Белая книга для Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0

 

 

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Scope 

This guide covers the installation, set up, and basic operation of Cisco Prime

™

 Infrastructure. For more information, 

see the “

” section in this guide.  

Introduction 

Network administrators have a demanding, tedious job overseeing all the devices on a network. To complicate 

matters, network devices are sometimes added to or removed from the network. As an organization grows, so 

does the number of devices to be managed. The needs of the network management administrators include: 

● 

—Administrators need to make backup copies of device configurations 

and store them in a protected location. Performing this task manually is extremely time-consuming and 

tedious. An automated means of collecting and archiving device configuration files is a valuable aid to 

network administrators.  

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— Change in the network/services it supports, requires changes to device 

configurations. This results in manually connecting to and configuring all the affected devices, which can 

take many hours to make similar, if not identical, changes to device configurations. A means of automating 

the deployment of such configuration changes, including support for device-specific values, can greatly 

improve the speed and also the accuracy of updating the network.  

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—A centralized way of viewing the operating system versions running on all 

the network devices is very helpful, but the administrators also need to get the necessary software images 

from a trusted source and then to propagate those images to many network devices.  

● 

—Running a network requires knowing about the state of the 

network and the state of individual devices. It also requires notification of events on the network, 

troubleshooting tools, and an ability to generate reports about many aspects of the network. 

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is the one management solution for converged access enterprise-class network. It 

provides a single pane of glass solution for managing the wired and wireless networks and end-to-end visibility 

from the branch to the campus and all the way to the data center. 

This deployment guide helps to choose the right deployment model and the steps to deploy Cisco Prime 

Infrastructure to manage the wired and wireless networks using some of the essential network management 

features. 

Overview 

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a sophisticated network management tool that can help support the end-to-end 

management of the network technologies and services that are critical to the operation of your organization; it 

aligns the network management functionality with the way that network administrators do their jobs. Cisco Prime 

Infrastructure provides an intuitive, web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that can be accessed from anywhere 

from within the network and gives you a full view of a network use and performance. 

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides comprehensive lifecycle management, assurance visibility and troubleshooting 

capabilities across the network - from the user in the branch office, across the WAN, and to the data center. In 

essence, it is one management and one assurance for one network.