected device. For more information, see the Prime Performance Manager user guide.

The inventory window includes:

A Ports tab that enables you to view the status of all ports on the device in one table and enable 
or disable alarms on multiple ports, as required

Three new tabs that list tickets, network events, and provisioning events for the selected element

The Tools menu includes a Command Jobs option that displays all Command Builder jobs that have 
been scheduled and their details.

Prime Network 3.8  includes the following fault management enhancements:

Ability to stop an event notification service and restart it at a later time (without having to recreate 
the service).

Ability to filter raw events at the Event Collector level, which is the first point of contact with Prime 
Network, in order to drop “pure noise.” (This differs from the AOP mechanism which filters events 
at the VNE level.)

New GUI feature for controlling the purging and archiving of the Event Archive information in the 
database.

For embedded databases, a new script for adding datafiles to a specific database table.

Prime Network 3.8 Change and Configuration Management provides the following new features:

Static and dynamic device grouping—You can choose to create a device group of one of the 
following types:

Static—Create a device group with a specific set of devices. If you wish to add new devices to 
the group at a later stage, you must add them manually.

Dynamic—Create a device group with certain membership rules or conditions such that all 
devices satisfying the specified conditions are automatically added to the group at any stage.

Firewall support—The Image Management and CM functions run on units and gateway in a 
deployment environment in which the units are located behind firewalls and possibly Network 
Address Translation (NAT). This approach prevents issues when the unit is behind NAT, as the unit 
does not require a publicly available IP address for the gateway to contact it.

Module level support for Cisco 7600 series routers with Application Control Engine (ACE) cards. 

Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 device series support.