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This Routed WAN Management Solution (RWAN) maintenance kit on Solaris contains the April 2000 updates. If you already have the RWAN 1.0 installed, this document addresses the upgrade issues that you need to consider.

The Routed WAN Management Solution Maintenance kit contains upgrades to:

What's New in RWAN

RWAN has been designed specifically to provide solutions for managing router devices in a wide-area network. This version of the product has many new features that are geared to help you manage router devices in your network more efficiently.

Resource Manager Essentials 3.1

Configuration Editor: This version has a new web-based Configuration Editor. This facilitates editing multiple configuration files from the configuration archive. These configured files can then either be saved locally or downloaded to the device.

Software Image Manager: This tool automates upgrading switch and router software from CCO. Software Image Manager has been updated to support software update prerequisite checking for Cisco IIGX/BPX, MGX6X8850 w/RMP, and MGX8220 devices.

Device import: With this version, the device import can now be done from Cisco Wan Manager as well as CWSI Campus 2.x, 3.x, HP OpenView, Tivoli NetView or a flat file.

Multi-service port report provides information on the number and location of Catalyst switches that have multi-service port enabled.

ACL Manager 1.1

The ACL Manager 1.1 (Patch 2) supports new routers, access servers and switches like the 7202, 7204VXR, 7206VXR, 7506, 7576 in the Cisco 7000 series of routers. For a complete list of the new supported devices, refer to Release Notes for ACL Manager 1.1 (Patch 2)  on Solaris.

TrafficDirector 5.8

Traffic Director has enhanced switch support for Catalyst software 6.0. Additionally, this version provides 400S support for the Catalyst 4006, 2806G, and the E3 ATM and SP 4.7 probes.

Internetwork Performance Monitor 2.1

IPM 2.1 has enhanced troubleshooting features for path and hop performance analysis. This version also integrates with the device inventory knowledge of other CiscoWorks2000 products. This release adds support for TCP, DLSW, DHCP, DNS, UDP Echo, UDP Jitter, and IP Precedence.

Minimum Server System Requirements

Table 1 lists the minimum server requirements for each application and combinations of applications.


Table 1: Minimum Server Requirements
Requirement Type CD One only CD One and Essentials CD One and TD CD One, Essentials and IPM Entire RWAN Bundle

Processor

Sparc Ultra 10

Sparc Ultra 10

Sparc Ultra 10

Sparc Ultra 10

Sparc Ultra 60 MP

Memory (RAM)

256 MB

256 MB

256 MB

256 MB

512 MB

Swap space1

512 MB

512 MB

512 MB

512 MB

1 GB

Available drive space

2 GB

4 GB and space for software management files

4 GB

4 GB

6 GB and space for software management files

Additional Hardware

CD-ROM drive and 17-inch color monitor

System software

Solaris 2.6 and patches2 105181-11, 105210-17, 105490-053, 105529-07, and 105568-13

Browser

If used as a client, a browser is required (refer to Table 2)

1Swap space should be double the RAM. If your server has more than the minimum RAM, you must have more than the minimum swap space.
2Make sure patch 106292-03 is not installed on your system. Otherwise CD One will not install.
3
Or patch 107733-05.

Minimum Client System Requirements

Table 2 shows the minimum client requirements for a network with 950 or fewer devices. For information on configuring client systems, refer to Installing and Setting Up CiscoWorks2000 CD One Second Edition on Solaris.


Table 2: Minimum Client Requirements
Requirement Type Minimum Requirement

System Software and Hardware

  • Client system:

    • IBM PC-compatible computer with 300 MHz Pentium processor running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, or Windows 98.

    • Solaris SPARCstation or Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 2.6.

    • HP-UX workstation running HP-UX 10.20 or 11.0.

    • IBM RS/6000 workstations running AIX 4.3.3

  • Color monitor with video card set to 256 colors.

Memory (RAM)

128 MB

Browser

One of the following browsers:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.01.
    Java Virtual Machine (JVM) version 5.0.0.3186 or newer, current shipping version. To verify the JVM version, select View> Java Console.

  • Netscape Navigator 4.61 or 4.7 (Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.6, HP-UX 10.20 or 11.0, AIX 4.33).

Order of Upgrade Installation

Before upgrading to any of the software in this package:

Table 3 shows the exact order in which the software in this bundle has to be installed. Before you begin the upgrade process, ensure that the recommended hardware requirements are met.


Table 3: Order of Upgrade Installation
Task Reference

    1. Perform an upgrade installation of CD One on the server

Refer to the Release Notes for CiscoWorks2000 CD One (Second Edition) on Solaris for any last-minute updates to the installation instructions.

Refer to the section on Performing an Upgrade Installation in Chapter 3 - Installing CD One in Installing and Setting Up CiscoWorks2000 CD One Second Edition (CD One) on Solaris

    2. Prepare to use CD One

Refer to Chapter 4- Preparing to use CD One in Installing and Setting Up CiscoWorks2000 CD One Second Edition (CD One) on Solaris

    3. Install Resource Manager Essentials (3.1) on the server

Refer to the Release Notes for Resource Manager Essentials (3.1) on Solaris for any last-minute updates to the installation instructions.

Refer to the section on Performing an Upgrade Installation in Chapter 1 in Installing and Setting up Resource Manager Essentials (3.1) on Solaris

    4. Prepare to use Resource Manager Essentials

Refer to Chapter 2- Preparing to use Essentials Applications in Installing and Setting up Resource Manager Essentials (3.1) on Solaris

    5. Perform an upgrade installation of ACLM 1.1 (Patch 2), on the server

Refer to the Release Notes for ACLM 1.1(Patch 2) on Solaris for the upgrade installation process. Details of the shell script are available here.

    6. Perform an upgrade installation of Traffic Director (5.8) or IPM 2.1

Refer to the Release Notes for Traffic Director (5.8) on Solaris for any last-minute updates to the installation instructions.

Refer to the section on Performing an Upgrade Installation in Chapter 1 in Installing the Traffic Director Application on Solaris Systems

Refer to the Release Notes for IPM (2.1) on Solaris for any last-minute updates to the installation instructions.

Refer to Chapter 3 Upgrading to IPM Release (2.1) in the Cisco Internetwork Performance Monitor Installation Guide.


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