User Guide for Device Fault Manager 2.0 (With LMS 2.5)
CiscoWorks Navigation Changes

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CiscoWorks Navigation Changes


CiscoWorks Navigation Changes


This appendix contains a list of the navigation differences between DFM 2.0 and DFM 1.2.x. For a list of navigation changes in Common Services, refer to User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services.


Note Along with the new features listed in What's New in DFM 2.0?, DFM 2.0 includes other changes that DFM 1.x users will notice. For detailed information on these behavioral differences between DFM 2.0 and DFM 1.2.x, refer to Installation and Setup Guide for Device Fault Manager.


The DFM 2.0 user interface is quite different from that of DFM 1.2.x. To help you access the applications you need to use, Table G-1 lists the click-by-click navigation paths you would use to access functions in DFM 1.2.x. Then, Table G-1 provides the comparable navigation paths to use in DFM 2.0.

Table G-1 DFM 1.2 Navigation Compared to DFM 2.0 Navigation 

DFM 1.2.x
DFM 2.0
DFM 2.0 Description

Device Fault Manager > Monitoring Console

Device Fault Manager > Alerts and Activities

Alarm display from which you can:

Launch tools, such as Fault History and Common Services Device Center

Export data to a PDF file or a comma-separated-values file

Print data

You can also change the display to show the information that interests you most, as follows:

Select and create views, groups of device groups; use a view that contains the device groups of interest to you.

Filter the display to show alerts based on their severity, status, and originating device.

Device Fault Manager > Administration  > Administration Console

Device Fault Manager > Alerts and Activities

(From the Alerts and Activities display, click a device to open a Detailed Device View.)

From the Detailed Device View, you can:

View device detail information

Manage and unmanage devices

Acknowledge alerts

Annotate events

(From the CiscoWorks home page) Common Services > Device & Credentials Administration > Device Management

Device Fault Manager > Device Management > Device Selector

Device management, such as add, import, and delete.

Note In DFM 2.0, you import devices into a Device Credentials Repository (DCR) that is shared by CiscoWorks applications. You select devices from the DCR (or automatically synchronize devices with the DCR) for DFM to manage.

Device Fault Manager  > Device Management >View Device Details

View device inventory.

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Polling and Thresholds

Configure polling parameters and manage thresholds.

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Polling and Thresholds > Operations

Reconfigure DFM to use updated polling parameters and threshold values.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Device Discovery > Change Probe

Device Fault Manager  > Device Management > Device Selector

Note The change probe process is obsolete in DFM 2.0.

Select devices manually or configure DFM to automatically synchronize device inventory with Device Credentials Repository (DCR).

Note Applications on different servers can use the same master DCR. For more information, see User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Device Discovery > Rediscovery Schedule

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Other Configurations > Rediscovery Schedule

Edit the default rediscovery schedule.

Create additional rediscovery schedules.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Trap Configuration > Trap Receiving

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Other Configurations > SNMP Trap Receiving

Change the port number that DFM uses to listen for SNMP traps.

Note Although the SNMP trap adapter file used in DFM 1.2 is still present in the DFM 2.0 filesystem, DFM 2.0 does not use it.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Trap Configuration > Trap Forwarding

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Other Configurations > SNMP Trap Forwarding

Configure hostnames and port numbers for trap forwarding.

Note Although the SNMP trap adapter file used in DFM 1.2 is still present in the DFM 2.0 filesystem, DFM 2.0 does not use it.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Fault Notification > File Notifier

If you need to log events to a file, contact the Technical Assistance Center for the workaround for CSCsa83426.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Fault Notification > Mail Notifier

Device Fault Manager > Notification Services > E-Mail Notification

Configure e-mail notifications for alarms.

Note Although the mail notifier file used in DFM 1.2 is still present in the DFM 2.0 filesystem, DFM 2.0 does not use it.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Fault Notification > Trap Notifier

Device Fault Manager > Notification Services > Trap Notification

Configure trap notifications for alarms.

Note Although the trap notifier file used in DFM 1.2 is still present in the DFM 2.0 filesystem, DFM 2.0 does not use it.

Device Fault Manager > Administration > Fault History Database Sizing

Device Fault Manager > Configuration > Other Configurations > Daily Purging Schedule

Trim the Fault History database.

Note DFM 2.0 keeps 31 days of history and trims the database daily at the time you specify.

Device Fault Manager > Fault History:

Search by Devices

Search by Fault Conditions

Device Fault Manager > Fault History:

Alert Filtering

Search Alarm ID

Search by Device

Search by Group

Event Filtering

Search by Event ID

Search by Device

Search Alert ID

Search by Group

Generate a 31-day Fault History report based on search criteria.

Device Fault Manager > Alerts and Activities > Tools > Fault History

Generate a 24-hour Fault History report for all alerts in your current view.

Device Fault Manager > Alerts and Activities

Click an an alert ID. The Alerts and Activities Detail display appears. In the Tools column next to the device component of interest, select Fault History.

Generate a 24-hour Fault History report for all events on a device component.