CISCO PRIME INFRASTRUCTURE 3.

1 V1
30 MINUTES PART 1
SCENARIO 2. VISUALIZING THE
NETWORK
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides a visual map that allows you to view the physical
network topology, including the network devices and the links that connect them.
The topology maps have indicators that show the current alarm status of network devices
and links. By using the network topology maps, you can easily monitor your network by
viewing alarms and viewing the interconnection between the devices. Prime Infrastructure
topology maps are based on Location and User Defined groups. Topology maps show the
devices in the group as well as any links between the devices.
The links between devices are discovered using the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) when
available. If Prime Infrastructure is unable to discover some links, for example, if CDP is
disabled on an interface, you can manually add the link to the topology map, and the
associate the link with a specific interface on the appropriate managed device.
You can also add unmanaged devices or unmanaged network icons to a topology map,
and add links between these unmanaged objects and managed devices in the topology
map.

NETWORK TOPOLOGY MAPS

1. Go to Maps > Topology Maps > Network Topology.
2. Expand the All Locations device group, and then select the Expand All button from the
toolbar.
3. To view a link between Branches click on the thin blue line between locations. For
example Amsterdam Branch and US
4. Within the dCloud Branch group, select the vwlc device.
5. Select the vWLC1 icon. Since this is a managed device, the pop out will include any
current alarms as well as the option to go to the 360 view.
6. NOTE: Alarms on vwlc1 may be displayed if you have joined your own local AP to the
demo vwlc1 and the AP has joined, upgraded code/changed operational status,
disassociated and re-joined.
7. Click the View 360 button to view additional information about the device. 7. Select
the WLAN tab to see the currently configured WLANs and any clients associated to
that WLAN.
8. Click X to close the Device 360 View window.
9. On the left side you view the Alarm Summary for All Locations/Branch. To view the alarm
details click on any of the alarm levels that display alarms. For example, click on Critical or
Minor in the example below.
10. A new browser window will open with the Alarm details. From here, you can select and
change the status.
11. Close the Alarm window. 12. Back on the Network Topology page, explore the various
layouts for the alarms using the Layouts dropdown.
Using Wireless Site Maps
1. Navigate to Maps > Wireless Maps > Site Maps.
2. Using the filer controls, select Floor Area as the Type and click Go.
3. From the list of floors, you can see where the APs are placed.
4. Select Amsterdam Branch > AMS 5 > Floor-1, which has 1 AP.
5. To view AP details, click the APs on the map.
6. Click the X to close the AP 360 view.
7. Another way to see Coverage Areas is from the Dashboard > Network Summary >
Overview page. On that page, you can click on Paris Branch link in the Coverage Area
dashlet to view the floor map and coverage information.
There are various Services available within Prime Infrastructure 3.1.
These include Network Services, Router Virtual Containers, Mobility
Services and Application Visibility & Control.

SCENARIO 3. ENSURING SERVICES

Prime Infrastructure positions the IWAN wizard workflow mostly for green field customers
where the IWAN services need to be enabled for the first time. The enabled IWAN
service cannot be modified for brown field customers. However, customers can always
overwrite the last-configured service by rewriting any of these services on required sites.
Rewriting any of these services on requires sites or modifying the defaults of the IWAN
Enablement configuration templates.
You can use Prime Infrastructure to design, configure, and monitor the IWAN services for
an enterprise. Cisco IWAN requires the configuration of DMVPN, PFR, AVC and QOS as
part of enabling IWAN services on different devices. The Converged Access workflow
simplifies, automates and optimizes deployment of various enterprise-class next
generation wireless deployment models for campus and branch networks. Cisco Prime
Infrastructure can automate the converged access deployment of wireless networks
using converged access components such as Catalyst 3650, 3850, 4500 SUP 8-E switches,
and Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN controller (WLC). The catalyst switches can be deployed as
Mobility Agent (MA), Mobility Controller (MC), and Guest Anchor controller (GA).

NETWORK SERVICES
1. Click on Services > Network Services > IWAN Enablement.
2. lick IWAN Enablement to explore the IWAN Enablement workflow.
Application Visibility and Control (AVC) can recognize 1000+ applications and
categorize them. It can then compute the application performance and finally help
shape or control the traffic. AVC leverages multiple core technologies found in the Cisco
Aggregation Services Routers: Flexible NetFlow to show traffic statistics
NBAR2 which is a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology that can identify over 1300
applications Performance Agent which is used to collect ART metrics Medianet to
collect voice and video statistics
One-click AVC is useful when you would like to turn on AVC for a particular supported
device with all the AVC configuration options included in the pre-configured template.
As a prerequisite, the device on which to enable AVC should be managed by Cisco
Prime Infrastructure.

APPLICATION VISIBILITY AND CONTROL (AVC)

1. From the Prime Infrastructure main menu, go to Services > Application Visibility &
Control > Interfaces Configuration.
2. Select ALL in the Port Group list and select AVC Capable from the filter.
3. In the list of interfaces, check the box for the GigabitEthernet1 interface for
csr1.dcloud.cisco.com.
4. Click the Disable App Visibility button and select App Visibility & Performance (IPV4)
from the dropdown.
5. In the pop up window, you can click the CLI Preview tab to see the commands that
will be sent to the router.
6. Click Details > Job Options. Choose Copy Running Config to Startup and Archive
Config after Deploy.
7. Click Cancel to exit the window.
8. Under Port Groups click System Defined >AVC Configured Interfaces.

SERVICES
1. To configure services to monitor, go to Services > Application Visibility & Control >
Applications and Services.
2.. In the Business Critical field, type Yes. The list of applications will be filtered to show
applications that have been configured as Business Critical.
Traffic identified as Business Critical is tracked for Service Health.
Go to Services > Application Visibility and Control > Service Health.
3. Go to Services > Application Visibility and Control > Service Health.
4. Click the Filter icon in the upper right corner and select All Locations.
5. Under Business Critical Applications, select All.
6. Under Experience Level, check all options.

APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES / SERVICE HEALTH

7. Click Submit.
8. Click the icon for the http application
9. In the Data Sources Reporting Data: choose csr1.dcloud.cisco.com-198.18.133.213.
10. Select one of the metrics that has yellow or red and click within the colored Status
bar next to the Metric type.
11. Hover over points in the graph to see the details for the data point.
12. Close the site details window.

APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES / SERVICE HEALTH