Table Of Contents
Prerequisites
This chapter describes the factors that you should consider before installing Campus Manager 4.0.3 on a Windows system.
This chapter contains:
Product Overview
Campus Manager, a member of the CiscoWorks Family of Products, is 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 Manager is based on a client-server architecture that connects multiple web-based clients to a server on the network.
Campus Manager server discovers information about network devices and saves it in the Campus Manager database so that the applications can access it. For more information, see User Guide for Campus Manager 4.0.3.
The Campus Manager applications and what they allow you to do are as follows:
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Path Analysis—View the path that packets take between end nodes/devices on your network.
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Campus Manager Upgrade Paths
You can upgrade to Campus Manager 4.0.3 from:
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where .x refers to the IDU upgrades.
You must install Common Services 3.0.3, before upgrading to
Campus Manager 4.0.3.You can upgrade to Campus Manger 4.0.3 by either:
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For more details, see Installing Campus Manager 4.0.3, page 2-3.
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http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/cw2000/lan-planner.shtml
For more details see, Readme for LAN Management Solution 2.5 December 2005 Update on Windows that can be downloaded from the same location.
When you install Campus Manager 4.0.3, certain data from the previous versions of Campus Manager is converted to Campus Manager 4.0.3 format. This data includes:
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Server Requirements
The server requirements for Campus Manager 4.0.3 are the same as that of
LMS 2.5.1.The minimum system requirements for CiscoWorks Common Services 3.0.3 and Campus Manager 4.0.3 are shown in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1 Server System Requirements Summary
System hardware
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Memory (RAM)
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Available drive space2
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System software
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Campus Manager supports only the US-English and Japanese versions of the Windows Operating System. It does not support any other language version. Set the default locale to US-English for US-English version and Japanese for Japanese version.
Additional software
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Any one of these browsers:
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Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 5.0.0.3802 and above. To verify JVM:
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1 If other applications are installed, or the number of devices on your network exceeds 500, the requirements might be greater.
2 Do not install CiscoWorks on a FAT file system.
Maximum Recommended Load
The maximum recommended load on servers configured with the minimum server requirements shown in Table 1-1 is 500 Cisco devices and one client at a time.
If other network management applications are installed on your server, additional resources might be required.
Server Recommendations
To select or configure a server system that best meets your needs, consider the number of managed devices. These factors affect server performance and user report response time.
Table 1-2 shows the recommendations for a server running Common Services and Campus Manager. These recommendations produce optimal response time when running user reports.
Client Requirements
The minimum client system requirements for CiscoWorks
Common Services 3.0.3 and Campus Manager 4.0.3 are shown in Table 1-2. The maximum recommended load on clients configured with the minimum requirements shown in Table 1-2 is 1000 Cisco devices.
Supported Devices
For information about supported devices, access the Supported Devices table at the following location on cisco.com: