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About This Guide
About This Guide
This section describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the CiscoWorks Administrator and Installation Guide. It also lists related Cisco, Sybase, HP OpenView, and Sun publications.
This guide contains procedures for planning, installing, and configuring the CiscoWorks network management software; setting up the CiscoWorks environment for your system; and preparing to use CiscoWorks. It also includes exercises for learning to use some basic CiscoWorks applications, information on using CiscoWorks on the HP OpenView platform, sample worksheets to help you establish records of hardware and software versions, and troubleshooting guidelines.
For detailed information on using the CiscoWorks applications, refer to the CiscoWorks User Guide and the CiscoWorks Release Note.
The CiscoWorks Administrator and Installation Guide is designed for the Cisco Systems user responsible for installing, configuring, and verifying CiscoWorks software. This includes network managers, operators, and system administrators who should have prior networking experience, be familiar with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), be aware of their own network topology, and be familiar with at least one window manager (for example, OPEN LOOK or OSF/Motif) and the basic network management tools of HP OpenView. Familiarity with database programs, a UNIX text editor (for example, vi or textedit), and the basic commands used in the UNIX environment (for example, the cd command used to change directories) is helpful.
The organization of this guide reflects the order in which the tasks should be performed. Worksheets are included as planning and information-gathering tools.
Following are the major sections of this guide:
- Chapter 1, "Product Overview," provides an overview of the CiscoWorks applications and an overview of the installation tasks.
- Chapter 2, "Preparing to Install CiscoWorks," describes the system requirements for CiscoWorks and information you should gather before installing and configuring the CiscoWorks software. This includes information for upgrading from a previous version of CiscoWorks and installing CiscoWorks for the first time. The chapter also provides installation and configuration worksheets for gathering the information.
- Chapter 3, "Installing and Configuring CiscoWorks," provides procedures for installing and configuring CiscoWorks on Sun SPARCstations that are running SunOS.
- Chapter 4, "Validating CiscoWorks Installation," explains how to edit the .cshrc file to include CiscoWorks-related information, start the HP OpenView Console, and view CiscoWorks processes.
- Appendix A, "Error Messages," provides error messages encountered during installation and configuration. It explains the context of the error message and provides solutions.
The command descriptions use the following conventions:
- Commands and keywords are in boldface font.
- Variables for which you supply values are in italic font.
- Elements in square brackets ([ ]) are optional.
- Alternative but required keywords are grouped in braces ({ }) and are separated by vertical bars (|).
The examples use these conventions:
- Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in
screen
font.
- Information you enter is in
boldface screen
font.
- Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets (< >).
- Information the system displays is in
screen
font , with default responses in square brackets ([ ]).
This publication also uses the following conventions:
- Menu and button items are in boldface.
- Selecting menu items is indicated by the following convention: Select Administer>CiscoWorks System>Process Mgr.
- Directories and filenames are in italics.
If items such as buttons or menu options are grayed out on application windows it may mean that you do not have permission to use these options.
Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not contained in this manual.
Timesaver Means the described action saves time. You can save time by performing the action described in the paragraph.
Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that can result in equipment damage or loss of data.
The following Cisco publications accompany the CiscoWorks product upon request:
- CiscoWorks User Guide---Provides users with information on getting started with CiscoWorks as well as information about CiscoWorks applications and how to use them.
- Internetworking Technology Terms and Acronyms---Contains internetworking technologies and specific Cisco terms.
A set of Sybase documentation accompanies the CiscoWorks product, upon request. This publication references the appropriate sections of the following Sybase documentation for use with CiscoWorks:
- System Administration Guide, Version 4.9
- Commands Reference, Version 4.9
- Data Workbench User's Guide, Version 5.0
- Transact-SQL User's Guide, Version 4.9
- Report Workbench User's Guide, Version 5.0
The following Sun publications provide information about your Sun workstation or your network:
- Sun System User's Guide
- Sun System & Network Manager's Guide
- System & Network Administration
- SunOS Reference Manual
- SunOS Network Environment
The following HP OpenView publications provide information about HP OpenView Windows:
- HP OpenView Windows User's Guide, December 1993
- HP OpenView Windows Network Node Manager 3.3 User's Guide
This guide references the online UNIX manual (man) pages. For example, for the manual page reference df, enter the following command at the UNIX system prompt:
hostname% man df
Note Confirm that your path includes the following line in order to access the manual pages
setenv manpath $NMS/man
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