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WAN CiscoView is a GUI-based device management software application that allows you to do the following:
The ports, connectors, and LEDs are color-coded to display their status. Table 1-1 describes the commonly used colors and their meaning.
| Color | Meaning |
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blue | Dormant/OK |
orange | Down |
red | Major Alarm/failure |
yellow | Minor alarm |
purple | Self-test |
green | Up/OK |
The display you see when you first enter CiscoView is of the front panel of the device. To change to the rear view, select View>Rear. Click on various parts of the graphic (the device itself, lines, cards, and ports) to select them.You can also use the right mouse button to get to a popup menu that allows you to configure or monitor a device, card, or port. For example, if you are using a FRSM 8T1 card and need port information, select a port on the display and click the right mouse button. A popup menu opens. Within this menu, select one of the options to configure or monitor the port.
The buttons on the left side of the display are as follows:
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CiscoView displays two primary types of information:
1. Configuration information, which includes data such as information about a device chassis, is displayed in CiscoView Configuration windows.
2. Performance information, which includes data such as the number of Ethernet errors during a given period, is displayed in CiscoView Monitor windows, which are sometimes referred to as dashboards.
Configuration and performance information is displayed for devices, cards, and ports.
Use the Configuration menu to display configuration information, or select Configure from a component popup menu. CiscoView displays configuration information in the Configuration windows. The information is displayed as a list of fields for a single port, or as a table that includes fields for multiple ports.
CiscoView displays performance information using the Monitor menu in the main window to display performance information. To view performance information, select Monitor from a component popup menu. Performance information is displayed in a dashboard.
Select a card (on the rear or front view) to display the Card Configuration dialogs by doing one of the following:
To display the configuration parameters for a particular card, select the name of the category from the Category pull-down menu at the top of the dialog.
There are three ways to select the line or port to display the appropriate line configuration dialog:
Context-sensitive online help provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to use
WAN CiscoView. The online help system also provides a glossary and keyword search capability which Table 1-2 provides a quick guideline to access help from different places.
| For Information About | Do This |
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Help system for specific products | Select Help>Help Topics |
How to use the help system | Select Help>Using Help |
How to use CiscoView features | Select Help>Using CiscoView |
Current CiscoView versions | Select Help>About CiscoView |
Current device package version | Select Help>About CiscoView |
You can use jumps and popups in the help system. Click on a highlighted underlined topic to jump to a help window specific to that topic. When you jump to another topic, you have to click Back on the menu bar to go back to the previous help topic. Click on a dotted underlined term to open a popup help window, which provides a definition of that term. When you go to a popup window, press Enter to return to your previous help topic.
Each help window has a menu bar and a button bar. The menu bar provides standard help functions for printing help topics, copying and pasting text from help topics, making online notes about particular help topics, and placing bookmarks.
The button bar provides the following buttons:
Many help windows have Overview and See Also links in the help window topics. You can select the Overview link to obtain background information for the procedure described in the current help window. Select the See Also link to display a list of related topics and go directly to those topics from the current help window.
Select File>Exit on the menu bar in the Help window to exit Help.
Posted: Fri Sep 29 14:22:55 PDT 2000
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