Migrate from Prime LMS to Prime Infrastructure

I'm currently running CiscoWorks LMS 4.0.1 on Windows 2003 under VMware and just got upgrade licensing for Prime Infrastructure 1.2. I am assuming that I will need to upgrade the current server to Prime LMS 4.2 in order to ensure that data migration to Prime Infrastructure goes well. I am planning to follow Cisco's recommendation to run Prime LMS and Prime Infrastructure in parallel for a time and migrate individual functions.
My real question is about Syslog handling. All of the managed devices are currently sending Syslog data to LMS. As a last step in the migration, is it possible to change the IP address of the Prime Infrastructure server to replace the Prime LMS server so that the Prime Infrastructure server will just start getting all the Syslog data, or do I need to go change hundreds of managed devices to point to a new address?
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Putting LMS up against Prime Infrastructure is like comparing Apples to Oranges.
LMS is a very mature product and Prime Infrastructure is in it infancy stages...
My suggestion would be to leave the current LMS system up and running; bring a Prime Infrastructure server up with a Demo License; add a few of each type of device to your Prime Infrastructure server; setup a proof of concept scenario to prove you can do everything in Prime as you can do in LMS.

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Prime LMS EOL? Migration to Prime Infrastructure???

Hi All,
I'm a little bit confused about the support for Prime LMS 4.2.5... is there any date for end of Life/end of support for LMS?
Should customers migrate to Prime Infrastructure or what does cisco recommend???
best regards

Prime LMS 4.2 is not yet End of Sales or End of Life. Cisco continues to provide support develop minor device package updates etc. for it.
It will not get another major release going forward as strategically the platform being developed for wired and wireless LAN management is Prime Infrastructure (PI).
For existing LMS customers, they are encouraged to review the current feature comparison (link) and determine which product better serves their needs given that PI 2.2 does not have feature parity with Prime LMS 4.2.5. (Even new PI customers are given a license for Prime LMS in acknowledgement of this fact. How long that continues remains to be seen.)

Migrating from CiscoWorks LMS 3.1 to Cisco Prime LMS 4.2

Hi Everyone
My client was formerly having CiscoWorks LMS 3.1. Recently, they purchased Cisco Prime Infrastructure v1.2, which comes with Cisco Prime LMS 4.2. Can I migrate the database (equipment list, usernames etc.) of the CiscoWorks LMS 3.1 to Cisco Prime LMS 4.2? If yes, how do I do this? Please kindly advice.
Shown below, were the Part Numbers quoted to the end client.
R-PI12-UP-K9
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L-PI12-LF-1.5K-LIC
Prime Infrastructure 1.2 - Lifecycle - 1.5K Device Lic PAK
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R-PI12-BASE-K9
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L-PI12-1.5K-UP
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Regards,
Ram

Thanks Marvin for your advice. Just one last question, there's a statement in the URL that you've provided
"Ensure that the passwords, HTTPS port and SMTP server details are same in both LMS 3.2 SP1, LMS 4.0.1 or LMS 4.1 server and LMS 4.2 server with Symantec Veritas implementation, while migrating data from non-HA to HA environment."
Does this mean my client need to purchase Symantec Veritas, as well?

Migrate Guest Users from Prime Infrastructure 2.1 to ISE

I have just installed a new Prime Infrastructure Server and have discovered our list of guest user accounts from the discovered Controllers. We are implementing ISE 1.3 and would like to move all the guest user accounts from Prime to ISE without doing it manually. Is there a way to either export or pull the guest users from Prime or the WLC and import them to ISE?
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Tom

Hi Seth,
Check the attached screen shot to find the JOB
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Migrated to Prime infrastructure and now the login on the server doesn't work

