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Cisco Prime Network 4.0 User Guide
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IPv6 and IPv6 VPN over MPLS Cisco Prime Network (Prime Network) supports IPv6 for:
• Gateways, clients, and units using IPv6.
• Communications between VNEs and devices in IPv6 environments, whether the device management
IP address is IPv4 or IPv6.
• Polling and notification using the following protocols over IPv6:
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SNMP v1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3
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Telne t
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SSHv2
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ICMP
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XML (for Cisco IOS XR devices)
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HTTP (for Cisco UCS and VMware vCenter devices)
• All reports with devices that use IPv6 addresses.
• Fault management, including event processing and service alarm gener ation .
Prime Network supports correlation and path tracing for:
• 6PE and native IPv6 networks.
• IPv6 BGP address families.
• IPv6 GRE tunnels.
IPv6 VPN over MPLS, also known as 6VPE, uses the existing MPLS IPv4 core in fra stru ctur e fo r I Pv6
transport to enable IPv6 sites to communicate over an MPLS IPv4 core network using MPLS label switch
paths (LSPs). 6VPE relies on MP-BGP extensions in the IPv4 network configuration on the PE router to
exchange IPv6 reachability information. Edge routers are configured to be dual-stacks running both IPv4
and IPv6, and use the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address for IPv6 prefix reachability exchange.
In 6VPE environments, Prime Network supports:
• Modeling of OSPFv3 routes between PE and CE devices.
• IPv6 addresses for BGP neighbors for MP-BGP.
• Correlation and path tracing.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• User Roles Required to Work with IPv6 and 6VPE, page 17-2
• Viewing IPv6 Information, page 17-2