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CiscoView is a device management application that provides dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information for Cisco Systems' switched internetworking products. CiscoView allows you to display a graphical image of each network device, display configuration and performance information, and perform minor troubleshooting tasks.
This booklet guides you, the network administrator, through
You must be familiar with the Motif window management system and NetView for AIX to complete these tasks.
All Cisco technical documentation and additional literature is available on UniverCD, Cisco's online library of product information. Because UniverCD is updated and shipped monthly, it may be more up-to-date than printed documentation. UniverCD is available both as a single CD and as an annual subscription. To order UniverCD, contact your local sales representative or call Customer Service.
In addition to this booklet and the online help system, CiscoView documentation includes: CiscoView 3.0(2) Release Note.
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You can access CIO in the following ways:
http://www.cisco.com cio.cisco.com (IP address 198.92.32.130) For a copy of CIO's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), contact cio-help@cisco.com. For additional information, contact cio-team@cisco.com.
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Before you install, configure, and validate CiscoView, make sure you have the following:
The user named root can perform functions restricted from normal users. To install and configure CiscoView, you must know the root user's password and log in to your system as the root user or become the root user by use of the su command.
If you are not logged in, enter the following to log in as the root user:
login: root
Password: rootpassword
hostname#
If you are already logged in, but not as the root user, enter the following to change your login to root:
hostname% su
Password: rootpassword
hostname#
In both cases, the prompt changes to a pound sign (#), indicating that you are logged in as the root user.
CiscoView requires the following hardware:
CiscoView requires the following software products and conditions. Details and verification methods for each requirement are outlined in the paragraphs following this list.
To ascertain the operating system level, log in as the root user and enter
hostname% oslevel
Output similar to the following appears:
Processing.....Please Wait.
<>3250
This output indicates Version 3, Release 2.5.
If you will use CiscoView with NetView for AIX, verify that NetView is installed on the host. To do so, log in as the root user and enter
hostname% lslpp -m nv6000.base.obj
Output similar to the following appears:
Processing.....Please Wait.
nv6000.base.obj 3.1.0.0
No Maintenance Level Applied.
This output indicates Version 3.1.
CiscoView requires a minimum of 32 MB of RAM. To find out how much RAM is available on your system, log in as the root user and enter the following command at the AIX prompt:
hostname# lscfg | grep mem
Output similar to the following appears:
+ mem0 00-0B 32 MB Memory Card
+ mem1 00-0C 32 MB Memory Card
If your workstation does not have at least 32 MB of RAM, upgrade its memory.
CiscoView requires 5 MB of disk space in the root directory and 25 MB of disk space in the /usr directory.
To find out how much disk space is available on your system, enter the following at the command prompt:
hostname% df -I
Output similar to the following appears:
Filesystem Total KB used free %used Mounted
on
/dev/hd4 16384 10008 6376 61% /
/dev/hd2 1003520 871324 132196 86% /usr
/dev/hd3 16384 732 15652 4% /tmp
The amount of disk space available in each filesystem appears in the free column. Note that 1,000 KB equals 1 MB. If you do not have sufficient space in the filesystem mounted on the /usr directory, you must create a filesystem mounted on the /usr/nms directory.
To create a filesystem, we recommend that you contact a knowledgeable system administrator and use SMIT.
You use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), an IBM AIX system administration facility, to install and configure CiscoView from a local or remote CD-ROM drive. This section describes the graphical user interface (GUI) version of SMIT; you can use the ASCII version called SMITTY, if you prefer. Refer to your IBM documentation for more information about SMIT and SMITTY.
In the process of installing and configuring CiscoView, you do the following:
When configuration is complete, go to the next section, "Getting Started with CiscoView," for a sequence of steps for the first-time user.
You can install CiscoView from a CD-ROM drive attached to your system or from a drive connected to a remote host. You must first use SMIT to mount the local or remote device on the local AIX system.
