Prime Infrastructure 2.0 disk requirements

The installation guide for Prime 2.0 says it requires 200 MB/s of disk throughput. Does this mean 200 MB/s sustained IO?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2.0/quickstart/guide/cpi_qsg.html#wp69178

Hi Graham,
What settings do you have checked when you navigate to here?
Operate > Alarms & Events > Email Notification
Also you can define within your network what the level of alarming should be through navigation to here:
Administration > System Settings > Severity Configuration
It doesn't take much to become overburdened by alarms from Prime, I set only a couple of parameters as critical for switch and router state, and set to receive emails from those at this time.
Regards,
Brandon

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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.x Server requirements & Operating System

Dear Friends
I wish you are in very good health ........ I really very confused regarding LMS and i really needs your help ........ I need to order LMS for one of our customer with 500 devices and reporting cabailities ..... So i chosse base license "R-PI-1.1-K9" and 500 device license "R-PI-1.1-500-K9" and
Compliance Management - 500 Device License "L-PI-1.1-CM-500"
What really confused me that i tried to search server cabalitity for my requirments & Operating system and couldn't find it ...... what i need your help for is the following:
1) What is the server requirments ???
2) What is operating system (windows 2008 or VMWare VMware ESX/ESXi Version 4.1 or 5.0)
3) Is their any deticated applicance from Cisco ??
Please help
Thanks in advance

In addition to the release notes for the 4.2.3 patch noted above, please also see the 4.2 release notes which further direct you:
Server and Client Requirements
For information on server and client requirements for the system and browser, see Chapter 2 of Installing and Migrating to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2 at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/install/guide/
install.html
To summarize the options it describes, you can run the LMS product on any number of platforms - a dedicated Cisco hardware appliance, a physical server of your own with Windows or Solaris OS, a VMware server with a Windows server OS guest, or a "soft appliance". The soft appliance is package built with the underlying guest OS (a customized RHEL distribution with Cisco's Application Development Environment OS (ADE-OS)) built-in.
Once you have installed LMS 4.2, you should patch - first to 4.2.2 and then to the current 4,2,3. then run the software update feature to bring all package components up to date.
Regarding licensing, there is a Cisco Prime Infrastructure Ordering and Licensing Guide here.
When you order the licenses for PI 1.2 (new customer), you order the base product and then Lifecycle licenses (required for either PI 1.2 Lifecycle and LMS installations - which option is a customer choice) and, optionally, Compliance and Assurance licenses. An upgrade order for an existing LMS customer will include the base PI 1.2 with Lifecycle licenses as well as LMS in a single SKU as noted in tables 4 and 5 of the Ordering Guide.

Cisco Prime infrastructure 2.0 cpu requirement

Hi,
i'm reading the doc at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2.0/quickstart/guide/cpi_qsg.html#wp46865
and I'm searching for the CPU requirement for a Standard installation. From table 2 in this document, I will need 16 virtual CPUS but there is no frequency mentioned. Does someone know what is the minimum CPU frequency to run PI 2.0 correctly?
Thanks
Theo

The number of vCPU's depends on your ESXi host, either your limited to 8 or you will have 16, 32, etc. The vCPU amount is defined on the VM or PI2.0 and you can change it after the VM has been installed. PI 2.0 has an Express (4 vCPU), Standard and Pro which require 16 vCPU. There is a custome express that uses the Express ova (4 vCPU), but you need to increase that to 8 vCPU. Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Scott
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Prime Infrastructure Demo License

If I apply the Demo license to a licensed Prime Infrastructure server will it enable all the features so I can test the Netflow features for the demo period? I have never used the Netflow features and would like to test drive for a little and decide if we want to move of our current platform.
Thank you all.

