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Chapter 4 Device Configurations and Software Images Set Up Change and Configuration Management
• Ensure reachability from Prime Network units to devices and vice versa.
• Make sure you have performed all of the device configuration prerequisites for adding VNEs. These
commands are described in the Cisco Prime Network 4.0 Administrator Guide.
• Change and Configuration Management supports FTP for all config and image transfer s. Although
you can configure a username and password using the ip ftp command, adding the unit’s FTP
credentials to the device may not be safe if the network is not secure. Before using FTP for Change
and Configuration Management, we recommend that you:
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Configure the network device to add the Prime Network Unit User credentials of the unit that
manages the device. You need not add the super user credentials of the Prime Network Unit
Server to the device configuration.
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For Cisco Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) devices, add the Prime Network Unit User credentials
to the registry. This is required because Prime Network initiates the FTP operation using a TL1
interface, and the TL1 commands require the username and password as input parameters. Aft er
you add this information to the registry, the credentials are automatically read when needed.
# $ANAHOME/Mail/runRegTool.sh -gs 127.0.0.1 setEncrypted 127.0.0.1
nccm-settings/ftpsettings/username
ftp-username
# $ANAHOME/Mail/runRegTool.sh -gs 127.0.0.1 setEncrypted 127.0.0.1
nccm-settings/ftpsettings/password
ftp-passwd
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Restrict the FTP configuration such that the Prime Network Unit User has read-write access
only to the $PRIME_NETWORK_HOME/tftp directory and hence doe s n ot h ave access to
unwanted files outside the home directory.
Note FTP support is not available for Cisco IOS XR devices and Cisco Nexus 5000 and
Cisco Nexus 7000 series devices.
• For IPv6, CM and NEIM functions run smoothly on a combination of network and devices with IPv6
addresses. Either the device or the unit must be configured with an IPv6 address to work. For
Cisco IOS devices with IPv6 address, the CM and NEIM operations will work only in FTP mode.
Configuration Management Setup Tasks
Note In the Configuration Management and Image Management Settings pages, Change and Configuration
Management does not support the following special characters:
• For Password fields—>, <, ', /, \, !, :, ;, and "
• For all other fields—`, ~, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), +, =, |, {, }, [, ], ', ?, >, <, /, \, !, :, ;, and "
The CM features are disabled by default so that you do n ot e nc ount er un expec ted p roce ssing lo ad s on
your server. The following steps explain what you must do to set up CM. All of these items are
configured from the Configuration Management Settings page (Configurations > Settings). Many of
these settings can be overridden when you create specific jobs.
1. Configure the transport protocol that Prime Network will use between the device and the gateway.
these are controlled from the Transport Protocol area. The options are TFTP, SFT P/SCP, and FTP.
The default is TFTP. Note the following: