Understanding LMS Tasks

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1 CHAPTER 18 This section briefly describes all the LMS tasks. See the Online help for further details. This section explains the following LMS task groups: Understanding Admin Tasks Understanding Report Tasks Understanding Configuration Tasks Understanding Monitor Tasks Understanding Inventory Tasks Understanding Work Center Tasks Note You should enable the Browse Jobs task to schedule any job across LMS. Understanding Admin Tasks This section explains the following Admin task groups: Understanding System Tasks Understanding Trust Management Tasks Understanding Network Tasks Understanding Collection Tasks Light Weight Messaging System Jobs Getting Started Manage Portal 18-1

2 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding System Tasks This section explains the following System task groups: Log Rotation Cisco.com Settings Licensing Software Center Debug Settings System Preferences/Device Management Functions User Management Server Monitoring DBReader Access Group Management Authentication Mode Setup Backup SMTP Default Server Log Rotation You can configure log rotation settings and schedule log rotation jobs. Cisco.com Settings You can configure Cisco.com Settings like: Proxy Server Setup You can update the proxy server configuration. Apply Proxy Server Settings: You can set up the proxy server details. Remove Proxy Server Settings: You can remove the proxy server settings that are already set up. Cisco.com User Account Setup You can add and modify Cisco.com user login names and password. Licensing You can register your software and obtain a product license. 18-2

3 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks Software Center This section explains the following Software Center task groups: Schedule Device Downloads You can schedule device package downloads and specify the time, frequency of the downloads, and specify download policies if you have permissions. Device Update You can view a list of all Cisco Prime related devices packages on your system, and the count of devices supported. The source location could be Cisco.com or the Server Side Directory. Check For Updates You can check for new device updates. Delete Device Packages You can delete packages that are outdated or no longer used. Software Update You can perform the following tasks: Download Updates You can download the selected updates from Software Center. Select Updates You can select new software packages to update the product. Debug Settings This section explains the following Debug Settings tasks: Layer2 Configuration/Reports and User Tracking Debug Options You can configure the debug options for Layer2 Configuration and Reports and User Tracking. Config and Image Management debugging settings Loglevel Settings - Defaults/Apply You can set different logging levels such as Fatal, Error, Warn, Info, or Debug for individual Config and Image Management packages. IPSLA Debugging Settings You can view, set or reset the log levels for all the modules of IPSLA Performance Management. 18-3

4 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 VRF Lite Debug Settings You can set debugging options for: VRF Lite Server VRF Lite Collector VRF Lite Client VRF Lite Utility Common Services Log Configurations You can enable or disable the debugging option for Common Services components without restarting the services. Fault Debugging Settings You can change the logging level of all the functional modules of Fault Management. Performance Debugging Settings You can configure and manage log level settings of Device Performance Management function of LMS. System Preferences/Device Management Functions You can configure system-wide information on the LMS Server. You can also enable or disable LMS functions like: Inventory, Config and Image Management Network Topology, Layer 2 Services and User Tracking Fault Management IPSLA Performance Management Device Performance Management User Management This section explains the following User Management tasks: Local User Setup Edit User You can modify a local user in LMS Server, assign roles, and specify the authorization type. Delete User You can delete a local user profile from the LMS Server. Modify My Profile You can modify your local user profile in LMS Server. Add User You can add a local user in LMS Server. Import/Export Users You can import local users from the client or from ACS. You can import local users from ACS only through CLI and not from the UI. You can export the local users. 18-4

5 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks Notify Users You can broadcast messages to online users. Local User Policy Setup You can setup username and password policies for Cisco Prime local users in LMS. Role Management Setup The Role Management tasks are listed below: Delete Role You can delete user-defined roles. Add Role You can add user-defined roles. Edit Role You can edit user-defined roles. Import/ Export Roles You can import roles in the XML format from the client.you can export roles in the XML format. The file will be saved in the client. Copy Role You can use this option to copy a role. Default Role You can set a role as a default role. When multiple roles are set as default role, the user will be assigned with all the roles selected as default roles. Server Monitoring This section explains the following Server Monitoring task groups: Process Start Processes You can start the Cisco Prime processes. Stop Processes You can stop the Cisco Prime processes. Collect Server Information Create Collect Server Information You can get the required information about the server. This includes system information, environment, configuration, logs, web server information, device and credentials administration information, and grouping services information. Delete Collect Server Information You can delete the collected server information. DiskWatcher Configuration You can configure disk space threshold level. 18-5

