CISCO PRIME

INFRASTRUCTURE 3.1 V1
30 MINUTES PART 1
SCENARIO 1: DASHBOARD

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 Single-pane-of-glass management
Simplified deployment of Cisco capabilities
Deep Application Visibility
Comprehensive coverage of enterprise mobility
Unified assurance across network and compute

FEATURES INCLUDE
New Plug and Play dashboardSimplifies the on-boarding of network devices using the
new and improved Plug and Play workflow. You can view profile statistics and Plug and
Play jobs on the dashboard. Instant Access WorkflowProvides the Instant Access Fabric
Extender (FEX) management, VSS support, Access Port management, and simplifies
deploying Instant Access.
Workflow for Software Image managementan easy-to-use workflow for software image
management which simplifies and optimizes software image management and shortens
lengthy maintenance window periods. to define global variables for CLI templates,
Global variable support in configuration templatesyou which you can use later while
creating CLI templates.
Global Offline Searchyou to search in archived device configurations and reports on
configurations matching the search pattern you specify.

CISCO PRIME INFRASTRUCTURE 3.1 OFFERS MANY

NEW CAPABILITIES:
Converged Access Workflowaccelerate the Converged Access solution with error-free
deployment, automatic implementation of rich IOS services, Guest wireless solution and
various Cisco recommended best practices.
TrustSec Readiness Assessmentyou to choose preferred options for provisioning
configurations to TrustSec-capable devices to enable 802.1X and other TrustSec
functionalities.
Compliance Audit for Cisco Wireless LAN ControllersAllows you to define and schedule
compliance audits against multiple controller configurations and generate an audit report
that indicates if any configurations deviate from the specified baseline.
Site VisibilityProvides a quick way to view the health of your sites.
Routing Table MonitoringAllows you to view routing table information for all managed
routers.
PfR Monitoring ImprovementsAllows you to monitor the performance of traffic classes
and utilization of WAN links.
Alarm PoliciesAllows you to control the alarms generated, thereby reducing unwanted
noise in the system.
Enhancement to the DCA templateThe configuration push for Dynamic Channel
Allocation (DCA) templates has been enhanced with automatic radio disable/enable.

Syslog ViewerPrime Infrastructure logs all syslogs from severity 0 through 7 (emergency
through debugging messages) generated by all devices that are managed by Prime

Infrastructure. Prime Infrastructure logs and displays syslogs from managed devices only.
For more information about Cisco Prime Infrastructure, visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/primeinfrastructure.
Scenario 1: Dashboard
Scenario 2: Visualizing the Network
Scenario 3: Ensuring Services
Scenario 4: Configuration
Scenario 5: Reports
Scenario 6: The 360 Experience

THINGS COVERED IN THIS

LOGIN CREDENTIALS
 Overview. Provides summary information and includes tabs specific to alarms
and events, clients, network devices, network interfaces, and service
assurance.
Wireless. Provides wireless information about Security, Mesh, CleanAir, and
ContextAware.
Performance. Provides a summary of performance metrics and includes tabs
specific to sites, devices, access points, interfaces, applications, voice/video,
end user experience, and WAN optimization.
Network Summary. Provides an overview summary of your network including
status metrics and a tab specific to incidents which includes alarm and event
type graphs and critical, major, and minor alarm counts
Data Center. Provides information about Data Center and includes tabs
specific to Compute and Host.

SCENARIO 1. DASHBOARDS
1. From a supported browser (Firefox recommended), use a secure session (https://) to
login to Prime Infrastructure with the credentials from the Session Details tab of your Active
session as shown in Table 2. Device Credentials.
Username = Owner Password = Session ID
2. Click on the blue Homepage icon in the upper left corner.

STEPS
3. In the Network Summary Dashboard (New) pane, click Save and Launch Homepage. If
you want to set another Homepage, you can set that by clicking the settings wheel
located on the upper right.
4. From the Dashboard/Network Summary page, you will see an ICMP Reachability Status
indicator. If any devices are listed as Unreachable, click the link to synchronize those
devices.
5. From the filtered All Devices page, click the checkbox at the top to select all devices.
Then click the Sync button. It may take a few minutes for all devices to synchronize. If you
have devices that show as unreachable, use this opportunity to explain to the audience
how this feature of Prime Infrastructure gives you immediate feedback about the state of
devices in your network.
6. Go to Dashboard > Overview > General to view a high-level
network device summary, Top CPU and Memory utilization.
7. You can also hover the mouse over the pie charts to see additional details then click on the
chart to go directly to the inventory listing of those Network devices.
8. You also can change the view from Chart view to Table View.
9. Click the Home icon to return to the main screen. 10. General network infrastructure
performance is available on several of the Network Summary dashboards by selecting the Home
key. These Dashboards present summary and aggregate data on aspects of the overall network.
11. Click on the Incidents tab to get a Summary overview of Incidents.
12. Mouse over the Alarms to get more details Click to go directly to the alarms.
Choose one of the dashboards under Dashboard > Performance to view a summary of
performance metrics. Viewing the performance dashboards can show you the health of
the networks, servers, and applications.
You can use performance graphs to compare the performance of different devices or
interfaces. 1. From Cisco Prime Infrastructure, go to Dashboard > Performance > Site. From
the Site tab, you will see an overview of the site. In the Top N Applications, you will see
details of the traffic generated by simulated devices and PC1. Note the applications
identified by AVC.

DASHBOARD
PERFORMANCE