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Release Notes for Cisco Network
Registrar 3.0(1)T
These release notes describe the caveats and new features for Cisco Network Registrar 3.0(1)T.
Warning The upgrade procedures for Solaris have changed from earlier revisions. Read
“Upgrading From Previous Releases” section on page 5 before proceeding. Do not run the Solaris
pkgrm command before reviewing these instructions. The pkgrm command may delete your
data.
This document contains the following sections:
• Introduction 2
• System Requirements 2
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• Software Compatibility 3
• User Interface and Server Interoperability 4
• What’s New in This Release 4
• Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T 4
• Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T 4
• Upgrading From Previous Releases 5
• Upgrading From CNR Release 1.x 5
• Upgrading from CNR Release 2.x or 3.x Solaris 5
• Upgrading from CNR Release 2.x Windows NT Server 6
• Cisco Connection Online 6
• Special Considerations 7
• Reverting to a Previous Version from Release 3.0(0.2)T or higher 7
• Resolved and Unresolved Bugs for 3.0(1)T 7
1
Introduction
Introduction
The release of Network Registrar 3.0(1)T contains the following components:
• CD-ROM containing the software
• Network Registrar Concepts Guide
• Getting Started with Network Registrar
• Network Registrar CLI Reference Guide
• Network Registrar User’s Guide
• Cisco Network Registrar 3.0 AIX Installation
• Cisco Network Registrar 3.0 HP-UX Installation
• Network Registrar Web GUI Installation Instructions
• Release Notes for Network Registrar 3.0(1)T
Network Registrar includes WindowsNT servers, CLI, and GUI, and Solarisservers, CLI, and a
Motif GUI, and AIX and HP-UX servers and CLI.
You can run the servers and the associated user interfaces on the appropriate platform, or you can
run the servers on one platform and the user interfaces on another.
System Requirements
Network Registrar 3.0(1)T runs on Windows NT 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1, and Solaris 2.6. Network
Registrar’s 3.0(1)T GUI also runs on Windows 95.
For all OS platforms, Cisco recommends that you install the current service pack (Windows) or
recommended patch cluster (Solaris).
• Windows NT 4.0 must be run with service pack 3, or for Y2K compliance, on service pack 4.
• Solaris 2.5.1 has been tested with the recommended patch cluster that was current on February
11, 1998. In particular, it was tested with these patches installed:
Table 1 Solaris 2.5.1 Patches
103461-20 103558-11 103566-25
103582-15 103594-13 103603-06
103612-38 103622-09 103630-09
103640-17 103663-09 103680-01
103686-02 103690-05 103696-03
103738-05 103743-01 103817-02
103866-05 103879-04 103900-01
103901-08 103934-06 103959-06
104010-01 104166-03 104212-09
104246-05 104266-01 104283-03
104317-01 104331-04 104334-01
104338-02 104433-06 104516-03
104533-03 104613-01 104650-02
104654-03 104692-01 104708-09
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Software Compatibility
Table 1 Solaris 2.5.1 Patches (Continued)
104736-03 104776-02 104795-02
104893-01 104935-01 104956-04
104958-01 104960-01 104968-02
104976-03 105004-09 105050-01
105092-01 105251-01 105299-01
105344-01 105352-01 105520-01
Solaris 2.6 has beentestedwiththerecommended patch cluster that was current on February 11,
1998. In particular, Solaris 2.6 was tested with these patches installed:
Table 2 Solaris 2.6 Patches
105216-01 105393-01 105518-01
105615-02 105621-01 105665-01
105667-01 105379-01 105786-01
105669-02 105558-01 105375-03
105357-01 105356-01 105407-01
Software Compatibility
Network Registrar 3.0(1)T is compatible with the following:
• DHCP clients—All RFC 1954, 2132, and 2133 compliant DHCP and BOOTP clients
• DNS servers—Any DNS server compliant with RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS Updates and RFC
1995 and 1996 (IXFR and NOTIFY)
• LDAP servers—Any LDAP v2 or v3 server, including servers from Netscape, Sun
Microsystems, and Lucent Technologies
There is a known problem on Solaris that may cause the DHCP server to hang during initialization.
The problem is described by Sun RFE 4071167. You can encounter the deadlock in the Solaris name
resolver client by installing a linked set of patches from Sun, including 103663-08, and disabling
host name caching in nscd (to improve name resolver client performance), which is recommended
by Sun in RFE 1243174.
To avoid this problem, do one of the following:
• Do not install the linked patch set.
• Do not disable “nscd” host name caching.
• Install patch 103663-11 (Solaris 2.5.1) or 105755-01 (Solaris 2.6).
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User Interface and Server Interoperability
User Interface and Server Interoperability
The following table describes the typical outcome when you run different versions of the user
interface and the servers:
Table 3 Network Registrar Interoperability
GUI and CLI Server Outcome
3.0 2.5 Network Registrar runs successfully.
2.5 3.0 Network Registrar UI displays the error message “Unsupported version
number.” The server is unaffected.
What’s New in This Release
The following sections describe the new features in Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T and
Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T.
Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T
Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T offers these new features:
• DHCP lease query—A method for a uBR to discover the mapping between IP and MAC
addresses. This is necessary in some customer environments to prevent theft of service on the
cable network.
• Read-only user interface—A feature that allows a site to have one user interface in use with full
read/write privileges and a several interfaces in use with just read privileges.
• DNS force transfer—A method fora siteto manuallyforce anupdate ona secondary server when
the primary server has newer information.
