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The Cisco IP Manager (Lite) User's Guide describes how to automate the process of creating configurations for individual devices in large network environments based on the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS), and provisioning these elements (downloading their configurations) en masse.
Installation instructions for Cisco IP Manager are provided, as well as step by step instructions for using the user interface.
This User's Guide is intended to be a technical resource for network managers and system administrators (the people who manage the network) and for network analysts (those who configure it).
It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of network design, operation, and terminology, and that you are familiar with your own network configurations and designs. It is also assumed that you have a basic familiarity with the UNIX operating system.
This User's Guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, "Cisco IP Manager Overview," describes the capabilities, key features, and benefits of the Cisco IP Manager software; the process of configuration validation and management; the architecture of the software, and the minimum system requirements.
Chapter 2, "Network Organization," discusses the components of a network environment as seen by the Cisco IP Manager software, independently of the graphical user interface.
Chapter 3, "Installation and Configuration," provides instructions for installing and configuring the software.
Chapter 4, "Running the GUI," provides instructions for launching the graphical user interface and describes its principal components.
Chapter 5, "Managing Network Elements," describes how to create domains, subdomains, and network elements.
Chapter 6, "Managing Templates," describes how to create configuration template files and their associated data files and how to use them to generate configurations for multiple devices.
Chapter 7, "System Administration and Log Management," describes how to create permission groups, add users to the system, and manage the system log.
Chapter 8, "Archive Administration," describes how to use the archive manager.
Appendix A, "Advanced Usage," describes the subdirectory structure, the Orbix daemon, the command line options available for individual servers, and running the GUI application via remote login (rlogin).
Appendix B, "Return Code Map," itemizes the error codes generated by each of the Cisco IP Manager servers.
Appendix C, "Messages," details log messages generated by each of the Cisco IP Manager servers.
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This book uses certain typographic and procedural conventions.
Names of on-screen elements that you click or select (such as menu names and commands; buttons and checkboxes; and items in list boxes and drop-down lists) appear in a bold font. Also printed in bold are keywords, names of commands, and names of keys on the keyboard. Thus, command names like the Working Config command and dialog element names like the Download Status window appear in bold.
When they appear within a passage of normal text, words that you enter from the keyboard appear in the Courier typeface. When they are set off from the main text (that is, in separate paragraphs), words and characters that you enter appear in the Courier typeface. Words that appear on screen from a source other than the keyboard are also printed in the Courier typeface when set off from the main text.
A word that appears in Courier italics is a placeholder (a user-replaceable construct) that tells you the type of word or character to enter (such as a password or user name).
So, for example, if you see this:
login: root
... you should enter the string root at the login prompt. But if you see italics, like this:
password: root_password
... you should enter your own password instead of the actual string root_password.
Within paragraphs, the italic style of type emphasizes words, introduces new terms, and indicates titles of printed publications.
Though it is possible to reconfigure your mouse to use buttons differently, this book refers to mouse operations for a standard, right-hand, three-button mouse.
To select something, place the on-screen pointer or cursor on the item and click the left mouse button. When the term click the mouse on... appears without qualification, it means to place the on-screen pointer or cursor on an item and click the left mouse button.
To view an Options menu, place the on-screen pointer or cursor on an item and click the right mouse button. If a menu is available, it opens. (Clicking the right mouse button is sometimes referred to as right-clicking.)
To drag something, click the mouse on it and drag the pointer to a different location before releasing the mouse button.
When selecting items from a list using the mouse, you can sometimes select more than one item by holding down the Shift or Control key while clicking the mouse, as follows:
Posted: Mon Feb 14 14:19:56 PST 2000
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