You purchase licenses to access the Prime Infrastructure features required to manage your network. Each license also controls the number of devices you can manage using those features.
You need a base license and the corresponding feature licenses (such as Assurance or Data Center licenses) to get full access to the respective Prime Infrastructure features to manage a set number of devices.
If you have installed Prime Infrastructure for the first time you may access the lifecycle and assurance features using the built-in evaluation license that is available by default. The default evaluation license is valid for 60 days for 100 devices. You can send a request to [email protected] if:
You need to extend the evaluation period
You need to increase the device count
You already have a particular feature license and need to evaluate the other feature licenses
To troubleshoot licenses, you will need to get details about the licenses that are installed on your system. Click Help > About Prime Infrastructure to access your license information.When troubleshooting licenses, it is important to remember that Prime Infrastructure has five types of licenses:
Base: Required for every Prime Infrastructure installation. The requirement stems primarily from the need to do accurate royalty accounting by knowing how many Prime Infrastructure instances have been purchased. A Base license is required for each instance of Prime Infrastructure, and is a prerequisite for all other license types.
Lifecycle: Regulates the total number of devices under Prime Infrastructure management.
Assurance: Regulates the total number of NetFlow devices under Prime Infrastructure management.
Collector: Regulates the total number of NetFlow data flows per second that Prime Infrastructure can process.
Data Center: Regulates the total number of data-center devices under Prime Infrastructure management.This license type was introduced in Prime Infrastructure version 2.2.
All five types of licenses are supplied as either evaluation or permanent licenses:
Evaluation: These licenses permit or extend access to Prime Infrastructure for a pre-set period. You can apply only one evaluation license of each type (that is, only one Lifecycle evaluation license, one Assurance evaluation license, and so on). You cannot apply an evaluation license over a permanent form of the same license.
Permanent License: These permit access to Prime Infrastructure features as specified and are not time-limited. Permanent licenses can be applied over evaluation licenses, and can also be applied incrementally (that is, you can have multiple permanent Assurance licenses, and so on).
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2-2/administrator/guide/PIAdminBook/licensing.html#pgfId-1055426

Prime Infrastructure 1.4: Clear Disk Space

In order to reduce disk space usage on Prime Infrastructure I will reduce the System Data Retention period (for aggregate data) and "Background Data Collection Task" raw data retention (for non-aggregate data). If I now run 'ncs stop / ncs cleanup / ncs start, will this inmediately clear the disk space or does some other event clear the disk space?
Thanks.

ncs cleanup should be able to retrieve some disk space.
You can check the details of how it works from this document here.
-Thanks
Vinod

Ciscoworks LMS 3.0 to Cisco Prime Infrastructure LMS 4.2

In order to complete the upgrade the LMS 3.x runs over a physical server that ends with the upgrade(server its gona be retired), the think is that the Cisco Prime comes with an UCS and its gona run over a VM. The question here is the "Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.1 - Maj Upg from LMS 2.x/3.x" media could be runs as clean install, I mean with no LMS 3.x intalled before? an the "Prime Infrastructure LMS 4.2 - 1.5K Device Maj Upg Lic" could be registered with no license installed of LMS 3.x?

There are a couple of things to distinguish:
1. The product SKU you need to order to migrate from LMS 3 to LMS 4.2.
2. The license file that is installed on that new LMS server.
#1 is based on Cisco agreeing, usually through the partner or reseller you are working with, that you are entitled to order the upgrade SKU (vs. buy a complete new product). The upgrade SKUs are all listed in the ordering guide here.
L-PI12-1.5K-UP (note - NOT the 1.1 product description you noted in the original post) would be the SKU for a major upgrade from LMS 2.x/3.x to the current Prime Infrastructure 1.2 release at the 1500 device license level. That upgrade includes licenses for both PI 1.2 and Prime LMS 4.2. You may choose which to install - most LMS customers stick with LMS for now as PI 1.2 does not yet have full feature parity. Your managed devices should not exceed 1500 combined (in this case) but that combined number is not enforced technically by the product's license daemon.
Once you have purchased the product and have the media you can install it on any host that meets the installation prerequisites as far as OS, memory, disk etc. A clean installation of LMS does not check for or require a previous installation as far as technical checks.
#2 - Once you have installed the new LMS server (and optionally a step near the end of installation, you need to add in the license file (*.lic file). That is obtained through the Cisco licensing portal (or via the TAC if you prefer) using the Product Activation Key (PAK) received with your product.

