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.

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen · Accepted solution]

Hi Karthi,

It is possible to implement Prime Network without unit server. The AVMs 101 & above where the VNEs for the respective network elements are modeled can be hosted in the Prime Network Gateway server, provided there is enough memory. By this way we can avoid the unit server. But this way of implementation may not scale well & could be suitable only for small networks.

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Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Karthi Sivalingam]

Whenever I hit poll now button for a VNE I see that the investigation state becomes unsynchronized. Is this an issue ?

Regards,

Karthi

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi Karthi,

When you hit the poll now button for a VNE it is expected that the Investigation State for that VNE becomes Currently Unsynchronized. Now when you click the VNE Status button at the bottom of the page, the Description should read as "User initiated device re-synchronization" and then it is not an issue. If you see any other description outside this, there might be an issue & you may consider reporting this to TAC for further troubleshooting.

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Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Karthi Sivalingam]

Thanks a lot for clarifying this guys.

Regards,

Karthi

[jabali]

Hi Karthi,

   Adding on the Vignesh reply,  this is a expected behavior if the investigation state become "unsyncronized" when clicking the poll button. The device investigate state should become "operational" once discovery is completed. It may take few mins. If it is still remaining "unsyncronized" then some registration is failing so you need to contact TAC team. 

Regards,

Jaminder Singh

[Ramachandran Srinivasan]

Hi,

Does Cisco Prime Network support BFD protocol ? 

Thanks,

Ram

[Vignesh Rajendran Praveen]

Hi Ram,

BFD protocol is supported by Prime Network.

Thanks & Regards,

Vignesh R P

[Ramachandran Srinivasan]

Thanks for the confirmation :)