Table Of Contents

Overview

What's New in Campus Manager 3.3

Campus Manager Applications

Setting Up Campus Manager Applications

Starting Campus Manager Applications

CiscoWorks Server

Security

Using Online Help

Overview

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Campus Manager 3.3 (Campus) is part of the CiscoWorks family of products. As an enterprise solution to network management, Campus provides a suite of web-based network management tools that enable administrators to obtain various types of graphical views of their network topology and end-user information.

Campus is based on a client/server architecture that connects multiple web-based clients to a server on the network. As the number of network devices increases, additional servers or collection points can be added to manage network growth with little impact on the client browser application.

By taking advantage of the stability inherent in the intranet architecture, Campus supports multiple users anywhere on the network. The web-based infrastructure gives network operators, administrators, technicians, Help Desk staff, IS managers, and end-users access to network management tools, applications, and services.

The following topics provide you with information about:

•What's New in Campus Manager 3.3

•Campus Manager Applications

•CiscoWorks Server

•Security

•Using Online Help

What's New in Campus Manager 3.3

The following are new features in this release of Campus:

•Improved workflow and ease-of-use and intuitiveness in launching tasks from Campus applications.

•Support for administrative view discovery and display, and creating Campus Views per user.

•Support for secure communication between the client browser and Campus applications using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

•Support for new devices (see Additional Information Online).

•Fixes to problems that existed in previous releases (for more information about release notes, see Product Documentation).

In addition, the following enhancements have been made to individual Campus applications:

Topology Services

•Ability to create Topology Groups.

•Options to display Device Labels.

•Options to prioritize Label preference.

•Ability to locate devices in switch-clouds and fabrics using LAN edge view.

•Improved device status filter.

•Support for enabling sub filters of LANE components even after a refresh.

•Ability to generate a report to list all unused ports, and an option to print and save it.

•Ability to provide uplink information when router boundary map switch clouds are selected to display context between switch cloud (subnet) and joining router.

•Ability to create SPVC (Soft Permanent Virtual Connection) when both ATM end ports are down.

Path Analysis

•Support for batch job processing and archiving in Path Analysis.

•Support for displaying error messages on unsuccessful Path Analysis for L3 and L2.

•Support for sorting subnet-to-VLAN Mapping table.

•Improved Path Analysis tracing capabilities.

•Support for CCM login.

•Improved GUI—Pull down menu in Path Analysis connected to the source and destination field.

User Tracking

•Ability to define acquisition based on a subnet range.

•Support for scheduled archive and export feature in User Tracking.

•Enhanced troubleshooting support using a new debugger utility (see User Tracking Debugger Utility).

•Improved GUI—Addition of two new columns to the User Tracking tables (duplex type and port speed).

Discrepancy Reports

Support for enhanced discrepancy reporting.

Administration

•Support for administering Topology Groups.

•Ability to configure scheduling of Path Analysis traces, and archiving of User Tracking data.

Campus Manager Applications

Campus applications provide network monitoring and fault information required to track devices critical to network uptime and application availability. These applications provide you with the following functionality:

•Topology Services—Discover, view, and monitor the physical and logical services on your network (see "Managing Physical and Logical Network Services with Topology Services" or the Topology Services online help).

•User Tracking—Locate and display data about users and hosts in the network (see "Locating Users in the Network with User Tracking" or the User Tracking online help).

•Path Analysis—View the actual path that packets take between end nodes on your network (see "Tracking Packet Flow Using Path Analysis" or the Path Analysis online help).

•VLAN Port Assignment—Assign VLAN ports, display VLAN ports, or configure trunk ports (see "Managing VLAN Ports with VLAN Port Assignment" or the VLAN Port Assignment online help).

•Discrepancy Reports—View the physical and logical discrepancies discovered on your network (see "Managing Physical and Logical Network Services with Topology Services" or the Topology Services online help).

The following topics provide you with information about:

•Setting Up Campus Manager Applications

•Starting Campus Manager Applications

Setting Up Campus Manager Applications

CiscoWorks requires that you use specific browser versions and configure your client system properly to use the applications. See Installation and Setup Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services for information about client setup requirements.

Also, Campus applications have specific setup requirements to function properly. See Installation and Setup Guide for Campus Manager for information about Campus setup requirements.

Starting Campus Manager Applications

The Campus Applications are:

•Topology Services

•Path Analysis

•User Tracking

•VLAN Port Assignment

•Discrepancy Report

You can select these applications from:

•Campus Manager > Topology Services

•Campus Manager > Path Analysis

•Campus Manager > User Tracking

•Campus Manager > VLAN Port Assignment

•Campus Manager > Discrepancy Reports, then choose either Physical Discrepancy Report or Logical Discrepancy Report.

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Note If you are prompted to install the Java plug-in, download and install it using the installation screens displayed. The next time you start the application, it automatically uses the plug-in. For more information on the Java Plug-in, see User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services.

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CiscoWorks Server

Campus works in conjunction with the CiscoWorks Server, which comprises a set of management services shared by multiple management applications. These management services are enabled when a suite is installed and an application that relies on one of these services opens.

If a particular suite of applications does not use a service, or does not use a service to the fullest extent to which it is available, the service might not appear on the CiscoWorks desktop.

Campus uses these CiscoWorks Server components:

•Desktop look-and-feel

•Help engine and files

•Security

•Process management (for the ANI Server), Campus OGS Server, Campus Log Server

•Event Distribution System (EDS)—used to send and receive events between the ANI Server and Campus

•Web server

•CCO Tools

•Connectivity tools

•Package options

For detailed information about these components, see User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services.

Security

After a period of inactivity, the CiscoWorks desktop times out and is no longer accessible. However, the Topology Services window remains active, because it is a monitoring tool.

For information on how to setup a new user, see User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services.

Using Online Help

Campus ships with an online help system that provides an overview, related information, procedures, and glossary information for Campus. There is online help for each application within Campus that contains more detailed information than what is included in this document. Use the help system to get information about using the Campus interface and navigating within the product.

You access the online help in two ways:

•Click the Help button in the Campus navigation tree.

•Click the Help button from any Campus dialog box.