Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Release Notes
Last Updated: 15 April 2016
This document contains the following sections:
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Introduction, page 1
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Submitting Feedback, page 2
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Supported Devices, page 2
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Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models, page 2
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New Features and Enhancements, page 4
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Important Notes, page 7
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Open Caveats, page 7
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Resolved Caveats, page 8
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Related Documentation, page 9
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 10
Introduction
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management tool that supports lifecycle management of your entire network
infrastructure from one graphical interface. Prime Infrastructure provides network administrators with a single solution for
provisioning, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting both wired and wireless devices. Robust graphical interfaces make
device deployments and operations simple and cost-effective.
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For information on server and web client requirements, see the Understanding the System Requirements section of the
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
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For information about installing this release of Prime Infrastructure, see the Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure section
of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
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For information about upgrading from previous releases of Prime Infrastructure, including the list of versions from which
you can upgrade, see the Performing an Inline Upgrade section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Quick Start Guide.
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For detailed information on licensing, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Ordering and Licensing Guide.
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Submitting Feedback
Submitting Feedback
Your feedback will help us improve the quality of our product. You must configure the email server and then enable data
collection to configure the feedback tool. To send your feedback, follow these steps:
Step 1
If you have configured your mail server, go to Step 4.
Step 2
Choose Administration > Settings > System Settings > Mail and Notification > Mail Server
Configuration.
Step 3
In the Mail Server Configuration page, enter the mail server details, then click Save to save the
configuration settings.
Step 4
Choose Administration > Settings > System Settings > General > Help Us Improve.
Step 5
In the Help Us Improve Cisco Products page, select Yes, collect data periodically, then click Save.
Step 6
Click the Settings icon, then select Feedback > I wish this page would ... .
Step 7
Enter your feedback, then click OK.
Supported Devices
To see the list of devices supported in this release of Prime Infrastructure :
Step 1
Log in to Prime Infrastructure .
Step 2
Click the wheel icon at the top right, then click Supported Devices.
For detailed information on the software compatibility for the Cisco wireless devices, see the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html
Prime Infrastructure does not support non-admin virtual device context (VDC) on Nexus devices.
Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Table 1 lists the Prime Infrastructure supported devices for switches, WLCs, Access Points (APs), ISEs, and MSEs.
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Supported Wireless LAN Controller Hardware Models
Table 1
Supported Device Matrix for Switches, Cisco WLC, MSE, ISE, and AP
Supported
Switches
Supported
Controllers
Supported MSE Supported ISE
Devices
Devices
Supported Lightweight
APs
Supported
Autonomous APs
2960, 2975
Switches [Cisco
IOS Release
12.2(50)SE],
Cisco 2100
Series
Cisco MSE 3355 Cisco ISE 2.0
Cisco 1832 Series APs
Cisco 700 Series
Catalyst 3560
Switches [Cisco
IOS Release
12.2(50)SE],
Cisco MSE
Cisco 2504 WLC Virtual
Appliance
Cisco 4400
Series
Cisco 5508 WLC
Cisco 5520 WLC
Catalyst 3650
Cisco Flex 7510
Series Ethernet
WLC
Stackable Switch
Cisco 8510 WLC
Catalyst 3750
Switches [Cisco Cisco 8540 WLC
IOS Release
Cisco Virtual
12.2(50)SE],
Controller
Catalyst 3850
Cisco WiSM
Series Ethernet
Cisco WiSM2
Stackable Switch
Cisco Wireless
Catalyst 3550
Controller on
Series Ethernet
Service Ready
Stackable Switch
Engine (WLCM2
Catalyst 4500
on SRE)
Switches [Cisco
Catalyst 3750G
IOS Release
Series Integrated
12.2(50)SG],
Wireless LAN
Catalyst 6500
Controllers
Switches [Cisco
Cisco 5760 WLC
IOS Release
Cisco 5760 WLC
12.2(33)SXI],
(STACK)
and [Cisco IOS
XE 03.07.00.E]
Cisco NAM 2304
Appliance, Cisco
NAM 2320
Appliance, Cisco
IE 2000 Series
Switches.
