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The Tools menu provides access to tools.
Figure 9-1, "Tools Menu Option," provides a view of the Tools menu option in the menu bar.
The Tools menu option includes the following categories:
To navigate in Topology, implement the following step:
While gathering information for the topology, you will receive a Please Wait message window indicating that the system is Investigating Repository.
Next, a window similar to the example in Figure 9-3, "Example Topology Window," appears.
The explanation of this window is in the following categories:
The Topology menu bar, as shown in Figure 9-3, "Example Topology Window," has the following items:
To find the choices in the File menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the File menu, click your selection for the following information:
To find the choices in the Edit menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the Edit drop-down menu, click your selection for the following information:
To find the choices in the View menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the View drop-down menu, click your selection for the following information:
The Layout menu applies to the Graph View only. It contains a number of options that help solve difficult modeling, complexity management, and diagram visualization problems. The Layout option reduces the time consuming task of manually placing network elements using the mouse and lets you concentrate on managing the network rather than the diagram.
To find the choices in the Layout menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the Layout menu, click your selection for the following information:
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Note Orthogonal layout is particularly useful for cleaning up a Graph View after choosing Actions > Expand All. |
This selection allows a flexible approach to complex graph drawing through a nesting interface. In effect, a graph may be drawn separately from the other graphs, and collapsed in the navigation manager, or it may be expanded into its parent node. This allows for the design of powerful visualization applications where you can open sections of the drawing on demand, without having to manage a monolithic graph structure.
To find the choices in the Actions menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the Actions menu, click your selection for the following information:
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Note After running one of theses choices, you can run one of the layout selections from the Layout menu to clean up the graph. |
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Note A + sign next to an element in a topology indicates that you can access more information underneath this element. Double-click to drill down to the next level. Right click on an element to access more menu choices. Click on any item in the VPN Console tree to access topology information. |
To find the choices in the Tools menu, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the Tools menu, click your selection for the following information:
To find the choices in the Help menu, implement the following step:
Step 2 From the Help menu, click your selection for the following information:
Step 3 Click OK to return to the main Topology window.
In the Hierarchy View, if you right click on a folder node, a popup menu appears allowing you to sort the contents by name. This is shown in Figure 9-17, "Sort Menu."
The Sort menu allows you to sort in the following orders:
In the Graph View, if you right click on the background of the Graph View (not on a node or link), a popup menu appears, as shown in Figure 9-18, "Graph View Popup Menu."
The menu items in Figure 9-18, "Graph View Popup Menu," are listed with their descriptions, as follows:
This section explains two menus that appear by right clicking in the Hierarchy View and the Graph View. The menus are:
In the Hierarchy View or Graph View, if you right click on a node other than a folder node, a popup menu appears, as shown in Figure 9-20, "Node Menu."
The menu items in Figure 9-20, "Node Menu," are listed with their descriptions, as follows:
The menu items in Figure 9-22, "Navigation Menu Item," are listed with their descriptions, as follows:
The menu items in Figure 9-23, "View As Menu," are listed with their descriptions, as follows:
Right click on a node (Region, router (CE or PE), Site, Provider Core, or Provider Administrative Domain), and the same menus are available, as shown in Figure 9-24, "Service Request Menu."
The menu items in Figure 9-24, "Service Request Menu," are listed with their descriptions, as follows:
The bottom task tabs give the opportunity to select filtered information, as in Figure 9-26, "Example of Bottom Task Tabs." The tabs in this example are: All-VPN; Cust2-CUSTOMER; Cust1VPN-VPN; Cust2VPN-CERC; Cust3-CUSTOMER; PAdomain1-PE; Cust3VPN-VPN; Cust4VPN-CERC; Cust4-CUSTOMER; Cust1VPN-CERC; Cust2VPN-VPN; Cust3VPN-CERC; Cust4VPN-VPN; Cust1-CUSTOMER
The Status is at the very bottom of the Topology View, after the bottom task tabs. Status identifies where you are and what you have chosen to do. In Figure 9-27, "Example of Status Information," the status bar indicates Status: Use the mouse to connect a CE to a PE resulting in a new service request.
To navigate through the Tasks functionality, implement the following steps:
The resulting window is Task Manager, as shown in Figure 9-29, "Task Manager."
This window has menu bars and a table with the following column headings:
The menu bars are:
Step 2 Click either of these menu bar items to activate it.
For a selection of actions to implement, implement the following steps:
Step 2 From the resulting Task Manager window, choose Actions, as shown in Figure 9-31, "Task Manager," appears.
Step 3 Choose the action you want to implement from the following choices:
The result is the window shown in Figure 9-32, "Task Chooser."
Step 2 Click any of the following items in the task list in Figure 9-32, "Task Chooser," to create a task with this Task Type, and go to the reference location for more information about how to create a task of this type.
Step 2 Click Delete Task from the drop-down from Actions.
