Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 7.0.1 Release Notes

Introduction

This document contains the following information about Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 7.0.1:

• Functionalities Added, on page 1
• Device/OS Support Added, on page 2
• Supported Installation/Upgrade Paths, on page 3
• Important Notes, on page 8
• Cisco EPN Manager Bugs, on page 10
• Related Documentation, on page 16
• Accessibility Features, on page 16
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, on page 16

Functionalities Added

This section lists the new features/functionalities delivered in Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1.

Device Support

• Chassis view support for Cisco A9K-RSP5-X-TR and Cisco A9K-RSP5-X-SE route switch processors
• Chassis view support for Cisco A99-RP3-X-TR and Cisco A99-RP3-X-SE route processors
• Chassis view support for Cisco NCS 560-4 RSP4 and Cisco NCS 560-4 RSP4E routers
• Chassis view support for Cisco NC57-MPA-1FH1D-S on IOS-XR 7.8.1
• Support for Cisco ASR1002-HX router on IOS-XE 16.6.4
• Chassis view support for Cisco 88-LC0-34H14FH and Cisco 88-LC0-34H14FH-O line cards with IOS-XR 7.5.1 on Cisco 8000 series routers
• Support for ZR pluggables on Cisco 88-LC0-34H14FH-O line cards
• Support for Cisco N520-X-4G4Z-A and Cisco N520-X-4G4Z-D routers on IOS-XE 17.9.1

Device/OS Support Added

This section lists the new support provided in Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1. For a list of all support information, click the gear icon ⚙️ at the top right of the web GUI and choose Help > Supported Devices. For information about Cisco EPN Manager supported devices, see Supported Device Tool.

Cisco Network Convergence System 5700 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence System 540 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco 8000 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence System 560 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence System 1000 Series—New Operating System Support

Supported Installation/Upgrade Paths

The following table lists the valid paths for installing/upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1 from previous versions.

See the relevant installation guide for installation prerequisites and procedures for Cisco EPN Manager versions.

Download and Install an Update for a Non-HA Deployment

This section describes how to download and install Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1 on top of an existing Cisco EPN Manager 7.0 installation for non-HA deployments.

Download and Install an Update for a HA Deployment

If you are using external authentication and authorization, after installation you must export the user task information to your AAA server in order to pick up the latest updates.

Synchronize the Inventory of All Devices with the Database (Existing Deployments Only)

If you are using a previous version of Cisco EPN Manager (i.e. this is not a fresh installation), perform a Sync operation on the devices. The Sync operation instructs the Cisco EPN Manager to collect the physical and logical inventory information and save it to the database.

Procedure

1. Choose Monitor > Network Devices.
2. Select all devices, then click Sync.

Increase Session Timeout on Servers

Follow these steps to increase the timeout on the primary and secondary servers from 30 minutes to 90 minutes:

Procedure

1. Log in as the Linux CLI root user.
2. Save a backup of the web.xml file that is located under /opt/CSCOlumos/tomcatSWUpdate/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ by running the following command (one line):
   

   cp /opt/CSCOlumos/tomcatSWUpdate/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml /opt/CSCOlumos/tomcatSWUpdate/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml.orig

3. In the web.xml file (/opt/CSCOlumos/tomcatSWUpdate/webapps/ROOT/WEBINF/web.xml), search for the following:

   <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>

4. Change the session timeout to 90 minutes:

   <session-timeout>90</session-timeout>

5. As the Cisco EPN Manager CLI admin user, manually stop and restart the server:

   ncs start
   ncs stop

6. Ensure that all services are up and running by using this command:

   ncs status

Note: During the patching of the primary and secondary HA servers, both servers will be down.

Remove HA Configuration

Procedure

1. Login to the Cisco EPN Manager GUI as a user with Administrator privileges.
2. On the left sidebar, choose Administration > Settings > High Availability.
3. Click HA Configuration > Remove.
4. On the primary server, go to Administration > Settings > High Availability and confirm that the Configuration Mode field displays HA Not Configured.
5. Log in to the health monitor page of the secondary server page and confirm that HA not Configured appears under the State tab.

Install Device Pack and Point Patch on Primary and Secondary Servers

Procedure

1. Before you begin, make sure you have the password (authentication key) that was created when HA was enabled. You will need it to install the maintenance pack on the secondary server.
2. Make sure no backups are in progress.
3. On the secondary server, update the time zone using a soft link.

   ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$(grep ^clock /storedconfig/active/startupconfig | cut -d " " -f 3) /etc/localtime

   This ensures that the compliance server will be up and running on the secondary server after failover.

Install the Device Pack and Point Patch on the Primary Server

1. From the left sidebar, choose Administration > Licenses and Software Update > Software Update.
2. Download the latest update either using the Download from Cisco.com option via the EPNM GUI, or by directly logging in to Cisco.com from a browser. The file will have the prefix cepnm7.0-ppx- buildxxx.ubf.
3. Depending on the location the file was saved to, select either upload from local computer or copy from the server local disk.
4. When the file has been loaded, Click the Install button associated with EPN Manager update.
5. Click Yes in the confirmation message pop-up window to proceed with the installation.
6. Cisco EPN Manager will auto-restart and the Cisco EPN Manager web GUI will not be accessible for some time. (may take up to an hour)

Install Cisco EPN Manager on Secondary Servers

Procedure

1. Log into the secondary server's web page.
2. Enter the authentication key and click Login.
3. Click the Software Update button.
4. You will be transferred to a login page. Login to Cisco EPN Manager as administrator.
5. Download the latest update either using the Download from Cisco.com option via the Cisco EPN Manager GUI, or by directly logging in to Cisco .com from a browser. The file will have the prefix cepnm7.0-ppx- buildxxx.ubf.
6. Depending on the location the file was saved to, select either Upload from local computer or Copy from server's local disk.
7. Once the file has been loaded, Click the Install button associated with EPN Manager update.
8. Click Yes in the confirmation message pop-up window to proceed with the installation.
9. Cisco EPN Manager will auto-restart and the Cisco EPN Manager web GUI will not be accessible for some time. (may take up to an hour)

Verify Installation on Secondary Server

Procedure

1. Start an SSH session with the Cisco EPN Manager server and log in as the Cisco EPN Manager CLI admin user.
2. Run the ncs status command to ensure that, at a minimum, the following services are up and running: Health Monitor, Database, NMS, SAM Daemon, DA Daemon, Compliance Engine. Note that for optimal Cisco EPN Manager functionality, all services should be up and running.
3. Once the web GUI is accessible, verify the installation and version in the secondary server's HM web page. Where serverIP is the IP address or host name of the secondary server.
4. Enter the authentication key and click Login.
5. In the Uploaded Update Files tab, verify that the MPx ubf file (in the format cepnm.7.0-ppx- buildxxx.ubf) is listed and that the In Use status is Yes.
6. Ensure that all services are up and running by running this command: ncs status

Enable HA and Verify HA Status

Procedure

1. Enable High Availability.
   • Log in to the Cisco EPN Manager web GUI as a user with Administrator privileges.
   • In the left sidebar menu, choose Administration > Settings > High Availability.
   • Click HA Configuration and enter the secondary server IP address, the secondary server authentication key, and an email address to which the Cisco EPN Manager should send HA state change notifications.
   • If you are using virtual IP addressing in your HA setup (if the primary and secondary servers are in the same subnet), check the Enable Virtual IP check box and enter the one or more virtual IP addresses.
   • Click Save, then wait until the servers are synchronized.
   • Verify that the Configuration Mode is HA Enabled.
2. Verify the primary server's HA status.
   • Click HA Status on the left.
   • Check that the Current State Mode displays Primary Active.
3. Verify the secondary server's HA status.
   • Log in to the secondary server's web page.
   • Enter the authentication key and click Login.
   • Verify that the Current State Mode is Secondary Syncing (with a green check mark).

Important Notes

Upgrade Issues

• FTP and TPTP is disabled by default.

Active Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA)

• Active Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA) for temperature remain active and are not cleared automatically. Please clear these alarms manually.
• You must resync your devices to view ISIS links.
• You must resync LDP-enabled devices to view LDP feature-related information.
• You must recreate the TCAs for inbound/outbound errors and inbound/outbound discards in the Interface Health monitoring policy.

