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CiscoView 5.1 operates in client-server mode. In a client-server mode, the device package and basic management functionality is centrally located on the CiscoView 5.1 server.
To ensure that you are set up correctly to use CiscoView and perform basic functions within CiscoView, you must perform certain tasks. Refer to the online help for more information about performing these specific tasks. For more information about your setup, refer to the Installing and Setting Up CiscoWorks2000 CD One guide.
Table 2-1 lists tasks required to set up and use CiscoView.
| Task | Description |
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Install CiscoView from the CD-ROM package and optionally download device packages from CCO. | |
Display menus and options to view device and components for configuration and monitoring. | |
Learn to navigate within CiscoView menus. | |
View the graphical representation of the device and selected components to configure and monitor status. | |
Perform tasks such as selecting devices, setting preferences, selecting components, configuring and monitoring devices, and getting help. |
Before you can display a device's view for configuration and monitoring, you must install CiscoView from the CD-ROM package. Refer to the Installing and Setting Up CiscoWorks2000 CD One guide for detailed installation instructions. During the installation process, all available device packages are installed for you. This eliminates the need to incrementally select device packages to install. Cisco Systems device packages are periodically updated, and should be downloaded from CCO as they become available.
Refer to the "Device Support Utility" section later in this chapter for information about how to use this utility to download device packages.
Accessing CiscoView is a simple task. Depending on how you are set up, you can access CiscoView:
When you start CiscoView, the CiscoView window opens. The following components comprise the CiscoView main window:
Table 2-2 lists CiscoView Navigation options.
| Option | Description |
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Select Device Drop-Down List Box | Use the Select Device drop-down list box to select and display a device. Either enter a device name or IP address, or select from the recently displayed devices listed. Device names and SNMP read and write community strings are preserved when you open new CiscoView sessions. |
Device Commands Buttons | Use the Device Commands buttons to activate device commands unique to the displayed device. The Device Command buttons are described in the online help for each device package. |
Main Menu Buttons | Use the Main Menu buttons to perform various CiscoView tasks. Refer to Table 2-3 for more information. |
Graphical Device Display Window | Use the Graphical Device Display window to view a graphical display of the device's back or front panel once you select a device. The display shows all device components color-coded according to their current status and refreshed according to your polling frequency. If a hot swap is detected, the device is rediscovered and the display redrawn at the next poll. |
Status Bar and Buttons | Use the Status Bar and buttons to display the progress and result of device polling, selections, and so on. Refer to Table 2-4 for more information. |
Table 2-3 describes the Main Menu buttons for all Cisco devices.
| Menu Button | Description |
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Telnet | Launches a Telnet command-line session to the managed device. |
CCO | Launches a separate browser containing the Cisco Connection Online (CCO) web page. |
Cisco Support | Opens the TAC Mailer dialog box for sending reports to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) group. You can describe the problem using the available options and the comment field. When you click Send, your descriptions and information about the runtime device package and operating environment are sent to the specified mail recipients. For more information on the available fields, refer to the online help. |
Preferences | Opens the Preferences dialog box where you can specify SNMP and community string. The preferences settings are preserved for all new CiscoView 5.1 sessions. |
About | Displays the following:
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Help |
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Table 2-4 describes the Status Bar and buttons.
| Item | Description |
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Status Bar | Displays the progress and result of device polling, selections, and so on. |
System Info Button | Displays system MIB information (name, description, location, contact, and up-time) for a displayed device. |
Print Button | Prints the current graphical display. |
Color Legend Button | Describes the significance of the colors on the graphical display. Color schemes are:
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When you select a device in CiscoView, a graphical representation of the device is displayed. You can view front or back device panel and select different components (cards, ports, power supply) and menu options to configure and monitor status for these devices.
Table 2-5 lists popup menu options.
| Option | Description |
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Configure | Configures device categories, such as Management, Physical, ARP Table, TCP, and so on. |
Monitor | Displays a set of dynamic charts for selected device categories. |
Front and Rear | Displays either the front or back device panel. A logical view can also be displayed as defined by the device package. |
Resize | Reduces the graphical display down to 90%, 80%, 70%, 60% or 50%. You can resize it back up to 100%. |
Refresh | Triggers component polling and display update. |
System Info | Displays system MIB information (name, description, location, contact, and up-time) for a displayed device. |
Once you have installed CiscoView and learned to navigate within CiscoView, you can perform various tasks.
Table 2-6 lists these tasks and descriptions.
| Task | Description |
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Starting CiscoView | Depending on your platform, you can start CiscoView:
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Selecting a Device | Select a device to view its graphical representation to configure and monitor it. The device names and SNMP read and write community strings are preserved when you open new CiscoView sessions. |
Setting Preferences | Use the Set Preferences option to change certain options within CiscoView. Depending on your security level, you might not be able to use the Set Preferences option. Refer to Table 2-7 for a list of the available options in Setting Preferences. |
Selecting a Component | Select a component on the graphical device display to configure and monitor it. |
Configuring Your Device | Use the Configure menu to configure multiple categories of information, for example, Interface, Management, Physical, and ARP Table, simultaneously. Different categories of information can be displayed for each device, card, and port. To see the categories of information that can be displayed for each component type, look at the Category pop up menu from the Configuration window. Refer to Table 2-8 for a list of device-specific buttons and their descriptions available within the Configure menu. |
Monitoring Your Device | Use the Monitor menu to monitor multiple categories of information, for example, Ethernet collisions, Management, Physical, and ARP Table, simultaneously. The Monitoring dialog is non-modal and resizeable. Refer to Table 2-9 for a list of device-specific buttons and their descriptions available within the Monitor menu. |
Table 2-7 lists the available Preference Setting options.
