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Prognosis IP Telephony Manager 9.6.1
with Prognosis Path Insight
Date published
Friday, November 18, 2011
Version
1.0
1 Revision History
Document control: \\ir-file-srv\ir-work\Consulting\IPTM\Prerequisites
Prior to Prognosis 9.6.1:
Version Date Author Comments
1.0 Thomas Pilz Initial draft per vendor
Draft 21.10.2011
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2 Introduction
Prior to a Prognosis solutions consultant being dispatched to site to carry out an installation of the
Prognosis IP Telephony Manager and Prognosis IP Telephony Management Reporter product range, it is
imperative that a set of pre-requisites are met and confirmed to be in place before the installation date.
This will assist in the smooth implementation of Prognosis and avoid potential delays to the project,
maximising the duration of the consultant’s allocated time. In light of this, a set of pre-requisites detailed
in this document should be met.
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3 Scope
It is the scope of this document to detail the pre-requisites for Prognosis across the Cisco platform as
follows:
It will also detail the minimum specification for servers/GUI for these platforms.
It is not within scope to detail how Prognosis works within each platforms technology.
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Each section is split into 2 sub sections. The first sub section requires information to be provided that will
help build a picture of the environment into which Prognosis will be deployed. This will also provide the
relevant information to create the correct licenses and estimate the amount of days required to carry
out the implementation. The second sub section lists the requirements that must be implemented and
understood to ensure the installation is successful.
NOTE: If any of the following pre-requisites are not met, it will lead to a delay in the implementation,
which will ultimately increase the amount of days required of a Prognosis consultant and customer
representative for implementation.
4.1 Cisco Unified Communications Manager 5.x, 6.x, 7.x & 8.x
4.1.1 Overview
CUCM 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x are Linux based appliances. As a consequence, a Prognosis agent cannot be
installed directly onto the appliance which leads to a different information gathering mechanism to CCM
3.x & CUCM 4.x. Prognosis is installed only onto the Monitoring node, unity and other servers in the
environment. Prognosis will poll the publishers and subscribers and communicate with Unity/Other
servers via the installed agents. This results in a different set of pre-requisites to CCM 3.x & CUCM 4.x.
Provide the following information by entering the details in the column provided:
# Question Response
1 Version of Cisco Unified Communication Manager
2 Number and type of phones
Hard
Soft
Analogue
3 Number and type/version of gateways:
MGCP
H323
4 Number of:
Publishers
Subscribers
Unity Connection Servers
Cisco Express routers
Other servers i.e. Exchange, MOH, TFTP etc.
Cisco CTS Telepresence Units
Please detail other servers:
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5 Please detail the cluster servers and its location i.e. are
they on site where we are visiting?
6 Will installation be carried out onsite where servers are
located or remotely?
7 Will Prognosis be installed onto a standalone server or
onto VMware?
8 Is it a live or lab environment?
9 What is important for each customer in IPT i.e. QoS, call
reporting, capacity planning etc.?
10 Full list of servers that IPTM is to be installed onto, to
include hostnames and IP addresses and locations
11 Do you have an application that takes the CDRs from
CUCM?
12 Administrator user name and password for IPTM to access
cluster data
13 What is the call volume for each call manager?
14 What is the average call duration?
15 How long do you require to keep the historical data?
16 Will historical data be stored on the monitoring server or
over a SAN
17 Do you have Unity Connection?
18 Do you have Cisco Unity Express (CUE)?
19 Do you have SRST routers?
20 Do you have CUCME?
4.1.2 Pre-requisites
Confirm that the following pre-requisites have been met by typing “complete” and date it was
completed into the completed column:
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If the CUCM uses SNMP V3, the same user must exist on
all nodes in the cluster. If it does not, it needs to be added
to each node.
The user needs to have same authentication protocol and
encryption protocol (and the user name, authentication
protocol, authentication password, encryption protocol
and
encryption password must match the SNMP Entry Names
in the IPTM PASSWORD Configuration and the profile in
the Cluster Static Configuration).
