Resource Manager Essentials (RME) 3.5 is the cornerstone application of the CiscoWorks family of network management solutions. LMS, RWAN and VMS all build on the intelligent facilities in RME that provide lifecycle management of Cisco network devices. Designed to reduce human error and eliminate many of the manual tasks associated with maintaining a network, RME helps make Cisco networks the most manageable and available in the world.
RESOURCE MANAGER ESSENTIALS 3.5
• Inventory Manager
• Device Configuration Manager
• Software Image Manager
• Change Audit Service
• Availability Manager
• Syslog Analyzer
• Cisco Management Connection
• Cisco Connection Online (CCO) Service Tools
RME Features Include
• Quickly builds a complete network inventory of Cisco devices
• Monitors and reports on hardware, configuration, and inventory changes
• Manages and deploys configuration changes and software image updates to multiple devices
• Simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting of critical local-area network (LAN) and wide-area network (WAN) resources
• Secure communication between the client browser and the server via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
• Secure upload/download of device configurations from server device via Secure Shell (SSH).
• Up-to-date inventory of all Cisco devices in the network, including support for Cisco CallManager, the VPN 3000 Concentrator (VPN c3000), CSS 11000, GSR 12400, and ESR 10000
• Hardware and software summary information as well as detailed reports for groups of devices, including device name, chassis type, memory, Flash, software version, interface, stack modules, and other detailed hardware and software characteristics
• Device import from Cisco WAN Manager as well as CWSI Campus 2.x, and Campus Manager 3.2, HP OpenView, Tivoli NetView, or from a flat file
• Capacity planning information by identifying the total number of free and used slots in many Cisco devices
• Multiservice port report on the number and location of Catalyst® switches that are multiservice port-enabled
• Device credentials (password information) that can be exchanged via Extended Markup Language (XML) with other management applications
• Ability to select VPN as a device grouping for report generation
• CLI command to extract Detailed Device Inventory information in XML format.
• Ability for Administrators to Title (ex Location, Owner etc.) the User Defined Fields. Inventory reports would reflect these titles.
• Maintains an up-to-date archive by automatically identifying and storing changes to configuration files
• Supports configuration file searching to simplify locating specific device configurations and configuration attributes
• Identifies differences between the running and startup configurations
• Significant performance improvement over previous version (RME 3.4)
• Ability to choose a device and its version of configuration and download it to the device from the Config Archive application
• CLI command to extract Running Configuration of devices in XML format.
NetConfig
• Provides a wizard-based approach to simplify and reduce the complexities and time associated with rolling out global changes in the network
• NetConfig application allows configuration changes to be performed against multiple switches or routers in the network; changes can be downloaded immediately or run as scheduled operations
• Cisco-provided templates simplify the configuration change process for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) community, Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS), enable, syslog, SNMP trap destinations, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Domain Name System (DNS) and many others
• Flexibility in pushing command-line interface (CLI) changes out to the network via user-defined templates that are published to an authorized user or group of users for execution
• Support for downloading/uploading of device configurations Secure Shell (SSH) protocol (functionality also available in ConfigEditor & NetShow)
• Support for configuration management for devices across Network Address Translators (NAT) boundaries
• Support for Interactive IOS, CAT-OS and FastSwitch commands.
• Significant performance enchancements-up to X% faster than previous versions. (RME 3.4)
• Ability for operators to specify Username & Password for devices selected for the job, during job creation (functionality also available in ConfigEditor & NetShow)
• New Templates to Enable SSH & IPSec on devices
ConfigEditor
• ConfigEditor application provides a powerful Web-based editing facility for modifying and downloading configuration changes
NetShow
• Provides a simplified Web-based show command interface, allowing show commands to be run against multiple switches or routers to enhance and simplify network troubleshooting
• Batch interface to show commands, enabling multiple show commands to be run against a group of device as a scheduled operation
• Provides software update analysis reports showing prerequisites and impacts of proposed updates
• Reduces from hours to minutes the mean time to deploy router or switch software images
• Distributes single or multiple images to devices in a single deployment operation
• Support for software image management for devices across Network Address Translators (NAT) boundaries
• Performs network image software audits and software library synchronization
• Uses CCO to report on software defects and available patches that affect devices and images in your network
• Contains enhanced Web-proxy support for improved CCO connectivity
• Provides robust software upgrade analysis for Cisco devices
• Two new workflow models added to the Software Image Management Application
– Ability for users to select an image, appropriate devices, followed by job scheduling. This new workflow reduces the amount of time it takes to create a job (especially if the image to be deployed is known), by eliminating the "Image Recommendation" phase.
– This new workflow allows users to optimize bandwidth utilization by storing the image to be deployed on a router's flash and "instructing" the devices retrieve the image from the router.
• Provides a comprehensive audit of network changes reported chronologically
• Records who changed what, when, and how
• Offers change report filtering using simple or complex sort criteria
• Identifies network changes made during critical network operational times
• Provides reports summarizing when critical devices went offline or reloaded
• Displays individual device drill-down views of reachability and availability history
• Offers graphical reports of device response time trends
• Features browser-accessible status reports of router and switch availability over time
• Provides connectivity to CCOs Stack Decoder to simplify reload failure troubleshooting
• Displays summaries of the protocols to which a device can respond (UDP, TCP, HTTP, TFTP, TELNET, SNMP) through the connectivity tool
• Speeds troubleshooting by displaying critical error patterns over time
• Summarizes syslog events by severity or user criteria for switches, routers, and Cisco IOS and PIX firewalls
• Supports selective filtering of remote syslog collectors, allowing only wanted messages to be sent to the RME server
• Separates unwanted messages with user-definable filters or scripts through local and remote filtering
• Launches user-defined scripts or links to a Web page for related information based on specific syslog messages
• New option to store messages that are scheduled to be purged from the database in a flat file.
SERVER, CLIENT AND BROWSER SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Supported Cisco Devices
Supported Cisco IOS Versions
AVAILABILITY