User Guide for CiscoWorks LMS Portal 1.0.1 (With LMS 3.0 December 2007 Update) - Chapter 4 Adding Portlets to the Views [CiscoWorks LMS Portal]

Table Of Contents

Adding Portlets to the Views

Adding a Portlet

Adding Portlets by IFrame

Adding Portlets by RSS

Adding Frequently Used Links

Adding Portlets From the Remote Server

Adding Application Menu Portlets

Searching for Portlets

Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet

Device

Job

End Host

Help

Setting Portal Logs

Adding Portlets to the Views

Portlets are the basic units of the CiscoWorks LMS Portal. They are application features that can be plugged into, displayed in, and managed using the portal. You can add portlets to any view except to Functional View in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

This section has the following topics:

•Adding a Portlet

•Adding Portlets by IFrame

•Adding Portlets by RSS

•Adding Frequently Used Links

•Adding Portlets From the Remote Server

•Adding Application Menu Portlets

•Searching for Portlets

•Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet

•Setting Portal Logs

Adding a Portlet

You can add a portlet to any view other than the Functional View.

To add a portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears as shown in the Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 Pop-up Window

To expand and collapse the sections displayed, click the arrow next to the section title.

Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

Step 2 Click Add next to the name of a portlet.

The portlet is added to the selected view.

Step 3 Repeat this step as many times as necessary.

•If the portlet is instanceable, (allows you to add the same portlets such as IFrame or RSS more than once) the portlet name will continue to appear in the list.

•If the portlet is not instanceable, the portlet name will disappear from the list. However, the portlets will be displayed in other views.

For example, if you want to view the Change Audit portlet, (not instanceable) it displays only the audit details. However, you can configure different types of information in each RSS or IFrame portlet. Hence, RSS and IFrame portlets are instanceable.

You can also arrange the portlets in CiscoWorks LMS Portal using the Layout option. For more information on Layout, see Changing the Look of Your View.

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

Adding Portlets by IFrame

Intra Frame (IFrame) portlet enables you to open new or multiple pages inside the same browser window. You can change the content, title and the size of the IFrame portlet.

To add an IFrame portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

You can expand and collapse these sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title.

Step 2 Click Miscellaneous.

The IFrame portlet name appears along with other portlets.

Step 3 Click Add next to the IFrame portlet name.

The IFrame portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

You can also arrange the portlet in CiscoWorks LMS Portal, using the Layout option. For more information on layout, see Changing the Columnar Layout.

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

To configure and change the look and feel of the IFrame portlet, see IFrame.

Adding Portlets by RSS

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format used to distribute Web content (such as news headlines). RSS allows web content publishers to create and disseminate the most current news headlines and URLs.

You can configure RSS in the CiscoWorks LMS application. You can create, add, modify any URL in the RSS portlet and view the details. You can also change the content and the title while configuringthe RSS portlet.

To add the RSS portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal page and click the Add Portlet . icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

You can expand and collapse the sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title.

Step 2 Click Miscellaneous.

The RSS portlet appears along with other portlets.

Step 3 Click Add next to the RSS portlet.

The RSS portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

You can also arrange the portlet in CiscoWorks LMS Portal using the layout option. For more information on layout, see Changing the Columnar Layout.

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

•To configure RSS portlet, see RSS.

•To customize the look and feel of the RSS portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets.

Adding Frequently Used Links

The Frequently Used Links portlet allows you to add the most commonly used links in the Frequently Used Links portlet.

You can also add, modify and remove the frequently accessed links.

To add the Frequently Used Links portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

You can expand and collapse the sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title.

Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others.

A list of portlet names appear.

Step 3 Click Add next to the Frequently Used Links portlet.

The Frequently Used Links portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

Step 5 Move the mouse over the Frequently Used Links portlet to view the icons.

Step 6 Click the Configuration icon.

The default link names in the Frequently Used Links portlet are displayed. These are:

•Local User Setup

•Add Device

•Log File Status

•Process Status

Note Select the checkbox against the names to view the default links in the Frequently Used Links portlet.

