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About This Manual
About This Manual
This section describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the CiscoWorks Administrator and Installation Guide. It also lists related Cisco, Sybase, 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 Sun Network Manager 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.
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 on the Sun platform (for example, OPEN LOOK or OSF/Motif) and the basic network management tools of SunNet Manager. Familiarity with database programs, a UNIX text editor (for example, 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.
- 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 pervious version of CiscoWorks and installing CiscoWorks for the first time is covered. 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.
- Chapter 4, "Validating CiscoWorks Installation," explains how to edit the .cshrc file to include CiscoWorks-related information, start the SNM Console, and view CiscoWorks processes.
- Chapter 5, "Learning to Use CiscoWorks," explains how to run the Discover tool, change network devices to Cisco devices, and synchronize the SNM database with the Sybase database. In addition, it provides instructions on viewing or using some basic CiscoWorks applications.
- Chapter 6, "Using CiscoWorks on SNM," discusses how CiscoWorks applications operate on the SNM platform. It also discusses the SNM features that CiscoWorks uses to display information (for example, the Grapher utility).
- Appendix A, "Error Messages," provides error messages encountered during installation and configuration. It explains the context of error message and provides solutions.
- Appendix B, "Blank Worksheets," provides blank worksheets for planning CiscoWorks installation and configuration.
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 (|).
Examples use these conventions:
- Window examples are shown in the Motif window manager. If you use the OPEN LOOK window manager, your screen displays will look slightly different, but the CiscoWorks functionality is the same across supported window managers.
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 (< >).
- Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets ([ ]).
- Ctrl-X means hold down the Control key while you press the X key.
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. You are capable of doing something that might result in equipment damage or loss of data.
This section provides information about related CiscoWorks, Sybase, and Sun publications.
The CiscoWorks documentation set follows:
- CiscoWorks Administrator and Installation Guide
- CiscoWorks User Guide
- Internetworking Technology Terms and Acronyms
The following set of Sybase publications accompanies CiscoWorks:
- System Administration Guide
- Commands Reference
- Data Workbench User's Guide
- Transact-SQL User's Guide
- Report Workbench User's Guide
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 SunNet Manager publications provide information about SunNet Manager software:
- SunNet Manager 2.0 User's Guide, SunConnect, Rev. A, June 1992
- SunNet Manager 2.0 Reference Guide, SunConnect, Rev. A, June 1992
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
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