6 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Selftest You can view self test reports to test some basic functions of the server. Create Self test You can test the basic functions of server. Delete Self test You can delete the collected self test information. DBReader Access You can run the DBReader utility from a Cisco Prime client to access the database and troubleshoot database issues. Group Management The Groups feature helps you to group devices managed by LMS. It helps to create, manage and share groups of devices. This section explains the following Group Management task groups: Device Groups Delete Group You can delete a group from the Group Selector. When you delete a group, all the child groups under the group are also deleted. You can also delete the stale groups (groups that are belonging to users removed from Cisco Prime). Edit Group You can modify some of the device groups. Export Group You can export a selected group or all user-defined groups from all applications, to an output file. Group Refresh You can recompute the membership of a group by re-evaluating the group's rule. The membership of Automatic groups is recomputed dynamically. Create Group You can create device groups. Import Group You can import user-defined device groups from an input XML file. Group Details You can view the details of a group. Authentication Mode Setup You can use your current authentication database for Cisco Prime authentication and select a login module (Kerberos, TACACS+, RADIUS, and others), and set their options. Backup Allows you to backup the database regularly. It also lets you schedule immediate, daily, weekly, or monthly automatic database backups. 18-6

7 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks SMTP Default Server You can specify the default SMTP server. Understanding Trust Management Tasks This section explains the following Trust Management task groups: Multi Server Local Server Multi Server You can perform the following multi-server management tasks: Peer Server Certificate Setup You can add the certificate of another LMS Server into its trusted store. This allows LMS Servers to communicate with one another using SSL. Delete Peer Certificate You can delete the peer certificate. View Peer Certificate You can view the details of an existing peer certificate. Add Peer Certificate You can add the certificate of a peer LMS Server into its trusted store. System Identity Setup You can setup a System Identity user on servers that are part of a multi-server setup. This user enables communication among servers that are part of a domain. Peer Server Account Setup You can create users who can log into LMS Servers and perform certain tasks. Peer Server Accounts Delete You can delete a secret user set up in the LMS Servers. Peer Server Accounts Add You can add a secret user who can programmatically login to multiple LMS Servers and perform certain tasks. Peer Server Accounts Edit You can edit a secret user setup in the LMS Servers. Single Sign-On Setup You can use your browser session to transparently navigate to multiple LMS Servers without authenticating to each server. 18-7

8 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Local Server Certificate Setup You can create a self-signed certificate from the user interface. Browser-Server Security Mode Setup You can enable browser-server security. Understanding Network Tasks This section explains the following Network task groups: Best Practices Deviation Settings Monitor/ Troubleshoot Notification and Action Settings PSIRT/EOS and EOL Settings Discovery Settings Purge Settings Software Image Management Configuration Job Settings Device Credential Settings Change Audit Settings Resource Browser Best Practices Deviation Settings You can customize the Discrepancies Report and Best Practices Deviations Report to display only those discrepancies and Best Practice Deviations about which you want to be notified. Monitor/ Troubleshoot This section explains the following Monitor and Troubleshoot tasks: NAM Configuration You can view, add, edit, or delete the NAM configuration details. Load MIB You can load a MIB file. RMON Configuration You can enable RMON on all ports in selected devices. Fault Poller settings for topology You can configure fault poller settings for Topology. 18-8

9 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks Notification and Action Settings This section explains the following Notification and Action Settings tasks: Performance - Syslog notification You can update, create, edit, or delete a syslog receiver group. IPSLA Syslog Configuration You can view, enable or disable IPSLA syslog configuration. Performance - SNMP Trap notification You can create, edit, or delete a trap receiver group. Fault Syslog Notification You can add, edit, suspend, resume, or delete a syslog notification subscription. Fault - SNMP trap notification You can add, edit, suspend, resume, or delete an SNMP trap notification subscription. ChangeAudit Automated Actions You can define automated actions on creation of change audit record. You can create, edit, delete, enable, disable, export, or import an automated action. Event Sets You can configure a set of events that you want to monitor. Fault - SNMP trap forwarding You can forward SNMP traps from devices in the LMS inventory Fault - SNMP trap receiving settings You can update SNMP trap receiving port. Fault - notification You can add, edit, suspend, or resume a subscription for notification. You can also delete notification subscriptions that are no longer useful or are redundant. Syslog Message Filters You can create, edit, delete, enable, disable, export, or import syslog message filter. Fault Notification Customization You can customize names and event severity. Fault - subject customization You can customize the subject for forwarded events. Inventory and Config collection failure notification You can configure the destination server and port to receive trap notification on inventory collection or config fetch failure. Syslog Automated Actions You can create, edit, delete, enable, disable, export, or import a syslog automated action. Fault Notification Group You can add, edit, or delete fault notification groups. 18-9

10 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 PSIRT/EOS and EOL Settings This section explains the following PSIRT/EOS and EOL Settings task: PSIRT/EOX reports option You can use the PSIRT/EOX Reports option to change the data source for generating a PSIRT or End-of-Sale or End-of-Life report. Discovery Settings This section explains the following Discovery Settings tasks: Settings You can: View Discovery Settings You can view the summary of device discovery settings. Configure Discovery Settings You can configure the settings required to run a discovery job. Discovery Status You can view the status of device discovery. Start Stop Discovery You can also start or stop a device discovery. Schedule You can add a device discovery schedule. Purge Settings This section explains the following Purge Settings tasks: Config Job purge settings You can configure the following config job settings: Job Purge - Schedule/Enable/Disable/Purge Now You can schedule, enable, or disable purging of configuration management jobs. You can also immediately purge the jobs. Job Purge You can purge the config jobs. Syslog Backup Settings You can set the syslog backup policy. IPSLA data Purge Settings 18-10

