Using the SESM Demo Mode

• To demonstrate the capabilities of SESM when other required network components are not available. In Demo mode, you can demonstrate the features of both RADIUS and LDAP deployments.
  
  
• To test customizations to JSPs in SESM portal application. See the Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager Web Developer Guide for information about using Demo mode during application development.
  
  

Standalone Demo mode is only intended for the above purposes. Demo mode is not in any way representative of SESM performance in an end-to-end solution with actual network components.

You can run any SESM portal (including your own customized portals) in Demo mode. The following characteristics apply to any SESM portal running in Demo mode:

• The portal reads profiles from a flat file in MERIT format. The file path name is configured in the SESMDemoMode MBean.
  
  
• The portal does not alter the contents of the demo profile file.
  
  

• On Solaris—Run the installation program as root.
  
  
• On Windows NT—Run the installation program as a member of the Administrators group.
  
  

Make sure you have write privileges to the directory in which you intend to load the demo.

Step 2   Obtain the installation image from the product CD-ROM or from the Cisco web site. The installation image is a tar or zip file, depending on the platform on which you want to install the demo.

Step 4   Execute the installation image as follows:

• On Solaris, change directories to the location of the installation image, and enter the image name. For example:
  
  

solaris>sesm_sol.bin

• On Windows NT, you can double-click the file's icon. Otherwise, open a command prompt window, change directories to the location of the image, and enter the image name. For example:
  
  

C:\>sesm_win.exe

SESM uses Unicode Transformation Format Version 8 (UTF-8) character representations. UTF-8 supports both 1-byte and double-byte character sets. To demonstrate support for double-byte character sets on a Netscape browser, use Netscape Version 6 or later.

These browser limitations apply to the NWSP sample application and are mentioned to ensure predictable results during demonstrations. When you develop SESM applications for deployment, you should consider the end users of your deployed application, and design the application to accommodate the media that they commonly use.

• For the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, go to:
  
  

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Note   If you are using a Windows platform, ignore the nonfatal JIT error that appears in the command window upon startup.

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Step 2   Open a web browser.

Step 3   Go to the NWSP URL, which is:

http://host:port

For example:

http://localhost:8080

Where:

host is the IP address or host name of the computer on which you installed the NWSP application. You can enter the value localhost, or the IP address 127.0.0.1, to indicate the local computer.

port is the NWSP port number that you specified during the installation.

You might want to examine the Demo profile file to:

• See the services and features associated with each demo user ID.
  
  
• See examples of the vendor specific attributes (VSAs) that SESM and SSG require in a RADIUS database.
  
  
• Add new profiles or change existing ones to enhance your demonstration.
  
  
• You can use the profiles in the Demo profile files as test data for SESM deployments in RADIUS mode.
  
  

• RADIUS standard attributes
  
  
• SSG vendor-specific attributes
  
  
• SESM demonstration attributes (These are attributes reserved for SESM use; most of these attributes are meaningful in Demo mode only, and are used to simulate features available only in LDAP mode.)
  
  

For descriptions of the SSG vendor-specific attributes and SESM demonstration attributes, see Appendix C, "Configuring RADIUS for SESM Deployments" in the Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager Installation and Configuration Guide. The online link to the above reference is: