GUI - General

• Support up to 8000 devices depending on the specific network scenario

• Topology- Support up to 1500 devices in a group/map

• EPN-M Create Circuit Optical shall provide immediate feedback for simple ressource conflicts

• Remove Cable access device support and feature support (will no longer be available via EPNM)

• Accessibility Certification - Barrier-Free program Ph.5 - blind users

• Ability to maintain maps, filters and layouts customization across upgrades, in the topology related tables.

• Improve Log file management

• EPNM user activity to be logged to logfile

Device Configuration

• Reports related improvements to support 8K device scale

• Switch Inventory Job Enhancement - Group & Device Based Job Scheduling

• ISSU: SSO mode : give a warning to user that we will configure device to SSO mode if the activation checked with ISSU

• EPNM Topology support for 25G interfaces ( links to be displayed in Map-View)

• EPNM support for ISSU for ASR903

Circuit Emulation

• STS1e support on NCS4200-48T3E3-CE & NCS4200-3GMS CEM with XE v17.3.1 with and without card proection

• Bandwidth CLI alignment in transport settings for CEM pseudowire services

Carrier Ethernet

• Support for CFM using ICC format to support ME1200 interoperate with other devices

• Support for EVPN (ELAN) Discovery and Overlay over XE and XR device types

License

• EPNM to start with smart licensing by default

Device Lifecycle Management

• Support for bulk device import with csv file using REST NB API

• REST NB API to export devices and retrieve Credential profiles are removed

Segment Routing

• Visualize association between EVPN(ELAN) and SR/SRTE (XR-only in 5.0)

• ECMP support for SR Policy overlay

• FlexAlgo support for Segment Routing TE provisioning, Discovery and Overlay

• TI-LFA backup path visualization

MPLS TE

• FlexLSP: EPN-M shall support the auto-bw keyword on both XE and XR devices

Service Discovery

• Introducing maximum number of 500 endpoints limit when discovering large L3VPN. Services with more than 500 endpoints will not be visible in EPNM UI/NBI.

Optical

• NBI Compatibility with WAE 7.2.2 and 7.2.1

Fault Management

• Event Flood and Throttle control, Health Monitor

RESTCONF NBI

• STS1e support on 48-port T3/E3 CEM with and without protection

• Bulk promotion support for CEM services

• auto-bw keyword support for Flex LSP for both XE and XR devices

• Enhancement to LSP ping/Traceroute support

• Provisioning support for ODU services

• Support editing of existing service to update or change the A or Z point for CEM service

• Support CFM using ICC format to support ME1200 interoperate with other devices

• Enhancement to retrieve LMP based on termination point details

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 2000 Series —New Operating System Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 2006 Series—Beta Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 2015 Series—Beta Support

Cisco Network Convergence Systems 540 Series Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Routers—New Operating System Support

Cisco NCS 4200 Network Convergence Systems—New Operating System Support

Upgrade Issues

After upgrading to Cisco EPN Manager 5.0:

• FTP and TPTP will be disabled by default.

• Active threshold crossing alarms (TCA) for temperature will remain active and will not be cleared. Please clear these alarms manually.

• Devices must be resynced in order to view ISIS links.

• LDP-enabled devices must be resynced in order to view LDP feature-related information.

• TCAs for inbound/outbound errors and inbound/outbound discards must be recreated in the Interface Health monitoring policy.

Limitations on Carrier Ethernet Circuit Provisioning

• Promotion of service using old probe name format will be supported and probes will get listed in user interface with appropriate standard OAM Profile name after promotion.

• Sample profile: profile PM2_3_8_CoS5_DM type cfm-delay-measurement.

• Till custom profiles names is supported, empty modification of brownfield services with different naming format will cause deleting of existing custom profile and adding of new profiles with provisioning supported name format.

• Inventory models only loose and delay profiles which is associated to service. But, there can be profiles in device which is not associated to any service. Validation if limit of 100 profiles is reached in device is not handled before config is deployed.

• Error will be thrown from device and deploy will get failed when user tries to create new SLA operation profile when EPNM tries to create 101th profile.

TLS 1.2 Required for Secured Channel Communication for HTTPS and TLS

Only Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 is supported for HTTPS and TLS related secured

has been disabled due to security vulnerabilities.

This means that all peer systems and clients that transact with Cisco EPN Manager using HTTPS/TLS must support TLS 1.2. If they do not support TLS 1.2, they must be upgraded. Wherever possible, the Cisco EPN Manager documentation highlights the potentially affected systems. Please contact your Cisco representative for support in this regard, if necessary.

Reconciliation Report Limitations

When provisioning a service, if you have not provided a value for any of the attributes, the provisioned value for those attributes will be displayed as “Missing” in the reconciliation report. The device may have default values for these attributes but Cisco EPN Manager does not have any values configured.

Limitations on ME 1200 Devices

The Y.1564 performance test does not work if the source/destination is a ME 1200 device.

Limitations on NCS 4200 Devices Running IOS-XE 16.8.1

The following functionality does not work on NCS 4200 devices running IOS-XE 16.8.1:

• Alarm profile

• Configuration of SONET LOP and CT3 LOP from the GUI

• Admin shut/no shut functionality on SONET/T1/T3 HOP/LOP

Limitations on NCS540 and NCS5500 devices

• NCS540 device series does not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

• NCS5500 device series does not support Fault-OAM, Wrap-Protection and BFD.

Use CLI Templates for Configuring PTP Commands

On ASR920 devices with software version 16.9.1, IEEE 1588-2008 BC/MC license is required to execute the 1588 PTP commands.

Configuration and Inventory Not Supported for PTP Templates

The behavior of modeling the configurations pushed through PTP templates may not work as expected because the model may not be in place for all the configurations pushed through PTP templates. Configuration/Inventory is not supported for these configurations.

Deprecation of Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00

No Support for ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, 10.03.00 ONS 10.00.10, 10.01.00, and 10.03.00 are no longer supported on Cisco NCS 2002, 2006 and 2015 devices.

Data Center Device Lifecycle Support Only

Cisco EPN Manager provides foundation lifecycle support for UCS compute systems, CSR 1000v, and Nexus series devices but does not provide data center topology.

LINK_DOWN alarm on sub interfaces in Gig Port

LINK_DOWN alarms will not be generated when link is down on sub interfaces in Gig Port.