WCS and LMS to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.3 Upgrade

Hello,
Our customer is currently having WCS for 500 devices and LMS 3.2 for 1500 devices. We are planning to upgrade to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.3.
I want to check is the upgrade procedure that we have planned is ok or we have missed something.
Phase 1: WCS to CPI 1.3 upgrade
1. Check that WCS is at 7.0.230.0 version
2. Export WCS database
3. Install NCS 1.1.1.24 software
4. Contact cisco to obtain trial license for NCS software (L-WCS-NCS1-M-K9 license).
5. Migrate WCS license and import it in NCS software
6. Migrate WCS data to NCS software using ncs migrate command
7. Patch NCS software
8. Inline upgrade to CPI 1.3 software
9. Install proper licenses on CPI 1.3 (WCS and LMS device count)
My concern in this first phase is should I use NCS large image since our Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.3 software should manage 2000 devices at the end.
Or is it better not to perform inline upgrade and insted go with exporting data from NCS and then importing them to CPI 1.3 that is going to be installed separately?
Phase 2: LMS 3.2 to CPI upgrade
1. Export LMS 3.2 database
2. Install LMS 4.2 software
3. Install license to LMS 4.2
4. Restore data from LMS 3.2 to LMS 4.2
5. Direct upgrade from LMS 4.2 to 4.2.2
6. Export the device list with credentials from LMS 4.2.2 and import it as a Bulk Import in CPI 1.3
At the end we will have CPI 1.3 and LMS 4.2.2 software running.
Is it possible to directly upgrade from LMS 4.2 to LMS 4.2.4 and then import data to CPI 1.3 or we need to go with 4.2.2 version?
Regards,
Jelena