11 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks You can set the purge period for IPSLA historical data and for audit reports. You can configure the following IPSLA data Purge settings: Apply IPSLA Purge Settings You can apply IPSLA purge settings. IPSLA Purge Settings You can view IPSLA purge settings Default IPSLA Purge Settings You can apply default IPSLA purge settings. Syslog Force Purge You can perform a forced purge of syslog messages Performance Job Purge Settings You can configure the following performance Job purge settings: Do Immediate Job Purge You can immediately purge the performance jobs. Schedule Job Purge You can schedule a performance job purge. Fault History Purging Schedule Configure the daily fault history purging schedule. VRF Lite Purge Settings You can purge VRF Lite jobs or report archives. ChangeAudit Force Purge You can perform a forced purge of change audit. Config Archive Purge Settings You can define the configuration archive purge policy. ChangeAudit Purge Policy You can set the change audit purge policy. Performance data purge settings You can configure the following performance data purge settings: Do Immediate Data Purge You can immediately purge the performance data. Schedule Data Purge You can schedule a performance data purge. Syslog Purge Settings You can specify a default policy for the periodic purging of syslog messages. Layer2 Services and User Tracking Report Purge You can purge Layer2 services jobs or report archives

12 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Software Image Management This section explains the following Software Image Management task: View/Edit Preferences You can set or change software management preferences Configuration Job Settings This section explains the following Configuration Job Settings tasks: Assign Approver Lists You can assign an approver list to the applications Create/Edit Approver Lists You can create, edit, or delete approver lists Approver Details You can specify approver details Approval Policies You can set up job approval for the applications Config Job Policies You can define the default job policies for configuration management applications Device Credential Settings This section explains the following Device Credential Settings tasks: User Defined Fields You can add, rename, or delete the user-defined fields used to store additional information about a device. Register/Unregister 3rd Party Application in DCR You can register or unregister third party applications in DCR. Add User Defined Fields in DCR You can add a User Defined Field to to store the additional information about a device. Rename User Defined Fields in DCR You can rename a User Defined Field. Delete User Defined Fields from DCR You can delete a User Defined Field. Mode Settings You can change DCR mode settings to master, slave or standalone. Verification Settings You can select the credentials that need to be verified while adding devices

13 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks Change Audit Settings This section explains the following Network Administration tasks: Inventory Change Filter You can set inventory change filters. Exception Period You can specify the time when no network changes should occur. Resource Browser This section explains the following Resource Browser tasks: Browse Resources You can view the details of resources and manage resources. Free Resources You can free-up locked resources. Understanding Collection Tasks This section explains the following Collection task groups: Inventory Collection Settings Config Collection Settings Data Collection Settings Syslog Collection Settings Performance Collection Settings User Tracking Collection Settings Fault Collection Settings VRF Lite Collection Settings Inventory Collection Settings You can set the default values for inventory, config timeout, and retry settings. This section explains the following Inventory Collection Settings tasks: Inventory Jobs You can view the Inventory job browser, and view, create, stop, delete, or edit an inventory collection or polling job. Inventory, Config Timeout and Retry Settings You can edit the inventory, config timeout, and retry settings

14 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Config Collection Settings This section explains the following Config Collection Settings tasks: Config Archive settings You can configure the Config Archive settings. You can move the configuration archive location, archive the running configuration, or enable or disable the use of shadow directory. Config Collection Settings You can define the configuration collection setting. You can modify how and when the configuration archive retrieves configurations. Secondary Credentials Settings You can enable or disable the secondary credentials fallback. Config Transport Settings You can view or define the protocol order for configuration management applications Config Job Timeout Settings You can configure the Job Result Wait Time per device for the Sync Archive jobs. Data Collection Settings This section explains the following Data Collection Settings tasks: Data Collection schedule You can schedule the day and time of Data Collection. Start Data Collection You can start Data Collection. Layer2 Administration Settings You can configure Layer2 administration settings. Syslog Collection Settings This section explains the following Syslog collection tasks: Subscribe/Unsubscribe Collector You can subscribe or subscribe to a Common Syslog Collector. Collector Status/Update You can view the status of the Common Syslog Collector to which the Syslog Analyzer is subscribed to

