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This chapter provides information about starting and stopping Cisco WAN Manager (CWM), using the CWM main menu, CWM in restricted access mode, and starting HP OpenView.
This section provides information about starting CWM. This section includes a procedure that describes CWM startup from a workstation that is powered off, a warm start of CWM, and a cold start of CWM.
This section describes how to start CWM for the first time. This procedure is also used to start CWM from a workstation that has been powered off.
Step 1 Turn on power to any peripheral devices, such as external disk drives, tape drives, or monitors, then turn power on to the workstation.
Observe the messages that are displayed on the workstation as it boots up, and wait for the login prompt. While the Solaris OS is booting, the HPOV SNMP Agent, the HPOV background processes, and the Informix database are also started.
Step 2 At the Solaris login window, click on Options > Session > CDE.
Step 3 Login to the workstation as user svplus.
Step 4 Left click the TTT icon to launch the Style Manager and perform the following steps to save system resources:
(a) Click on Screen, Screen Saver, and Screen Lock Off.
(b) Click on Backdrop, select GrayDk, then click Apply.
Step 5 Use the CDE Menu Bar to change to screens Two, Three, and Four, and select the same options for those screens. Return to screen One and close Style Manager when completed.
Step 6 Right click on the desktop and select Programs > Terminal.
Move this window to the upper-right corner of the screen.
Step 7 Right click on the desktop and select Programs > Console.
Reduce the height of this window so it displays at least five lines (to enable you to monitor system messages). Move the window so that it rests on the CDE Menu Bar and all icons are visible.
Step 8 Left click the TTT icon to launch the Style Manager, then select Startup, set Home Session..., and click OK.
This saves your startup login preferences.
Step 9 In the terminal window, enter CWM to display the CWM main menu.
Step 10 Enter 1 to select the Start Core option and press Return.
Observe the messages that are displayed. Notice the gateway and stand alone nodes socketed messages to the IP-LAN addresses. A gateway node will be displayed as:
socketd: Setting SV+LAN I/F mode, IP <gateway node LAN address>
A Link0 down message may be displayed, followed by a Link0 up for each gateway node (if communication is established to the gateway node), then a group of Link1 up messages for all nodes, if everything is working correctly.
There will probably be several ILOG RT-Broker messages; disregard these messages and the EMSD dumping message, if it is displayed. This is normal operation. Also disregard any server EMDAEMON not registered messages.
After you see the Link 0, Link 1, and gateway node messages indicating the connections are up, continue to the next step. (If there is a problem with a Link connection, you will not see all connections come up.
Step 11 Press Return to redisplay the main menu.
At this point, you can issue other main menu options to start the CWM desktop or the Statistics Manager.
Step 12 Enter 3 to launch the CWM Desktop.
Step 13 When the CWM Desktop menu is displayed, click on the Topology icon to display the CWM Topology map.
Move the Overview window to the lower right corner of the screen. Move the Network Topology window to the upper right corner, but leave a portion of the Termnal window exposed (such as the Help button).
Step 14 Move the cursor to the window dispalying the CWM Main Menu, and enter 6 to launch the Statistics Manager GUI.
The first time the Statistics Manager is opened, the timing synchronization Node must be set.
Step 15 In the Statistics Manager window, click Config > Network Parameters Time Synchronization Node Type in the actual node name (usually the gateway node), and click OK. Minimize the Statistics Manager window.
Step 16 Right click on the desktop and select Programs > Terminal to open another xterm window.
Step 17 In the new xterm window, enter ovw & to start the Openview application which opens the Openview graphical user interface (GUI) and the Event Manager.
The IP map contains HPOV's view of the attached IP network and the CWM map contains the CWM nodes which are displayed directly from CWM via the SvOvTopology daemon. Use the buttons in the Event Manager window to view desired event categories.
A warm start of CWM consists of stopping the application, then restarting it. A warm start of CWM can aid in overcoming some database inconsistencies, and more importantly, no data is lost. When you perform a warm start of CWM, the application continues to use data in the existing Informix database.
To perform a warm start of CWM, complete the following steps:
Step 1 From the CWM main menu, enter 2 to select the Stop Core option, then confirm that you want to stop core by responding y to the prompt.
