Preface

This preface includes the following sections:

Audience

This guide is intended primarily for data center administrators with responsibilities and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

  • Server administration
  • Storage administration
  • Network administration
  • Network security

Organization

This document includes the following chapters:

Chapter

Title

Description

Chapter 1

Overview

Contains an overview of Cisco Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC).

Chapter 2

Overview of the VNMC GUI

Contains an overview of the VNMC UI.

Chapter 3

Configuring Primary Authentication

Describes how to configure LDAP providers and select a primary authentication service.

Chapter 4

Configuring RBAC

Describes how to configure role-based access control including user locales, user roles, and locally authenticated user accounts. This chapter also describes how to monitor user sessions.

Chapter 5

Configuring Trusted Points

Describes how to configure trusted points.

Chapter 6

Configuring VNMC Profiles

Describes how to configure VNMC policies and profiles.

Chapter 7

Configuring VNMC Managers

Describes how to configure VM Managers.

Chapter 8

Configuring Tenants

Describes how to configure tenants, data centers, applications, and tiers.

Chapter 9

Configuring Service Policies and Profiles

Describes how to configure service policies and policy sets, verify policies, configure compute and edge firewall security policies, and apply profiles to firewalls.

Chapter 10

Configuring Device Policies and Profiles

Describes how to configure device policies and device profiles, and associate device policies with profiles.

Chapter 11

Configuring Managed Resources

Describes how to configure managed resources including compute and edge firewalls, and pools.

Chapter 12

Configuring Administrative Operations

Describes how to configure backup operations, export operations, and import operations.

Conventions

This document uses the following conventions:

Convention

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{x | y | z}

Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.

[x | y | z]

Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.

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Courier font

Terminal sessions and information that the system displays appear in Courier font.

Bold Courier font

Information that you enter appears in bold Courier font.

< >

Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets.

[ ]

Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.

!, #

An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.


Note

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Tip

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Caution

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Related Documentation

Cisco Virtual Network Management Center

The following Cisco Virtual Network Management Center documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11213/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 Documentation Overview
  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 Release Notes
  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 Quick Start Guide
  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 CLI Configuration Guide
  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 GUI Configuration Guide
  • Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0 XML API Reference Guide
  • Open Source Used in Cisco Virtual Network Management Center 2.0

Cisco ASA 1000V Documentation

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12233/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation

The Cisco VSG documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11208/tsd_products_support_model_home.html

Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch Documentation

The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series switch documentation is available on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

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