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What's New in Campus Manager 5.2

New Features in This Release

What's New in Campus Manager 5.2

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New Features in This Release

The following are the new features and enhancements available in Campus Manager 5.2:

•Virtual Network Manager

•Support for IPv6

•Port and Module Configuration

•Reclaim Unused Up/Unused Down Report

•Selective Backup and Restore

•Rogue MAC Enhancement

•Open Database Schema Support

Virtual Network Manager

Virtual Network Manager (VNM) is an application that works in conjunction with Campus Manager (CM), and Resource Manager Essentials (RME).

Virtual Network Manager generates VRF Readiness Report to provide information on the VRF readiness that help administrators identify the devices with hardware and software support available, in contrast to the required support to configure VRF.

Virtual Network Manager application is used to perform VRF configurations in an enterprise network. You can perform the VRF Configurations using the following configuration workflows: Create, Edit, Extend, and Delete VRF. You can assign multiple VLANs to a single VRF instance using the Edge VLAN Configuration workflow.

For details, see Virtual Network Manager.

Support for IPv6

IPv6 support in Campus Manager includes the following network scenarios:

•Devices that may have IPv6 configured on their interfaces. These devices must have at least one IPv4 interface. Devices are managed using IPv4.

•Hosts running IPv6 are supported in the User Tracking application.

For details, see Support for IPv6.

Port and Module Configuration

The Port and Module Configuration is a feature provided by Resource Manager Essentials (RME). RME uses port data to provide the port and module configuration feature.

Campus Manager gets updated with the port configuration data while the Data Collection process is executed. In this release, the port configuration details collected by Campus Manager is forwarded to RME, which is stored in the database of RME.

Reclaim Unused Up/Unused Down Report

This report displays both Link and Access ports that are used at least once but have not been used for a specific number of days. This report is an enhancement of UT Reclaim reports of Campus Manager 5.2.

Campus Manager 5.2 uses the data from Data Collection to retrieve the free up/down Link and Access Ports to generate reports. While running the Data Collection process, the timestamp information specific to the Data Collection is added to the ports.

For details, see Understanding Switch Port Usage Reports.

Selective Backup and Restore

You can selectively Backup and Restore the configuration files and specific tables in data bases.

You can also back up the schema, stored procedures, and tables that are specified in the configuration file of Campus Manager. Applications will ensure that the selected tables include all dependent tables for proper functioning as a part of Restore.

For all tables that are not specified in the configuration file of Campus Manager, blank tables are created so that Campus Manager can function properly. Selective backup and restore allows you to restore the settings that are similar to the settings provided by normal backup.

For details, see Selective Backup and Restore.

Rogue MAC Enhancement

As an enhancement, the Rogue MAC feature is enhanced with filters in the following reports: Quick Reports, End Host Reports, Active End Host Reports, IP Phone Reports and Custom Reports. The enhanced filters in the report operate on the column that you have selected and fetch records that contain the user input value.

The pattern field that allows you to search patterns for the MAC Address column, is enhanced to include the following separators: dot (.) or colon (:). You can also search the patterns for MAC Addresses without any separators.

For details, see Viewing Quick Reports.

Open Database Schema Support

LMS 3.2 supports exposing few database views and definitions.

You can access the created views using the database access methods such as JDBC and ODBC, from a local or remote server. To enable the access to applications database, you must run the dbaccess.pl utility from the command line.

See the Open Database Schema Support for LAN Management Solution 3.2 document for more information on exposed database views and definitions.

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