You can edit and delete the link names:

•Click the Edit button corresponding to the link name to modify the link name.

•Click the Delete button corresponding to the link name to remove the link name.

To re-arrange the link name, click on the link name, drag it to the position of your choice, and drop it.

You can add a new link to the Frequently Used Links portlet by :

a. Click the configuration icon in the Frequently Used Links portlet.

The list of default link names is displayed in the portlet.

b. Enter the new name in the Display Name field.

c. Enter the URL in the URL field.

You can add a relative path by removing the http:// in the URL.

For instance, /cwhp/home.do, /rme/home.do and so on.

d. Click Add to add the new link name.

The newly added link is added to the configuration screen and appears in bold.

e. Click Save to save the new link name and the name changes from bold to plain.

Or

f. Click Reset to clear all the newly added link names.

Note The link name changes from bold to plain only after it is saved.

g. Select the checkbox against the newly added link.

h. Click the Back arrow icon to view the configuration changes on the portlet.

i. Click the Save button to save all the changes.

To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets.

Adding Portlets From the Remote Server

You can access portlets from a remote server. You can also add such portlets to CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

For instance, assume that you have installed one application in a different server and want to view the porltet details of the application from that server.

Before you connect to the remote server (to fetch the list of portlets) you must check whether the System Identity and password of the two servers (local and remote) are the same.

The remote servers System Identity username and password should be the same as the local server.

If the remote server is in the HTTPS mode (SSL mode), the remote server's certificate should be imported.

To add portlets from a remote server:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title.

Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others.

A list of portlet names appear.

Step 3 Click Add next to the Remote portlet.

The Remote portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

Step 4 Click the Configuration icon.

Step 5 Enter a server name in the Server field and click Fetch.

This fetches the portlet from a remote server.

Step 6 Select the portlet from the Portlet drop-down list.

Step 7 Click the Back arrow icon to view the configuration changes on the portlet.

To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets.

Adding Application Menu Portlets

The Application Menu portlet enables you to access the links to the corresponding application page.

To add an Application Menu portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title.

Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others.

A list of portlet names appears.

Step 3 Click Add next to the Application Menu portlet name.

The Application Menu portlet name is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

Step 4 Click Close to close the pop-up window.

Step 5 Move the mouse over the porltet to view the icons.

Step 6 Click the Configuration icon.

Step 7 Select the Application name from the Application drop-down list.

Note In the Application drop-down list, you can view and add the portlets from the Remote servers.

Step 8 Click Save to save the settings.

The new Application portlet appears.

Or

Click the Back arrow icon to return to the portlet.

To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets.

Searching for Portlets

You can search for a portlet using CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

To search for a portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears.

Step 2 Enter the name of the portlet or first few letters or words of the portlet in the Search field as shown in the Figure 4-2.

The name of the portlet is displayed.

Figure 4-2 Search Field

Step 3 Click Close to close the pop-up window.

Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet

The Object Finder portlet helps you to search, sort, and filter functions. It also helps you to query the managed entities. You can view the following using the Object Finder portlet:

•Device details

•Job details

•End host details

•MAC address

•IP address

•Host name

•Device names

•User name

•Online help details.

To search using Object Finder portlet:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears.

To expand and collapse these sections, click the arrow next to the section title.

Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appear.

The Object Finder portlet appears along with the other portlets.

Step 3 Click Add next to the Object Finder portlet.

The Object Finder portlet is displayed in the view. This portlet allows you to view the details on

•Device

•Job

•End Host

•Help

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

Device

The Device option in the Object Finder portlet enables you to view the display name, host name, and IPaddress details.

To view the device details:

Step 1 Select Device from the drop-down list.

The Device details such as the display name, IP address, host name or all the details are displayed in the adjacent drop-down list.

After selecting the details from the drop-down list, you can enter the details in the Search field and click Search.

Step 2 Enter the device name in the Search field and click Search.

If you do not know the Device name enter a wildcard (*) or (?) in the Search field and click Search.

The following details are displayed:

•Display Name—Name of the device. Click the link below the Display Name to view the device details. The Device Center page appears with the device details.

•Domain Name—Domain name of the device.

•Host Name— Host name of the device.

•IP Address—IP address of the device.

•Managed By—The name of the application along with the server in which the device is managed.

Step 3 Click Reset to clear all the details and you can re-enter the new parameters for a new search.

Job

You can use the Job option in the Object Finder portlet to view the job ID, job type, job status, job description and the time at which the job was scheduled.

To view the Job details:

Step 1 Select Job from the drop-down list.

The Job details such as the Job ID, Job Description or all the details are displayed in the adjacent drop-down list.

After selecting the Job details from the drop-down list, you can enter the details in the Search field and click Search.

Step 2 Enter the Job name in the Search field and click Search.

If you do not know the Job name enter a wildcard (*) or (?) in the Search field and click Search.

The following details are displayed.

•Job ID—Click the link below the Job ID to view its details in the Jobs Details page.

•Job Type—Type of job, such as Change Audit Default Purge, SysInvCollection.

•Job Status—Status of the job, such as Failed, Schedule, and Succeeded.

•Job Description— Description of the job such as System Inventory Polling Job, Syslog Records default purge job.

•Owner— The name of the user who had created the job.

•Scheduled At—Date and time of the job schedule.

Step 3 Click Reset to clear all the details and you can re-enter the new parameters for a new search.

End Host

You can use End Host option in the Object Finder portlet to view the device name, MAC address, IP address, VLAN, host name and port name details.

To view the End Host details :

Step 1 Select EndHost from the drop-down list.

Step 2 Select MAC address from the drop-down list.

You can select the number of rows to be displayed from the Show drop-down list. For instance, if you select 5 from the Show Rows drop-down list, five rows are displayed.

Step 3 Select the MAC address in the Search field and click Search.

Similarly select the IP Address, Host Name, Device IP, User name from the drop-down list and click Search to view the corresponding details.

The following details are displayed.

•User name —The name of the user.

•MAC address—MAC address of the end host

•Host Name— Host name of the connected switch.

•IP Address—IP address of the end host.

•Device IP—Device IP of the connected switch.

•Port —Port to which the end host is connected.

•VLAN—VLAN to which the end host is connected.

If you do not know the particular MAC address of the device enter a wild card (*) or (?) in the Search field and click Search.

You can click Reset to clear all the details if you want to re-enter any parameters.

Help

You can use the Help option in the Object Finder portlet to view the online help details.

To view the Online help details:

Step 1 Select Help from the drop-down list.

Step 2 Enter a name (for example, name of an application or function) which you want to search in the Search field and click Search.

Step 3 The Online help opens in a new window.

Setting Portal Logs

The Portal Log Settings portlet enables you to set the log details.

To view Portal Log Settings:

Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page.

A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title.

Each section in this window contains a list of portlets.

Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others.

A list of portlet names appear.

Step 3 Click Add next to the Portal Log Settings.

The Portal Log Settings portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window.

Step 5 Select any one of these options from the Log Setting for portal application drop-down list and view the log related details.

•Fatal — Fatal level log details.

•Info — Log level information details.

•Error— Log error details.

•Debug — Log level debug details.

•Warn — Log level warning details.

Note The error option is displayed as the default setting for Portal Log Settings portlet.

Step 6 Click Save to save the changes.