Cisco ISE 1.4
Cisco IW 3700 Series APs
with the required
Cisco 1850 Series APs
patch1
Cisco 700 Series, Cisco
Cisco ISE 1.3
1530 Series, Cisco 600
Series, Cisco 702W AP,
Cisco ISE 1.2
Cisco 1040 AP, Cisco
1100 AP, Cisco 1120 AP,
Cisco 1130 AP, Cisco
1140 AP, Cisco 1200 AP,
Cisco 1230 AP, Cisco
1240 AP, Cisco 1250 AP,
Cisco 1260 AP, Cisco
1500 AP,
Cisco 1524 AP,
Cisco 1552C AP,
Cisco 1552CU AP,
Cisco 1552E AP,
Cisco 1552EU AP,
Cisco 1552H AP,
Cisco 1600e AP,
Cisco 1600i AP,
Cisco 2600i AP,
Cisco 2600e AP,
Cisco 2700 AP,
Cisco 3500i AP, Cisco
3500e AP, Cisco 3500p
AP,
Cisco 3600i AP, Cisco
3600e AP,
Cisco 3600p AP,
Cisco 3700i AP,
Cisco 3700e AP, Cisco
3700p AP
Cisco 802agn AP,
Cisco 802gn AP,
Cisco 802hagn AP,
Cisco 801gn AP,
Cisco 801agn AP,
Cisco 1700I AP,
Cisco 1700E AP
Cisco Aironet 1570 Series
APs
Cisco 702W AP
Cisco 1040 series
AP
Cisco 1140 series
APs
Cisco 1260 AP
Cisco 1520 AP
Cisco 1530 series
Cisco 1550 Series
Cisco 1570 Series
Cisco 1600 series
APs
Cisco 1700 AP
Cisco 3500 AP
Cisco 2600 AP
Cisco 2700 AP
Cisco 3600 AP
Cisco 3700 AP
Cisco 800 ISR
Series
Cisco Aironet 1310
and 1410 Bridges,
Cisco 802 AP
Cisco 803 AP
1.If you are using Cisco ISE 1.4, you must have the patch
ise-patchbundle-1.4.0.253-Patch3-141133.x86_64.tar.gz, which you can get from the following location:
https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=283801620&flowid=26081&softwareid=28380250
5&release=1.4&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest.
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New Features and Enhancements
New Features and Enhancements
This section provides a brief description of new features and enhancements in this release. For more information about the
features and benefits, as well as hardware and software specifications, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Data Sheet at:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/datasheet-listing.html
Data Center Assurance
The following enhancements have been made to Data Center:
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Data Center Topology—Allows you to view the physical topology of the Data Center devices. The Data Center topology
map displays alarm badging for device icons to indicate the current alarm state of data center elements.
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Fabric Extender Visibility—Discovers the Fabric Extender (FEX) components that cover FEX inventory and FEX
interfaces.
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Virtual Device Context 1 HOP Topology View—Includes the Virtual Device Context (VDC) 1- HOP topology view for
Admin VDC. By launching the 360-degree view of Admin VDC from the Data Center topology, you can cross launch the
respective managed VDC and VDC 1- HOP topology view.
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Network Virtual Port Channel Link Health Status—Allows you to view the virtual Port Channel (vPC) link health status
when you choose Maps > Topology Maps > Datacenter Topology.
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Monitoring Nexus vPC Health—Introduces the Nexus virtual Port Channel (vPC) health monitoring policy. This feature
fetches the configuration parameters from the operational Primary vPC-configured Nexus switch and looks for any
discrepancies in the configuration, which can lead to inconsistencies by correlating with the secondary vPC-configured
Nexus switch.
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Data Center REST APIs—Allows you to fetch cluster, data center, and Virtual Machine (VM) details from outside the
Prime Infrastructure interface.
Operations Center
Operations Center enables centralized management of multiple instances of Prime Infrastructure . With Operations Center, you
get easy access to information about the health of your entire network managed by the multiple Prime Infrastructure instances.
The following enhancements have been made to Operations Center:
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Support for mixed Operations Center licenses—Instead of a two-step process involving multiple license files, you can
apply a single license file to transform a Prime Infrastructure instance into Operations Center.
