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User Guide for Campus Manager 4.0
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Preface
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About Campus Manager
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Campus Manager 4.0 Changes and Enhancements
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Getting Started With Campus Manager
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Administering Campus Manager
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CiscoWorks Common Services Integration
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User Tracking
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Discrepancy Reporting
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Topology Services
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VLAN and VTP Management
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Managing Network Spanning Trees
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Support for Internet Protocol v6
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ATM Management
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Path Analysis Using Campus Manager
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Data Extraction Engine
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Index
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Table Of Contents
About Campus Manager
Campus Manager is a part of the CiscoWorks family of products. As an enterprise solution to network management, Campus Manager 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 Manager 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 Manager 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.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Campus Manager Applications
Campus applications provide network monitoring and fault information required to track devices critical to network uptime and application availability.
The applications and what they allow you to do are given below:
About ANI Server
In Campus Manager, Asynchronous Network Interface (ANI) is a server process that provides:
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Device and physical topology discovery, logical discovery (VLAN and LANE), user discovery, and path determination.
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ANI discovers different types of information about your network. Detailed information is built upon baseline information.
ANI network discovery begins with an initial seed device or devices provided by you. It discovers the entire network using neighbor discovery protocols.
Most Cisco devices implement one or more of these standard neighbor discovery protocols:
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ANI sends SNMP requests to a device to query its neighbor table. These neighbor entries are processed to check whether the neighbor is a known device or a new, undiscovered device. New neighbors are queued for later processing by an available discovery thread.
In Campus Manager 3.x, ANI was running as a single process to perform device discovery, device data collection, user tracking and servicing query and configuration from clients.
To enable better scaling and to handle larger networks, separate transient processes for network discovery, User Tracking and Host acquisition have been factored out of ANI.
In Campus Manager 4.0, ANI runs as a daemon process handling scheduled data collection and will handle query and configuration requests from the Campus Manager client applications.