Limitations on Carrier Ethernet Circuit Provisioning

• Promotion of service using old probe name format is now supported. These probes are listed in the user interface with the appropriate standard OAM Profile name after promotion.
• Sample profile: profile PM2_3_8_CoS5_DM type cfm-delay-measurement.
• While custom profile names are supported in EPN Manager, modifying brownfield services with a different naming format deletes the existing custom profile and adds a new profile with a supported naming format.
• Inventory models do not correctly display the profiles that are not associated to a service.
• Validation limit for number of profiles is 100. If you create a new SLA operation profile after 100 existing profiles, the device generates an error and deployment fails.

TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS

Only Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 is supported for HTTPS and TLS related secured communication, for example, RADIUS EAP-TLS.

Support for TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all versions of SSL has been disabled due to security vulnerabilities. This means that all peer systems and clients that transact with Cisco EPN Manager using HTTPS/TLS must support TLS 1.2. If they do not support TLS 1.2, you must upgrade these systems. Wherever possible, the Cisco EPN Manager documentation highlights the potentially affected systems. Please contact your Cisco representative for support in this regard, if necessary.

Reconciliation Report Limitations

If you have not provided a value for an attribute while provisioning a service, the provisioned value for that attribute is displayed as “Missing" in the reconciliation report. The device may have a default value for this attribute, but Cisco EPN Manager does not configure this value.

Limitations on ME 1200 Devices

The Y.1564 performance test does not work if the source/destination is a ME 1200 device.

Limitations on Editing Alarm Notification Policies

If the upgrade conditions of existing categories are different from the condition of categories on 5.1, then the conditions post upgrade will not match. As a result, policy might not be created or UI selection might not take place for the unmatched events. In this case, you should delete the upgraded policies and create a new one.

Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1

The following functionalities do not work on NCS 4200 devices running IOS-XE 16.8.1:

• Alarm profile
• Configuration of SONET LOP and CT3 LOP from the GUI
• Admin shut/no shut functionality on SONET/T1/T3 HOP/LOP

Limitations on NCS540 and NCS5500 devices

NCS540 and NCS5500 device series do not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

Use CLI Templates for Configuring PTP Commands

On ASR920 devices with software version 16.9.1, IEEE 1588-2008 BC/MC license is required to execute the 1588 PTP commands.

Configuration and Inventory Not Supported for PTP Templates

The behavior of modeling the configurations pushed through PTP templates may not work as expected because the model may not be in place for all the configurations pushed through PTP templates. Configuration/Inventory is not supported for these configurations.

Deprecation of Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00

ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, and 10.03.00 are no longer supported on Cisco NCS 2002, 2006 and 2015 devices.

Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only

Cisco EPN Manager provides foundation lifecycle support for UCS compute systems, CSR 1000v, and Nexus series devices but does not provide data center topology.

LINK_DOWN alarm on sub interfaces in Gig Port

LINK_DOWN alarms will not be generated when link is down on sub interfaces in a Gig Port.

Open Bugs

The table below lists the open bugs in Cisco EPN Manager Release 7.0.1 according to the following criteria:

• Severity 1, 2, and high priority severity 3 open bugs
• All open customer-found bugs

Resolved Bugs

High-impact bugs that are likely to affect Cisco EPN Manager workflows.

Click the identifier link to view the impact and workaround for the bug in the Bug Search Tool. Use this tool to track the status of the open bugs.

Get Information about Cisco EPN Manager Bugs

Use the Bug Search tool (BST) to get the latest information about Cisco EPN Manager bugs. BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and it aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version.

Cisco EPN Manager bugs may be caused by defects in a device's platform or operating system. In such cases, the Cisco EPN Manager bug will be resolved when the hardware/operating system bug is resolved.

Procedure

1. Log into the Bug Search Tool.
   • Go to https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/.
   • At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In.
2. To list all bugs for this version, click the Select from list hyperlink that is next to the Product field and select the product.
   • Choose Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager and then select the required product version.
   • When the results are displayed, use the filter and sort tools to find bugs according to their status, severity, how recently they were modified, if any support cases are associated with them, and so forth.

Note: If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do

Related Documentation

For a list of all documentation available for Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1, see the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 7.0.

You can also search using bug IDs or keywords. For more information, click Help at the top right of the Bug Search page.

Accessibility Features

For a list of accessibility features in Cisco EPN Manager 7.0.1, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

All product documents are accessible. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, using the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What's New in Cisco Product Documentation.

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