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Seamless Single Sign On (SSO) setup—Immediately after applying the license to Operations Center, administrators can
choose to configure the SSO automatically.
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Configuring SSO in the managed instances—SSO configurations for the Prime Infrastructure server instance are done from
the Operation Center while adding the instances, which eliminates the need to pre-configure the Prime Infrastructure
instance with the SSO Server.
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Monitoring managed instance reachability—Operations Center reports on the current and historical reachability status of
the managed Prime Infrastructure server instances.
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High Availability—Operations Center supports High Availability (HA) deployment and supports virtual IP configurations.
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Display and distribute configuration templates—You can view the configuration templates available in the managed
instances.
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New Features and Enhancements
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Reports —Operations Center introduces the following new reports:
– Busiest clients
– Client sessions
– Client traffic
– AP Summary
– Detailed hardware
– Top AP by Client Count
Platform Enhancements
The following platform enhancements were made in this release:
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New Plug and Play dashboard—Simplifies 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.
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Instant Access Workflow—Provides the Instant Access Fabric Extender (FEX) management, VSS support, Access Port
management, and simplifies deploying Instant Access. With the Instant Access workflow, you can enable Instant Access
in your network with the ability to manage it for Day N.
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Deployment flow for configuration templates using the wizard—Simplifies configuration template deployment with the
new enhanced workflow.
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Software image management enhancement—Introduces an easy-to-use workflow for software image management which
simplifies and optimizes software image management and shortens lengthy maintenance window periods.
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Global variable support in configuration templates—Allows you to define global variables for CLI templates, which you
can use later while creating CLI templates.
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Global Offline Search—Allows you to search in archived device configurations and reports on configurations matching
the search pattern you specify.
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Converged Access Workflow—Helps accelerate the Converged Access solution with error-free deployment, automatic
implementation of rich IOS services, Guest wireless solution and various Cisco recommended best practices to build
reliable wireless network infrastructure.
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TrustSec Readiness Assessment—Enables you to choose preferred options for provisioning configurations to
TrustSec-capable devices to enable 802.1X and other TrustSec functionalities.
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Compliance Audit for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers—Allows you to define device configuration baselines and audit
policies for Wireless LAN Controllers and fix any configuration violations. You can also schedule compliance audits
against multiple controller configurations and generate an audit report that indicates if any configurations deviate from the
specified baseline.
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Site Visibility—Provides a quick way to view the health of your sites by navigating to Services > Application Visibility
& Control > Site Visibility.
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Routing Table monitoring—Allows you to view routing table information for all managed routers. You can view the
routing table and neighbor information for BGP and EIGRP protocols.
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PfR Monitoring Improvements—Allows you to monitor the performance of traffic classes and utilization of WAN links.
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Alarm Policies—Allows you to control the alarms generated, thereby reducing unwanted noise in the system. The
following alarm policies are supported in this release:
– Interface
– Access Point
– Controller
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New Features and Enhancements
– Layer2 Switch
– Wired Infrastructure
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Enhancement to the DCA template—The configuration push for Dynamic Channel Allocation (DCA) templates has been
enhanced with automatic radio disable/enable.
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Syslog Viewer—Prime 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.
Wireless Feature Enhancements
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Bulk copy and replace for Access Points—Using the Bulk Copy and Replace AP feature, you can quickly copy AP
information (such as AP mode, AP name, and MAC address) and replace it on hundreds of access points.
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Two new client preset filters are introduced under Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Clients and Users page:
– Wireless Associated Clients
– Wired Associated Clients
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A new option to export client association history from the Client Details page.
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Site-based lightweight AP template deployment.
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Support for Hyperlocation, BLE, and HALO module on the Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.2.1 Release.
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Enhancements to Virtual Domain grouping.
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Feature Enhancements
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HTTP custom profiling
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Support for Google Chromecast Gateway on mDNS
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2.4 GHz as mesh backhaul
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PSK provisioning support for mesh networks
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Virtual controller support
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Service- Port: out-of-band management support
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Cisco Air Time Fairness enhancements
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QoS mapping
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wIPS support for 40/80 MHz
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Passpoint 2.0 certification Hotspot 2.0 Online Sign Up
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Layer3 interfaces for tunneling protocols
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Important Notes
Important Notes
This section contains important notes about Prime Infrastructure.
