Table Of Contents

Configuring Your Devices

What You Need

How to Do It—Procedures

Access the Device Configuration Dialog Box

Add IP Addresses for Other Management Workstations

Limit Device Access

Where You Should End Up—Verification

Configuring Your Devices

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In this scenario, you are a system administrator who wants to use CiscoView to configure a Catalyst 4000 series device and add IP addresses to allow other management workstations to access the same device. At the same time, you want to limit access to that particular device for other management workstations.

What You Need

Verify these prerequisites before starting the procedure for this scenario:

•SNMP credentials are valid.

•Permissions for IP addresses are enabled.

How to Do It—Procedures

Use the procedures in this section to:

1. Access the Device Configuration Dialog Box.

2. Add IP Addresses for Other Management Workstations.

3. Limit Device Access.

Access the Device Configuration Dialog Box

Access the Device Configuration dialog box to configure your device:

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Step 1 Select a device from the Device Selector.

A graphical representation of the device chassis appears.

Step 2 Right-click the device.

The context menu appears.

Step 3 Select Configure.

The Device Configuration dialog box appears.

Step 4 Configure your Catalyst 4000 device by entering the required information for that device in the appropriate category fields.

Step 5 Click OK.

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Add IP Addresses for Other Management Workstations

After you configure your device, add new IP addresses to the IP Permit List. These addresses determine which management workstations are permitted to access this particular device.

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Note IP addresses allow management workstations to access specific devices for configuration. You can add as many IP addresses to the IP address list as necessary.

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Step 1 From the Device Configuration dialog box, select IP Permit from the Category list to display the IP Permit window.

Step 2 Click Create.

The Row Creation dialog box appears.

Step 3 Enter the appropriate IP address and IP mask.

Step 4 Select the appropriate access type from the list and click OK.

The new IP address is added to the IP Permit List.

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Limit Device Access

Limit access privileges for other management workstations and monitor unauthorized attempts to access the device.

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Step 1 In the IP Permit window, highlight the IP address to be deleted from the IP Permit List and click Delete.

This disables that particular management workstation from accessing the device.

Step 2 Reopen the IP Permit window to view any access to the device.

This allows you to monitor unauthorized attempts to access the device.

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Where You Should End Up—Verification

After you configure your device and limit access to the device by other management workstations, verify that there are no unauthorized workstations accessing the device.

To verify this, view the Access Attempts From Invalid IP Addresses table at the bottom of the window.

This table provides information about which management workstations recently attempted to access the device, the time and date of attempted access, and a list of the invalid IP addresses that were deleted.

If a deleted IP address is still attempting to access the device, notify the owner of that particular management workstation regarding any recent changes made to the owner's security level.

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