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This manual provides information about the Cisco WAN Manager (CWM) 9.2 application, its components and capabilities.
The Cisco WAN Manager Operations manual is intended to provide information required to operate the Cisco WAN Manager application.
The target audience of the Cisco WAN Manager Operations manual is system administrators and users who are responsible for the operation of the Cisco WAN Manager application.
This manual is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, "Cisco WAN Manager Overview", provides an overview of the Cisco WAN Manager product.
Chapter 2, "Starting and Stopping Cisco WAN Manager", describes how to start and stop Cisco Wan Manager (CWM), using the main menu, starting HP OpenView, and using the CWM desktop.
Chapter 3, "Network Topology", describes how to display your network topology from the CWM Desktop window or from the HP OpenView application.
Chapter 4, "Reports Application", describes the CWM Reports application.
Chapter 5, "Connection Management", describes the Connection Manager application of CWM.
Chapter 6, "Equipment Management", describes the Equipment Manager application of CWM.
Chapter 7, "Network Browser", describes the Network Browser application of CWM.
Chapter 8, "CWM Administrator", describes the use of the Topology Configurator and the two main methods of monitoring network events, the CWM System Error Log and the Event Log.
Chapter 9, Summary Reports Application, describes the New Reports application of CWM.
Chapter 10, "Security Management", describes the new Security Manager application of CWM and provides information about how to use the application and set access privileges for users.
Chapter 11, "Statistics Collection Manager", provides an overview of the statistics collection process implemented by the CWM Statistics Collection Manager (SCM).
Chapter 12, "Networking", provides information about connecting to CWM and configuring your network for in-band management and out-of-band management.
Chapter 13, "Informix OnLine Database", provides information about additional databases and backing up and changing the size of the Informix database. This chapter also describes the two methods available for backup and retrieval of your CWM Informix OnLine database.
Chapter 14, "Downloading Software and Firmware", describes downloading software and firmware to an BPX, IGX, or AXIS node from CWM, Switch Command Line Interface, or by TFTP.
Chapter 15, "Saving and Restoring Node Configurations", describes how to save and restore BPX node configurations.
Appendix A, "Save and Restore Configuration Commands", describes the save and restore configuration node commands.
Appendix B , Equipment Manager GUI , describes how to use the Equipment Manager GUI to manage legacy switches.
Appendix C, "unGroup Connections Tool", describes the installation and use of the UnGroup Connections tool.
Appendix D, "Serial Configuration Upload Download Switch", describes the use of the SCUD application which supports configuration save and restore functionality over a serial interface.
An Index is also provided.
This manual uses the following conventions and terminology:
The CWM software supports a three-button mouse. The buttons are configured as follows:
This manual uses this terminology throughout (even though it is possible for individual users to customize their devices to use buttons in an alternative manner).
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For example, when you see:
you should enter the string root at the login prompt. However, when you see:
you should enter your own password in place of the character string <rootpassword>.
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Posted: Thu Nov 4 21:17:55 PST 1999
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