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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1

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What's New in this Release

Resource Manager Essentials 4.1 is the latest release of RME and it forms a part of the Lan Management

Solutions (LMS) 3.0 bundle. In addition to the devices supported, this package contains fixes to both

existing and newly discovered problems.

For details about the new features in RME 4.1, see New Features in RME 4.1

The following are the new features and enhancements in Resource Manager Essentials 4.1:

Support for 10k Devices

The managing capacity of RME is enhanced to support 10k devices with the minimum requirement of

Dual CPU and 4GB RAM. A single server with CS 3.1 and RME 4.1 installed in it is equipped with the

capacity of managing 10k devices thus optimizing performance and meeting the scalability prerequisite.

The support for 10k devices for RME is applicable only for CW-LMS-3.0-10K-K9 license of LMS 3.0.

For more information on licenses, refer to the Installing and Getting Started with CiscoWorks LAN

Management Solution 3.0.

Support for IOS Software Modularity Images

Cisco IOS Software Modularity images allow the user to apply Maintenance Packs to overcome critical

security issues without the need to upgrade to a new software release.

The RME Software Management component allows for distribution of Cisco IOS Software Modularity

images as well as Maintenance Packs.

Software Modularity images can be downloaded from Cisco.com to the Software Repository. For

detailed hardware support of Software Modularity images please consult the 12.2SX Release Notes.

For more details, see Support for IOS Software Modularity and Patch Distribution.

PSIRT Summary Report

You can use the PSIRT Summary Report to ascertain security vulnerabilities that could affect the devices

running IOS in your network. You can generate this Inventory report by selecting this report option from

the Report Generator dialog box under RME Reports.

The Cisco.com Fetch Interval option helps you to set the frequency of retrieving PSIRT information from

Cisco.com and store it in the RME database.

The Report Generator, retrieves information from this database. It also queries the RME Inventory to

retrieve information about the impacted devices and generates the PSIRT Summary Report.

For more details, see Generating a PSIRT Summary Report and Cisco.com Fetch Interval.