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This chapter introduces information about running CiscoView on your network management station. You can install CiscoView on a UNIX workstation, either as a standalone application or integrate it with HPOV Network Node Manager.
CiscoView is a GUI-based device management software application that lets you access dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information for Cisco Systems switch and internetworking products.
CiscoView displays a graphical representation of each network device, displays configuration and performance information, performs minor troubleshooting tasks, and controls and configures specific devices. There are also device-specific applications that further enhance your network management capabilities.
This chapter contains the following sections:
For complete information on the installation of CiscoView, see the CiscoView CD Installation Instructions document.
For complete information on how to use CiscoView and its applications, see the context-sensitive, online help system. This comprehensive online help system provides procedures, overview material, and links to related information.
CiscoView manages Cisco routers and switches through SNMP. Figure 1-1 illustrates how CiscoView and its various applications work together.
CiscoView provides the interface for a number of applications that supply additional functionality. For example, CiscoView can be used to manage all devices but, in some cases, there are special management requirements as in the case of the stacked devices. For stacked devices a separate application is available called StackMaker. Each of these applications can be used as a standalone application or can be used with CiscoView.
Table 1-1 provides a list of applications supported by CiscoView.
CiscoView provides support for a wide range of devices. Additional device support may be added to CiscoView after the initial product release. When this occurs, the device is placed on the Cisco Connection Online, the Cisco World Wide Web location for software upgrades. Check this site to ensure that you have the latest release of software. For more information on downloading devices packages from this Web site, see "Downloading Device Packages." The CiscoView Release Note supplies critical information, notes and caveats about application support.
Table 1-2 is a list of those devices supported and provides a brief description of the device or family of devices.
| Product Name | Description |
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| Cisco and CiscoPro 761, 762, 765, 766, 771, 772, 775, 776 | The 760 routers provide professional offices, small offices, and individual with affordable, high-speed remote access to networks and the Internet in a modem-sized package.The routers connect LANs to corporate networks over Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) lines. They offer multiprotocol routing between WAN and LAN ports, as well as transparent bridging. |
| Cisco and CiscoPro 1003, 1004, and 1005 | The Cisco 1000 series routers are easy-to-install, inexpensive, multiprotocol routers designed for small offices and other remote sites. |
| Cisco and CiscoPro 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604 | The Cisco 1600 series is a family of small desktop routers that link remote-site Ethernet LANs to regional and central offices over multiple WAN connections. |
| Cisco 2501, 2501, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2507, 2509, 2510, 2511, 2512, 2513, 2514, 2515, 2516, 2520, 2521, 2522, 2523, 2524 and 2525 | The Cisco 2500 series routers are available in a variety of models for small offices and remote site environments. |
| CiscoPro 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505,2507, 2509, 2511, 2513, 2514, 2516, 2520, 2521, 2522, 2523, and 2524 | The CiscoPro series routers are the same as the Cisco 2500 series except that they are available for CiscoPro. |
| Cisco and CiscoPro 3600, 3620, 3640 | The Cisco 3600 series includes the 3640, CPA 3640, 3620, and the CPA3620. The 3640 is a four slot router aimed at high-powered branch offices and small to midsize regional offices. The 3620 is a two-slot version for small branch offices. |
| Cisco and CiscoPro 4000, 4000-M, 4500, 4500-M, 4700, and 4700-M | The Cisco 4000 series provide a variety of features that can accommodate all types of network computing environments. |
| Cisco 7000, 7010, 7200, 7204, 7206, 7505, 7507, and 7513 | The network interfaces for the Cisco 7000 series of multi-protocol routers reside on modular interface processors, which provide a direct connection between the high-speed Cisco Extended Bus (CxBus) and the internal network. The series 7000 routers support the Flash File System application. |
| Catalyst 1200 | The Catalyst 1200 series workgroup switch provides Ethernet-to-Ethernet and Ethernet-to CDDI/FDDI switching. It provides a high-bandwidth networking interface to servers and existing dedicated Ethernet desktop clients. |
| Catalyst 1400 | An FDDI/CDDI concentrator that supports up to 32 ports between build-in ports and line cards. Line cards are the WS-C1441, WS-C1444, WS-C1450, WS-C1455, and WS-C1483. |
| Catalyst 1600 | The Catalyst 1600 is a 8 or 12 port Token Ring switch with optional FDDI support. It provides campus and building backbone segment switching as well as dedicated full-duplex connections to file servers. |
| Catalyst 1800 | The Catalyst 1800 is a Token Ring, packet-switching device that dramatically increases performance, flexibility, and management on Token Ring installations. |
| Catalyst 1900 | These are members of an extended network system of stackable, modular LAN and WAN products that increases LAN performance, connects remote offices and users, and provides secure internet access. |
| Catalyst 3000 | The Catalyst 3000 series provides a stackable switching architecture that delivers Layer 2, stackable software and VLAN switching for growing workgroup applications. |
| Catalyst 2600 | A cost-effective Token Ring switch providing up to 16 dedicated or shared ports in the base unit plus two feature-card slots. |
| Catalyst 2820 | These are members of an extended network system of stackable, modular LAN and WAN products that increases LAN performance, connects remote offices and users, and provides secure internet access. |
| Catalyst 2900 | A fixed configuration 14-port Fast Ethernet switch based on the Catalyst 5000 architecture. |
| Catalyst 5000, 5002, and 5500 | The Catalyst 5000 series is a modular switching system that provides high-density switched Ethernet interfaces for wiring closet and data-center applications. It provides virtual LAN networking and optional multilayer switching with Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) software functionality. |
| LightStream 1010 | The Cisco LightStream 1010 ATM switch is a 5-Gbps modular switch designed for use in either the workgroup or the campus, depending upon the nature of the interfaces employed. It uses a five-slot, modular chassis featuring the option of dual, fault-tolerant, load-sharing power supplies. It provides the functionality required for ATM production deployment. |
| NetBeyond-FHub, FHub_100_plus | NetBeyond FastHubs are members of the NetBeyond extended network of modular, stackable products that you can manage from a central location. The routers, switches, and hubs that make up the NetBeyond system can increase your LAN performance and provide both local and remote users with secure access to data files and the Internet. |
| WS-Concentrators 1000, 1100, and 1400 | The concentrators are part of a family of concentrators that provide Copper Distributed Data Interface/multi-level transmission (CDDI/MLT-3) and single and multimode Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) connectivity. |
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