Release Notes for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0
Technology Package
This Release Notes provides information on installing and upgrading, new feature and enhancements,
bug fixes, and additional documentation for Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
This document contains the following sections:
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System Requirements
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
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New Software Support
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New Feature and Enhancements
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Open Caveats
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Related Documentation
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
System Requirements
Install this Technology Package on a server running the Cisco Prime Infrastructure, version 3.0.2. For
more information on server and web client requirements, see the Understanding System Requirements
section of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Quick Start Guide.
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 technology package must be installed only on top of Prime Infrastructure
3.0.2 or higher version, otherwise the following error message will appear during this technology
package installation.
You must install Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package before installing Prime
Infrastructure 3.0.2 update 2.
Note
You must restart the Prime Infrastructure server after installation of each patch on Prime Infrastructure
3.0. If you are installing this technology package over Prime Infrastructure, version 3.0 then follow the
below steps:
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Install Prime Infrastructure 3.0.2 over Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
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Restart the Prime Infrastructure server. For more details, see Restarting Prime Infrastructure in
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide.
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Install the Device Package 2 for Prime Infrastructure 3.0 over Prime Infrastructure 3.0.2.
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Restart the Prime Infrastructure server. For more details, see Restarting Prime Infrastructure in
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide.
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Install the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package over Prime Infrastructure 3.0.2.
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Restart the Prime Infrastructure server. For more details, see Restarting Prime Infrastructure in
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide.
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Install Prime Infrastructure 3.0.2 update 2 over Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
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Restart the Prime Infrastructure server. For more details, see Restarting Prime Infrastructure in
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide.
The following sections explain how to install the Technology Package.
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Before You Begin Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package
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Installing the Prime Infrastructure Technology Package from Cisco Site
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Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package from Local Storage
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Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package in High Availability Mode
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Troubleshooting Package Installation in High Availability Implementations
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
Before You Begin Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package
Prerequisite before installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package
You must install Cisco Prime Infrastructure Maintenance Release 3.0.2 on Cisco Prime Infrastructure,
version 3.0. Click here to download pi302-16.ubf.
Note
Caution
Device Package 2 for Prime Infrastructure 3.0 is required for Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.1.1support. Click
here to download Device-Pack-2-PI3.0-19.ubf.
Once you install this package, you cannot uninstall or remove it.
Since the package is not removable, it is important to have a way to revert your system to the original
version in case hardware or software problems cause the package installation to fail.
To ensure you can do this, take a backup of your system before downloading and installing this UBF
package.
To revert to the original Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0, follow these steps:
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Reinstall Prime Infrastructure 3.0 from an OVA or ISO distribution.
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Restore the data from the backup that you made before applying the package.
Similarly, if you are running Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 in a Virtual Machine (VM) and your
organization permits taking VM snapshots, use the VMware client to take a VM snapshot before
applying this package. You can store the snapshot in an external storage repository, and restore from the
snapshot if the package is unsuccessful.
If you are installing the package as part of a High Availability (HA) implementation, you have to ensure
that the network links between the two servers provide maximum bandwidth and low latency throughout
the package installation. For more information, see Troubleshooting Package Installation in High
Availability Implementations section.
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
Installing the Prime Infrastructure Technology Package from Cisco Site
Make sure you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing
the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
Step 1
Log in to the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 server.
Step 2
Choose Administration > Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update.
Step 3
Click Download.
Step 4
Log in with your cisco.com credentials and click Show Details in Prime Add-Ons pane to view the
updates.
Step 5
Click Download corresponding to the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 technology Package file name
pi_technology_package-3.0.2-1.0.56.ubf.
Step 6
Once the download is complete, a warning message indicating the downloaded file as unsigned and
suggesting to stop the installation process appears as shown below.
Step 7
Click OK in the warning message.
Step 8
Click Install to install the Technology Package.
The installation may take few seconds. Stay on the same page until you see the following toast
notification.
Step 9
Restart the Cisco Prime Infrastructure server as explained in Restarting Prime Infrastructure in Cisco
Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide to complete the installation process.
Step 10
You can verify the package installation from Prime Infrastructure Login page under Prime Add-Ons by
hovering your mouse over the version and also by logging into the server and choosing Administration
Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update. You should see a listing for the package in the
Updates tab, with “Installed” in the Status column.
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Installation
Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package from Local Storage
Make sure you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin Installing
the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
Step 1
Download the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package pi_technology_package-3.0.2-1.0.56.ubf
from Home > Products > Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management >
Network Management Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.0 > Prime Infrastructure
Patches-3.0.2 and save the package file in your local storage.
Step 2
Log in to Prime Infrastructure 3.0 server.
Step 3
Choose Administration > Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update.
Step 4
Click Upload and browse to the location where you have saved the package file. Click OK to upload the
file.
