The recommended migration for the Cisco Network Registrar 6.0 is the Cisco Network Registrar 6.1. Table 2 provides relevant information for migrating to the replacement product.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the CNS Network Registrar 6.0.
Milestone
Definition
Date
End-of-life announcement date
The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a product is distributed to the general public.
February 18, 2006
End-of-sale date
The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.
August 19, 2006
Last shipment date
The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
November 17, 2006
End of software maintenance releases date
The last date that Cisco Engineering may release any final software maintenance releases or bug fixes. After this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software.
August 19, 2007
End of new service attachment date
For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.
August 19, 2007
End of service contract renewal date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
November 14, 2008
Last date of support
The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.
August 18, 2009
Cisco Network Registrar version 6.1 contains all the features in Cisco Network Registrar 6.0 plus the following new features:
• The regional cluster provides central management capability in Cisco CNS Network Registrar. The regional cluster serves as the aggregate management server for up to 100 local clusters, each of which is a collection of DNS, DHCP, and TFTP servers deployed in the network. With regional cluster, the administrator can configure and control the local clusters from a centralized location and thus enabling coordination of local cluster management across multiple network domains to provide a consistent and unified IP address policy implementation
• Address space management capability simplifies the task of managing address blocks and can be exercised from the regional cluster and is a feature in the regional cluster. Flexible reporting capability allows CNR administrators, from the regional cluster, to collect subnet utilization and lease history information stored in local clusters deployed in the network; and thus making the task of collecting usage data simple and virtually effortless. Without an automated solution, the complexity of managing address block can be high and the task can be tedious and time consuming
• Cluster management allows central management of address space and global protocol server configuration, such as policies, client-classes, and scope templates. With this capability, CNR administrator can create and manage a list of CNR local clusters using the web UI on the regional cluster.
• The Router Interface Configuration (RIC) server manages the router interfaces on Cisco uBR 7246VXR and uBR10K series. An administrator can view, retrieve, and modify the router description, address of the primary subnet address on the interface, address of the secondary subnet on the interface, IP helper, and address of cable helper, owner, and region where the router is deployed. As changes are made to router over time, the RIC server will synchronize with the router to incorporate these changes.
• Users now have the option to have lease allocated by priority or by first-available. With priority allocation, each scope will be assigned a priority and leases will be handed out from scope with the higher priority until the addresses in all the scope are exhausted. If first-available is selected, Cisco CNS Network Registrar will hand out the address that is first available. The two new DHCP allocation options give the administrator the flexibility to implement a more deterministic address allocation strategy.
• The IP lease history feature has been enhanced in Network Registrar 6.1 to significantly improve server performance when this feature is enabled. This feature intelligently provides an audit mechanism in Cisco CNS Network Registrar while delivering the high performance and scalability required for handling large networks.
• To continue support for securing data and operations, Cisco CNS Network Registrar 6.1 enables users to restrict DNS zone transfers based on Transaction Signature (TSIG). With TSIG enabled, user can verify Dynamic DNS update and zone transfer requests and responses to come from an authorized source.
• To prevent unauthorized query, the restricted query ACL's feature allows the CNR administrator to constraint clients to querying only certain servers based on the source IP address or source network address.
• Several counters are added in Cisco CNS Network Registrar 6.1 to provide more detailed performance measurements for the DNS server. These counters provide more information other than a value between 1 and 10 when gauging the health of the DNS server and can potentially assist with identifying areas in the DNS servers that can be reconfigured to deliver a better throughput.
New administrative roles are added to Cisco CNS Network Registrar 6.1 to enable web-based administration for the new features and capabilities.
Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
End-of-Sale Product Part Number
Product Description
Replacement Product Part Number
Replacement Product Description
CNR-6.0-ADD-100K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 100K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD100K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 100K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-10K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 10K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD10K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 10K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-1250
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 1250 IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD1250
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 1250 IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-1M
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 1M IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD1M
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 1M IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-250K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 250K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD250K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 250K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-25K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 25K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD25K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 25K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-2K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 2K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD2K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 2K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-500
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 500 IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD500
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 500 IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-500K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 500K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD500K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 500K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-ADD-5K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, add 5K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.1-ADD5K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 5K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-BASE-2K
Netwk Registrar 6.0, base lic/kit, all platfms, 2K IP nodes
CNR-6.1-ADD2K
Netwk Registrar 6.1, add 2K IP node, lic-only kit
CNR-6.0-K9-SECURE
Netwk Registrar 6.0, SSL HiEncrypt Export Cntl
CNR-6.1-K9-SECURE
Network Registrar 6.1, SSL High Encrypt Kit, K9 Export
CNR-6.0-UPG-TLENET
Special CNR V7.0 Upgrade Package Entitlement for Telenet
There is currently no replacement product available for this product.
Customers using Cisco Network Registrar 6.0 should contact Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) or local account representatives for details on migrating to Cisco Network Registrar 6.1