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Prime Infrastructure is available on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Appliance. Prime Infrastructure 3.1 is not
supported on the PRIME-NCS-APL-K9 (also known as “Gen 1”). Prime Infrastructure 3.1 is supported on Cisco Prime
Infrastructure Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based).
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Compliance is supported on the Professional virtual appliance (OVA) and the Gen 2, UCS-based physical appliance only.
It is not supported on: Express, Express Plus, or Standard OVAs; OVAs that have been resized to Professional; Gen 1
physical appliances. If you are running Prime Infrastructure on an unsupported OVA or physical appliance and want to
enable Compliance, you must perform a fresh install of the 3.1 Professional OVA or Gen2 UCS appliance, then use
backup/restore to migrate data from your old server to the new server.
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Starting with Cisco IOS Release 15.2(5)E, Secure Shell (SSH) Version 1 is deprecated. Use SSH Version 2 instead.
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When you upgrade the Prime Infrastructure from Release 3.0.x to 3.1, you must reconfigure the following System Jobs
available under Administration > Dashboards > Job Dashboard > System Jobs > Infrastructure:
– Controller Configuration Backup— Reconfigure this job to resume it from the suspended state.
– Server Backup—Reconfigure the execution period of this job if the period is other than 1 day (Default period will be
set to 1 day after the upgrade).
Open Caveats
Table 2 lists the open caveats in Prime Infrastructure Release 3.1.
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the caveat. This information is displayed in the Bug Search Tool.
You can track the status of the open caveats using the Bug Search Tool.
Table 2
Open Caveats
Identifier
Description
CSCux69055
Plug and Play with CNS is not supported when 2 IPs are configured on Prime Infrastructure , or if
Prime Infrastructure is configured in DMZ.
CSCuy08084
APs are not filtered using dynamic rules in location groups.
CSCuy29380
A provision failure error message appears when applying an AP template (with Native VLAN support
enabled and a Native VLAN ID set) to a set of FlexConnect APs.
CSCuy43264
When converting a switch from Standalone to VSS mode with SCP server as backup option, the VSS
conversion is successful every time even if you enter invalid data in the input fields and credentials.
CSCuy45093
Certificate Revoke fails if the certificate is installed by Plug and Play (APIC-EM) and the device
credentials don't match the global credentials defined in APIC-EM.
CSCuy57714
Plug and Play deployed with a bigger image and slow WAN connections may result in PnP Failure.
CSCuy61028
Client Count Report shows ROOT-DOMAIN instead of the selected subdomain.
CSCuy64517
You cannot perform Packet Capture - Copy To/Merge from non-root users.
CSCuy67833
More protocols required in the device package.
CSCuy69387
When you try to view report details from the Saved Report Templates page, the Report Launch Pad page
appears instead of the report details page.
CSCuy73839
Manual SPT on Cisco rogues fails with baseport'0' not found error.
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Resolved Caveats
Table 2
Open Caveats (continued)
Identifier
Description
CSCuy83031
HA registration works only without virtual IP. HA registration fails when you try to configure virtual IP.
CSCuy84080
LWAP Template: Cannot set country code for APs on 3850 with 16.2 image.
CSCuy84087
Universal Domain APs not recognized when associated to 3850 with 16.2 image.
CSCuy86184
Prime Infrastructure Services show down when you do ncs status from the CLI (admin prompt).
CSCuy92228
EAP type for the Wireless Client displays as Unknown in Client details page.
CSCuy94306
On the Global Variable page, the Edit button is enabled even if you have not made a selection.
CSCuz00519
When you turn on Edit mode on the map view, then navigate away from the page, when you return to the
map view, the GUI indicates the edit map mode is off even though you can still edit the map.
CSCuz02476
Group Type is highlighted in red after restoring and upgrading.
CSCuz04309
Device pack support of ASAv devices.
CSCuz04541
When you import a Management Auth Priority template, Prime Infrastructure does not retain the values
specified.