Step 5
In the Status of Updates pane, click the Files tab and check whether
pi_technology_package-3.0.2-1.0.56.ubf is listed under FileName column.
Step 6
In the Prime Add-Ons pane, click Install. You will see a popup message indicating the manual restart
of Prime Infrastructure. Click Yes for successful installation.
The installation may take few seconds. Stay on the same page until you see the following toast
notification.
Step 7
Restart the server by first executing the ncs stop command and then the ncs start command, as explained
in Restarting Prime Infrastructure in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator
Guide.
Step 8
You can verify the package installation from Prime Infrastructure Login page under Prime Add-Ons by
hovering your mouse over the version and also by logging into the server and choosing Administration
Licenses and Software Updates > Software Update. You should see a listing for the package in the
Updates tab, with “Installed” in the Status column.
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New Software Support
Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package in High Availability
Mode
Download the Technology Package pi_technology_package-3.0.2-1.0.56.ubf from Home > Products >
Cloud and Systems Management > Routing and Switching Management > Network Management
Solutions > Prime Infrastructure > Prime Infrastructure 3.0 > Prime Infrastructure Patches-3.0.2 and
save the package file in your local storage.
To install the downloaded Technology Package pi_technology_package-3.0.2-1.0.56.ubf in High
Availability mode follow the below steps:
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Make sure you have completed the recommended preparation steps given in Before You Begin
Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
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If your current Prime Infrastructure implementation has High Availability (HA) servers, you need
to unpair the servers and make sure that they are at the same patch level, and follow the steps in
Patching New High Availability Servers.
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If you are setting up a new Prime Infrastructure High Availability (HA) implementation and your
new servers are not at the same patch level, see Patching New High Availability Servers in Cisco
Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package Administrator Guide.
Troubleshooting Package Installation in High Availability Implementations
Users who apply this package in a High Availability (HA) implementation may experience difficulties
if the network links between the two servers offer low bandwidth and high latency. In particular, this
kind of low throughput can cause the post-package restart and re-registration to take far longer than
normal. In most cases, simply waiting longer will fix the problem with no intervention. In few cases,
continued or intermittent throughput problems can cause complete failure. If you believe this has
occurred, contact Cisco TAC.
If you are unable to verify that the package has been applied to a server, or one or both of the servers fail
to restart properly after the package installation, you may need to re-image the server as explained in
Before You Begin Installing the Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
In all cases, you can use the backup-logs command on one or both servers to get information on the
source of the failure. For more information, see backup-logs in Command Reference Guide for Cisco
Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
New Software Support
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package supports:
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Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.1.1
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Cisco Wireless LAN Controller 8.2
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New Feature and Enhancements
New Feature and Enhancements
The following features are supported in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
Alarm Policy
Prime Infrastructure controls the generation of alarms on certain network conditions using alarm
policies. You can customize the alarm policy to generate critical alarms.
There are two types of Alarm Policies:
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Interface Alarm Policy activates or suppresses the interface alarms on interface related events,
device groups, and port groups.
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Access Points Alarm Policy activates or suppresses the Access Point (AP) alarms on AP related
events, device groups, and alarm thresholds.
Virtual Device Context (VDC) Management
In Prime Infrastructure, the Cisco NX-OS software supports Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs), which
partition a single physical device into multiple logical devices that provide fault isolation, management
isolation, address allocation isolation, service differentiation domains, and adaptive resource
management. VDC allows the switches to be virtualized at the device level.
Prime Infrastructure supports following VDC features:
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Auto-Add—After successful inventory collection, the device with Default VDC is added and
subsequently child VDCs will be added automatically, and the configuration will be stored in Prime
Infrastructure database.
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Auto-Sync—If the synchronized device is a default/Admin VDC, then all the child VDC’s
configuration are synchronized automatically with configuration stored in the Prime Infrastructure
database. 360°
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Viewing VDC details in Device 360° view—The Managed VDC tab added in the Device 360°
View of default VDC, displays the list of child VDCs that are manged by default VDC. The VDC
Details tabs added in the Device 360° View of default VDC and child VDC, displays the VDC
details.
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Viewing VDC details in Device Details Page—Click the device IP to view the Device Details page.
The VDC tab added in the Device Details page, displays the summary, VDC resources, managed
VDCs and CPU utilization details.
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New Feature and Enhancements
Port Channel Links using LAG
In Prime Infrastructure, after successful Inventory collection of devices, links are created between the
devices forming the physical or Ethernet Interfaces. These Interfaces are aggregated and represented as
one, thus forming Port channels.When these Port channels are connected, they form a Link Aggregation
Group (LAG) link. You can view the topology representation of the Port channel links and its members.