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1. Putty to Publisher and Subscriber to verify the login ID and password provided
2. Check the web service connectivity to Publisher and Subscriber by using e.g.
https://10.39.38.11:443/perfmonservice/services/PerfmonPort to verify the login ID and
password provided
3. Check the community string from Cisco Unified Call Manager Administration > Cisco Unified
Call Manager Serviceability > SNMP Community String Configuration
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Prognosis Network Diagnostics is a VoIP Ecosystem Management tool for Cisco. It supports the following
Cisco platforms:
Product Versions/Models
Cisco Unified Communications
Manager 5, 6 and 7
Provide the following information by entering the details in the column provided:
# Question Response
1 Version of Cisco platform
Pre-requisites:
Confirm that the following pre-requisites have been met by typing “complete” and date it was
completed into the completed column
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Tips:
1. In order to use Network Diagnostics, you will need to ensure that when adding a PBX/Cluster,
customer and site fields have been entered and not left blank.
2. The PASSWORDS configuration setup for SNMP community strings is in addition to any that may
have been previously done for Cisco monitoring.
3. As of IPTM patch 6, there is a bug in which Avaya customers will have to enter their community
strings into the PASSWORDS Configuration without the customer and site fields.
Snmpv2c:<customer_name>:<site_name>:<password_number>
Snmpv2c:::<password_number>
4. The recommended resolution for Prognosis GUI is increased for Network Diagnostics from
1024x768 to 1260x1024 due to the map displays in Network Diagnostics.
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Note:
This is a generic deployment, it does not take redundant Prognosis servers into consideration.
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7 Bandwidth Requirement
To minimize IP Telephony Manager bandwidth usage on the WAN it is recommended to position an IP
Telephony Manager Monitoring Server close to (i.e. in the same LAN) the device group being monitored.
The following table contains indicative bandwidth requirements for Prognosis “Monitoring Traffic”
There is one factor that impacts on scalability of the Monitoring Server in a CUCM 5+ environment - the
BHCA (Busy Hour Call Attempts) across all CUCM 5+ clusters.
To calculate the minimum bandwidth required and recommended bandwidth in monitoring Cisco
environment, please answer the following questions:
No Question Answer
1 How many MGCP BRI devices?
2 How many MGCP FXO devices?
3 How many MGCP FXS devices? (Includes VG224 MGCP FXS devices)
4 How many MGCP PRI devices?
5 How many MGCP T1 CAS devices?
6 How many SIP devices (trunks+gateways)?
7 How many H.323 gateways?
8 How many H.323 devices, excluding gateways? (Includes phones, trunks & ATA ports)
9 How many Locations configured?
10 How many phones (Cisco IP phones + VG ports + ATAs)?
11 How many extensions/DNs?
12 How many phones are sharing extensions?
13 How many Route Patterns?
14 Are you planning to open the IPTM Server Central display?
15 How many servers are in each Call Manager Group?
16 Are you planning on collecting HP Hardware MIB information?
17 What performance profile will you use? (see below Profile table)
18 Total number of Subscribers in this cluster?
19 What is the mean call duration (in seconds) for this cluster?
20 What is the Subscriber/User Erlang figure for this cluster?
Performance Profiles for monitoring CUCM 5+ clusters - used to determine the collection periods used by the data
collectors:
Profile High Medium Low Minimal
Polling Interval
30 60 120 300
(Sec)
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Management Reporter provides reporting functionality for the following IP telephony systems:
Confirm that the following pre-requisites have been met by typing “complete” and date it was
completed into the completed column
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The Reporting Server component is to collect data from the Cisco environment via the monitoring
servers and publish capacity planning, troubleshooting, SLA and analytical style reports. The reports are
generated and stored on the reporter server.
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9.2.3 Pre-Requisites
# Pre-Requisite Completed & Date
1 Is a server ready and available with the recommended
system requirements?
2 Ensure the SNMP service is installed and running on the
Management node?
3 IP connectivity is required from Prognosis managing
server as follows:
• To all Prognosis monitoring nodes and monitored
servers running Prognosis locally over TCP 1960
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Ensure that no other versions or Word or Office are installed.
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The installation will detect if this software is not present and will install it from the CD after prompting for permission. If
necessary, Windows Installer 3.1 will also be installed from the CD, however this will require a system reboot.
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See the previous section on Managing Server pre-requisites for more detail.
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Access to an SMTP Mail Server (e.g. MS Exchange) is required if email distribution of reports and/or error alerting via
email is required. The SMTP server does not need to be on the same machine.
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If necessary, Windows Installer 3.1 will be installed from the CD. However, this will
require a machine reboot.
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If necessary, Windows Installer 3.1 will be installed from the CD. However, this will
require a machine reboot.
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10 Summary
The applicable section for your IP Telephony environment should be checked and all relevant
information requested sent back to the Prognosis engineer/account manager at least 1 week before the
agreed installation date. This will confirm everything is in place and ready.
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