To mount the CD-ROM on the filesystem from a local CD-ROM drive, use SMIT to perform the following steps on the local host:
1. Place the CD-ROM into its caddy, and insert it into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Log in as the root user. For details, see "Becoming the Root User."
3. Start SMIT by entering the following at the command prompt:
hostname# smit
4. On SMIT's System Management menu, select Physical & Logical Storage.
6. Select Add/Change/Show Delete File Systems.
7. Select CDROM File Systems.
8. Select Add a CDROM File System.
9. Click the "DEVICE name" List button, and select the device name (such as /dev/cd0) from the list that appears.
10. Enter the name of a mount point directory (such as /cdrom) in the "Mount point" field.
11. Click Do and read the output.
12. Click Done.
13. Terminate SMIT by pressing F12 or by clicking Exit SMIT on the Exit menu.
14. Enter the following at the command prompt:
hostname# smit mountfs
15. Click the "FILE SYSTEM name" List button, and select a device name (such as /dev/cd0) from the list that appears.
16. In the "DIRECTORY over which to mount" field, enter the name of a mount point directory (such as /cdrom).
17. Click the "TYPE of file system" List button, and select cdrfs as the file system type.
18. Set the Mount as Read-Only System field to yes.
19. Click Do, read the output, and then click Done.
20. Terminate SMIT by pressing F12 or by clicking Exit SMIT on the Exit menu.
The CD-ROM is ready for installation of software.
To mount the CD-ROM on the local file system from a remote CD-ROM drive, first perform the following steps on the remote system:
1. Perform the 20 steps exactly as listed under "Mounting from a Local CD-ROM Drive" on the remote system.
2. Enter smit mknfsexp at the command prompt.
3. Enter the "PATHNAME of directory to export" (such as /cdrom).
4. Use the arrow keys to change the Mode to Export Directory field to read-only.
5. Enter the appropriate information, if necessary, into any of the other fields.
6. Click Do, read the output, and then click Done.
7. Terminate SMIT by pressing F12 or by clicking Exit SMIT on the Exit menu.
After working on the remote system, perform the following steps on the local system:
1. Log in as the root user. For details, see "Becoming the Root User."
2. Enter the following at the command prompt:
hostname# mount
remote_hostname:remote_exported_filesy
stem_name local_mount_point
hostname# mount zen:/cdrom /cdrom
Installation is the transfer of software from the distribution medium to the AIX system.
To install CiscoView from a mounted CD-ROM drive, perform the following steps:
1. Place the CD-ROM into its caddy, and insert it into the local or remote CD-ROM drive.
2. Log in as the root user. For details, see "Becoming the Root User."
3. Start SMIT by entering the following at the command prompt:
hostname# smit
4. On the System Management menu, select Software Installation & Maintenance.
5. On the next menu, select Install / Update Software.
6. On the next menu, select Install / Update Selectable Software (Custom Install)
7. On the next menu, select Install Software Products at Latest Available Level.
8. In the Install Software Products at Latest Available Level dialog, click the List button, then click the name of the CD-ROM device on which you loaded the CD-ROM in Step 1.
9. Click Do. The Install Software Products at Latest Available Level dialog displays additional fields.
10. Click the List button next to the "SOFTWARE to install" field. After a brief delay, the Multi-Select List dialog appears.
11. In the Multi-Select List dialog, click the CiscoView module named CiscoView.base.obj.
12. Click OK and then click Do.
13. In response to the "ARE YOU SURE?" prompt, click OK when you are sure you want to install the module you just highlighted.