15 Chapter 18 Understanding Admin Tasks Performance Collection Settings This section explains the following Performance collection tasks: IPSLA application settings You can configure the following IPSLA application settings: Copy IPSLA Configuration to Running-config You can view the configured collectors in the running configuration. You can also retain the default settings. Set a source interface address You can set a source interface address for the source router. You can also retain the default settings. Performance Management SNMP timeouts and retry settings You can configure the Performance Management SNMP timeout and SNMP retries. You can also configure other Poll Settings. User Tracking Collection Settings This section explains the following User Tracking collection tasks: User Tracking device trap configuration You can configure the Cisco switches for sending SNMPv1/SNMPv2 MAC Notification Traps when a host is connected to or disconnected from that port. User Tracking Acquisition Action You can trigger the following acquisitions: Device based Acquisition Subnet based Acquisition IP Phone Acquisition User Tracking trap listener configuration You can configure the trap listener to direct the traps through HP Open View (HPOV) or LMS Fault Monitor. User Tracking Acquisition Settings You can configure User Tracking Acquisition settings to collect usernames during UT Major Acquisition and update the UT table. User Tracking Acquisition Schedule You can modify UT acquisition schedule. User Tracking Administration Settings You can configure the various User Tracking administration settings

16 Understanding Admin Tasks Chapter 18 Fault Collection Settings This section explains the following Fault collection tasks: Fault Management Rediscovery Schedule You can suspend, or resume the Fault Management rediscovery schedule, and add, modify, or delete additional schedules. Fault Monitoring Device Administration You can rediscover specific devices. Fault Management SNMP timeouts and retries You can modify the Fault Management SNMP timeout and retries. Collection Summary Portlet You can view the report of successful and failed devices for fault discovery in this portlet. Fault Event Forensics Configuration You can enable the Event Forensics collection feature on LMS server to start collecting the event forensics data. VRF Lite Collection Settings This section explains the following VRF Lite collection tasks: VRF Lite SNMP Timeouts and Retries You can modify the SNMP timeouts and retries when VRF Lite Collection fails for a particular device with SNMP timeout exceptions. VRF Lite Collector Schedule You can schedule the VRF Lite Collector process to run after every Data Collection. You can also add, edit and delete VRF Lite Collector Schedule jobs. Light Weight Messaging System The Light Weight Messaging system allows you to perform the following task: Event Listener You can use this tool to send and receive events. Jobs You can perform the following Job tasks: Browse Jobs You can use the job browser and view the details of individual jobs. Note You should enable the Browse Jobs task to schedule any job across LMS. Delete Job You can use the job browser to delete the jobs. Stop Job You can stop the jobs using the job browser

17 Chapter 18 Understanding Report Tasks Getting Started You can perform the Getting Started tasks. Manage Portal You can manage all the portlets. Understanding Report Tasks This section explains the following Report task groups: Understanding Fault and Event Report Tasks Understanding Report Archives Tasks Understanding Report Designer Tasks Understanding Inventory Report Tasks Understanding Audit Report Tasks Understanding Technology Report Tasks Understanding Performance Report Tasks Understanding System Report Tasks Understanding Switch Port Report Tasks Schedule Reports in Layer2 Services and User Tracking User Tracking Job Archives Layer2 Services Job Archives Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit Generate Reports Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit View All Reports Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit View Own Reports 18-17

18 Understanding Report Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding Fault and Event Report Tasks This section explains the following Fault and Event report task groups: Threshold Violation Best Practices Syslogs History Threshold Violation You can generate this report which displays threshold violations details for each device based on the polled data. Thresholds You can create reports based on the threshold configured for the MIB variable. You can create, or view reports for specific threshold MIB variables. These reports are called IPSLA Threshold Violation reports. TrendWatch Summary You can create consolidated reports based on the TrendWatches configured for the MIB variable. You can create, view summary reports of TrendWatch MIB variables. Best Practices You can generate the following Best Practices and Discrepancy reports: Acknowledge/Unacknowledge Discrepancy You can acknowledge a Best Practice Deviation that you no longer want to see in the Best Practices. You can also unacknowledge the acknowledged Best Practise Deviations to reappear in the Best Practise Deviations Report. Discrepancies You can fix the discrepancies detected in the network. Fix Best Practice Deviation You can the fix Best Practice Deviation detected in the network. Fix Discrepancy You can the fix discrepancies detected in the network. Deviation You can view best practice deviation report. Syslogs You can use Custom Reports along with Syslogs to generate GOLD test reports. You can also use Custom Reports along with Syslogs to generate Embedded Event Manager reports

19 Chapter 18 Understanding Report Tasks History You can search fault history database for device issues. Event History You can view the fault history report for a given event ID. Event Monitor/Device Fault You can view information on events in device for the past 31 days. Event Monitor is a centralized place where in you can view the event details of all devices and device groups. Understanding Report Archives Tasks This section explains the following Report Archives task groups: IPSLA Inventory and Syslog Layer2 Services and User Tracking IPSLA You can manage IPSLA archived reports. You can perform the following tasks: List Report Archives You can list the IPSLA report archives. Delete Report You can delete the IPSLA report archives. Inventory and Syslog You can view the list of the completed report jobs that you own or all report jobs. Layer2 Services and User Tracking You can view and delete archived Layer2 Services and User Tracking reports. Understanding Report Designer Tasks You can view, modify, or create new report templates for: User Tracking Syslog and Inventory User Tracking Custom Layouts You can view the list of Custom layouts. Custom Reports You can customize the layout and columns displayed in the UT reports to suit your needs

