About This Guide

This book describes how to install and configure the Cisco Access Registrar 1.3 software, how to customize your site, and provides sample C and Tcl scripts you can use as a basis for your own scripts.

This chapter describes who should read this book, how it is organized, and the document conventions used throughout this book.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is designed for network managers who are responsible for IP address management. The network manager should be familiar with the following topics:

basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking
network topologies and protocols.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized as follows:

"Installing Cisco Access Registrar," describes the key features of the Cisco Access Registrar application, how to install and test Cisco Access Registrar, and explains how to use the Cisco Access Registrar license.

"Configuring Cisco Access Registrar," describes how to configure, test, and troubleshoot your configuration using the aregcmd commands.

"Customizing Your Site," describes how to customize your site including configuring multiple user groups, remote servers, and session management.

"Cisco Access Registrar Scripts," contains sample scripts in both the C and Tcl languages.

An Index is also provided.

Related Information

Cisco documentation and additional literature are available in a CD-ROM package, which ships with your product. The Documentation CD-ROM, a member of the Cisco Connection Family, is updated monthly. Therefore, it might be more up to date than printed documentation. To order additional copies of the Documentation CD-ROM, contact your local sales representative or call customer service. The CD-ROM package is available as a single package or as an annual subscription. You can also access Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at http://www.cisco.com, http://www-china.cisco.com,
or http://www-europe.cisco.com.

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This book and the following documents comprise the Cisco Access Registrar documentation set:

Release Notes for Cisco Access Registrar, Release 1.3. This document provides an inventory of the product's components, general information on how the product works, information on known software and documentation problems, descriptions of the new features and functionality provided in the current release, and any last minute information about Cisco Access Registrar not available when the documents went to press.
Cisco Access Registrar User Guide. This document provides technical information about Cisco Access Registrar.

The following list of documents contains additional information which may help you more fully understand the material described in this manual:

Internetworking Technology Overview
Internetworking Terms and Acronyms

These documents are available on the Cisco document CD.

Conventions and Terminology

This section discusses conventions and terminology used throughout this book.

pointer---indicates where the mouse action is to occur
select---to push and hold down the left mouse button
release---to let up on a mouse button to initiate an action
click---to select and release a mouse button without moving the pointer
double-click---to click a mouse button twice quickly without moving the pointer
drag---to move the pointer by sliding the mouse with one or more buttons selected.

The Cisco Access Registrar software supports a three-button mouse. The buttons are configured as follows:

left button---selects objects and activates controls
middle button---adjusts a selected group of objects, adding to or deselecting part of the group
right button---displays and selects from menus.

This book uses this terminology throughout (even though it is possible for individual users to customize their devices to use the buttons in an alternative manner).

In situations that allow more than one item to be selected from a list simultaneously, the following actions are supported:

to select a single item in a list, click on the entry. Clicking a second time on a previously selected entry deselects it.
to select a contiguous block of items, click on the first entry; then, without releasing the mouse button, drag to the last desired entry and release. (A subsequent click anywhere on the screen deselects all previous selections.)
to extend a currently selected block, hold the Shift key down and click on the entry at the end of the group to be added
to add a non-contiguous entry to the selection group, hold the Ctrl (Control) key down and click on the entry to be added.

Names of on-screen elements that you click, or select (menu names and commands, and controls such as buttons, drop-down lists, and so on) are printed in bold font.

Bold font is also used for keywords, names of commands and menus, and names of keys on the keyboard.

Text displayed as on-screen examples is printed in courier font.

When set off from the main text, words and characters you should enter by the keyboard are printed in bold font. When the word or character string is enclosed in angle brackets
(< and >), you should substitute your own character string for the example presented in the text.

For example, when you see:

: login: root

you should specify the string root at the login prompt. However, when you see:

: password: <rootpassword>

you should specify your own password in place of the character string <rootpassword>.

The italic style is used to emphasize words, to introduce new terms, and for titles of printed publications (however, not titles of CD-ROMs or floppy disks).

Table of Contents

About This Guide

About This Guide

Who Should Read This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Related Information

Conventions and Terminology