VPN Console: Tools Menu

Tasks

Actions—Task Manager Menu Bar

New Task

Delete Task

Delete Expired

Schedule

View—Task Manager Menu Bar

Task Logs

User Administration

New User

Edit User

Delete User

VPN Console: Too ls Menu

The Tools menu provides access to tools.

Figure 10-1, "Tools Menu Option," provides a view of the Tools menu option in the menu bar.

Figure 10-1: Tools Menu Option

The Tools menu includes the following options:

Tasks

To navigate through the Tasks functionality, implement the following steps:

Step 1 From the VPN Console window, choose Tools > Tasks, as shown in Figure 10-2, "Tasks Information."

Figure 10-2: Tasks Information

The resulting window is Task Manager, as shown in Figure 10-3, "Task Manager."

Figure 10-3: Task Manager

This window has menu bars and a table with the following column headings:

Task Name, which is the unique task name given when a task is created.
Task Type
Last Modified
User
Schedule
Status

The menu bars are:

Step 2 Click either of these menu bar items to activate it.

Actions—Task Manager Menu Bar

For a selection of actions to implement, implement the following steps:

Step 1 From the VPN Console window, choose Tools > Tasks, as shown in Figure 10-4, "Navigating to Tools > Tasks.

Figure 10-4: Navigating to Tools > Tasks

Step 2 From the resulting Task Manager window, choose Actions, as shown in Figure 10-5, "Task Manager," appears.

Figure 10-5: Task Manager

Step 3 Choose the action you want to implement from the following choices:

New Task

Step 1 Click New Task from the window shown in Figure 10-5, "Task Manager."

The result is the window shown in Figure 10-6, "Task Chooser."

Figure 10-6: Task Chooser

Step 2 Click any of the following items in the task list in Figure 10-6, "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.

Add VPN Service to CE. See the "Add VPN Service to CE" section.
Collect Router Configuration Files. See the "Collect Router Configuration Files" section.
Collect VPN Accounting Data. See the "Collect VPN Accounting Data" section.
Collect VPN Routing Information. See the "Collect VPN Routing Information" section.
Deploy Service Requests. See the "Deploy Service Requests" section.
Deregister for config—change traps. See the "Deregister for ConfigChange Traps" section.
Export Service Request Configlets. See the "Export Service Request Configlets" section.
Generate Service Request Audit Reports. See the "Generate Service Request Audit Reports" section.
Interface Statistics Collection for Cisco Routers. See the "Interface Statistics" section.
Poll a Router's CAR MIB. See the "Poll a Router's CAR MIB" section.
Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets. See the "Populate Interface Information for Cisco Router Targets" section.
Provision SLA Definitions and Collect SLA Data. See the "Provision SLA Definitions and Collect SLA Data" section.
Register for config—change traps. See the "Register for ConfigChange Traps" section.

Delete Tas k

Step 1 In the window, as shown in Figure 10-5, "Task Manager," highlight one or more tasks you want to delete.

Step 2 Click Delete Task from the drop-down from Actions.

Delete Exp ired

In the window shown in Figure 10-5, "Task Manager," the grayed tasks are expired tasks.

Step 1 Click Delete Expired from the drop-down from Actions to eliminate these tasks from the window and the Repository.

Schedule

Step 1 In the window, as shown in Figure 10-5, "Task Manager," highlight an unscheduled task.

Step 2 In the window, click Schedule from the drop-down from Actions.

Step 3 From the resulting Scheduler window, specify the frequency and schedule you want. See Chapter 13, "Scheduling."

View—Task Manager Menu Bar

Step 1 From the VPN Console window, choose Tools > Tasks, as shown in Figure 10-7, "Navigating to Tools > Tasks."

Figure 10-7: Navigating to Tools > Tasks

The Task Manager window appears.

Step 2 From the Task Manager window, choose View > Refresh, as shown in Figure 10-8, "Navigating View > Refresh."

Figure 10-8: Navigating View > Refresh

When you click Refresh, the window refreshes to the most current information.

Task Lo gs

To navigate through the Task Logs functionality, implement the following steps:

Step 1 From the VPN Console window, choose Tools > Task Logs, as shown in Figure 10-9, "Navigating To Tools > Task Logs."

Figure 10-9: Navigating To Tools > Task Logs

This launches a web browser that shows the logs of the various scheduled tasks, as shown in Figure 10-10, "Task Logs Information."

Figure 10-10: Task Logs Information

Step 2 In the top pane, if you click on Previous, you get the previous page of task logs. Also in the top pane, if you click on Next, you get the next page of task logs.

Step 3 If you click on a specific Log in the Logs column, the second-last column in the upper pane in Figure 10-10, "Task Logs Information," information appears in the bottom left pane. The information that appears is the state of the runtime task and when it started and ended, if it has ended; and the name of each action and when it started and ended.

Step 4 If you click on a specific action under the Actions heading in the bottom left pane, an Action Report appears in the bottom right pane. In the first row in the bottom right pane, you can click on Stdout/Stderr to view the standard output and/or standard errors or you can click on Errors to view all the errors for all actions in the specified task.

Step 5 If you click the Show Debug Messages box in the top pane, in addition to the Action Report in the bottom right pane, debug messages appear.