20 Understanding Report Tasks Chapter 18 Syslog and Inventory Custom Report Template You can create new report templates customized according to your requirements. You can also view, add and edit, delete existing custom templates, view your own templates or view all templates. Understanding Inventory Report Tasks You can generate inventory reports and this section explains the following Inventory Report task groups: Device Attributes User Tracking Management Status Device Attributes You can view device attributes report. User Tracking You can create, schedule, and view various UT reports like: End Host History You can view the login and logout information of the endhosts User Tracking System and Custom Reports You can view User Tracking system and custom reports Management Status You can generate device credentials, device and credentials admin reports, and inventory and config Collection Status report. Inventory and Config Collection Status You can generate the Inventory and Config Collection Status Report which helps you to identify possible causes for Inventory and Configuration collection failure and take timely corrective action. Understanding Audit Report Tasks You can generate audit reports like: System Performance Inventory and Config System You can generate system audit report

21 Chapter 18 Understanding Report Tasks Performance You can generate performance audit report. Inventory and Config You can generate inventory and config audit report. Understanding Technology Report Tasks You can generate the following technology reports: VLAN VRF Lite VLAN You can generate VLAN reports for devices, switch clouds, or VTP domains. VRF Lite You can generate the following VRF Lite Reports: VRF Lite and VRF Lite Readiness report You can generate Device Based VRF-Lite reports and VRF Based reports. You can also generate the VRF Lite Readiness report which provides the devices details that comply with the basic hardware and software support available, in contrast to the required support on the devices to configure VRF. Understanding Performance Report Tasks This section explains the following Performance Report task groups: Create Performance Report View Performance Report Poller Device Create IPSLA Report View IPSLA Job Details View IPSLA Report Custom Create Performance Report You can generate, or view performance reports like: Interface Report Displays the Interface availability information of a device during the last 24 hours. It also displays Interface utilization and error rate information for a device interface during the last 24 hours. IPSLA Detailed Report You can generate various IPSLA detailed reports

22 Understanding Report Tasks Chapter 18 IPSLA Summary Report You can generate system reports for all collectors based on the report types and granularity after the consolidation of the statistical data. EnergyWise Device Power Usage Displays the power usage data for each device that is polled for the EnergyWise Device Power Usage template. EnergyWise Port Power Usage Displays the power usage data for each port that is polled for the EnergyWise Port Power Usage template. PoE Port Utilization Report Displays the port level utilization for each device polled for the Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Port Utilization template. PSE Consumption report Displays the power utilization and losses for each device polled for the Power Over Ethernet PSE Consumption template. IPSLA Audit report Displays all IPSLA related audit changes that occurred in the network during a specified time period. View Performance Report You can view performance reports like: Interface Report IPSLA Detailed Report IPSLA Summary Report EnergyWise Device Power Usage EnergyWise Port Power Usage PoE Port Utilization Report PSE Consumption report IPSLA Audit report Poller You can: View Poller Report You can view Poller Reports based on the template added in a given Poller. Create Poller Job You can create Poller Reports based on the template added in a given Poller. Device You can view device availability and performance parameters of a device. Device Performance You can view performance parameters of a device

23 Chapter 18 Understanding Report Tasks Create IPSLA Report You can create IPSLA Reports and IPSLA Threshold Violation Reports. You can also reset the values you entered. View IPSLA Job Details You can view details of IPSLA jobs. View IPSLA Report You can view IPSLA Reports, IPSLA Report Archives and IPSLA Threshold Violation Reports. You can list and create IPSLA Audit Report. Custom You can create, or view custom reports. Understanding System Report Tasks You can generate administration and system reports. This section explains the following System task groups: Data Collection Metrics and Device Support Users ANI Server Analysis Status Data Collection Metrics and Device Support You can view the duration of each data collection, and the device count. You can also view the icon, name, and object ID of the supported devices. Users You can view information about users currently logged into LMS. Who is Logged on You can view information on users currently logged into LMS. Permission Report You can view information on roles and privileges. ANI Server Analysis You can analyze the ANI server performance. Status You can view the status of the processes running on the LMS Server. Log File You can view information on log file size and file system utilization. Process You can view the status of the processes running on the LMS Server