14. Click Done.
15. If Step 13 indicated success, click Return to System Management and go to the next section, "Configuring CiscoView."
To configure the CiscoView product when installation is complete, perform the following steps:
1. Start SMIT if you have not already done so:
hostname# smit
2. On the initial SMIT menu, click Communications Applications and Services.
3. On the next menu, click Cisco Network Management Applications for AIX.
4. On the next menu, click CiscoView.
5. On the CiscoView 3.0 menu, click Configure.
6. On the Configure menu, select CiscoView.
7. The Configure CiscoView Product dialog appears.
8. In the Configure CiscoView Product dialog, accept the defaults, or type values into each of the following fields.
9. Click Do, wait for the process to complete, and read the output.
10. Click Done, and then Cancel.
11. Terminate SMIT by pressing F12 or by clicking Exit SMIT on the Exit menu.
12. Unmount the CD by entering the following at the local or remote workstation where it is mounted:
hostname# cd /
hostname# umount /cdrom
13. Remove the CD-ROM caddy from the drive.
After installing and configuring CiscoView, go to the section "Getting Started with CiscoView."
If you must de-install the CiscoView product, perform these steps:
1. Log in as the root user. For details, see "Becoming the Root User."
2. Start SMIT by entering the following at the command prompt:
hostname# smit
3. On the System Management menu, select Communications Applications and Services.
4. On the next menu, select Cisco Network-Management Applications for AIX.
5. On the next menu, select CiscoView.
6. On the next menu, select Maintain.
7. On the next menu, select Remove CiscoView for AIX program.
8. In response to the "ARE YOU SURE?" prompt, click OK.
9. Terminate SMIT by pressing F12 or by clicking Exit SMIT on the Exit menu.
This section contains a two start-up methods for the first-time user of CiscoView, plus a brief description of the CiscoView online help system.
For details on CiscoView features, refer to the online help system.
If your system does not have NetView for AIX, use this procedure.
To start CiscoView from the AIX command line and monitor a Cisco device, perform these steps.
1. Start CiscoView by entering the following at the command line:
% nmcview
2. You must now specify a Cisco device to monitor.
To start CiscoView when NetView for AIX is installed on the host system, do the following:
1. Start NetView for AIX by entering the following at the command line:
% nv6000
2. Click the IP Internet symbol on NetView's root map. NetView displays all devices running the Internet Protocol (IP), including Cisco devices.
3. To see an image of a device's control panels, highlight exactly one Cisco device on the network map and select Monitor> CiscoView.
The default IP Internet map includes all IP devices connected to NetView when NetView is started. To discover newly added or modified IP devices, use NetView's Options> Manage Objects command as follows:
1. Click a device symbol on the default IP Internet map.
2. Select Options> Manage Objects. NetView displays a submap of the selected device's children (that are reachable in one hop). Newly appearing children could have been newly added to the network or explicitly unmanaged by a previous user. All newly appearing child devices are now accessible by CiscoView.
3. Select File> Save Map As to save the database of devices that you created.
Perform the following steps for each undiscoverable Cisco device that you must add by hand:
1. Display the network map, then select Edit> Add> Object. The Add Object Palette appears.
2. In the Symbol Class area of the Add Object Palette, click the Cisco Router icon.
3. From the Symbol Subclass area of the Add Object Palette, use the middle mouse button to drag a specific Cisco device icon to the network map. The Add Object window appears.
4. Complete the Add Object window, and then click OK to record information about the object you just added.
The map generated by Manage Objects might contain incorrect or generic device symbols. If necessary, use the NetView Change Symbol Type command to change Cisco device icons, as follows:
1. Select a Cisco device on the map, and press the right mouse button or equivalent. The Symbol menu pops up.
2. On the Symbol popup menu, Select Edit> Change Symbol Type. The Change Symbol Type window appears.
3. In the Symbol Class area of the Change Symbol Type window, click the correct symbol class of the selected device.
4. In the Symbol Subclasses area of the Change Symbol Type window, click a specific icon to represent the selected device. Then click OK.
5. To confirm that the selected device has the correct SNMP community strings, select Options> SNMP Configuration from the NetView menu bar.
CiscoView's online help is similar to help systems supplied with Microsoft Windows-based products. The help system satisfies most of your needs for information—there is no printed reference manual.
You can access online help about CiscoView
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