• LDAP log and error messages—Messages that indicate progress in accessing an LDAP server.
This feature makes it easier to diagnose problems interfacing to LDAP.
• Improved server, GUI and CLI performance—A data structure enhancement that increases
processing speed and new lease generation when a large number of scopes are configured.
Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T
Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T offers these new features:
• Integration of the TFTP server into the CNR server framework
• Enhancements to the CNR user interfaces to support the TFTP server
• Enhancements to the CNR DHCP server in support of the TFTP server dynamic DOCSIS file
creation
• Enhancements and customizations to the CNR DHCP server in support of data-over-cable
deployments
• Improved performance
• Unique error code numbers on NT
• Support for Solaris 7
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Upgrading From Previous Releases
When you upgrade from a previous release of Network Registrar, you can choose to save your
database or overwrite it. If you overwrite your database, you lose all information about your zones,
scopes and leases.
Upgrading From CNR Release 1.x
To upgrade from any Network Registrar release numbered 1.x, you must first upgrade to release 2.0
before upgrading to release 3.0T or 3.0(1)T. Contact the Technical Assistance Center if you need
additional information.
Upgrading from CNR Release 2.x or 3.x Solaris
Warning The upgrade procedures for Solaris have changed from earlier revisions. Do not run the
Solaris pkgrm command beforereviewingthese instructions. The pkgrm command will delete
your data if you use it to remove or upgrade Network Registrar release 2.5.
Upgrading From Previous Releases
To upgrade from Network Registrar release 2.x or 3.x, you must run the program upgrade_cnr in
the solaris subdirectory of the CD-ROM. If you use the standard configuration of the Solaris
automounter,this program will be located in the directory /cdrom/cnr_3_0_1_t/solaris/upgrade_cnr.
The upgrade program does the following:
• Backs up your existing database
• Uninstalls your current version of Network Registrar
• Installs the latest version of Network Registrar at the location where the previous version was
installed
Note You cannot use the upgrade program to install a new version of Network Registrar in a new
location. Youcannot use the upgrade program to select options, such as Complete, Server, and GUI.
The upgrade program only upgrades the options that were previously installed.
To upgrade from Network Registrar 2.x or 3.x to Network Registrar 3.0(1)T on a Solaris server and
to preserve your database, do the following:
Step 1 Login as root.
Step 2 Run the /cdrom/cnr_3_0_1_t/solaris/upgrade_cnr program.
# /cdrom/cnr_3_0_1_t/solaris/upgrade_cnr
If you mount the CD-ROMmanually,or have a non-standard automounter configuration,
or are using an unpacked electronic distribution of Network Registrar, replace
/cdrom/cnr_3_0_1_t with the directory on which the CD-ROM is mounted, or the
directory containing the unpacked electronic distribution.
Note You must run the script with an absolute path, as shown above. If you run it with
a relative path (for example, by typing cd /cdrom/cnr_3_0_1_t/solaris and then
./upgrade_cnr), it will not work.
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Cisco Connection Online
Step 3 Follow the instructions on the screen.
This completes the procedure for upgrading from Network Registrar 2.x or 3.x to Network Registrar
3.0(1)T on a Solaris server. When the upgrade is complete, Network Registrar’s services will start
automatically.
Upgrading from CNR Release 2.x Windows NT Server
To upgrade from Network Registrar 2.x or 3.x to Network Registrar 3.0(1)T on a Windows NT
server and to preserve your database, do the following:
Step 1 Run setup.exe.
Step 2 Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
Answer Yesto the question about upgrading your existing installation. This preserves the
data in your database.
To upgrade from Network Registrar 2.x or 3.x to Network Registrar 3.0(1)T on a Windows NT
server without preserving your database, do the following:
Step 1 Run the uninstall program.
Step 2 Perform an initial installation as described in the “Installing Network Registrar on
Windows” section on page 1-8 of the Network Registrar Getting Started Guide.
Note To non-interactively upgrade a previous release of Network Registrar, see the instructions in
the text file \i386\UPGRADE2.ISS on the Network Registrar CD.
Cisco Connection Online
CiscoConnection Online (CCO) is CiscoSystems’ primary,real-time support channel. Maintenance
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Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CCO provides a wealth of standard and value-added
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CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced
simultaneously: a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the WorldWide
Web (WWW). The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, and Internet
e-mail,and itis excellent forquick access to information overlowerbandwidths. The WWW version
of CCO providesrichly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well
as hyperlinks to related information.
You can access CCO in the following ways:
• WWW: http://www.cisco.com
• WWW: http://www-europe.cisco.com
• WWW: http://www-china.cisco.com
• Telnet: cco.cisco.com
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Special Considerations
This section contains information about special considerations for Network Registrar.
Reverting to a Previous Version from Release 3.0(0.2)T or higher
If you install Network Registrar Release 3.0(0.2)T or higher, then revert to a previous version, you
must delete C:\Program Files\Network Registrar\Data\DB\vista.taf (Windows NT) or
/var/nwreg2/data/db/vista.taf(Solaris) before loading nrcmd,ntwkreg, or any other program that
uses the RAIMA database. Otherwise an error message displays.
Resolved and Unresolved Bugs for 3.0(1)T
The list of resolved and unresolved bugs is available on the Cisco Network Registrar CD-ROM. To
display it, navigate your browser to this file: CD-ROM Drive/docs/BugList.html.
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Resolved and Unresolved Bugs for 3.0(1)T
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