In the pane shown in Figure 9-31, "Task Manager," the grayed tasks are expired tasks.
Step 2 In the pane, click Schedule from the drop-down from Actions.
Step 3 From the resulting Scheduler window, specify the frequency and schedule you want. See Chapter 11, "Scheduling."
The Task Manager window appears.
Step 2 From the Task Manager window, choose View > Refresh, as shown in Figure 9-34, "Navigating View > Refresh."
When you click Refresh, the pane refreshes to the most current information.
This section contains the following categories:
The committed access rate (CAR) management information bases (MIB) collection feature covers the packets dropped based on the CAR command configured on the router. CAR provides the status for each interface on each router configured with CAR. CAR is a bandwidth management tool that controls internet protocol (IP) traffic transmission rates into the network during periods of network congestion. CAR achieves this control through rate limiting (with burst capabilities) and also classifies and marks packets using IP Precedence and quality-of-service (QoS) group settings. CAR MIBs provide the status for the token bucket parameters, associated access lists, and configurable action policies for each rate limit.
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Note CAR MIB data can be viewed in reports By Customer or By Network. See the "View CAR MIB Reports" section. To view CAR MIB reports By Customer, the CAR must be configured and collected from CE routers. No data appears for unmanaged CEs. |
When setting up collection from routers, be sure that all the routers have the same prompts as in the csm.properties file for netsys.router.loginprompt and netsys.router.passwordprompt. The default values match the default values on Cisco routers. They are as follows:
netsys.router.loginprompt = Username:
netsys.router.passwordprompt = Password:
If you use nonstandard router prompts in the csm.properties file, be sure you set the same values for all the routers from which you collect.
For the collection module of MPLS VPN Solution, enable or disable the DNS on the routers. If DNS is not properly configured on the routers, collections will fail due to a time-out.
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Note Enabling DNS causes DNS to handle the name resolution. Otherwise, name resolution is handled by the routers. |
To enable DNS, enter the following commands on the router:
ip domain-lookup
ip name-server <a.b.c.d>
where: <a.b.c.d> is a valid DNS.
To disable DNS, it is important to enter the following command on all routers:
no ip domain-lookup
Prior to polling a router's CAR MIB, implement the following steps for each and every router, to determine whether SNMP is enabled. If SNMP is enabled, these steps will lead you to the first GUI path. If SNMP is not enabled, these steps will direct you on how to enable SNMP.
Step 2 Go into the enable state.
Step 3 Enter the command show snmp.
Step 4 Determine whether the following line is present:
% SNMP agent not enabled
Step 5 If the line in Step 4 is not present, you have determined that SNMP is enabled. Then enter the show run command to view the SNMP community strings at the end of the configuration file. If you have more routers to verify, return to Step 1 and follow these steps for the next router that you want to verify. Otherwise, proceed to the "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets" section.
If the line in Step 4 is present, proceed to Step 6.
Step 6 To turn on SNMP, at the prompt, enter the command config t.
Step 7 Enter the following commands:
snmp-server community <userstring> RO
snmp-server community <userstring> RW
Step 8 If you have more routers to verify, return to Step 1 and follow these steps for the next router that you want to verify.
If this is the last router to verify, proceed to the "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets" section.
Prior to entering the GUI path to poll a router's CAR MIB, you must populate the router interfaces in the directory repository. This is necessary for the reports to accurately list the Interface Names (see the "View CAR MIB Reports" section). If you do not populate the router interfaces in the directory repository, the Interface Name defaults to DUMMY. If this happens, it is possible to run this wizard after this oversight is identified and rerun the reports.
Populate as follows:
The Task Manager window appears.
Step 2 From the Task Manager window, choose Actions > New Task, as shown in Figure 9-36, "Navigating Actions > New Task."
The Task Chooser window appears.
Step 3 From the Task List in the Task Chooser window, highlight Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets, as shown in Figure 9-37, "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets."
Step 4 Click Ok.
The first window informs you this wizard sets up a scheduled task that polls for information about router interfaces.
Step 5 In this Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets---Intro window, click Next.
The next window, as shown in Figure 9-38, "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router TargetsGet Devices," allows you to specify devices for which to populate interface information.
Step 6 In the window in Figure 9-38, "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router TargetsGet Devices," first click the Network drop-down menu to choose a specific network.
This window has two panels with the column headings Network, Name, Domain, and Role. The upper panel includes all the routers selected in this step. The lower panel will be populated to include all the routers that you choose in Step 7 and Step 8.
In the upper panel, you can sort the routers on each of the column headings, Network, Name, Domain, and Role. Just click that column header to sort on it.
Step 7 This step explains how to move devices to the lower panel, thus selecting the routers to populate.
If you do not select any devices in the upper panel, you can select Add All and all the devices appear in the lower panel. If you select one or more devices, you can click Add and only those devices appear in the lower panel.