24 Understanding Report Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding Switch Port Report Tasks You can generate reports based on switch port status. This section explains the following Switch Port Report task groups: User Tracking Switch Port Usage Ports User Tracking Switch Port Usage You can view reports on: Connected Ports The ports that are administratively UP and are connected to a device will be listed here. Free Ports The Ports that are administratively UP but are not connected to a device will be listed here. Free Down Ports The ports that are administratively down will be listed here. You can also view the following reports: Switch Port Capacity Report Lists switches that have crossed utilization threshold limits, along with the value of percentage port utilization. Recently Down Ports Displays: Link ports that were connected to a device in the previous Data collection, but found unconnected in the current Data Collection. Access ports that were connected to an endhost in the last UT Major Acquisition cycle, but found unconnected in the current Data Collection Reclaim Unused Down Ports Report Displays ports that have been in Unused Down state for a specified interval of time. Reclaim Unused Up Ports Report Displays ports that have been in Unused Up state for a specified interval of time. Switch Port Summary Report Displays the number of Connected, Free, and Free down ports in each switch. Ports You can view status of the ports. Port Attributes You can view information about the status of ports in the network Schedule Reports in Layer2 Services and User Tracking You can schedule reports of the Network, Layer 2, and User Tracking function of LMS. User Tracking Job Archives You can view archived reports of UT jobs

25 Chapter 18 Understanding Configuration Tasks Layer2 Services Job Archives You can view archived reports of Layer 2 services jobs. Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit Generate Reports You can generate all Inventory, Syslog, and Change Audit reports. Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit View All Reports You can view all Inventory, Syslog, and Change Audit reports. Inventory/Syslogs/Change Audit View Own Reports You can view all Inventory, Syslog, and Change Audit reports which you have generated. Understanding Configuration Tasks This section explains the following Configuration task groups: Understanding Configuration Archive Tasks Understanding Configuration Tools Tasks Understanding ConfigCLI Tasks Understanding Configuration Workflows Tasks Understanding Configuration Job Browsers Tasks Understanding Compliance Tasks Understanding Configuration Archive Tasks This section explains the following Configuration Archive tasks: Label Configs Summary Views Label Configs You can select configuration files from different devices, group and label them. You can manage Label Configs. Summary You can view the configuration archival status and summary

26 Understanding Configuration Tasks Chapter 18 Views You can search archives using version tree and version summary. The tasks in Views are the following: Custom Queries You can create a custom configuration query that searches information about the specified configuration files. Search Archive You can search the archive for configuration containing text patterns for selected devices. Version Summary You can view all archived configurations for selected devices. Understanding Configuration Tools Tasks This section explains the following Configuration Tools tasks: Software Image Management NetConfig/Template Center Config Editor Software Image Management Software Repository You can view, add, delete, or update the images that are available in the Software Management repository. Repository Synchronization You can update the software repository. Software/Patch Distribution You can distribute software images in the network. You can also distribute patches simultaneously to applicable devices. Jobs You can check the status of a scheduled Software Image Management job. You can view, edit, stop, delete, retry or undo the job. Upgrade Analysis You can analyze images before distribution

27 Chapter 18 Understanding Configuration Tasks NetConfig/Template Center This section explains the following NetConfig and Template Center tasks: Assign Tasks You can assign tasks to a valid Cisco Prime user. User Defined Tasks You can create and edit user-defined tasks. Jobs View You can view all NetConfig and Template Center jobs. Create/Configure/Deploy/Import You can deploy and import configuration templates in LMS. You can also create NetConfig jobs. Config Editor This section explains the following Config Editor tasks: Private Configs You can view changes made to a configuration file in the private work area. Edit Private Configs You can save an edited configuration file in the private work area on the server and retrieve the saved file when required. Edit Public Configs You can save an edited configuration file in the public work area on the server and retrieve the saved file when required. Delete Private Configs You can remove a configuration file from the private work area on the server. Delete Public Configs You can remove a configuration file from the public work area on the server. Public Configs You can view changes made to a configuration file in the public work area. Edit Mode Preference You can set up the default editing mode. Config Editor You can open, edit, or print configuration files. Jobs You can create, edit, delete, copy, or stop Config Editor jobs

28 Understanding Configuration Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding ConfigCLI Tasks This section explains the following ConfigCLI tasks: Delete You can delete configurations older than a specified date from the configuration archive. Compare With Baseline and Deploy You can create a job that compares the given Baseline template with the latest version of the configuration for a device and download the configuration to the device if there is a non-compliance. List Version Lists the different versions of configuration files archived in the archival system. Create Parameter file You can create a parameter file if the Baseline template containing the parameters is specified. Compare With Baseline You can compare the given Baseline template with the latest version of the configuration for a device. Deploy Baseline You can deploy the given Baseline template to a device. Reload You can reboot the devices, to load the running configuration with their startup configuration. Get Configuration You can retrieve the running configuration from the devices and push it to the configuration archive if the running configuration is different than the latest version in the archive. Run2Start You can create a job that overwrites the startup configuration of device with running configuration. Get Change Audit Data You can get Change Audit data. Write2Run You can compare the latest running configuration for the device in the configuration archive with the configuration in the file, to generate a new configuration that is downloaded to the device, so that the configuration specified in the file is available on the running configuration of the device. Export Configuration You can retrieve the configuration for a device from the archive and write it to a specific file. Compare You can list the difference between versions of a device configuration

