The CiscoWorks Windows Show Commands and Health Monitor applications can only run under CastleRock SNMPc. Configuration Builder and CiscoView can run as standalone applications or within the SNMPc platform.
Note For detailed information on all CiscoWorks Windows applications, see the context-sensitive online help system. This comprehensive online help system provides procedures, overview material, and links to related information.
Note Advanced features or features added in Cisco IOS releases later than those listed in the online help or "Supported Cisco Internetworking Operating System Versions and Devices" section of the Cisco Connection Documentation, are supported through the Configuration Builder Add Commands window—see the online help system for more details.
Configuration Builder provides the following features:
You can configure multiple devices simultaneously for remote source-route bridging and Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) Transport. For example, when you configure a new router into an existing remote source-route bridging (SRB) virtual ring group, configuration files of all devices in the same virtual ring group are automatically updated.
You can quickly import predefined priority queuing lists, Internet Protocol (IP) or Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) access lists, IPX Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP) filters, and AppleTalk filters into multiple configuration files. This ensures consistency among devices that share common configuration parameters.
You can check for duplicate IP, IPX, and AppleTalk addresses in all open configuration files. You can also check for valid entries for common configuration parameters such as addresses, costs for DECnet and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and AppleTalk cable ranges.
You can detect the model, software version and image type, and the number and type of installed interfaces on the router you are configuring. You can also learn the number of lines on an access server, and whether or not a hub is connected to a device. This information is automatically placed in the configuration file.
You can configure remote devices if the PC is running a TCP/IP stack that is WINSOCK-compliant and has access via TCP/IP to the router you are configuring. The router must have the following minimum configuration:
You can perform the following configuration tasks for Cisco hubs and access servers:
Grouping and ungrouping lines
Using expert mode to quickly configure related features
Configuring chat scripts
Using list boxes to quickly select device features and modem communication parameters
Configuring lines for IP, IPX, or AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA) protocols to allow flexibility for remote users to log in
Configuring terminal services
Setting up security
Configuring dial-on-demand routing (DDR) to include asynchronous or synchronous serial lines and assigning them to a rotary group
Configuring protocol translation to enable connections between hosts and resources running different protocols
Note For detailed information on all Configuration Builder features, see the context-sensitive online help system. This comprehensive online help system provides procedures, overview material, and links to related information. Open Configuration Builder and select Help.
Configuration Builder generates and stores the following files in the \data\snapin directory:
*.aal
AppleTalk access lists
*.ial
IP access lists
*.nal
IPX access lists
*.nsl
IPX SAP filter lists
*.pql
Priority queuing lists
The \data\srb directory contains files with the extension *.srb. These files define remote source-route bridging (SRB) groups.
The \data\sdlc directory contains files with the extension *.s. These files define SDLC tunnel groups.
Note If you create additional Configuration Builder icons through the Windows Program Manager, be sure to include the directory name in which you installed Configuration Builder and the ciscocb.exe command. The working directory must specify the \data subdirectory.
The Configuration Builder main window consists of the following elements:
Title bar—Displays the application name and the name of the currently active router configuration. The active configuration name includes the router host name, followed by the file name in brackets. In Figure 3-1, the host name is Mt View, and the file name is MTVIEW.CDF.
Menu bar—Provides access to all Configuration Builder dialog boxes. Table 3-1 through Table 3-9 list and explain the options under each menu.
Toolbar—Provides the Guided Configuration icon in addition to the standard Create File, Open File, Save File, Print File, and Help icons. You can use the Guided Configuration icon or the F2 key to activate the guided configuration.
Protocol list box—Used to select a routing protocol with configuration windows. The configuration window indicates whether interfaces are enabled for the specified routing protocol. In Figure 3-1, IP is the selected protocol. With this selected, you can double-click on any interface icon to open the IP Routing Configuration window.
Configuration windows—Appear within the main window and indicate the router model, Cisco software version and image type, and interface status information.
Configuration file icons—Display for any open configuration window that is iconized. In Figure 3-1, the London and Paris configurations are iconized.
Status bar—Provides a brief description of the currently selected menu item.
Assign usernames and passwords. Configure login method, line passwords, Point-to-Point PPP authentication, and assign IP access lists. Configure security for console, TTY, auxiliary, and virtual terminal lines.
You can display the following system information for devices:
Software version
Shows which version of the device you are using.
Device configuration (running memory and nonvolatile random-access memory [NVRAM])
Shows the configuration information of the device, card or port.
Controller status
Buffer status
Device voltage and temperature status
Flash memory status
Note For detailed information on all Show Commands features, see the context-sensitive online help system. This comprehensive online help system provides procedures, overview material, and links to related information. Open Show Commands and select Help.
With Health Monitor, you can customize feedback on device and interface status with settings in the Preferences dialog box:
Choose fatal and warning thresholds for CPU load and interface types.
Fatal and warning indications are provided by color changes. Color indications include:
Green (up)
Yellow (warning)
Red (fatal)
Color indications are provided within the IfErrors, IfUtilization, IfStatus, and Environment tabs. For the overall health of a device, color indication is also provided within the Health Monitor application icon.
Select a polling frequency value to control when you receive device and interface feedback.
Set the no-response timeout value to control the duration of time that Health Monitor waits for a reply from a monitored device.
Provides device name, type, Cisco IOS version, location, and device contact information. Lists total and available RAM, flash memory, and NVRAM. Also provides a reason for the last restart of the device.
Graphs the number of bytes per protocol that an interface has sent or received. Provides interface status by color indication: up (green), test (magenta), dormant or waiting for an external event (cyan), administratively down (brown), and operational failure (red).
Depicts air temperature and power supply voltage readings for a device. Provides color warning and fatal threshold indications for these readings.
Note For detailed information on all Health Monitor features, see the context-sensitive online help system. The comprehensive online help system provides procedures, overview material, and links to related information. Open Health Monitor and select Help.
Contents—Opens the current help table of contents. Help topics are highlighted and underlined. Select a help topic to open a help window specific to the underlined topic. Some topics open popup windows that contain a list of subtopics. Select a help subtopic to open a help window specific to the underlined subtopic.
Back—Moves you back sequentially to previously opened help windows.
Print—Prints current help topic window.
Browse—Allows you to browse through sets of related help screens, providing quick access to overviews of particular help topics.