Hello Marvin,
We have restored LMS 3.2 SP 1 database on LMs 4.2 and we have got some error messages during restore. Please see our restore output:
[kalms4/root-ade ~]# /opt/CSCOpx/bin/perl /opt/CSCOpx/bin/res
resolver.pl           restoreDBTableMig.pl restoreJRMMig.pl      restorebackup.pl
[kalms4/root-ade ~]# /opt/CSCOpx/bin/perl /opt/CSCOpx/bin/restorebackup.pl -d /opt/BKP/
Restore started at : 2013/12/05 14:11:58
Please see '/var/adm/CSCOpx/log/restorebackup.log' for status.
     USER ID is ..................................... : sysadmin
     OS of the backup archive is..................... : Windows
INFO:The backup archive is from a different OS. Your current Platform is: Soft Appliance .
You are attempting to perform a Cross Platform Restore..
Do you wish to continue (Y/N) [Y] :Y
     Generation to be restored is ................... : 0
     Backup taken from............................... : /opt/BKP/
     Common Services version in the backup data is... : 3.3.1
     Common Services is installed in................. : /opt/CSCOpx
     The temp folder for this restore program........ : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData
     Applications installed on this machine ......... : [Common Services][Campus Manager][Resource Manager Essentials][Device Fault Manager][cwportal][ipm][upm][cvw][cwlms]
     Applications in the backup archive ............. : [Common Services][Campus Manager][Resource Manager Essentials][Device Fault Manager][opsxml][cwportal][ipm][upm][cvw]
     WARNING: The list of applications installed on this CiscoWorks server does not match the list of
              applications in the backup archive. If you restore data from this backup archive,it may
              cause problems in the CiscoWorks applications.
              Do you want to continue the restore operation? (y-continue or n-quit, y/n)?Y
     Applications to be restored are................. : [Common Services] [Campus Manager] [Resource Manager Essentials] [Device Fault Manager] [cwportal] [ipm] [upm] [cvw]
     Available disk space in NMSROOT................. : 86451488 Kb
     Required disk space in NMSROOT.................. : 35906524 Kb
     (The temp and NMSROOT are on same device, therefore this required disk space includes temp space)
Copying the backup files to the temporary location [/opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData]
preRestore of [Common Services] has started.
preRestore of [Common Services] has completed.
preRestore of [Campus Manager] has started.
preRestore of [Campus Manager] has completed.
preRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has started.
preRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has completed.
preRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has started.
preRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has completed.
preRestore of [cwportal] has started.
preRestore of [cwportal] has completed.
preRestore of [ipm] has started.
preRestore of [ipm] has completed.
preRestore of [upm] has started.
preRestore of [upm] has completed.
preRestore of [cvw] has started.
preRestore of [cvw] has completed.
doRestore of [Common Services] has started.
          Cross Platform Update started.
          Cross Platform Update completed.
          License check started.
             WARNING: The license details in the server are different from the backup data.
                      After restoring, please check the license available in the server.
             WARNING: Your current license count is lower than your earlier license count.
                      If you restore the data now, devices that exceed the current licence count
                      will be moved to Suspended state.
          License check completed.
          Restoring certificate.
             WARNING: Cannot evaluate the hostname, hence the certificate
                      may be from this host or another host.
                      [ Certificate not overwritten ]
          Restored Certificate.
          Restoring Common Services database.
          Restored Common Services database.
          Restoring CMIC data.
          Restored CMIC data.
          Restoring CMC data.
          Restored CMC data.
          Restoring Security Settings.
          Restored Security Settings.
          Restoring DCR data.
          Restored DCR data.
          Restoring Certificate key store.
          Restored Certificate key store.
Restoring DCNM CrossLaunch data.
          Restored DCNM CrossLaunch function.
          Restoring JAAS configuration.
          Restored JAAS configuration.
          JRM Job Migration started.
          JRM job Migration done.
doRestore of [Common Services] has completed.
doRestore of [Campus Manager] has started.
          Cross Platform Migration for Campus started.
Cross Platform update Starts for Campus
doRestore of [Campus Manager] has completed.
doRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has started.
10% of RME Restore completed
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50% of RME Restore completed
70% of RME Restore completed
100% of RME Restore completed
doRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has completed.
doRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has started.
10% of DFM Restore completed
30% of DFM Restore completed
50% of DFM Restore completed
80% of DFM Restore completed
Going to modify Eight PM report
Modified Sucessfully Eight PM report
100% of DFM Restore completed
doRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has completed.
doRestore of [cwportal] has started.
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.properties
Src file : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db//portal.properties ,,, Destination file : /opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.properties
File Copied: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.properties
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.properties
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.script
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.script
Src file : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db//portal.script ,,, Destination file : /opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.script
File Copied: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.script
Src file : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db//portal.log ,,, Destination file : /opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.log
File Copied: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.log
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.log
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/db/portal.log
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultUserCommunity.properties
Src file : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties//defaultUserCommunity.properties ,,, Destination file : /opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultUserCommunity.properties
File Copied: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultUserCommunity.properties
Src file : /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties//defaultCommunity.properties ,,, Destination file : /opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultCommunity.properties
File Copied: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultCommunity.properties
Error while coping the File: /opt/CSCOpx/tempBackupData/cwportal/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/cwportal/WEB-INF/classes/data/ciscoWorks/properties/defaultCommunity.properties
doRestore of [cwportal] has completed.
doRestore of [ipm] has started.
        10% of IPM Restore Completed
        30% of IPM Restore Completed
        50% of IPM Restore Completed
        60% of IPM Restore Completed
        70% of IPM Restore Completed
        100% of IPM Restore Completed
doRestore of [ipm] has completed.
doRestore of [upm] has started.
HUM database restore starts
INFO:STOP= /opt/CSCOpx/objects/db/bin64/dbstop -q -y -c dsn=upm
SQL Anywhere Command File Hiding Utility Version 10.0.1.4239
INFO: Database Shutdown is in Progress..Please wait
INFO: Stop Engine Args= /opt/CSCOpx/objects/db/bin64/dbstop -q -y -c dsn=upm
INFO: After Database Shutdown RC= 2304
root=C:\PROGRA~2\CSCOpx\databases\upm\upm.db
DBUTILS: Inside Cross Platform
INFO: Current Database password does not match the password of Database being restored
INFO: Using the Password of the Database being restored
HUM database restore successfully completed.
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Poller
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Poller/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Threshold
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Threshold/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Custom
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Custom/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Poller_Failure
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Poller_Failure/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/TrendWatch
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/TrendWatch/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Availability
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Availability/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/PoEPORTUtilization
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/PoEPORTUtilization/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_Utilization
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_Utilization/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Memory_Utilization
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Memory_Utilization/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_Availability
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_Availability/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Threshold_Violations
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Threshold_Violations/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/CPU_Utilization
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/CPU_Utilization/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/PoEPSEConsumption
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/PoEPSEConsumption/README.txt
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_ErrorRate
File :/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/tomcat/webapps/upm/reports/Quick/Interface_ErrorRate/README.txt
Directory is reportsStarted changing property .
linux
Restored HUM configuration file successfully.
doRestore of [upm] has completed.
doRestore of [cvw] has started.
doRestore of [cvw] has completed.
postRestore of [Common Services] has started.
postRestore of [Common Services] has completed.
postRestore of [Campus Manager] has started.
postRestore of [Campus Manager] has completed.
postRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has started.
postRestore of [Resource Manager Essentials] has completed.
postRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has started.
postRestore of [Device Fault Manager] has completed.
postRestore of [cwportal] has started.
postRestore of [cwportal] has completed.
postRestore of [ipm] has started.
postRestore of [ipm] has completed.
postRestore of [upm] has started.
postRestore of [upm] has completed.
postRestore of [cvw] has started.
postRestore of [cvw] has completed.
Restored successfully.
Are this errors going to affect our LMS 4.2 operations?
Then we have upgraded to LMS 4.2.2 and exported data and credentiales for PI import.
On PI 1.3 we have installed WCS 500 devices upgrade license and LMS 1500 upgrade license and now we are having 2000 devices lifecycle license. We have successfully restored WCS data in PI and we have imported LMS devices as bulk import. What is strange is that we have this message in prime regarding licensing:
On LMS 3.2 our customer had saved unlimited number of configuration versioning. After upgrading to LMS 4.2 we can only see last 3 configurations regardless of unlimided number of configurations in previous LMS, so my question is where can we find older configurations in LMS 4.2?
We are planning to turn unlimited versioning on CPI 1.3 now, so our customer will again have feature that they need. Do you have some experiance regarding disk space when all device configurations are stored forever?
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Jelena