Step 6 If you click on Show All, all tasks appear in one page. Otherwise, the tasks are displayed in pages with 10 tasks per page.

Step 7 In the last column, you can specify the runtime task or tasks you want to delete. You can click in each box to check it and therefore start the process to delete the runtime task specified in that row. Otherwise, you can click on Check All or Clear All, in the top pane, to check all the tasks or uncheck all the tasks in the current page (not all the tasks in the Repository), respectively.

Step 8 After you check all the runtime tasks that you want to delete, as indicated in Step 7, click the Delete button at the top of the last column to delete these tasks and therefore, rows of information.

Note If you have a large number of runtime tasks (for example, 30 or more) that you wish to delete, when you click the Delete button, you may receive a time-out. The solution is to choose fewer runtime tasks to delete in Step 7 and then proceed again with Step 8.

User Administration

To navigate in User Administration and create a new user, edit the password for an existing user, or delete any user other than admin, you must have logged in as the super user admin.

Note If you change to a new install and use the existing Repository, you can presently log in only as admin and need to re-create the other users and passwords. To facilitate this, before you implement a new install, save the old passwordFile from the directory /<vpninstall>/vpn/etc. Then copy the saved passwordFile into the/<vpninstall>/vpn/etc directory of the new install.

First, implement the following step and then follow the instructions for the specific task:

Step 1 From the VPN Console window, choose Tools > User Administration, as shown in Figure 10-11, "Choose Tools > User Administration."

Figure 10-11: Choose Tools > User Administration

The User Administration Tool window appears. If you are the super user admin, from this window you can create a user identifier and password, edit the password, or delete a user identifier other than admin:

New User

To create a new user identifier and password, implement the following steps as the super user admin:

Step 1 From the User Administration Tool window, choose Actions > New User to add a new user identifier and password, as shown in Figure 10-12, "Choose Actions > New User."

Figure 10-12: Choose Actions > New User

The New User window appears.

Step 2 In the New User window, as shown in Figure 10-13, "New User Window," enter the following information:

User Name In this field, enter a unique user identifier. The first character must be a letter. The remaining characters must be letters, numbers, periods, underscores, or dashes.
Password In this field, enter a password that is eight or more characters with one nonalphanumeric character. Embedded spaces are not valid and characters created with the Ctrl key are not valid.
Verify Password In this field, enter the same character string you entered in the Password field.

Figure 10-13: New User Window

Step 3 Click OK to accept this information or Cancel to cancel this operation.

Step 4 If you did not type the same character string for Password and Verify Password, you will get the message shown in Figure 10-14, "Warning When Password and Verify Password Do Not Match," and you will need to click OK. You will then be returned to the New User window and able to retry Step 2 and Step 3.

If you typed the same character string for Password and Verify Password, you will get no warning message and you can assume that the new user has been created with the specified password.

Figure 10-14: Warning When Password and Verify Password Do Not Match

Step 5 The result is the User Administration Tool window with the newly added user identifier, as shown in Figure 10-15, "New User Shown in User Administration Tool Window."

Figure 10-15: New User Shown in User Administration Tool Window

Edit User

To edit a password, implement the following steps as the super user admin:

Step 1 From the User Administration Tool window, you can highlight a user identifier and choose Actions > Edit User to edit the existing password, as shown in Figure 10-16, "Choose Actions > Edit User."

Figure 10-16: Choose Actions > Edit User

The Edit User window appears.

Step 2 In the Edit User window, as shown in Figure 10-17, "Edit User Window," you can enter the following information:

Password In this field, enter a password that is eight or more characters with one nonalphanumeric character to replace the current password for the identifier shown in User Name. Embedded spaces are not valid and characters created with the Ctrl key are not valid.
Verify Password In this field, enter the same character string you entered in the Password field.

Figure 10-17: Edit User Window

Step 3 Click OK to accept this information or Cancel to cancel this operation.

Step 4 If you did not type the same character string for Password and Verify Password, you will get the message shown in Figure 10-18, "Warning When Password and Verify Password Do Not Match," and you will need to click OK. You will then be returned to the Edit User window and able to retry Step 2 and Step 3.

If you typed the same character string for Password and Verify Password, you will get no warning message and you can assume that the password has been changed.

Figure 10-18: Warning When Password and Verify Password Do Not Match

Delete User

To delete a user identifier and password, implement the following steps as the super user admin:

Step 1 From the User Administration Tool window, you can highlight a user identifier and choose Actions > Delete User to delete the highlighted user identifier and its associated password, as shown in Figure 10-19, "Choose Actions > Delete User."

Figure 10-19: Choose Actions > Delete User

The Delete User window appears.

Step 2 In the Delete User window, as shown in Figure 10-20, "Delete User Window," you can choose:

Yes to delete this user identifier and its associated password. If you choose Yes, the selected user identifier is eliminated from the User Administration Tool window.

Note If you highlighted the admin user identifier and tried to delete it, you will get a warning message indicating that "admin is not deletable," in which you will need to click OK to continue.

No to cancel the deletion. If you choose No, you will return to the User Administration Tool window, which will not have changed.

Figure 10-20: Delete User Window

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