Cisco Prime

[Arjun Dabol]

Hi ,

Can someone please give me an overview of what exactly is Cisco Prime - what it can do on high level.

Also can it be integrated with APIC - EM ? if yes why someone will do that ? I mean to ask what capability it offers then ?

thanks

[Mark Malone]

It a mgmt. tool , records configs , provides stats on devices and best practice offerings templates , also eol eos stats on hardware software , from 3.0 its been very stable too ,use to have issue sin the past with bugs but its got a lot better and it quite programmable now with scripting functions for custom reporting collections

it works best alongside APIC-EM in terms it can push IWAN configs but best to do that from APIC-EM and have Prime synced to it as well so any changes made from the APIC-EM is also pushed and recorded saved in PI

also integrates with ACS / ISE and gives very good reporting outputs

You can see some of the amin features in this

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/3-0/administrator/guide/PIAdminBook.html

[sbhadrav@cisco.com]

It's under performance reports.

See here for details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/user/guide/reports/Perf.html#wp1359365