About This Guide

This guide provides descriptions and user scenarios for the Resource Manager Essentials (Essentials) package. It describes tasks similar to those you might perform using this product. The chapters are organized in the order of a typical network management workflow. By reading this guide, you will acquire a general understanding of how to perform typical tasks using this product.

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What This Guide Is Not

This guide is not a reference manual. You will not find all available product features described within these pages. Rather, this guide provides scenarios that depict typical tasks you can perform using the product. By reading this guide, you should acquire a good, general understanding of Essentials. For more detailed information about all Essentials features, refer to the online help.

Audience

This guide is intended to provide descriptions and scenarios for users or prospective users of the Essentials package. Many of the tools described are accessible to the system administrator only.

Document Organization

The chapters of this manual are presented in an order that represents a typical network administrator workflow. If you read this manual from beginning to end, you will obtain a fairly thorough understanding of the tasks you can perform using this product.

This manual is divided into the following chapters:

Chapter 1, "Overview," provides an overview of the product including privilege levels and the types of tasks users can perform.
Chapter 2, "Populating the Network Inventory," describes how to add and import devices into your network inventory.
Chapter 3, "Creating and Managing Device Views," describes how to add and manage device views.
Chapter 4, "Inventory Management," describes how to check device status and display various inventory reports to help you manage the devices on your network.
Chapter 5, "Availability Management," describes how to configure device availability polling options and how to generate and view availability reports.
Chapter 6, "Syslog Analysis," describes how to log and track system error messages and exceptions to analyze router and network performance.
Chapter 7, "System Administration," describes database maintenance features and user account management.
Chapter 8, "Software Management," provides a workflow model for using the software management features to schedule and perform device software upgrades.
Chapter 9, "Configuration Management," describes how to search for and view configuration files, create configuration reports, and relocate a configuration archive.
Chapter 10, "Troubleshooting," provides troubleshooting and reference information to help users solve problems they encounter while using this product.
Chapter 11, "Tools," describes the connectivity tools, device navigator, and provides links to frequently used CCO features.
Appendix A, "File Import Format," describes the format for files that are used to import large numbers of devices into your network inventory.

Document Conventions

This guide uses basic conventions to represent text and table information.

Command descriptions use these conventions:

Commands and keywords are in boldface font.
Variables for which you supply values are in italic font.
Elements in square brackets ([ ]) are optional.

Examples use these conventions:

Terminal sessions and information the system displays are printed in a screen font.
Information you enter is in boldface screen font. Variables you enter are printed in italic screen font.
Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are shown in angle brackets (< >).

This guide also uses the following conventions:

Scenario paragraphs are in italics. The first paragraph of each scenario is preceded by the word Scenario. Scenarios are sample tasks users can perform with Resource Manager.
Menu items and button names are in boldface font.
A menu selection is indicated by the following convention: Select Options > Network Preferences > Languages.
Directories and filenames are in italic font.
If items such as buttons or menu options are grayed out on application windows, it means that you do not have permission to use these items.

Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not contained in the manual.

Caution Means reader be careful. You are capable of doing something that might result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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