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Cisco Prime Network 4.0 User Guide

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Preface

This guide describes Cisco Prime Network 4.0. Prime Network serves as an extensible integration

platform for network and service management. At its core is a virt ual net work medi ati on mode l t hat is

rich, open, and vendor-neutral, and supports the management of diverse multiservice and multivendor

networks. Additionally, Prime Network provides the following mature NMS functionality:

• Network topology discovery and visualization.

• Element management, providing near real-time inventory.

• Fault management, event correlation, root cause analysis and troubleshooting.

• Network service support.

This preface contains the following sections:

• Audience, page xxiii

• Document Organization, page xxiv

• Conventions, page xxvi

• Related Documentation, page xxvii

• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page xxvii

The intended audience for this guide includes:

• Network viewers who monitor the network and perform basic (nonprivileged) system functions.

• Network operators who perform day-to-day operations such as creating business tags a nd maps, and

managing alarms.

• Network configurators who activate services and configure network elements.

• System administrators who manage and configure users, network elements, the Prime Network

system, and overall security.

• System managers or administrators who periodically review and manage the events list using

Cisco Prime Network Events (Prime Network Events).

• Networking engineers who are interested in understanding how the Prime Network Events fault and

root cause analysis mechanism works. These engineers should have networking knowledge at Cisco

Certified Network Associate (CCNA) level, and should have received Cisco Prime Network Vision

(Prime Network Vision) basic and administrative training.