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View Menu Commands

Home

Configure

Monitor

Running Config

Show Commands

SDM Default Rules

Refresh

View Menu Commands

The following options are available from the Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM) View menu.

Home

Displays the SDM Home page which provides information about router hardware, software, and LAN, WAN, Firewall, and VPN configurations.

Configure

Displays the SDM Tasks bar, which allows you to perform guided and manual configurations for Interfaces and Connections, Firewalls and ACLs, VPNs Routing, and other tasks.

Monitor

Displays the SDM Monitor window, which lets you view statistics about your router and network.

Running Config

Displays the router's running configuration.

Show Commands

Displays the Show Commands dialog box, which lets you issue Cisco IOS show commands to the router and view the output. The Show Commands dialog box can display the output from the following show commands:

•show flash—Shows the contents of the router Flash memory.

•show startup-config—Shows the router startup configuration file.

•show access-lists—Shows all of the Access Control Lists (ACLs) commands currently configured on the router.

•show diag—Shows information about the hardware installed in the router.

•show interfaces—Shows information about the configuration of each interface and about the packets transferred over the interface.

•show protocols—Shows information about the network protocols configured on each interface.

•show version—Shows information about the version of Cisco IOS software running on the router.

SDM Default Rules

The SDM Default Rules screen displays a list of all of the default rules configured by SDM. The screen is organized with a tree on the left side of the screen displaying options for Access Rules, Firewall, VPN - IKE Policy, and VPN - Transform Sets. To view the default rules for these options, click the option in the tree, and the default rules for that option are displayed on the right. For more information about the rules, see the option descriptions that follow.

Access Rules

Shows all of the default Access Control List ( ACL) rules and a brief description of each.

Firewall

Shows SDM's default Application Security policies. Choose the security policy that you want to view from the list in the upper right corner of the window.

•SDM_HIGH—This policy prevents the use of Instant Messaging and Point-to-Point applications on the network. It monitors HTTP and e-mail traffic and drops traffic that does not comply with the protocol it uses. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

•SDM_MEDIUM—This policy monitors the use of Instant Messaging and Point-to-Point applications, and HTTP and email traffic. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

•SDM_LOW—This policy does not monitor application traffic. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

VPN - IKE Policy

Shows the default Internet Key Exchange ( IKE) policies.

VPN - Transform Sets

Shows the default IP Security ( IPSec) transform sets.

Refresh

Reloads configuration information from the router. If there are any undelivered commands, SDM displays a message window telling you that if you refresh, you will lose undelivered commands. If you want to deliver the commands. click No in this window, and then click Deliver on the SDM toolbar.