It should take less than a minute for all of the processes and messages to end.
Step 2 Press Return to redisplay the CWM main menu.
Step 3 From the main menu, enter 1 to select the Start Core option.
You perform a cold start of CWM when you start the application with an empty database. A cold start is typically used following a CWM upgrade or if there were too many database inconsistencies within the network for a warm start recovery to be successful. You use the create_db command to build a new, empty database. create_db destroys any existing data in the database including statistics and object comments.
To perform a cold start of CWM, complete the following steps:
Step 1 At the CWM workstation, enter CWM to display the main menu.
Step 2 From the CWM main menu, enter 2 to select the Stop Core option, then confirm that you want to stop core by responding y to the prompt.
It might take several minutes for all of the processes and messages to end, depending upon the number of nodes in the network.
Step 3 Press Return to redisplay the CWM main menu.
Step 4 From the main menu, enter x to exit the CWM application.
Step 5 Enter create_db.
Dozens of messages will be displayed, starting with the message dropping db. Additional messages will indicate that tables are being created and procedures stored. The shell prompt will return in less than a minute.
Step 6 At the CWM workstation, enter CWM to redisplay the main menu.
Step 7 From the main menu, enter 1 to select the Start Core option.
This section provides information about stopping CWM. This section includes a procedure that describes simply stopping the CWM application and a procedure that describes stopping the CWM application and powering off the workstation.
To stop the CWM application, complete the following steps:
Step 1 Close the HP Openview application (if it is running) by selecting Map > Exit from any Openview window and click OK when prompted to confirm the operation.
Step 2 Close the CWM Desktop by selecting File > Exit from the Desktop main window.
Step 3 If the Statistics Manager is running, select File > Quit and click OK when prompted to confirm the operation.
Step 4 Close any other CWM applications, such as Topology, Equipment Manager, or Connection Manager, that might be currently running.
Step 5 From the CWM main menu, enter 2 to select the Stop Core option, then confirm that you want to stop core by responding y to the prompt.
It might take several minutes for all of the processes and messages to end, depending upon the number of nodes in the network.
Step 6 Press Return to redisplay the CWM main menu.
Step 7 From the main menu, enter x to exit the CWM application.
This section describes the proper method of stopping the CWM application to power down the CWM workstation.
Step 1 Close the HP Openview application (if it is running) by selecting Map > Exit from any Openview window and click OK when prompted to confirm the operation.
Step 2 Close the CWM Desktop by selecting File > Exit from the Desktop main window.
Step 3 If the Statistics Manager is running, select File > Quit and click OK when prompted to confirm the operation.
Step 4 Close any other CWM applications, such as Topology, Equipment Manager, or Connection Manager, that might be currently running.
Step 5 To stop any HPOV background processes, at the root prompt (#) enter /opt/OV/bin/ovstop.
Step 6 From the CWM main menu, enter 2 to select the Stop Core option, then confirm that you want to stop core by responding y to the prompt.
It might take several minutes for all of the processes and messages to end, depending upon the number of nodes in the network.
Step 7 From the CWM main menu, enter x to exit the CWM application.
Step 8 In the CWM terminal window, switch to user root, and enter the following to halt the workstation:
# sync; sync; halt
Instead of the halt command, you can use the shutdown command to broadcast a shutdown message to all logged-in users. Enter one of the following:
Step 9 At the OK prompt, enter the following to power downdown the workstation:
OK power-off
Upon launching CWM, the Main Menu is displayed, enabling you to initiate and terminate the CWM core processes and to access the CWM Desktop window. You can also use the main menu to get the name of the current database or to start the Statistics Manager GUI (graphical user interface).
To launch Cisco WAN Manager and display the main menu, open a C-shell window on the workstation where CWM has been installed, and complete the following steps:
1. Log in as user svplus at the CWM workstation.
2. Start CWM:
host% CWM
The CWM Main Menu is displayed as shown in Figure 2-1.
3. From the CWM Main Menu, start the CWM Core process. Specify 1 at the prompt then press Enter to initiate the Start Core option.