User Name and Password for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1

Hi all:
I am stuck at the login page of Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1.
I have tried using the user name root and its password (when log in with root at Vsphere Client) and also the login user name "before" get into the appliance infrastructure, all cannot work.
Anybody knows what is the default username or password or any way to set the username and password for this Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 website?
Thanks!
tangsuan

Hi Tangsuan,
Following is the documented procedure for password recovery..
In order to modify the GUI root user password, you will need to login to the NCS CLI
as an admin user, and enter the command
"ncs password root password <new password>" (without the quotes)
This should set the web interface root user password :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/ncs/1.1/configuration/guide/manag.html#wp1268889
If you have lost your CLI password , try the default logging that is ,
CLI user is admin and not root, so please try logging in as admin with
the password that was set during setup. If that does not work , you need
the install disk that came with the appliance to recover that password.
Follow these steps:
Recovering a Lost Admin Password
If you lose or forget the admin password for NCS appliance, follow these steps.
Step 1 Reboot the NCS appliance with the ISO DVD inserted. The Cisco Prime Network Control
System Welcome screen appears:
ISOLINUX 3.11 2005-09-02 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
             Welcome to Cisco Prime Network Control System
To boot from hard disk, press <Enter>.
Available boot options:
   [1] Network Control System Installation (Keyboard/Monitor)
   [2] Network Control System Installation (Serial Console)
   [3] Recover administrator password. (Keyboard/Monitor)
   [4] Recover administrator password. (Serial Console)
<Enter> Boot existing OS from Hard Disk.
Enter boot option and press <return>.
boot:
Step 2 Select the desired recovery option, 3 or 4, depending on how you
are connected to the appliance and then follow the prompts.
Thanks-
Afroz
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Managing vty ACLs with Prime Infrastructure?

I have a number of devices -- various models of Nexus, (2k - 7k), 6500s and some 1U stackables.
I'm trying to come up with a good way to leverage PI (2.1) to apply a vty ACL to the switches. There does not appear to be a template for this. The problem of course is not only the order of operation (remove ACL from vty if there is one so Prime doesn't lock itself out, only then do the rest of the stuff) but that the syntax seems to differ very aggravatingly -- some require "line vty 0 1509," some "line vty 0 1510," some platforms accept named ACLs for vty ACLs, some don't...
Any tips, tricks, or best practices on how to install and update vty ACLs on IOS and/or NX-OS devices with Prime Infrastructure?

