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The Portal Advantage

Scenario 1—Quick Access to Frequently Used Functions

Scenario 2—Personalization

Scenario 3—Display of Network and Device Status from Remote Servers

The Portal Advantage

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LMS Portal is a new feature that is being introduced in LMS 3.0. This appendix details the advantages of the LMS portal and illustrates these advantages with use case scenarios.

The main advantages of LMS Portal are:

The following sections provide a high-level comparison of some of the features in LMS Portal with the earlier versions of LMS:

•Scenario 1—Quick Access to Frequently Used Functions

•Scenario 2—Personalization

•Scenario 3—Display of Network and Device Status from Remote Servers

In versions of LMS earlier than 3.0, the applications and functionalities were organized in a predefined format. You could neither view the required information in a single page nor customize the home page.

In LMS 3.0, CiscoWorks LMS Portal is the first page that appears when you launch the LMS application. The LMS Portal provides quick and easy access to important statistics and details of the LMS applications that are installed on your CiscoWorks server.

The CiscoWorks LMS Portal serves as an interface, launch point, and top-level navigation for frequently used functions in the LMS suite of applications.

Scenario 1—Quick Access to Frequently Used Functions

From the LMS Portal, you can view the features of all the applications by clicking the corresponding view tabs that are displayed in the CiscoWorks LMS Portal, instead of launching each application.

Table A-1 lists the comparison of feature details.

Table A-1 Comparison of feature details.

To Access Function	In versions of LMS earlier than 3.0	In LMS version 3.0 with LMS Portal
To configure the Job Browser page in Common Services.	1. Log into CiscoWorks. The CiscoWorks Home Page appears. 2. Launch the Common Services Application. 3. Select Server > Admin >Job Browser to configure the details.	1. Log into CiscoWorks. The CiscoWorks LMS Portal page is displayed. 2. Click the CS tab. The Job Browser portlet appears from where you can configure the details.
To configure the Best Practice Deviations in Campus Manager.	1. Log into CiscoWorks. The CiscoWorks Home Page appears. 2. Launch the Campus Manager Application. 3. Select Server > Best Practice Deviation.	1. Log into CiscoWorks. The CiscoWorks LMS Portal page is displayed. 2. Click the CM tab. The Best Practice Deviation portlet appears from where you can configure the details.

Scenario 2—Personalization

You can personalize the LMS Portal by adding portlets, deleting portlets, maximizing and minimizing the portlets and changing the look and feel of the portlets. This facility was not available in versions of LMS earlier than 3.0. You can personalize and customize all views except the Functional View in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

In versions earlier than 3.0, you could only view the status of the various features and the links to various pages of the application. For example, the default CS home page in versions of LMS earlier than 3.0 appears as shown below.

In LMS 3.0, you can view and personalize the homepage of the corresponding application in LMS Portal home page by adding and deleting portlets, changing the color features, and the columnar layout.

You can also maximize, minimize, delete, and configure the portlets and modify the look and feel of the portlets.

Scenario 3—Display of Network and Device Status from Remote Servers

In versions of LMS earlier than 3.0, you could view the network or device status only for applications installed on a local server.

In LMS Portal you can add one or more remote servers to your local CiscoWorks server and view information from various LMS applications installed on the remote servers.