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The "About This Guide" section discusses the objectives of the manual, the intended audience, the organization, documentation conventions, and related documentation.
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The Overview for CiscoView is designed to introduce Cisco features, provide information on managing the most common devices, setting thresholds for devices, and performing minor troubleshooting tasks. It also introduces the applications available for use with CiscoView. Previous versions of this publication were titled CiscoView Getting Started Guide.
This guide is designed for users at all levels to gain an immediate understanding of CiscoView and its features.
This guide assumes that you are familiar with the basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking and that you understand your network topology and the protocols that the devices in your network must handle. This guide also assumes that you have a working knowledge of the UNIX environment. The Threshold Manager application assumes a working knowledge of Remote Monitoring (RMON).
Chapter 1, "Introducing CiscoView," describes CiscoView structure and the devices CiscoView supports.
Chapter 2, "Downloading Device Packages," provides a detailed explanation of how to download device packages from the Cisco Systems web site, Cisco Connection Online (CCO).
Chapter 3, "Using CiscoView," provides information on configuration, displaying a device, changing operating characteristics, finding devices, using a dashboard monitor, and using CiscoView tables.
Chapter 4, "Using Threshold Manager," describes how to set thresholds to manage problem areas on your network and retrieve event information. Other CiscoView applications are outlined in the appendixes, but because Threshold Manager is a comprehensive application, it has its own chapter.
Chapter 5, "Troubleshooting," provides solutions to problems you could encounter using CiscoView and suggestions on where to go for help.
Appendix A, "Using StackMaker," describes the features of StackMaker, an application designed for managing stackable devices.
Appendix B, "Using Cisco TN3270 Monitor," describes a CiscoView application that allows users with non-TN3270 servers to monitor statistics from TN3270 servers.
Appendix C, "Using the Flash File System," describes a tool used to manage Flash memory files such as router image files.
For CiscoView release-specific information, open the README file which is present in the etc directory of the CiscoView base directory.
This guide uses the following conventions:
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