Table of Contents

About This Guide

Document Objectives
Audience
Document Organization
Document Conventions
Related Documentation
Online UNIX Manual Pages
Online Help
Customer Information Online

About This Guide

This section describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the CiscoWorks Installation and Reference Guide. It also lists related Cisco, Sybase, and platform-specific publications.

Document Objectives

This guide contains information on the following:

• Planning, installing, and configuring CiscoWorks on both the Sun operating system (SunOS) and HP-UX system
  

• Configuring CiscoWorks for your system
  

• Preparing to use CiscoWorks
  

• Management Information Base (MIB) variables used in CiscoWorks
  

• Sybase database table structures
  

• Troubleshooting information
  

For detailed information on using the CiscoWorks applications, refer to the CiscoWorks online help system and the CiscoWorks Release Note.

Audience

This guide is for the network administrator or operator who installs, configures, verifies, and uses CiscoWorks software. The network administrator or operator should be familiar with the following topics:

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  

• Motif or a similar window manager that runs on a Sun workstation or an HP-UX system
  

• SunNet Manager or HP OpenView
  

• Basic UNIX commands
  

• UNIX text editors, such as vi or vuepad
  

Document Organization

This guide is divided into the following sections:

• "Product Overview" provides an overview of CiscoWorks functions and brief descriptions of the CiscoWorks applications for information on why you may want to use them on your network management system.
  

• "Quick Start" summarizes the installation tasks and provides a basic installation procedure. If you want to perform a quick CiscoWorks installation, without reading a chapter or completing worksheets first, turn to this chapter.
  

• "Preparing to Install CiscoWorks" helps you plan your installation and provides worksheets you can use during the installation and configuration process. If you want to customize your CiscoWorks installation, or if you are new to the installation process, read this chapter.
  

• "Installing and Configuring CiscoWorks" describes the installation and configuration process in detail. If you are installing CiscoWorks from a remote CD-ROM drive or if you cannot use the quick installation process, follow the instructions in this chapter.
  

• "Validating CiscoWorks Installation" describes how to verify that CiscoWorks is installed successfully and ensure that your CiscoWorks applications are accessible from your network management platform software.
  

• "CiscoWorks Getting Started" helps you learn and use CiscoWorks in conjunction with your network management platform.
  

• "MIB Files and Objects" contains information on how to modify existing MIB files and establish new MIB files, plus a brief example of MIB objects and their use with CiscoWorks polling capabilities.
  

• "Configuring TFTP" describes how to configure your workstation to use the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).
  

• "Troubleshooting CiscoWorks Errors" describes troubleshooting file permissions during configuration, running CiscoWorks applications from the UNIX command line, and critical and severe error messages associated with the installation process and CiscoWorks applications.
  

• "CiscoWorks Database Tables" contains information on the CiscoWorks Sybase database table structures.
  

• "References and Recommended Reading" provides a list of suggested reading materials, including Cisco technical publications, internetworking and network management references, MIB references, and network management-related RFCs.
  

Document Conventions

This guide uses basic conventions to represent text and table information.

Command descriptions use these 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 a vertical bar (|).
  

Examples use these conventions:

• Terminal sessions and information the system displays are printed in a screen font.
  

• Information you enter is in boldface screen font. Variables you enter are printed in italic screen font.
  

• Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are shown 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 items and button names are in boldface font.
  

• Selecting a menu item is indicated by the following convention: Select Administer>CiscoWorks System>Process Mgr.
  

• Directories and filenames are in italic font.
  

• If items such as buttons or menu options are grayed out on application windows, it means that you do not have permission to use these items.
  

  

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