Step 8 If you decide not to choose the devices now listed in the lower panel, you can either select Remove All to eliminate all the selections in the lower panel, or you can select those devices that you want to eliminate and click Remove.
You can continue editing the set of devices in the lower panel by repeating Step 7 and Step 8.
Step 9 Click Next, when you want to choose the devices that appear in the lower block as the routers to populate.
Step 10 In the next window, as shown in Figure 9-39, "Providing a Task Name for Populating a Router," provide a unique Task Name. Then click Next.
Step 11 In the next window, you can choose to schedule the task by selecting Yes and clicking Next. In this case the next step is Step 12.
You can choose not to schedule the task by selecting No and clicking Next. In this case, the next step is Step 13.
Step 12 If you chose to schedule the task, in the next window, choose the scheduling directions and click Next. See Chapter 11, "Scheduling," for a full detailed description of scheduling.
Step 13 If you did not schedule the task, you are informed that "The task manager is about to save the task." If you did schedule the task, you are informed that "The task manager is about to save and schedule the task." If you want to change your mind on the scheduling instructions, click Back and return to Step 11 or Step 12. When you are ready to save and schedule the task, click Next.
Step 14 You are informed that "All steps are done." Click Close to close the wizard.
To poll a router's CAR MIB, implement the following steps:
The Task Manager window appears.
Step 2 From the Task Manager window, choose Actions > New Task, as shown in Figure 9-41, "Navigating Actions > New Task."
The Task Chooser window appears.
Step 3 From the Task List in the Task Chooser window, highlight Poll a Router's CAR MIB, as shown in Figure 9-42, "Poll a Router's CAR MIB."
Step 4 Click Ok.
The first window informs you this wizard creates a task to poll Cisco routers for data from the CAR MIB.
Step 5 In this Poll a Router's CAR MIB---Intro window, click Next.
The next window informs you that next you can start polling a Cisco router(s) CAR MIB.
Step 6 In this Poll a Router's CAR MIB---Action window, click Next.
The next window, as shown in Figure 9-43, "Poll a Router's CAR MIBGet Devices," allows you to specify which devices to poll for the router's CAR MIB information.
Step 7 In the window in Figure 9-43, "Poll a Router's CAR MIBGet Devices," first click the Network drop-down menu to choose a specific network.
This window has two panels with the column headings Network, Name, Domain, and Role. The upper panel includes all the routers selected in this step. The lower panel will be populated to include all the routers that you choose in Step 8 and Step 9.
In the upper panel, you can sort the routers on each of the column headings, Network, Name, Domain, and Role. Just click that column header to sort on it.
Step 8 This step explains how to move devices to the lower panel, thus selecting the routers from which CAR MIB data will be polled.
If you do not select any devices in the upper panel, you can select Add All and all the devices appear in the lower panel. If you select one or more devices, you can click Add and only those devices appear in the lower panel.
Step 9 If you decide not to choose the devices now listed in the lower panel, you can either select Remove All to eliminate all the selections in the lower panel, or you can select those devices that you want to eliminate and click Remove.
You can continue editing the set of devices in the lower panel by repeating Step 8 and Step 9.
Step 10 Click Next, when you want to choose the devices that appear in the lower block as the routers for which CAR MIB data will be polled.
Step 11 In the next window, as shown in Figure 9-44, "Providing a Task Name for Polling a Router's CAR MIB," provide a unique Task Name. Then click Next.
Step 12 In the next window, you can choose to schedule the task by selecting Yes and clicking Next. In this case the next step is Step 13.
You can choose not to schedule the task by selecting No and clicking Next. In this case, the next step is Step 14.
Step 13 If you chose to schedule the task, in the next window, choose the scheduling directions and click Next. See Chapter 11, "Scheduling," for a full detailed description of scheduling.
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Note The recommendation is to collect every quarter hour to avoid multiple counter wraps. This requires four separate tasks to be scheduled, each starting 15 minutes apart and reoccurring every hour. You may need to increase the frequency of collections to more than every quarter hour, dependent upon the speed of the interfaces and the volume of traffic on the router being polled. |
Step 14 If you did not schedule the task, you are informed that "The task manager is about to save the task." If you did schedule the task, you are informed that "The task manager is about to save and schedule the task." If you want to change your mind on the scheduling instructions, click Back and return to Step 12 or Step 13. When you are ready to save and schedule the task, click Next.
Step 15 You are informed that "All steps are done." Click Close to close the wizard.
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Note Now that you have polled a router's CAR MIB, you can view this data as directed in the "View CAR MIB Reports" section. |
To navigate through the Task Logs functionality, implement the following steps:
Step 2 If you choose a specific Log in the last column of the upper pane in Figure 9-45, "Task Logs Information," information appears in the bottom right pane.
Posted: Thu Apr 20 16:30:08 PDT 2000
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