I am also interested in this topic. We have vty ACLs in place but with different names. Would like to be able to find and update the ACL's and vty config. Using PI 2.1.

Prime Infrastructure 2.0 Automatically add remove devices

Dears,
I'm basically looking for a dcrcli equivalent to use on prime infrastructure 2.0.
Customer has a central repository of devices that must be monitored. When devices are added or removed there, they automagically appear or disappear in the other systems.
Does something like this exist or is this on the roadmap?
Cheers,
Michel

Hi Scott,
Upto 7.3 config guide it was documented we have to reboot WLC when we configuring SNMP v3 which is wrong. (here is 7.3 config guide link for reference). May be older version (prior to 7.0) had that requirement, not too sure about it
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.3/configuration/guide/b_wlc-cg_chapter_0100.html#d16741e4514a1635
From 7.4 onwards config guide does not talk about it all. I deleted the default SNMPv3 user & create a new user in 7.4 & add it to prime without rebooting WLC.
Once you configureed a SNMPv3 user on a WLC, I do no think you can edit/change the password. You have to delete the user & recreate it with modified username/password.Then re-add the WLC to prime
The behaviour you mentioned is with any of later codes of WLC ?
Rasika

Prime Infrastructure 2.0 and Nexus 5548, SSH credentials fail

Hi,
I'm having problem getting the Prime Infrastructure 2.0 to login with SSH to a Nexus 5548 to do an inventory. I get "Wrong Telnet/SSH credentials". But when I use the same credentials from another SSH-client it works fine. I also tested to SSH from the console of the Prime-server and that also works fine.
Any ideas???
Regards,
Stefan Lindkvist

I have PI 2.0 working against Nexus 5k's in two different installations. See below for an example (click to enlarge).
Have you put in an entry in both the login and enable fields (even though they are not separately required when logging in directly)?

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

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:
PRIME-0000-01/admin# copy ftp://172.16.14.102/pi_1.2.1.12_update.tar.gz disk:/defaultRepo
Username: ftpuser
Password:
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...
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
Thanks anyway!

Cisco prime infrastructure 1.3 to 2.0

Hello Guys I have an NCS (cisco prime) 1.3 in appliance model (IBM server) and we are wondering if we could upgrade it to 2.0 (with out virtualization)
The 1.3 covers the 2.0 requirements.
The reason for the upgrade is that we are hitting the cscud26027 Bug.
Regards

check the following link and also you can see to upgrade path from the diagram given below
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/data_sheet_c78-729088.html
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2-0/release/notes/cpi_rn.html

Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2 on Windows Server/Hyper-V

Hi Everyone,
In Entriprise environment while designing a BYOD solution we need to integrate ISE3315 with CPI 1.2. I know that Cisco ISE software either runs on 3315 platform or other option is virtual appliance (which is VMware based). Now problem is that we have Hyper-V environment as standard so I need to go with ISE-3315. Here my concern is to I install CPI 1.2 on Hyper-V, or on a Windows Server (2008 or 2012) based machine. Is that doable?
Any help, suggessions would be warmly welcomed.
Thanks,
Azhar...

Cisco Prime LMS will slowly be phased out in favor of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and hence there are no new mainline releases are planned to provide support to new Hardware or virtualization support.
However, Prime LMS do support Hyper V Virtualization (As an installable in Windows 2008). Please note that Virtualization technologies like, VMWare and Hyper V virtualization systems are not supported in LMS 5000, and LMS 10000 Devices license, in Windows. VMWare Systems are supported in LMS 5000, and LMS 10000 Devices license in Soft Appliance. Virtualization technologies like, VMWare and Hyper V virtualization systems are not supported in LMS 5000, and LMS 10000 Devices license, in Windows. VMWare Systems are supported in LMS 5000, and LMS 10000 Devices license in Soft Appliance.
For more details on HW and SW requirements for Cisco Prime LMS, please check document here.
-Thanks
Vinod

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