- Preface
- Product Overview
- Administration Tasks for Internal Directory Mode
- Administration Tasks for External Directory Mode
- Directory Administration Tool
- Cisco PIX Firewall Device Support
- IMGW Device Module Development Toolkit
- Troubleshooting
- How to Use the IMGW Device Module Toolkit
- Software Licenses and Acknowlegements
Administration Tasks for External Directory Mode
This chapter describes the Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 administration tasks for External Directory mode including information about:
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How to Login and Out of the System
•How to View, Re-synchronize, and Update Devices
How to Login and Out of the System
You can connect to the system by means of:
•SSH
•System console
How to Login
To login to the system, follow these steps:
Step 1 Launch your web browser.
This user interface is best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5.5 or later.
Step 2 Go to the Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 URL.
For example: http://<ip_address>/config/login.html
Note If encryption is set during Setup (see "Encryption Settings" section on page 2-6), use https://<ip_address>/config/login.html.
The login window appears (see Figure 3-1).
Figure 3-1 Logging In to the Configuration Server
Step 3 Enter your User ID.
This is the user name for the Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 administrative account that you entered during Setup.
Step 4 Enter your password.
Step 5 Click LOGIN.
The Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 Home page for External Directory mode appears (see Figure 3-2).
Figure 3-2 Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 External Directory Mode Home Page
How to Log Out
To log out of the system, click the Logout link.
How to View, Re-synchronize, and Update Devices
To view, re-synchronize, and update devices, from the Home page, click Devices. The Devices page appears (see Figure 3-3).
Figure 3-3 Devices Page
How to View Device Configuration
To view a device configuration, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Devices tab.
Step 2 From the Devices Functional Overview page (Figure 3-3), click View Device.
The Device List page appears.
Step 3 Click on the icon for the device configuration you wish to view.
The Configuration for that device appears.
Note The device configuration displayed is the configuration as it appears at the configuration server. It may not be the configuration running on the device.
Step 4 To return to the main menu, click on the Devices tab.
How to Re-synchronize a Device
To re-synchronize a device, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Devices tab.
Step 2 From the Devices Functional Overview page (see Figure 3-3), click Resync Device.
Step 3 From the Device Selection page, click on the icon for the device you wish to re-synchronize.
Step 4 To return to the main menu, click on the Devices tab.
How to Update a Device Configuration
To send an updated version of the configuration to a device, or group of devices, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Devices tab.
Step 2 From the Devices Functional Overview page (Figure 3-3), click Update.
The Device Update List page appears.
Step 3 Click on the check box next to the icon for the device(s) or group(s) you wish to update.
Step 4 Click Next.
The update task dialog box appears (see Figure 3-4)
Figure 3-4 Update Task
Step 5 Choose the Config Action and Syntax Check tasks you require.
Step 6 Click Update Device via Event.
A screen appears showing the event that has been sent to the selected device.
Step 7 To return to the main menu, click on the Devices tab.
Tools
To use the tools feature, from the Home page, click on the Tools tab.
The Tools page appears (see Figure 3-5).
From the Tools page, you can access the following functions:
•DAT
•Schedule Backup
•View Logs
•View Templates
•Security Manager
•Manage Disk Space
Figure 3-5 Tools Functional Overview
How to Use DAT
To connect to the user interface for the Directory Administration Tool (DAT), follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page (Figure 3-5), click DAT.
The DAT login window appears (see Figure 3-6).
Figure 3-6 Directory Administration Tool Login Window
Step 3 Enter your User ID.
This is the LDAP proxy user name for the Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 administrative account that you entered during Setup.
Step 4 Enter your LDAP proxy password.
Step 5 Click LOGIN.
The Directory Administration Tool Home page appears (see Figure 3-7).
Figure 3-7 DAT Home Page
Step 6 From here, go to "Directory Administration Tool" and follow the procedures for the tasks you want to run.
How to Schedule Data Backup
To schedule data backup, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page (Figure 3-5), click ScheduleBackup.
The backup information dialog box appears (see Figure 3-8).
Figure 3-8 Backup Schedule Parameters
Step 3 To specify where you want the backup data to be stored, enter the FTP server name in the FTP Server Name field.
Table 3-1 list valid values for these fields.
Step 4 To specify the username to login to the FTP server, enter a valid username in the Username field.
Step 5 To specify the password to use to login to the FTP server, enter a valid value in the Password field.
Step 6 To specify the subdirectory where the data file is put, enter the absolute path in the Directory field.
Step 7 Choose whether to Enable Log File Management.
Step 8 To specify the backup schedule, complete the fields in the Backup Schedule pane.
Note The time base for the CNS 2100 Series system should be set to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Step 9 To cancel the backup operation, click Cancel.
Step 10 To start the backup operation, click Backup.
Step 11 To return to the main menu, click on the Tools tab.
For more information about backup and restore, refer to the Cisco CNS Configuration Engine 1.4 Installation & Setup Guide For Linux.
How to View Logs
To view various log files, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page (Figure 3-2), click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page (Figure 3-5), click View Logs.
The View Log Files dialog box appears (see Figure 3-9).
Figure 3-9 Log File Viewer
Step 3 Choose the log file you want to view.
Table 3-2 list valid values for these fields.
Step 4 Set the number lines you want to display.
Step 5 To limit the report to display only specific entries, set a case-sensitive keyword filter, or leave blank.
Step 6 Click View.
A report displays (for an example see Figure 3-10).
Step 7 To return to the main menu, click on the Tools tab.
Figure 3-10 Log File
How to View a Template
To view the content of the template file, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page, click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page, click View Template.
The Template page appears (see Figure 3-11).
Step 3 Click on the icon for the template file you wish to view.
The template file appears.
Step 4 To return to the main menu, click on the Tools tab.
Figure 3-11 Template List
Security Manager
With the security manager tool you can change the bootstap password.
The bootstrap password is used to authenticate a Cisco IOS device before it connects to the Event Gateway. For additional information see "Authentication settings" section on page 2-7)
To use the security manager tool, from the Tools Functional Overview page, click Security Mgr.
The Security Manager page appears (see Figure 3-12).
Figure 3-12 Security Manager
How to Change Bootstrap Password
To change the bootstrap password, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page, click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page, click Security Mgr.
Step 3 From the Security Manager Functional Overview page, click BootStrap.
The Change Bootstrap Password page appears (see Figure 3-13).
Figure 3-13 Change Bootstrap Password
Step 4 In the password dialog box, enter the new password.
Table 3-3 list valid values for these fields.
Step 5 Confirm the new password.
Step 6 Choose (Keep, Update radio buttons) the subsequent action to the database regarding any password that is equal to the bootstrap password.
Step 7 To clear all entries, click Reset.
Step 8 To save the new password, click OK.
Step 9 To return to the main menu, click on the Tools tab.
How to Manage Disk Space
To setup disk space e-mail notification of disk space usage, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Home page, click on the Tools tab.
Step 2 From the Tools Functional Overview page, click Manage Disk Space.
The Setup Disk Space Notification dialog box appears (see Figure 3-14).
Figure 3-14 Disk Space Notification
Step 3 Set the notification percentage to the value that triggers an e-mail notification.
Step 4 Set the appropriate e-mail address for notification e-mail.
Step 5 To save these entries, click Save.
Step 6 To return to the main menu, click on the Tools tab.
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