| Option | Description |
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Setting Community Strings | Use the Preferences Community tab to delete the read and write community strings for the device currently being managed. This lets you enter the read and write community strings for a device after you display the device. If you want to make changes to a device or port setting, but did not specify community string when you first opened the device display, you can enter the community string without exiting and reopening the device window. If a host's community strings are not already defined within CiscoView, you can add them with the CiscoView Community Strings dialog. Otherwise, CiscoView allows you to enter the correct community strings when you try to access the host. If you do not enter a host's community strings when accessing the host, CiscoView uses the default read and write community strings as defined in the SNMP tab. |
Setting SNMP Preferences | Use the Preferences SNMP tab to set polling frequency, SNMP timeout and retries, and default read and write community strings. Use the Default Read and Write Community fields to define the community strings that CiscoView automatically uses for device when you do not specify the device's current community strings. |
Table 2-8 lists device-specific buttons and descriptions available within the Configure menu.
| Button | Description |
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OK | Writes modification of all categories to managed device then disposes the dialog |
Apply | Writes modification of the current category to managed device |
Cancel | Aborts changes and disposes the catalog |
Prints the current category | |
Help | Launches device-specific help |
Create | Launches a table row creation dialog |
Delete | Deletes selected row from the table |
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Note Depending on your device, you might not see the Category menu, or you might see different options in the Category menu. |
Table 2-9 lists device-specific buttons and their descriptions available within the Monitor menu.
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Prints the current category | |
Help | Launches device-specific help |
Cancel | Disposes the dialog |
Use the Integration utility to integrate Cisco device information and Cisco applications into SNMP management platforms such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager. This utility allows you to launch CiscoView from an SNMP platform even when CiscoView is running on a different machine than the NMS. It also allows you to integrate other applications into NMS menus.
When CiscoView is installed on the same machine as the target NMS, the Integration utility runs as part of a single CiscoView install. However, when the target NMS is installed on a different machine, the utility walks you through the steps required to integrate Cisco device information and applications into an SNMP management platform. You might need to run the Integration utility to:
The following topics are described next:
Use the Integration utility to:
You can perform certain tasks using the Integration utility, as described in Table 2-10.
| Task | Description |
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Starting the utility | Depending on your platform, you can start the Integration utility:
Start the utility by entering ./nmic.sh on the command line.
Enter the following script on the command line: .\nmic.exe. |
Downloading the Data Bundle | The Network Management Integration Data Bundle (NMIDB) contains the icons and configuration files specific to a Cisco device platform. NMIDB also contains MIBs and the application registration information used to register Cisco applications into the NMS. You can download an NMIDB from a file on your local machine, from CCO, or from another system, or use an already downloaded file. |
Registering the Applications | The application registration information is used to integrate Cisco applications with the NMS console menu. The Applications Registration dialog box displays user applications that are to be integrated into the NMS menu. This information is then extracted from the NMIDB. There is one tab for each application. |
Running the Adapter Script | The Adapter scripts integrate icons, MIBs, and application with NMS. The Choose Adapter dialog box provides both the Adapters available and their descriptions. The Adapter script checks whether the NMS exists on the machine before integration. |
For more information about Integration utility, refer to the online help.
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Note NM integration runs automatically when you download a device package through the Device Support Utility. |
Use the Device Support Utility to integrate new Cisco device information asynchronously with the CiscoView engine, uninstall device packages, install new device packages, or upgrade existing installed packages.
The Device Support Utility operates in one of two modes: Interactive mode or Command Line mode. The functionality of both modes is similar; the only difference between the two is that Interactive mode provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Each mode allows the user to display a list of currently installed device packages and their versions, uninstall one or more packages, and automate device package installations and upgrades.
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Note Refer to the Device Support Utility online help for procedures on how to invoke the Device Support Utility in Interactive mode to remotely install new device packages from CCO. |
The following topics are described next:
Use the Device Support Utility to:
You can perform various tasks using the Device Support Utility.
Table 2-11 lists these tasks and descriptions.
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Starting the Device Support Utility | Depending on your platform, you can start the Device Support Utility:
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Installing Device Packages | In Interactive mode, the Install Device Packages dialog box installs new device packages or upgrades existing packages. | ||
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Installing Device Packages (continued) | If a given selection does not result in a consistent package repository even with the base packages, that particular section is not allowed. Also, the Device Support Utility will not allow you to select a package whose superceding version has already been installed in the package repository. Refer to Table 2-12 for a summary of messages that might be displayed when you perform this task. | ||
Uninstalling Device Packages | In Interactive mode, the Device Support Utility dialog box shows a list of the device packages that are already installed. It also acts as a launch point for uninstalling device packages. In Command Line mode, enter the following command to display a list of device packages that are currently installed on your system, as well as the device packages available for installation in the source directory: dsu -src x -q -a. To uninstall a device package(s), enter the following command: dsu -src x -u y. |
Table 2-12 lists the device packages message summary.
| Sample Message | Message Type | Explanation | Message Location |
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Path/tmp/dir2/x is invalid. | Error | Specified directory is not a valid directory. | Status bar |
Found 2 CiscoView packages in the directory /tmp/dir/. | Info | Specified directory is a valid directory. | Status bar |
Package C8500 cannot be downgraded to a lower version. | Error | User selects a package whose superceding version has already been installed. | Status bar |
Cannot find base package `CDPAddlet' for C8500. | Error | Base package has not been selected. | Status bar |
Package "IOS Addlet has been added to install list due to dependencies." | Info | Installer automatically selects a base package. | Status bar |
Cannot proceed with install. Reason: Insufficient disk space. | Error | Not enough disk space. | Status Bar |
For more information about Device Support Utility, refer to the online help.
Posted: Thu Apr 6 10:23:36 PDT 2000
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