CSCuz06790
When you try to upgrade a software image via CNS using the HTTPS protocol, the image upgrade fails
with the error “Image Evaluation timed out” or “Image Distribution timed out.”
CSCuz06811
Deploying discovered flex connect ACL is failing.
CSCuz07131
When you enable NAM data collection for more than 100 devices, Prime Infrastructure is unable to collect
and display all NAM data.
CSCuz10273
AP Radio Downtime Report issues.
CSCuz10482
Map Import fails with AP1000, Maps exported from 2.2.x imported to 3.0.x
CSCuz11194
After failover in High Availability, in the secondary server, the configuration archive is not collected for
every inventory sync even if you enabled the setting in the configuration archive system settings page.
CSCuz13694
When the primary server is in standby mode for more than 16 hours and the secondary server is active, the
failback rolls back.
CSCuz14184
Device selection is slow during template deployment if an inventory background task is running.
CSCuy17727
Enhancement to remove duplicate items from the table if they have been added already.
CSCuy29646
Collection Failure for SG500X device
CSCuz06716
Undeploy button on the Configuration > Applied/Scheduled Templates does not work.
CSCva27038
Cisco Prime Infrastructure Arbitrary SQL Injection Vulnerability.
CSCvd50705
Table Select all checkbox using latest Chrome does not work on Windows 10.
Resolved Caveats
The following caveats were resolved in this release. You can view additional information about these caveats in the Bug Search
Tool.
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Related Documentation
Table 3
Resolved Caveats
Identifier
Description
CSCuv34934
dot11 rrm grouping feature failed for Cisco Wireless Controller 5508.
CSCuv62282
Controller status and ICMP Reachability Metric Dashlet Count mismatch.
CSCuv95331
Device Count and License count is not preserved after failover.
CSCuv93544
Upgrade stage 4: “UtilSession failed” message is displayed.
CSCuv93099
AP config save error is displayed when override vlan on AP is enabled in Flexconnect AP group.
CSCuv93030
Flexconnect AP group template fails if the VLAN support check box is disabled and then pushed to Cisco
WLC 8.1 Release.
CSCuv89651
BnR/Upgrade: Support Request Settings are not retained after upgrade
CSCuv89620
PSIRT report data shows the result for all network devices in the non-root domain.
CSCuu88416
In Operations Center, quick search of IPv6 for Clients and Users does not work.
CSCuv89101
Device deleted from PI Inventory that was discovered through APIC-EM PnP is adding back after
approximately two hours.
CSCuv04463
Adding device via SNMP v1 gets into Collection failure in Pi3.0.
CSCuv19388
Double quotes are not accepting pari to validate in the custom policies.
CSCuv79274
Global Search cross launch is not working for compute devices.
CSCuv69018
i18n: Japanese characters are not accepted in Configuration Template Name input field.
CSCuv34539
Filtering doesn't filter as expected on compliance job.
CSCur98575
Controller names are missing in the Mobility Configuration page for IPv6 group members.
CSCuv40246
Credential verification always fails for NAM devices (Solution & auto server).
CSCuv42850
PnP is failing when TACACS configuration is present in the configuration templates.
CSCuv50157
Bulk select on severity configuration and alarm auto clear is not working
CSCuv53569
Cisco WLC with IPV6 fails to add to Cisco PI: 2 new IPV6 rules to be added on the PI.
CSCur85763
11ac Admin status set through LWAP template shows as Not Applicable.
CSCuv66430
Unable to expand location group in Virtual Domain page.
CSCuv64965
Unable to create a sub Virtual Domain in Operations Center using the results from search.
CSCuv64263
User Defined Field values missing for wireless controllers
CSCuv64930
Alarm cache data is missing after failover in the UCS HA setup.
CSCuw51211
Prime Infrastructure 3.0- Alarm details no longer includes interface description.
CSCuv81769
Client moved to non-ISE WLAN still shown as ISE clients.
CSCuw89435
Adding license to Prime Infrastructure 3.0 reports unknown license file version detected error message.
Related Documentation
You can access additional Cisco Prime Infrastructure documentation at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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