	User Guide for CiscoWorks LMS Portal 1.0.1 (With LMS 3.0 December 2007 Update)
	Chapter 4 Adding Portlets to the Views
User Guide for CiscoWorks LMS Portal 1.0.1 (With LMS 3.0 December 2007 Update) Notices Preface Chaper 1 Getting Started with CiscoWorks LMS Portal Chapter 2 Understanding LMS Portal Interface Chapter 3 Adding Views to CiscoWorks LMS Portal Chapter 4 Adding Portlets to the Views Chapter 5 Changing the Look of Your View Chapter 6 Changing the Look of Your Portlets Chapter 7 Changing the Portlet Display Chapter 8 Rearranging Portlets in Your View Chapter 9 Working with Functional, Network and System View Chapter 10 Working with Common Services View Chapter 11 Working with LMS Application Views Chapter 12 Configuring Portlets Chapter 13 Restoring Portal Using CLI Commands Chapter 14 Deleting Stale Users From CiscoWorks LMS Portal Chapter 15 Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting Suggestions Appendix A The Portal Advantage Index	Download this chapter Chapter 4 Adding Portlets to the Views Download the complete book User Guide for CiscoWorks LMS Portal 1.0.1 (With LMS 3.0 December 2007 Update (PDF - 4 MB) Table Of Contents Adding Portlets to the Views Adding a Portlet Adding Portlets by IFrame Adding Portlets by RSS Adding Frequently Used Links Adding Portlets From the Remote Server Adding Application Menu Portlets Searching for Portlets Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet Device Job End Host Help Setting Portal Logs Adding Portlets to the Views Portlets are the basic units of the CiscoWorks LMS Portal. They are application features that can be plugged into, displayed in, and managed using the portal. You can add portlets to any view except to Functional View in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. This section has the following topics: •Adding a Portlet •Adding Portlets by IFrame •Adding Portlets by RSS •Adding Frequently Used Links •Adding Portlets From the Remote Server •Adding Application Menu Portlets •Searching for Portlets •Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet •Setting Portal Logs Adding a Portlet You can add a portlet to any view other than the Functional View. To add a portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears as shown in the Figure 4-1. Figure 4-1 Pop-up Window To expand and collapse the sections displayed, click the arrow next to the section title. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. Step 2 Click Add next to the name of a portlet. The portlet is added to the selected view. Step 3 Repeat this step as many times as necessary. •If the portlet is instanceable, (allows you to add the same portlets such as IFrame or RSS more than once) the portlet name will continue to appear in the list. •If the portlet is not instanceable, the portlet name will disappear from the list. However, the portlets will be displayed in other views. For example, if you want to view the Change Audit portlet, (not instanceable) it displays only the audit details. However, you can configure different types of information in each RSS or IFrame portlet. Hence, RSS and IFrame portlets are instanceable. You can also arrange the portlets in CiscoWorks LMS Portal using the Layout option. For more information on Layout, see Changing the Look of Your View. Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. Adding Portlets by IFrame Intra Frame (IFrame) portlet enables you to open new or multiple pages inside the same browser window. You can change the content, title and the size of the IFrame portlet. To add an IFrame portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. You can expand and collapse these sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title. Step 2 Click Miscellaneous. The IFrame portlet name appears along with other portlets. Step 3 Click Add next to the IFrame portlet name. The IFrame portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. You can also arrange the portlet in CiscoWorks LMS Portal, using the Layout option. For more information on layout, see Changing the Columnar Layout. Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. To configure and change the look and feel of the IFrame portlet, see IFrame. Adding Portlets by RSS Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format used to distribute Web content (such as news headlines). RSS allows web content publishers to create and disseminate the most current news headlines and URLs. You can configure RSS in the CiscoWorks LMS application. You can create, add, modify any URL in the RSS portlet and view the details. You can also change the content and the title while configuringthe RSS portlet. To add the RSS portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal page and click the Add Portlet . icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. You can expand and collapse the sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title. Step 2 Click Miscellaneous. The RSS portlet appears along with other portlets. Step 3 Click Add next to the RSS portlet. The RSS portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. You can also arrange the portlet in CiscoWorks LMS Portal using the layout option. For more information on layout, see Changing the Columnar Layout. Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. •To configure RSS portlet, see RSS. •To customize the look and feel of the RSS portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets. Adding Frequently Used Links The Frequently Used Links portlet allows you to add the most commonly used links in the Frequently Used Links portlet. You can also add, modify and remove the frequently accessed links. To add the Frequently Used Links portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. You can expand and collapse the sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title. Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appear. Step 3 Click Add next to the Frequently Used Links portlet. The Frequently Used Links portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. Step 5 Move the mouse over the Frequently Used Links portlet to view the icons. Step 6 Click the Configuration icon. The default link names in the Frequently Used Links portlet are displayed. These are: •Local User Setup •Add Device •Log File Status •Process Status Note Select the checkbox against the names to view the default links in the Frequently Used Links portlet. You can edit and delete the link names: •Click the Edit button corresponding to the link name to modify the link name. •Click the Delete button corresponding to the link name to remove the link name. To re-arrange the link name, click on the link name, drag it to the position of your choice, and drop it. You can add a new link to the Frequently Used Links portlet by : a. Click the configuration icon in the Frequently Used Links portlet. The list of default link names is displayed in the portlet. b. Enter the new name in the Display Name field. c. Enter the URL in the URL field. You can add a relative path by removing the http:// in the URL. For instance, /cwhp/home.do, /rme/home.do and so on. d. Click Add to add the new link name. The newly added link is added to the configuration screen and appears in bold. e. Click Save to save the new link name and the name changes from bold to plain. Or f. Click Reset to clear all the newly added link names. Note The link name changes from bold to plain only after it is saved. g. Select the checkbox against the newly added link. h. Click the Back arrow icon to view the configuration changes on the portlet. i. Click the Save button to save all the changes. To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets. Adding Portlets From the Remote Server You can access portlets from a remote server. You can also add such portlets to CiscoWorks LMS Portal. For instance, assume that you have installed one application in a different server and want to view the porltet details of the application from that server. Before you connect to the remote server (to fetch the list of portlets) you must check whether the System Identity and password of the two servers (local and remote) are the same. The remote servers System Identity username and password should be the same as the local server. If the remote server is in the HTTPS mode (SSL mode), the remote server's certificate should be imported. To add portlets from a remote server: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appear. Step 3 Click Add next to the Remote portlet. The Remote portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. Step 4 Click the Configuration icon. Step 5 Enter a server name in the Server field and click Fetch. This fetches the portlet from a remote server. Step 6 Select the portlet from the Portlet drop-down list. Step 7 Click the Back arrow icon to view the configuration changes on the portlet. To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets. Adding Application Menu Portlets The Application Menu portlet enables you to access the links to the corresponding application page. To add an Application Menu portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appears. Step 3 Click Add next to the Application Menu portlet name. The Application Menu portlet name is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. Step 4 Click Close to close the pop-up window. Step 5 Move the mouse over the porltet to view the icons. Step 6 Click the Configuration icon. Step 7 Select the Application name from the Application drop-down list. Note In the Application drop-down list, you can view and add the portlets from the Remote servers. Step 8 Click Save to save the settings. The new Application portlet appears. Or Click the Back arrow icon to return to the portlet. To customize the look and feel of the portlet, see Changing the Look of Your Portlets. Searching for Portlets You can search for a portlet using CiscoWorks LMS Portal. To search for a portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. Step 2 Enter the name of the portlet or first few letters or words of the portlet in the Search field as shown in the Figure 4-2. The name of the portlet is displayed. Figure 4-2 Search Field Step 3 Click Close to close the pop-up window. Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet The Object Finder portlet helps you to search, sort, and filter functions. It also helps you to query the managed entities. You can view the following using the Object Finder portlet: •Device details •Job details •End host details •MAC address •IP address •Host name •Device names •User name •Online help details. To search using Object Finder portlet: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. To expand and collapse these sections, click the arrow next to the section title. Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appear. The Object Finder portlet appears along with the other portlets. Step 3 Click Add next to the Object Finder portlet. The Object Finder portlet is displayed in the view. This portlet allows you to view the details on •Device •Job •End Host •Help Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. Device The Device option in the Object Finder portlet enables you to view the display name, host name, and IPaddress details. To view the device details: Step 1 Select Device from the drop-down list. The Device details such as the display name, IP address, host name or all the details are displayed in the adjacent drop-down list. After selecting the details from the drop-down list, you can enter the details in the Search field and click Search. Step 2 Enter the device name in the Search field and click Search. If you do not know the Device name enter a wildcard () or (?) in the Search field and click Search. The following details are displayed: •Display Name—Name of the device. Click the link below the Display Name to view the device details. The Device Center page appears with the device details. •Domain Name—Domain name of the device. •Host Name— Host name of the device. •IP Address—IP address of the device. •Managed By—The name of the application along with the server in which the device is managed. Step 3* Click Reset to clear all the details and you can re-enter the new parameters for a new search. Job You can use the Job option in the Object Finder portlet to view the job ID, job type, job status, job description and the time at which the job was scheduled. To view the Job details: Step 1 Select Job from the drop-down list. The Job details such as the Job ID, Job Description or all the details are displayed in the adjacent drop-down list. After selecting the Job details from the drop-down list, you can enter the details in the Search field and click Search. Step 2 Enter the Job name in the Search field and click Search. If you do not know the Job name enter a wildcard () or (?) in the Search field and click Search. The following details are displayed. •Job ID—Click the link below the Job ID to view its details in the Jobs Details page. •Job Type—Type of job, such as Change Audit Default Purge, SysInvCollection. •Job Status—Status of the job, such as Failed, Schedule, and Succeeded. •Job Description— Description of the job such as System Inventory Polling Job, Syslog Records default purge job. •Owner— The name of the user who had created the job. •Scheduled At—Date and time of the job schedule. Step 3* Click Reset to clear all the details and you can re-enter the new parameters for a new search. End Host You can use End Host option in the Object Finder portlet to view the device name, MAC address, IP address, VLAN, host name and port name details. To view the End Host details : Step 1 Select EndHost from the drop-down list. Step 2 Select MAC address from the drop-down list. You can select the number of rows to be displayed from the Show drop-down list. For instance, if you select 5 from the Show Rows drop-down list, five rows are displayed. Step 3 Select the MAC address in the Search field and click Search. Similarly select the IP Address, Host Name, Device IP, User name from the drop-down list and click Search to view the corresponding details. The following details are displayed. •User name —The name of the user. •MAC address—MAC address of the end host •Host Name— Host name of the connected switch. •IP Address—IP address of the end host. •Device IP—Device IP of the connected switch. •Port —Port to which the end host is connected. •VLAN—VLAN to which the end host is connected. If you do not know the particular MAC address of the device enter a wild card () or (?) in the Search field and click Search. You can click Reset* to clear all the details if you want to re-enter any parameters. Help You can use the Help option in the Object Finder portlet to view the online help details. To view the Online help details: Step 1 Select Help from the drop-down list. Step 2 Enter a name (for example, name of an application or function) which you want to search in the Search field and click Search. Step 3 The Online help opens in a new window. Setting Portal Logs The Portal Log Settings portlet enables you to set the log details. To view Portal Log Settings: Step 1 Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click the Add Portlet icon at the top right corner of the page. A popup window appears. To expand and collapse the sections, click the arrow next to the section title. Each section in this window contains a list of portlets. Step 2 Click CiscoWorks and select Others. A list of portlet names appear. Step 3 Click Add next to the Portal Log Settings. The Portal Log Settings portlet is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. Step 4 Click Close to close the popup window. Step 5 Select any one of these options from the Log Setting for portal application drop-down list and view the log related details. •Fatal — Fatal level log details. •Info — Log level information details. •Error— Log error details. •Debug — Log level debug details. •Warn — Log level warning details. Note The error option is displayed as the default setting for Portal Log Settings portlet. Step 6 Click Save to save the changes.
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