We have recently migrated from WCS 7.0.230.0 to Prime Infrastructure 1.3.0.20 and now there is a problem with logging in to our accounts. The problem can be broken down into two parts:
1. We can't logg in using radius (this is still working if we use the WCS or other applications using the same rule)
2. Unless we delete and recreate our accounts we can't even logg in locally
We have re-entered the radiusservers (they disappeared during the migration)
We have tried changing authentication form from pap to chap (in both ends) and then back again
Our radius servers are running Win2k8 R2
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mmm, i would say make sure that you have the attributes related to virtual domain appended to the list.
If you have already done that ,
may be you need to try the following:
Step 1)
Open https://NCSIPADDRESS/webacs/dbUpdateAction.do
With root username and password
Step 2)
Execute the Query as below
Query (1)
update WCSDBA.WCSPREFERENCE
set value='ROOT-DOMAIN'
where key ='defaultPartition' and username='a_user'
note-
username should be changed to whichever user is facing issues while logging in
Query (2)
commit work;
or to remove all entries in WCSDBA.WCSPREFERENCE except for SYSTEM, root or ALL_USERS:
delete from wcsdba.wcspreference where username <> '[SYSTEM]' and username <> 'root' and username <> 'ALL_USERS';
commit work;
Step 3)
Restart NCS after the commit changes and try logging back with 'a_user'
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Unable to update from Prime Infrastructure 1.2 (1.2.0.103)

Hello,
I would like to update my Prime Infrastructure installation to the latest 2.0. According to this document I'm trying to install the update
pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz but I always get this error:
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Username: ftpuser
Password:
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Save the current ADE-OS running configuration? (yes/no) [yes] ?
Generating configuration...
Saved the ADE-OS running configuration to startup successfully
Initiating Application Patch installation...
Error: unknown encoding at line 1
% Manifest file is invalid
The file's MD5 is correct on the ftp server, and I've copied it many times into defaultRepo, always getting the same error.
Any idea?
Thanks,
Matteo

Ok, I've found the solution. The ftp copy was changing the file each time, so the file was always corrupted once in the defaultRepo.
On the ftp server:
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     11734212 Sep 25 16:19 pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz
On the Prime server, when copied using ftp:
PRIME-0000-01/admin# dir disk:/defaultRepo
   11733763 Sep 25 2013 16:21:10 pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz
So, I've copied the file using http, and this solved:
PRIME-0000-01/admin# copy http://172.16.14.144/pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz disk:/defaultRepo
PRIME-0000-01/admin# dir disk:/defaultRepo
   11734212 Sep 25 2013 16:23:31 pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz
PRIME-0000-01/admin# patch install pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz defaultRepo
Save the current ADE-OS running configuration? (yes/no) [yes] ?
Generating configuration...
Saved the ADE-OS running configuration to startup successfully
Initiating Application Patch installation...
Patch successfully installed
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Ssh from prime infrastructure

Hi
i am having problems getting snmp to to connect to cisco devices.
Now i know you can ssh from the lifecycle view using the 360 viewr whatever its called
But i want to try and ssh to unknown devices and see why i am getting unreachable
when my lms and cacti can reach these devices just fine
If I could try this then i could establish if it is prime or something funny on the network
Many thanks
Steve

Hi Steve,
I don't think we have the feature to SSH to a device from 360 Degree view.
Can you share the same screen shot ?
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Afroz
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Strange syslog from Prime Infrastructure 2.1

Been getting alot of these syslog messages. I think perhaps a system job is failing but I don't know where to start to troubleshoot.
09 03 2014 11:23:13 [pi-ip-address] <LOC7:ERRR> 09/03/14 11:23:13.484 ERROR [jobmanager] [seqtaskexecutor-12371] ERROR: [ResultEnum Null for task: 304745398].
Is there any way to lookup the job by ID? Right now I have to click on each system job and then scroll through the jobs to find it.

Hi Seth,
Check the attached screen shot to find the JOB
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Upgrade Cisco Prime LMS 4.0 to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1

My company has asked me to migrate Prime LMS 4.0 to Prime Infrastructure 2.0 for a client and can not find the guide, the questions are? the migration is possible without an intermediate step? and There is a guide to update LMS 4.0 to PI 2.0 ??
Thanks in advance.

