Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 best practice

[bahaeddin]

Hello

so I'm struggling to make the most of our newly purchased Cisco Prime, and I'm having some very basic issues with the software, for example:

- some interfaces are not monitored by default, as a last resort I deactivated the auto monitoring and added a new one that monitors all interfaces, hope it works

- interface Utilization is percentage and not by traffic speed ( meaning I have to know the interface type and the utilization percentage to calculate the speed). support said that such feature is not available, which is very odd !

- Prime cannot collect netflow traffic from ASA

- I'm also having some issues with specific devices and SNMPv3 ( still with support on this issue)

- Prime cannot monitor virtual interfaces (VLAN interface on the ASA for example) which could be done by other free network monitoring tools

thats what I recall now. 

so I assume that it's just that I don't know how to use or make the most out of Prime, therefore, can anyone suggest any material ( aside from the official documentations) that  describes how to make the most of it?  

Thanks in advance

[Marvin Rhoads]

Have you seen the Prime Infrastructure "Job Aid" videos that Cisco has produced?

They can be found here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/training-events/product-training/prime-training-infrastructure.html

Metha Chiewanichakorn at Labminutes also just did a new 16-part series of videos on PI:

http://labminutes.com/video/rs/Prime%20Infrastructure

I haven't reviewed them yet but his material is consistently high quality.