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The Campus Manager suite is part of the CiscoWorks2000 family of products. As an enterprise solution to network management, Campus Manager provides a suite of web-based network management tools that enable administrators to obtain various types of graphical views of their network topology and end-user information.
Campus Manager is based on a client/server architecture that connects multiple web-based clients to a server on the network. As the number of network devices increases, additional servers or collection points can be added to manage network growth with little impact on the client browser application.
By taking advantage of the stability inherent in the intranet architecture, Campus Manager supports multiple users anywhere on the network. The web-based infrastructure gives network operators, administrators, technicians, Help Desk staff, IS managers, and end users access to network management tools, applications, and services.
The following topics provide you with information about:
Campus Manager applications have specific setup requirements in order to function. Refer to the Installing and Setting Up Campus Manager guide for information about Campus Manager setup requirements.
To start Campus Manager applications, select:
When you start these applications, you are prompted to install the Client Application Manager (CAM), an application which downloads several large Java packages and saves them on your system, so that the browser does not have to download them every time you launch a CiscoWorks2000 application. CAM makes the launching of a CiscoWorks2000 application faster; it does not make the application run faster.
You only need to download CAM once. Subsequent downloads are not necessary. If you do not install CAM, you will be prompted each time you launch one of the Campus Manager applications. If you install CAM, each time you access a different Campus Manager server, you will be asked to register that server with CAM. Registering that server does not download new CAM files, it just updates information stored on your client so that applications from that server can use the Java packages that you have previously downloaded. Once you have registered a server with CAM, you will not longer be prompted to register that server.
Campus Manager works in conjunction with the CiscoWorks2000 Server, which comprises a set of management services shared by multiple management applications. These management services are enabled when a suite is installed and an application that relies on one of these services is opened.
If a particular suite of applications does not use a service, or does not use a service to the fullest extent to which it is available, the service might not appear on the CiscoWorks2000 desktop.
Campus Manager uses these CiscoWorks2000 Server components:
For detailed information about these components, refer to the Getting Started with the CiscoWorks2000 Server guide.
After a period of inactivity, the CiscoWorks2000 desktop times out and is no longer accessible. However, the Topology Services window remains active, because it is a monitoring tool.
Campus Manager ships with an online help system that provides overview, related information, procedures, and glossary data for Campus Manager. Use the help system to get information about using the Campus Manager interface and navigating within the product. You access the Campus Manager online help in two ways:
Posted: Thu Mar 30 12:59:00 PST 2000
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