29 Chapter 18 Understanding Configuration Tasks write2start You can erase the contents of the device's startup configuration and then write the contents of the given file as the device's new startup configuration. Export Configuration-xml You can retrieve the configuration for a device from the archive and write it to a XML file. Import Configuration You can retrieve the configuration from a file, and push it to the device, adding to the device's running configuration. Get Inventory Data You can get the inventory data for the devices. Start2Run You can merge the running configuration of any devices with their startup configuration to give a new running configuration. Put Configuration You can retrieve the configuration from the configuration archive and push it to the device. Understanding Configuration Workflows Tasks This section explains the following Configuration Workflows tasks: VLAN VRF Lite VLAN This section explains the following VLAN Workflows tasks: Configure Port Assignment You can manage ports on your network VLAN. Create/Delete Private VLAN You can create and delete private VLANs Configure Promiscuous Ports You can configure a promiscuous port Create/ Modify Trunk You can create a trunk for a port, or modify trunk attributes. Configure/ Delete VLAN You can create and delete VLANs configured on the devices in the network. VRF Lite This section explains the following VRF Lite Workflows tasks: VRF Configuration You can create, edit, extend, delete and assign Edge VLAN to VRF

30 Understanding Configuration Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding Configuration Job Browsers Tasks This section explains the following Configuration Job Browsers tasks: Job Approval NetConfig Config Editor Job Approval You can approve or reject a job for which you are an Approver. The job will not run until you or another Approver approves it. NetConfig You can manage NetConfig jobs. Config Editor You can manage Config Editor jobs. Understanding Compliance Tasks This section explains the following Configuration Compliance tasks: Out-of-Sync Summary Compliance Templates Out-of-Sync Summary You can generate Out-of-Sync report for device groups. Compliance Templates This section explains the following Compliance Templates tasks: Compliance Check You can run a compliance check. Direct Deploy You can deploy a baseline template using a file system or UI. Templates You can manage a baseline template

31 Chapter 18 Understanding Monitor Tasks Understanding Monitor Tasks This section explains the following Monitor task groups: Understanding Performance Settings Tasks Understanding Fault Settings Tasks Understanding Threshold Settings Tasks Understanding Troubleshooting Tools Tasks Understanding Monitoring Tools Tasks Understanding Performance Settings Tasks You can configure performance settings like: IPSLA Setup IPSLA You can manage IPSLA devices, collectors, operations and outage settings Devices You can add devices to manage IPSLA functionality. You can: Enable IPSLA Responder You can enable IPSLA responder for the selected devices. Update IPSLA Config You can update the IPSLA responder enable or disable status. You can also save the latest information configured in a device to the database. View Devices You can view all the IPSLA devices managed by LMS. Edit Device Attributes You can edit the device attributes like SNMP Retry and SNMP Timeout. Delete devices You can delete Adhoc target devices. Add Adhoc Target You can add adhoc target devices to the IPSLA Performance Management function in LMS if you want to manage devices from an external source. The Adhoc devices may be either Cisco devices or devices with a unique IP address. Collectors You can create, edit, delete, monitor, start, list, view, or stop collectors. When you have the authorization to create collectors you can import, export and reconfigure collectors

32 Understanding Monitor Tasks Chapter 18 Operations You can analyze IP service levels for IP applications and services. You can view operation details, list, create, edit, or delete operations. Outage Settings You can view, list, create, edit, or delete planned outages. Setup You can setup auto monitoring, poller and template management Automonitor You can change the polling intervals. Pollers You can create and manage pollers. You can: Edit Poller You can edit pollers. Clear Failures You can clear all the failures recorded in the database for a Poller. Clear Missed Cycle You can clear all the polling interval cycles missed for a Poller. Activate and Deactivate Poller You can activate an inactive Poller to poll, or stops a Poller from polling. View Failures You can view failures that occurred during polling. Create Poller You can create a Poller. List Performance Devices You can view performance devices. Delete Poller You can delete a Poller. Debug Performance Polling Engine You can debug performance polling engine. List / View Pollers You can list or view Pollers. Templates You can create, copy, edit, list, delete, export, or import templates to monitor performance parameter. Device Performance Management Summary You can view the Device Performance Management Summary portlet details. To access any custom role, you should select Device Performance Management Summary

33 Chapter 18 Understanding Monitor Tasks Understanding Fault Settings Tasks You can set up the following fault settings tasks: Setup You can setup polling parameters, group priorities, and view device fault details. Apply Changes You can apply polling and threshold changes. Polling Parameters You can configure polling parameters. Fault Device Details You can view component details of a device. Priority Settings You can set priority for polling and thresholds. Understanding Threshold Settings Tasks You can configure pollers, manage templates, configure trendwatch. This section explains the following Threshold Settings tasks: TrendWatch Performance Fault TrendWatch You can create, activate, list and view, edit, copy, deactivate, or delete trendwatch for a MIB variable. Performance You can create, edit, delete, access, or, list and view thresholds for a MIB variable. Fault You can view the thresholds that are associated with device groups, trunk port groups, access port groups, and interface groups

