Ask The Expert: Understanding, Implementing, and Troubleshooting Cisco Prime Network

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Ask questions and learn about Cisco Prime Network with Cisco experts Vignesh Rajendran Praveen and Jaminder Singh Bali.

Cisco Prime Network is and  Cisco Prime Network provides cost-effective device operation, administration and network fault management for today’s complex and evolved programmable networks (EPNs). It is a single solution to support both the traditional physical network components, as well as compute infrastructure, and the virtual elements found in data centers. Automated configuration and change management combined with advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics greatly help service providers enable proactive service assurance. Additionally, the flexible and extensible architecture is designed to support the multivendor environment, helping to lower operational costs.

This event runs January 5 through January 16, 2015.

Vignesh Rajendran Praveen is a High Touch Engineer with the Focused Technical Services team supporting Cisco's major Service Provider customers in Routing, Switching, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technologies and Cisco Prime Network related issues. Previously at Cisco he has worked as a Network Consulting Engineer for Enterprise Customers and as a Customer Support Engineer for Service Provider customers. He has been in the networking industry for ten years and holds CCIE certification (#34503) in the Routing and Switching as well as Service Provider tracks.

Jaminder Singh Bali is a Customer Support Engineer working in SP-NMS TAC team, supporting Cisco's major service provider customers in Cisco Prime Network, Performance and Prime Central related issues. His areas of expertise include Oracle, Linux and NMS applications. He has been in the industry for past six years.

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The Experts might not be able to answer each question due to the volume expected during this event. Remember that you can continue the conversation in Network Infrastructure community, sub-community, LAN, Switching and Routing discussion forum shortly after the event. This event lasts through January 16, 2015. Visit this forum often to view responses to your questions and the questions of other community members.

[Jerome Chandrahasa]

Hi,

Are all Cisco devices supported by Prime Network ?

Thanks,

Jerome

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hello Jerome,

A variety of Cisco devices are supported by the the Cisco Prime Network. I would encourage you to go through the below links on the user guide depending the version of Cisco Prime Network being used.

"Cisco Prime Network Supported Cisco Virtual Network Elements (VNEs)"

"Cisco Prime Network Supported Cisco VNEs - Addendum"

Below is the link for the user guide.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-network/products-user-guide-list.html

Hope this would help in providing you more clarity.

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Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Jerome Chandrahasa]

Hi Vignesh,

It was useful.

Thanks,

Jerome

[Jerome Chandrahasa]

So can Cisco Prime Network support non Cisco Products ?

Thanks,

Jerome

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi Jerome,

Cisco Prime Network is capable of supporting other vendor devices like Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei etc.

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Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Jerome Chandrahasa]

Thanks a lot Vignesh.

[marce1000]

 - Why focus on 2 products and or what are the core differences between prime network and prime infrastructure ?

M.

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi,

Prime Infrastructure is a discovery engine with element management capacity like an EMS. It is more suitable for the Enterprise customers to manage individual elements.

Whereas Prime Network provides end to end management of the complete network. It is a NMS suitable for Service Provider customers.

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Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Martin Ermel]

Vignesh,

I do not really get the difference between  Prime Network and Prime Infrastructure from your explanation. If I mangage all individual elements of a network I also manage the complete network from end to end so where is the difference ? Is there a difference in functionallity (config  management, alarming, etc.)? At least it seems to me that Prime Network still supports legacy devices where Prime Infra only supports latest devices (even not Cat 2970, 3550)

regards,

Martin

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi Martin,

The Cisco Prime Network supports core communication protocols/technologies like MPLS TE, MPLS VPN, ISIS, OSPF etc used between the Network Elements whereas Cisco Prime Infrastructure is not capable of the same. For example if ISIS between two routers goes down in the network, Prime Network would create a ticket for this and all the events leading to the protocol going down would be correlated under the ticket. Once ISIS comes up this ticket would be cleared.

Hope this explanation provides more clarity.

Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Martin Ermel]

Thanks, yes, this makes it clearer.

regards,

Martin 

[sandy.morrow09]

Hi experts,

I was wondering how would I be able to use Cisco Prime LMS version 4.2.2 to push shutdown commands only to ports that are "notconnect" across my entire network?

Sandy

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi Sandy,

This thread is meant for discussion related to Cisco Prime Network. Cisco Prime LMS is outside the scope of this thread and we would like to remain within the scope, for the sheer reason of not diluting this thread.

Apologies for the same & thanks a lot for understanding.

Warm Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Karthi Sivalingam]

Hello,

Kindly confirm if it is possible to implement Cisco Prime Network without Unit Servers.

Regards,

Karthi