Select 1 at the prompt then press the Return key to start the CWM core and initiate CWM daemon processes.
Select 2 at the prompt then press the Return key to stop the CWM daemon processes.
Select 3 at the prompt then press the Return key to display the CWM desktop window.
This option is no longer supported. To save the data in the Informix database, see Chapter 13, Informix OnLine Database, for detailed information or refer to your Informix documentation.
Use this option to change the CWM database name (in /usr/users/svplus.conf). Specify 5 at the prompt then press the Return key to see the name of the database currently loaded in CWM. After changing the CWM database name, core processes must be stopped and restarted for the name change to take effect.
Specify 6 at the prompt then press the Return key to display the CWM Statistics Manager GUI window. See Chapter 11, "Statistics Collection Manager", for more information about the Statistics Manager GUI window.
Specify X at the prompt then press the Return key to exit CWM without shutting down the CWM core processes.
For Cisco WAN Manager release 9.2, a new CWM desktop application, Security Management, manages user security. Security Management allows restricted access logins to enable users to perform tasks based on detailed access privileges. The user svplus still exists and should be used by experienced and trusted system administrators. For more detailed information, refer to Chapter 10, Security Management.
Security Management provides controlled access through the user's Unix userID and password by customizing user-access profiles. The user access profiles comprise a list of Access Privileges for users for a specific function including:
For each action, a user may be given privileges to read, create, modify or delete functions, or a user may have all privileges to manage all or some actions. For detailed information about using Security Management, refer to Security Management.
This section describes how to start the HP OpenView application.
To start the HP OpenView application, complete the following steps:
Step 1 From one of the C-shell windows, launch CWM and start the core processes.
Step 2 In the second window, invoke the HP OpenView application by entering the following at a command line prompt:
# ovw &
Step 3 Several windows are displayed including warnings, Event Categories, and status updates. Eventually the Root window is displayed.
Step 4 Double-click on the CWM Network icon to display the CWM Network Topology window.
From the pull-down menus, you can launch all of the CWM features. Many menu items are disabled until an appropriate element is selected, such as a node in the topology.
This section describes how to start the IBM Netview application. We recommend you display two C-shell windows on your workstation. The first C-shell window is used to start the CWM core and desktop processes. The second C-shell window is used to start IBM Netview.
To start the IBM Netview application, complete the following steps:
Step 1 From one of the C-shell windows, launch CWM and start the core processes.
Step 2 In the second window, invoke the IBM Netview application by entering the following at a command line prompt:
# nv6000 &
Several windows are displayed including warnings, Event Categories, and status updates. Eventually the Root window is displayed.
Step 3 Double-click on the CWM Network icon to display the CWM Network Topology window.
From the pull-down menus, you can launch all of the CWM features. Many menu items are disabled until an appropriate element is selected, such as a node in the topology.
The CWM Desktop window provides icon buttons that correspond to the principle CWM applications. You click on a particular icon to launch the corresponding application you need for network management, monitoring, report generation, and administration tasks. All the CWM applications are described in subsequent chapters in this book.
More than one workstation can run the CWM GUI simultaneously. To run an additional CWM GUI, complete the following steps:
Step 1 Log into a workstation other than the one running the CWM core processes.
Step 2 Enter the following command:
xhost +
This is not necessary if both workstations have the other in its /etc/xhost file as a "+."
Step 3 Do a remote login to the CWM workstation.
rlogin -l login_id hostname
Step 4 Set the DISPLAY environmental variable by entering the following:
setenv DISPLAY ip_address:0.0
where ip_address is the IP address of the workstation from which you have issued the telnet command.
Step 5 Launch CWM by entering CWM, then select Start Desktop from the main menu.
If the Statistics Manager GUI is not running on the CWM workstation or any other machine, you can launch the Statistics Manager remotely and collect statistics or change collected statistics. These statistics will be collected on the host CWM workstation only, not your remote machine.
If Statistics Manager GUI is running on the CWM workstation, you cannot use Option 6 of the CWM main menu to start the Statistics Manager GUI remotely.
Posted: Thu Nov 4 21:15:43 PST 1999
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