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 portlet
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:
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Adding a Portlet
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Adding Portlets by IFrame
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Adding Portlets by RSS
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Adding Frequently Used Links
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Adding Portlets From the Remote Server
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Adding Application Menu portlet
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Searching for Portlets
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Searching Devices, Jobs, and End-hosts with the Object Finder Portlet
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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 is a View which contains a list of portlets.
Step 2
Click Add next to the name of a portlet.
The portlet is added to the selected view. Repeat this step as many times as necessary.
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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.
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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 3
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. To expand and collapse the sections displayed, click the arrow next to the section title.
Each section is a view which 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 configuring the RSS portlet.
To add 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. To expand and collapse the sections displayed, click the arrow next to the section title.
Each section is a View which contains a list of portlets.
Step 2
Click Miscellaneous.
The RSS portlet appears along with other miscellaneous 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.
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To configure RSS portlet, see RSS.
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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 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. To expand and collapse the sections displayed, click the arrow next to the section title.
Each section is a View which 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 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.
You can view the available names in the Available box and the current names in the Current box.
Step 7
Enter the name in the Display Name field and URL in the URL field and click Add.
Step 8
You can select the name in the Available or Current box and click Delete to remove the name.
Step 9
Click Save to save the changes.
Step 10
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 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 portlet 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), a peer certificate exchange is required.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 displayed, click the arrow next to the section title.
Each section is a View which 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 Remove 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 will fetch the portlet from a remote server.
Step 6
Select the portlet from the Portlet drop-down list.
Step 7
Click Save to save all the changes.
Step 8
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 portlet
The Application Menu portlet enables you to access the links to the corresponding application page.
To add application menu portlet:
Step 1
Go to CiscoWorks LMS Portal and click Add Portlet.
A pop-up window appears. Portlets in each view are organized as sections for each LMS application.
Step 2
You can expand and collapse these sections by clicking the arrow next to the section title.
Step 3
Click CiscoWorks and select Others.
A list of portlet names appears.
Step 4
Click Add next to the Application Menu portlet name.
The Application Menu portlet name is displayed in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.
Step 5
Click Close to close the pop-up window.
Step 6
Move the mouse over the porltet to view the icons.
Step 7
Click the Configuration
icon.
Step 8
Select the Application name from the Application drop-down list.
Step 9
Click Save to save the settings.
Step 10
Click the Back arrow
icon to view the new Application 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:
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Device details
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Job details
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End host details
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MAC address
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IP address
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Host name
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Device names
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User name
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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.
Step 4
The Object Finder portlet is displayed in the view.
Step 5
Click Close to close the popup window.
The Object Finder portlet allows you to view the details on
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Device
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Job
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End Host
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Help
Device
The device option in the Object Finder portlet enables you to view the display name, domain name, host name and IPaddress details.
To view the device details:
Step 1
Select Device from the drop-down list.
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:
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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.
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Domain Name—Domain name of the device.
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Host Name— Host name of the device.
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IP Address—IP address of the device.
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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.
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.
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Job ID—Click the link below the Job ID to view its details in the Jobs Details page.
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Job Type—Type of job, such as Change Audit Default Purge, SysInvCollection.
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Job Status—Status of the job, such as Failed, Schedule, and Succeeded.
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Job Description— Description of the job such as System Inventory Polling Job, Syslog Records default purge job.
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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.
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User name—Name of the user.
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Device—Device IP of the connected switch.
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MAC address—MAC address of the end host.
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IP Address—IP address of the end host.
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VLAN—VLAN to which the end host is connected.
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Host name— Host name of the connected switch.
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Port—Port 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.
Step 4
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 is a view that 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 the options from the Log Setting for portal application drop-down list and view the log related details.
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Fatal — Fatal level log details.
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Info — Log level information details.
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Error— Log error details.
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Debug — Log level debug details.
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Warn — Log level warning details.
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The error option is displayed as the default setting for Portal Log Settings portlet.
Step 6
Click Save to save the changes.