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Navigating Cisco Prime Health and Utilization Monitor Tasks in LMS 4.1

Poller and Template Management Tasks

Threshold and TrendWatch Tasks

Reports Tasks

Administration Tasks

Navigating Cisco Prime Health and Utilization Monitor Tasks in LMS 4.1

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Cisco Prime Health and Utilization Monitor (HUM) is a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based MIB polling application that monitors network elements (such as CPU, memory, interfaces/ports, and links) for their availability and utilization levels and provides historical reporting.

This chapter provides mapping of HUM tasks in Cisco Prime LMS 4.1.

It explains:

•Poller and Template Management Tasks

•Threshold and TrendWatch Tasks

•Reports Tasks

•Administration Tasks

Poller and Template Management Tasks

This section provides information on the following HUM tasks in LMS 4.14.1:

•Poller Management Tasks

•Template Management Tasks

Table 6-1 Poller and Template Management Tasks 

LMS 3.2 Task Name	LMS 3.2 Navigation	LMS 4.1 Navigation	Description
Poller Management Tasks
Managing Pollers	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Poller and Template Management > Poller Management	Monitor > Performance Settings: Setup > Pollers	A Poller is a collection of devices and template MIB variables configured in LMS to monitor the utilization and availability levels of devices that are connected to the network. You can create a Poller, modify the configuration of a Poller, delete a Poller, Activate or De-activate a Poller, clear missed cycles and so on.
Template Management Tasks
Managing Templates	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Poller and Template Management > Template Management	Monitor > Performance Settings: Setup > Templates	Templates are a logical group of MIB variables that allow you to monitor the performance parameters of a device (such as CPU, memory, interface) for utilization and availability levels. You can create a user-defined template, modify the configuration of a user-defined template, export and import a user-defined template, delete a user-defined template, and so on.

Threshold and TrendWatch Tasks

This section provides information on the following HUM tasks in LMS 4.1:

•Threshold Setup Tasks

•TrendWatch Setup Tasks

Table 6-2 Threshold and TrendWatch Tasks 

LMS 3.2 Task Name	LMS 3.2 Navigation	LMS 4.1 Navigation	Description
Threshold Setup Tasks
Creating and Managing Thresholds	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Threshold Management > Threshold Setup	Monitor > Threshold Settings: Performance	You can create a threshold for a MIB variable, modify the threshold set for a MIB variable and delete the threshold.
TrendWatch Setup Tasks
Creating and Managing TrendWatches	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > TrendWatch Management > TrendWatch Setup	Monitor > Threshold Settings: TrendWatch	You can create a TrendWatch for a MIB variable, based on a template or on a threshold. You can create, modify, delete, activate or de-activate a TrendWatch.

Reports Tasks

This section provides information on the following HUM tasks in LMS 4.1:

•Report Management Tasks

•Report Job Browser Tasks

Table 6-3 Reports Tasks 

LMS 3.2 Task Name	LMS 3.2 Navigation	LMS 4.1 Navigation	Description
Report Management Tasks
Viewing and Managing Reports	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Reports > Report Management	Reports > Performance: Device Or Reports > Faults and Events: Threshold Violation	You create, view, schedule and manage the following reports: •Device Reports •Quick Reports •Poller Reports •Custom Reports •Threshold Violation Reports •TrendWatch Reports •TrendWatch Summary Reports
Report Job Browser Tasks
Accessing Report Job Browser	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Reports > Report Job Browser	Admin > Jobs: Browser	The Job browser allows you to view the list of report jobs scheduled to generate reports.

Administration Tasks

This section provides information on the following HUM administration tasks in LMS 4.1:

Table 6-4 Administration Tasks 

LMS 3.2 Task Name	LMS 3.2 Navigation	LMS 4.1 Navigation	Description
Setting up the system preferences	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences	Admin > Network: Monitor/ Troubleshoot > Performance Admin Settings	Shows the current admin settings.
Setting up log levels	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Log Level Settings	Admin > System: Debug Settings > Performance Debugging Settings	Configure and manage log level settings. You can set log level modes (such as Fatal, Error, Info, Debug) either for all application modules or at a module level.
Purging jobs	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Job Purge	Admin > Network: Purge Settings > Performance Job Purge Settings	You can configure LMS to periodically purge job data that you no longer need.
Seting up the report publish location	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Report Publish Path	Reports > Report Settings: Report Publish Path	LMS allows you to publish the PDF, HTML and CSV format of all the reports to a directory location of your choice. This is done by setting a default directory path.
Purging data	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Data Purge	Admin > Network: Purge Settings > Performance Data Purge Settings	You can configure LMS to periodically purge polled data that you no longer need in the database.
View Purge Details	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Purge Details	Admin > Network: Purge Settings > Performance Data Purge Summary	You can view the details of the data purged in LMS
Configuring Poll Settings	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Poll Settings	Admin > Collection Settings: Performance > Performance Management SNMP Timeouts and Retry Settings	LMS allows you to configure the SNMP timeout and SNMP retries. The SNMP timeout and SNMP retries are based on the device and network response time. •SNMP timeout is the duration of time that LMS waits for the device to respond before it tries to query the device again. •SNMP retry is the maximum number of times LMS retries to query the device.
Loading MIB files	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Load MIB	Admin > Network: Monitor/Troubleshoot > Load MIB	You can load a new MIB file into LMS using the Load MIB option. The new MIB file is compiled and stored in LMS. You can use the new MIB file to create new templates by grouping MIB variables.
Viewing Audit Trail Log Report	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Audit Trail Logging	Reports > Audit: Performance	You can view the Audit Trail Logging report for all modules, categories and users.
Creating Trap Receiver Groups	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Trap Receiver Groups	Monitor > Fault Settings: SNMP Traps > Receiving Or Admin > Network: Notification and Action Settings > Performance - SNMP Trap Notification	LMS allows you to create SNMP Trap Receiver Groups. This is a group of hosts that receives specified trap notifications, when any TrendWatch or Threshold violation occurs in LMS.
Creating a Syslog Receiver Group	Cisco Prime LMS Portal > Health and Utilization Monitor > Admin > System Preferences > Syslog Receiver Groups	Admin > Network: Notification and Action Settings > Performance - Syslog notification	LMS allows you to create Syslog Receiver Groups. Syslog Receiver Groups is a group of hosts that receives Syslog messages when any TrendWatch or Threshold violation occurs in HUM.