Prime LMS 4.2.2 added support for the PI template directly:
Export Data for Prime Infrastructure
Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution supports data migration to Prime Infrastructure 1.2. This feature enables user to export the Device Credentials Repository (DCR) data from LMS 4.2.x versions to Prime Infrastructure 1.2. The data backup status and backup location are displayed at the bottom of the Export Data for Prime Infrastructure page. The data being exported from LMS and the data imported back to PI are listed as follows.
Data exported from LMS
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Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Released

For those who haven't noticed, Prime Infrastructure (PI) 2.2 was released on 17 December. The Release Notes, Quick Start guide, etc. are all posted on the PI product support page.
I downloaded the 3.2 GB ova and deployed / installed via vCenter into a VMware ESXi 5.5 environment without issue.
The migration path is to backup your supported earlier version to a repository and then restore from that repository onto the new host. I grabbed a fresh backup of our PI 2.1.2 and followed the guide to restore. It took a while (about 1-1/2 hours to restore and then 30 minutes more to start completely - see output below) but the process ran without a hitch. You do need to make sure that the new host meets or exceeds the hardware specs of the old one - i.e. amount of memory, disk and vCPUs.
My initial look at the new system seems to indicate all is well - I see all the expected maps and devices and old configuration archives were pulled over. I have quite a bit of exercising the new feature set to do but initial indications are promising.
It's good to finally see the Topology map.
- Marvin
PI/admin# show restore log
Started at : Thu Dec 18 11:59:29 2014
Initiating restore. Please wait...
Restore Started at 12/18/14 11:59:36
Stage 1 of 9: Transferring backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:00:33
Stage 2 of 9: Decrypting backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:05:08
Stage 3 of 9: Unpacking backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:05:10
Stage 4 of 9: Decompressing backup ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:30
Stage 5 of 9: Restoring Support Files ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:31
Stage 6 of 9: Restoring Database Files ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:54
Stage 7 of 9: Recovering Database ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:36:03
Stage 8 of 9: Updating Database Schema ...
Stage 1 of 5: Pre Migration Schema Upgrade ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 12:56:00.638, Time Taken : 0 hr, 14 min, 59 sec
Stage 2 of 5: Schema Upgrade ...
: This could take long time based on the existing data size.
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:11:04.244, Time Taken : 0 hr, 15 min, 3 sec
Stage 3 of 5: Post Migration Schema Upgrade ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:31:26.188, Time Taken : 0 hr, 20 min, 21 sec
Stage 4 of 5: Enabling DB Constraints ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:31:58.651, Time Taken : 0 hr, 0 min, 27 sec
Stage 5 of 5: Finishing Up ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:32:22.251, Time Taken : 0 hr, 0 min, 23 sec
-- completed at 12/18/14 13:33:29
Stage 9 of 9: Re-enabling Database Settings ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 13:33:29
Total Restore duration is: 01h:33m:53s
INFO: Restore completed successfully.
Starting PI Server... This may take some time
Starting Prime Infrastructure...
This may take a while (10 minutes or more) ...
Prime Infrastructure started successfully.
Finished at : Thu Dec 18 13:56:36 2014
PI/admin#

Hello,
I have a case where customer is restoring backup from Prime Infrastructure 2.1 to 2.2.The zipped DB size is 28GB. It's being more than 29hrs....the restoration process ongoing. Customer is restoring the database from FTP server.
Please find the log from dbadmin_StdOut.log
ade # tail -f dbadmin_StdOut.log
In com.cisco.upgrade.MigrateRFMModel: preMigration()
2.1.0.87 matched within [2.1.0.0,2.1.0.999]
                                        -- completed at: 2015-03-10 17:07:31.928, Time Taken : 0 hr, 14 min, 27 sec
                  Stage 2 of 5: Schema Upgrade ...
                                : This could take long time based on the existing data size.
                                        -- completed at: 2015-03-10 17:11:06.612, Time Taken : 0 hr, 3 min, 34 sec
                  Stage 3 of 5: Post Migration Schema Upgrade ...
In com.cisco.upgrade.MigrateRFMModel: postMigration()
/**** PostMigration SQLs ****/
2.1.0.87 matched within [2.1.0.0,2.1.0.999]
ade # tail -f sqlUpgrade.log
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.743478000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.743411000 PM +00:00:: Beginning upgrade script rootallUrlTask
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.744821000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.744797000 PM +00:00:: get count from xmptask where instancename=rootallUrlTask and urlexpression=.*
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746149000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746127000 PM +00:00:: Update xmptask for instancename=rootallUrlTask to exclude credential API
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746201000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746188000 PM +00:00:: Committing
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.750147000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script PI22_upgrade_rootAllUrlTask_Expression.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.752041000 PM +00:00: STARTED script setauth.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.26.40.031852000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script setauth.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.26.40.033094000 PM +00:00: STARTED script ifm_sam_pm_ddl.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.28.15.781912000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script ifm_sam_pm_ddl.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.28.15.784297000 PM +00:00: STARTED script PA_Upgrade_2_1.sql execution

