Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.8

 

Prime Network 3.8 can be installed as a standalone or as a fully integrated component of the Cisco Prime 
Central suite.

Common installation and administration methods, including a shared inventory; GUI clients do not 
need to be installed separately.

Single sign-on through Cisco Prime to all suite applications, and cross-launch between Prime 
Network and other suite applications.

Prime Network 3.8 provides the following GUI enhancements across all GUI clients.

User interface enhancements include faster UI start-up and more efficient task flows, including:

Webstart for Cisco Prime Network user interface.

Additional options for sorting and filtering.

Icon and decorator layout updates for easier recognition of state information and access to 
device management options.

Look-and-feel adjustments for consistency with the Cisco Prime Central suite.

New reports :

Detailed reports for these event types: Service, Syslogs, Tickets, Traps, Audit, Provisioning, 
Security, and System.

New Mean Time to Repair events report.

All reports include timezone in date and time stamp.

Prime Network 3.8 introduces the following technology enhancements:

Extended Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) support: Discovery of 
MPLS-TP tunnels and representation including pseudowires configured over tunnels; service alarm 
generation and correlation; graphical display of MPLS-TP network protection configurations 
(primary and backup); and Operations Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) scripts.

Enhanced MPLS support: Discovery, representation, and monitoring of carrier-serving-carrier 
configurations; point-to-point MPLS-TE tunnel link filtering; device inventory for 
point-to-multipoint MPLS-TE configurations; and representations of pseudowire backup tunnel 
configurations.

Enhanced Carrier Ethernet support: Expanded Metro Ethernet Forum-specific services such as 
Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) multiplex configurations; Multichassis Link Aggregation 
Groups (MC-LAG); Multiple Spanning Tree Access Gateway (MST-AG) and Resilient Ethernet 
Protocol Access Gateway (REP-AG); and REP configuration extensions.