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May 8, 2000
These release notes describe the system requirements and caveats for Content Flow Monitor (CFM) Release 1.0. This document contains the following sections:
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Note For your reference, identification numbers are provided for some caveats. If you need to contact your technical service representative about any of the caveats, refer to the identification number (in the format [CSCdxnnnnn]) to speed the resolution of any questions or situations you might encounter. |
This section describes the factors that you should consider before installing CFM on a Windows NT or Solaris workstation. It includes the following sections:
CFM Release 1.0 supports running the CFM server on the following operating system platforms:
For information about the supported platforms, see the platform-specific installation chapters in Installing and Setting Up Content Flow Monitor on Windows NT and Solaris.
Your Windows NT system must meet the following hardware requirements to run the CFM server:
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Note Because you launch CFM from CiscoWorks2000 desktop, the memory and swap space requirements provided for the CFM server include the requirements that your system must meet to run CiscoWorks2000 desktop and CFM simultaneously on the same workstation. |
Your Windows NT system must meet the following software requirements to run the CFM server:
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Note Hardware and software version information is subject to change, based on enhancements to the product. For the most current version information, refer to the Release Notes for Cisco Content Flow Monitor available on CCO. |
Your Solaris system must meet the following hardware requirements to run the CFM server:
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Note Because you launch CFM from CiscoWorks2000 desktop, the memory and swap space requirements provided for the CFM server include the requirements that your system must meet to run CiscoWorks2000 desktop and CFM simultaneously on the same workstation. |
Your Solaris system must meet the following software requirements to run the CFM server:
The CFM installation program automatically verifies your operating system version and also checks the level of Solaris patches that your system should have.
To obtain the patches, contact your Sun Microsystems representative or download them from the Sun web site at http://sunsolve.sun.com.
The following minimum patch levels are required to run CFM on Solaris version 2.6:
If you do not have the required patches installed, you can continue with the installation, but CFM might not operate as expected.
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This section contains the following notes and caveats for CFM:
If you define a router to CFM that has not yet been configured as a forwarding agent, CFM might display the router's status incorrectly. From the Service Administration window, CFM might show the forwarding agent's status correctly as "Not In Service." However, on the CFM Main window, CFM might show the forwarding agent's status and availability incorrectly as "Normal/Available." To avoid this problem, make sure you configure the router as a forwarding agent before you define the forwarding agent to CFM. [CSCdp68341]
In Internet Explorer, to select an action from the CFM Main window, you must click Action and, while holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor onto Show Details or Show Available Services Managers. When you release the mouse button, the appropriate window is displayed.
If, instead of clicking-and-dragging, you click Action, release the mouse button, then click Show Details or Show Available Services Managers, the selected action does not start and the next window is not displayed.
(In Netscape, you can use either method to select an action.)
[CSCdp68358]
When multiple LDs reference the same real servers, CFM collects and presents statistics for the real servers from only one of the LDs. [CSCdr05186]
Also, removing one of the LDs from the CFM server removes all references to the real servers from the client. However, on the next poll cycle the real servers are rediscovered and reinserted into the real server list. [CSCdr05207]
If you bring up a CiscoWorks2000 client by specifying the IP address and port of the CiscoWorks2000 server to which you want to connect, but the server has no DNS entry, the CiscoWorks2000 client starts as it should. However, when you select Client from the Content Flow Monitor menu, the CFM client does not start properly. Instead, the message "Page not found" is displayed. This occurs because CFM finds the hostname of the server and uses that instead of the IP address.
To work around this problem, start the CFM client by supplying a URL with the format: http://server_ip_address:/1741/cfmMain.htm, where server_ip_address is the IP address of the management station running the CFM server. Supplying the URL bypasses the step in which the CFM client is launched from CiscoWorks2000.
[CSCdr11250]
If you change a functioning LD's configuration to disallow SNMP requests from your server, the LD and virtual servers go red (unavailable) and the real servers go magenta (unknown) as expected. Expanding and contracting the tree also works as expected for most elements. However, trying to expand a virtual server that has not been previously expanded causes the CFM client to lock up. Correct the problem using one of the following methods:
[CSCdr11275]
When you install CFM, it is not added to the CiscoWorks2000 dependency list. Therefore, when you uninstall CiscoWorks2000, CFM is not uninstalled. If you want to uninstall CFM, you must use the uninstall procedure described in Installing and Setting Up Content Flow Monitor on Windows NT and Solaris. [CSCdr32062]
Refer to these publications to learn how to install and use CFM:
Other documentation that you might find useful includes the following:
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