Cisco prime Infrastructure alarms by e-mail

hi all,
my Cisco PI1.2 not send me a notification e-mail with specific alarm if occurred twice and the first time is not cleared or deleted.
i.e.
if a switch is down it send me a notification e-mail, and this switch comes up again but i did not remove the first alarm, the PI not send me a notification.
please advice
thanks in advance

Alarm Status
Description
New
When an event triggers a new alarm or an event is associated with an existing alarm.
Acknowledged
When you acknowledge an alarm, the status changes from New to Acknowledged.
Cleared
An alarm can be in these statuses:
Auto-clear from the device—The fault is resolved on the device and an event is triggered for the same. For example, a device-reachable event clears the device-unreachable event. This in-turn, clears the device-unreachable alarm.
Manual-clear from Prime Infrastructure users: You can manually clear an active alarm without resolving the fault in the network. A clearing event is triggered and this event clears the alarm.
If the fault continues to exist in the network, a new event and alarm are created subsequently based on the event notification (traps/syslogs).
This might be the reason, I believe.
Please refer the following link for better understanding.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/1-2/user/guide/prime_infra_ug/alarms.html
Hope that helps.

Prime Infrastructure 2.1 updating 5508 controllers in HA mode

I'm having the same issue from PI 2.1 trying to import 7.6.130 for my 5508 controllers and it saying "Image not Applicable for this Device" even though I know that image is applicable.
Also, has anyone ever updated 5508 controllers in HA mode from Prime Infrastructure?

Your combination of PI (are you sure it's 2.1? not 1.2?), WLC and MSE is not supported.
You may want to have a look at this matrix:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html
Regards
Stefan
PS: Today PI 1.3 and MSE 7.4 have been released - these support WLC code 7.4

Host Memory Consumed at VM for prime infrastructure 2.0

Dear All,
I have prime infrastructure 2.0 from 12 day ago i have logg on NCS (1. Message: CPU: 85 crossed down threshold: 90) and when see host memory from prime infrastructure VM i see that Host memory consumed so i make down time and increase the memory from 24 GB to 40 GB.
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please feed me this is normal behaviour or not and why host memory increase . when the host memory consumed i monitor that All NCS functionality doesnt work. Please Advice.
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VM 5.1.0
Thanks

Hi Satyaki,
Try to reboot the WLC ,if possible and then check the status of the issue.
Regards-
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Prime Infrastructure 1.3 + WLC 2504 - Enable LAG?

Hi everybody,
I'm facing a little issue using Prime Infrastructure 1.3 configuration templates to manage a couple of 2504 WLCs.
I'm using a Configuration -> General template to enable LAG on a couple of controller and when I try to apply it I get the error: "LAG mode cannot be enabled for 2500 series of controllers."
Obviously I can enable LAG locally on controllers, but then each time I try to apply the configuration template from Prime Infrastructure LAG gets disabled again.
Is this a known issues? Does anybody known how it can be worked around?
Thanks,
L

There is a defect in PI 1.4 that you can't enable LAG for the 2504. It's possible that 1.3 also affected
https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCui37076
HTH,
Steve
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Hi there,
I'm planning on migrating from a 4500 and CSS infrastructure on to a 6500 and CSM infrastructure. My CSS's currently handle a high volume of load-balancing on non-web TCP traffic. Is there any reason why I wouldn't want to migrate to the 6500 with CSM?
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Personally, I would migrate to ACE or stay with the CSS.
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