Prime Infrastructure supports the following features:
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Port Channel Member display
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Port Channel performance collection
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Port Channel link discovery
Service Profile Management
Prime Infrastructure manages the performance of services by finding faults, the hardware that cause
faults and the impact of those faults on services. This feature shows the hierarchy of Service profiles and
associated Alarm summary.
Additionally, the service profile feature displays the following:
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Service profile list details, such as Profile Name, Service Profile Template, Server, Associated
status and Associated Alarms.
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Service Profile 360° view to show the basic summary information of Service Profiles.
UCS Schematic View Enhancements
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UCS C series Schematic View—You can view the complete schematic view of rack unit, installed
hypervisor, and VMs.
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Enhanced quick view of chassis, blades, and hosts with additional information of service
profile/service profile template.
Converged Access Enhancements
The following enhancements are done to the Converged Access feature in Prime Infrastructure 3.0
Technology Package:
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Wireless
– Six WLAN support
– AP group name support
– Per-WLAN Radio Management – turning off/on 802.11a, 802.11a/g and so on.
– Global wireless radio tuning support—Turning OFF/ON a radio band and specifying
mandatory, supported, and disable rates
– DHCP required support.
– Device classification support.
– Local and/or Radius based device profiling
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Wireless Feature Enhancements
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Security
– Multiple Radius AAA server support
– Device GUI authentication support with TACACS+
– Multiple TACACS + AAA server support
– Per-WLAN wireless client session timeout support
– Per-WLAN wireless client exclusion list and timeout support
Wireless Feature Enhancements
The following enhancements are done to the Wireless features in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0
technology Package:
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Cisco Wireless Controller Feature and Enhancements
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Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.1.1 Feature and Enhancements
Cisco Wireless Controller Feature and 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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Support for increased scale vWLC
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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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L3 Interfaces for Tunneling Protocols
HTTP custom profiling
HTTP profiling is enhanced to support custom HTTP port configuration so that you can profile clients
even if the clients do not use HTTP port 80.
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Wireless Feature Enhancements
Support for Google Chromecast Gateway on mDNS
Google Chromecast Service, using the service key, “_googlecast._tcp.local”, is supported on the existing
implementation of mDNS on Cisco WLC.
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Radius / TACACS Enhancements—Management users can be authenticated by external (Radius /
TACACS) and internal (local authentication) method. Cisco WLC supports fallback mechanism
from external to internal when the external servers are not reachable and allows management users
to login through local authentication. With the Radius/ TACACS enhancement, the Management
users, logged in while external servers were down, will be asked to re-login if the external server is
up and running.
2.4 GHz as Mesh Backhaul
Use of 2.4 GHz as outdoor mesh backhaul is supported. While in the rest of the world, both 2.4 GHz and
5 GHz can be used outdoor, in Israel, only 2.4 GHz can be used outdoor. Therefore, a new regulatory
domain, –I, and country code, IO, is introduced to support use of 2.4-GHz as outdoor mesh backhaul on
the Cisco Aironet 1530 and 1570 APs. This includes all functionalities that are supported in 5GHz
backhaul.
PSK Provisioning Support for Mesh Networks
Support is added for PSK functionality that can be provisioned from Cisco WLC. This helps make a
controlled mesh deployment and enhances Mesh Access Points (MAPs) security beyond the currently
used default Cisco PSK.
Support for increased scale vWLC
The capacity of Cisco Virtual Wireless LAN Controllers (vWLCs) is increased with the introduction of
large configuration vWLC. Two new SKUs with two types of scaling configuration are available. During
installation or upgrade, you can choose between Small vWLC and Large vWLC.Support for virtual
controller with Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
Service- Port: Out of Band Management Support
Earlier, it was recommended that you must not use the service-port for continuous SNMP polling and
management functions except when the management interface of the controller is unreachable. From this
release onwards, you can add and manage the devices through service port using the Cisco Prime
Infrastructure.
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Wireless Feature Enhancements
Cisco Air Time Fairness Enhancements
Cisco Air Time Fairness (ATF) for High Density Experience (HDX) allows network administrators to
group devices of a defined category and enables some groups to receive traffic from the WLAN more
frequently than other groups. Therefore, some groups are entitled to more air time than other groups.
Cisco ATF has the following capabilities:
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Allocates Wi-Fi air time for user groups or device categories
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Air time fairness is defined by the network administrator and not by the network
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Provides a simplified mechanism for allocating air time
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Dynamically adapts to changing conditions in a WLAN
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Enables a more efficient fulfillment of service-level agreements
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Augments standards-based Wi-Fi QoS mechanisms
The following changes have been introduced:
– Wireless Poller
– ATF Statistics Charts
– ATF Report
QoS Mapping
The QoS Mapping feature maintains the QoS policies in situations where appropriate QoS markings that
match the application type are not marked by clients or applications. The administrator gets to map the
differentiated services code point (DSCP) to user priority (UP) values in a Cisco WLC, which in turn
provides better experience to the users while using certain applications such as voice or video
applications.