34 Understanding Monitor Tasks Chapter 18 Understanding Troubleshooting Tools Tasks You can troubleshoot network devices using various tools like NetShow and VRF-Lite. This section explains the following Troubleshooting Tools tasks: VRF Lite NetShow Connectivity Tools Troubleshooting Workflows VRF Lite Ping and Traceroute/Show Commands You can troubleshoot VRFs using Ping or Traceroute, or view the result of the VRF-specific show commands NetShow Job Operations You can perform tasks such as viewing job details, creating jobs, editing jobs, copying jobs, retrying failed jobs, stopping jobs, and deleting jobs. Command Set Operations You can create, edit, or delete user-defined Command Sets. Assigning Command Sets You can assign command sets to network operators. Command Sets You can view the details of an existing Command Set. NetShow Jobs/Show Commands You can run NetShow commands and view NetShow jobs. Connectivity Tools You can use the following tools: Device Center You can launch the troubleshooting page by clicking device IPs. Packet Capture You can capture live data from the Cisco Prime machine to aid in troubleshooting. SNMP Walk You can trace the MIB tree of a device starting from a given OID for troubleshooting, or gathering information about a certain device. SNMP Set You can set an SNMP object or multiple objects on a device for controlling the device. Troubleshooting Workflows You can troubleshoot network problems using the troubleshooting workflows. You can diagnose network connectivity problems, or diagnose devices

35 Chapter 18 Understanding Monitor Tasks Understanding Monitoring Tools Tasks You can use fault and event monitor tools like: Fault Monitor Configure Inter-VLAN Routing View Link Bandwidth utilization Configure EtherChannel Device Operation Discover Devices View Trunk Attributes Time Domain Reflectometer Report Device Operation Delete Link Spanning Tree Reports Device Operation Delete Devices Topology Services Spanning Tree Configuration Device Operation Change management IP View Data Extraction Engine Fault Monitor You can view all the faults in a common place. It collects information of fault in devices in real-time and display the information by a selected group of devices. You can clear or annotate faults. It allows you to own the fault or clear them. Configure Inter-VLAN Routing You can configure Inter-VLAN Routing. View Link Bandwidth utilization You can view bandwidth utilization across links, in the Topology maps. Configure EtherChannel You can configure EtherChannel. View Devices at Fault and Event Monitor You can view devices available at Fault and Event Monitor. Device Operation Discover Devices You can discover devices for device operation. View Trunk Attributes You can view trunk attributes. Time Domain Reflectometer Report You can generate the TDR report that detect faults in a cable. TDR checks and locates open circuits, short circuits, sharp bends, crimps, kinks, impedance mismatches, and other such defects

36 Understanding Inventory Tasks Chapter 18 Device Operation Delete Link You can remove a link from the Network Topology View. Spanning Tree Reports You can generate Spanning Tree reports Device Operation Delete Devices You can delete devices. Topology Services You can access the LAN Edge, Layer 2, and Unconnected Devices network views of managed domains discovered in your network, and you can filter, access, or view network information or status. Spanning Tree Configuration You can configure Spanning Trees on the network. Device Operation Change management IP You can set a preferred management address to be used by LMS for devices which can have multiple IP addresses. View Data Extraction Engine You can view Data Extraction Engine. Understanding Inventory Tasks This section explains the following Inventory task groups: Understanding Group Management Tasks Understanding Job Browsers Tasks Understanding Device Administration Tasks Understanding Inventory Tools Tasks Understanding Group Management Tasks You can create and manage fault groups, IPSLA collectors groups, or ports and modules groups. Fault groups You can view, create, edit, delete fault groups, or refresh groups. IPSLA Collector You can view, create, edit, delete or refresh IPSLA collector groups

37 Chapter 18 Understanding Inventory Tasks Understanding Job Browsers Tasks You can view, create, edit, stop, retry, or delete device credentials verification jobs. You can also verify device credentials. Understanding Device Administration Tasks You can manage devices and auto update the server. This section explains the following Device Administration tasks: Add / Import / Manage Devices Add Managed Devices Manage Device State Device Allocation Policy Add / Import / Manage Devices You can manage devices in DCR. You can: View Credentials You can view device information for a single device or for multiple devices. Export Devices You can export a list of device and their credentials. View Reports You can generate the following reports: Unreachable Devices Displays the list of devices that are unreachable. To generate this report, select Reports > Inventory > Management Status > Unreachable Devices. Excluded Devices Displays the list of devices that should not be added in DCR. To generate this report, select Reports > Inventory > Management Status > Excluded Devices. Imported Device Status Displays the information about the devices that are imported into DCR. To generate this report, select Reports > Inventory > Management Status > Imported Device Status. Known Device List Displays the complete list and information of all devices in the repository. To generate this report, select Reports > Inventory > Management Status > Known Device List. Device Administration Displays the complete device list in DCR. To generate this report, select Reports > Audit > Device Administration