Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Cisco Networking Licenses

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides network monitoring which comprise a broad range of activities. Monitoring the network infrastructure our devices and their components running.

In fact monitoring the network involves every aspect of ensuring that the network infrastructure is operating efficiently and is expected. The network can meet user requests and respond to varying demands and the network meets operational and business requirements.  Recognizing the range of cisco prime infrastructure monitoring capabilities, key data analysis tools and the underlying system processes that collect network data will help you manage your monitoring tasks more efficiently and effectively.

From wired and wireless devices on the network to computer devices in the data center you can monitor at as high or granular a level as you need. Summary views and aggregate data let you see devices in a broader context or you can access highly detailed device and performance information about network and computer devices down to the component levels, such as wired device details including modules ports and interfaces. Wireless device details including interfaces, clients, mesh and security and computer device details including the schematic, cluster, server and module information. For using all these features, you need to register your product on the Cisco smart software management with Cisco Prime Infrastructure license.

With application visibility and control functionality you’ll have insight into network user activity and the applications that they’re running and you can track the end-user experience from a summary performance level down to the detailed client and user level including session details and history application usage and user identification. When monitoring Wireless aspects of network operations, you can evaluate such factors as radio frequency (RF) interferes and signal coverage problems reported by radio resource management (RRM).

Context-aware data which reports the location information of mobility assets including rogue devices clients and tagged assets and security factors such as top issues, rogue activity and potential attacks. For all of the performance monitoring aspects of the system from the infrastructure to applications to clients and user’s prime infrastructure reports faults that might be causing network impacts. Fault monitoring includes collecting all of the syslog events, SNMP trap events and system generated events that occur based on polling and on reporting thresholds. These features need Cisco Prime Infrastructure license to be applied.

Administrators can monitor network performance and evaluate faults designated. Users also can perform similar monitoring of the prime infrastructure platform itself including the server, database and API health and statistics.

General network infrastructure performance data are available on the network summary dashboards which present summary and aggregate data on aspects of the overall network. You can get an overview of general network metrics and alarm event and syslog summaries on the overview dashboards. You can see high-level wired and wireless device reachability, resource usage, coverage areas, network device level summaries and interface level summaries.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Generation Differences

The most significant differences between Cisco Prime Infrastructure second and third generation can be found in the following figure:

Cisco Prime Infrastructure License

Cisco Prime Infrastructure license is available in hybrid types. You should purchase specific license 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. The maximum number of license files that can be added to Prime Infrastructure is 25.

Prime Infrastructure license can be categorized in the following types:

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. Lifecycle license is consumed only for admin VDC in Prime Infrastructure. The child VDC does not consume any license. It is either auto-added by admin or added separately.

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.

You need a base license and the corresponding feature licenses (such as Assurance licenses) to get full access to the respective Prime Infrastructure features to manage a set number of devices.

Data Center: Using these license full visibility over every single hosts can be achieved.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Smart License

Cisco Prime Infrastructure smart license allows you to control all license from a centralized platform called Cisco smart software management. It makes it possible to monitor different license types and their expiration times.

Cisco Prime Infrustructure licenses can be categorized in the following:

• Cisco Prime Base License
• Cisco Prime Lifecycle License
• Cisco Prime Assurance License
• Cisco Prime Datacenter License

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