EoGRE Tunneling on Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Ethernet over GRE (EoGRE) enables tunneling of data traffic from Cisco WLC or Cisco AP to a mobile
packet core using EoGRE tunnels.
wIPS support for 40/80 MHz
wIPS support for 40-MHz and 80-MHz range has been introduced in this release. This feature detects
alarms in the 40-MHz and 80-MHz range (if RRM channel scanning is selected) and provides
information to Cisco Prime Infrastructure. The channel-width information is derived from the packet
data rate and sent to the wIPS module, which stores the channel width per alarm-wise.
Passpoint 2.0 Certification Hotspot 2.0 Online Sign Up
in order to support Passpoint 2.0 certification, the technical specification of Hotspot 2.0 has been
implemented, which enables a secure, automatic connection experience and supports operator goals of
leveraging Wi-Fi technology for data off load. This is made possible by adding Online Sign Up service
(OSU) and the OSEN security mechanism that allow clients to connect through WPA2 to perform their
authentication with the Service Providers (SP) network.
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Wireless Feature Enhancements
L3 Interfaces for Tunneling Protocols
Earlier, the management IP address was used as the tunnel endpoint. From this release it is allowed to d
to specify any L3 dynamic interface as a tunnel endpoint, other than the management interface.
Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.1.1 Feature and Enhancements
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Receiver Start of Packet Detection Threshold (RX-SOP)
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Smart Roaming
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Wi-Fi Interference Awareness
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Support for a/b/g/n Radio
Receiver Start of Packet Detection Threshold (RX-SOP)
Receiver Start of Packet Detection Threshold (RX-SOP) determines the Wi-Fi signal level in dBm at
which an AP radio will demodulate and decode a packet. The higher the RX-SOP level, the less sensitive
the radio is and the smaller the receiver cell size will be. By reducing the cell size, we ensure that the
clients are connected to the nearest access point using the highest possible data rates. This is ideal for
high density environments such as stadiums and large auditoriums where there are a large number of
client devices connected per AP. In a high density environment, the smaller the cell size, the better.
Smart Roaming
Smart roaming resolves the problem of sticky clients that remain associated to access points that are far
away, and outbound clients that attempt to connect to a Wi-Fi network without having a stable
connection. This feature disassociates clients based on the RSSI of the client data packets and data rate.
The client is disassociated if the RSSI alarm condition is met and the current data rate of the client is
lower than the optimized roaming data rate threshold.
Wi-Fi Interference Awareness
Multiple Wi-Fi devices covering an area create overlap and interfering radio signals causing network
performance degradation. To minimize such interference, Cisco CleanAir provides rogue device
detection, visibility into Wi-Fi interference at both the device-level and cumulative level.
Support for a/b/g/n Radio
Support for the third radio, that is 802.11a/b/g/n is introduced in this release. From the Cisco Prime
Infrastructure UI, you can configure Admin status and CleanAir status for this radio.
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Open Caveats
Open Caveats
Table 1 lists the Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
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 1
Open Caveats
Bug ID
Description
CSCuw64673
Not able to disable the Hotspot and 11u configuration from WLAN.
CSCuw71954
Alarm Policy - Device group search retains result even after filter removal.
CScux43734
Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package installation is not supported when HA is in paired mode.
CSCux22286
Backhaul configuration from AP config page returns old value.
CSCux38547
Startup issue when two or more patches installed together without restart.
CSCux42069
Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows to change AP1852 to Flex Mode even if the Cisco WLC version is
earlier than 8.2.
CSCux46476
HA Secondary server does not display Network Topology.
CSCux43974
Incorrect Absolute graph shown for Air Time Fairness.
CSCux35552
Error on editing Rogue Rule on multi user configured SSID - IOS XE 16.1.1.
CSCux48134
Unable to configure AP group, encryption, and AP mode using Prime-IOS16.1.1.
CSCux50187
Unsigned pop-up thrown while downloading signed patches in Prime Infrastructure 3.0.
CSCux60885
Restore on top of Prime Infrastructure 3.X Technology Package is not supported except for same version
restore.
Resolved Caveats
Table 2 lists the Open Caveats in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Technology Package.
Click the identifier to view the impact and workaround for the caveat. This information is displayed in
the Bug Search Tool.
Table 2
Resolved Caveats
Identifier
Description
CSCux27706
Saving the WLAN detail page does not work with Cisco WLC Release 7.4 and earlier version.
CSCuw35307
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 is unable to add Cisco WLC with external web authentication URL
exceeding 251 characters.
CSCuv96247
Deleting Cisco WLC leaves entries in the INTERFACEGROUPSMAPPINGTEMPLATE database.
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Related Documentation
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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