Table Of Contents

Getting Started with CiscoWorks LMS Portal

Benefits of CiscoWorks LMS Portal

What's New in This Release

Launching CiscoWorks LMS Portal

Logging Into CiscoWorks LMS Portal

Logging Out of CiscoWorks Server

Getting Started with CiscoWorks LMS Portal

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CiscoWorks LMS Portal is the first page that appears when you launch the LMS application. It serves as an interface, launch point and top-level navigation for the frequently used functions in the application.

You can view the important statistics and details of the LMS applications installed on your CiscoWorks server, in a single page instead of navigating through several pages to view the required data.

The views and portlets are the basic units in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

View is a method to display information in CiscoWorks LMS Portal. The views are displayed as tabs. The content in a view is organized using portlets. Portlets are the user interface components that are displayed in the view. They can be plugged into, displayed in, and managed using CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

Figure 1-1 CiscoWorks LMS Portal

This section has the following topics:

•Benefits of CiscoWorks LMS Portal

•What's New in This Release

•Launching CiscoWorks LMS Portal

•Logging Into CiscoWorks LMS Portal

•Logging Out of CiscoWorks Server

Benefits of CiscoWorks LMS Portal

The benefits of LMS Portal are:

•Easy access to information —You can view the important features of all the installed applications on CiscoWorks server. To do this you can click the corresponding views in CiscoWorks LMS Portal, instead of launching each applications separately.

For example, with the LMS Portal, you can access the Change Audit report (RME) using only two clicks, whereas in the earlier versions of LMS 2.6, it required seven clicks to launch the details.

•Easy customization—You can modify and personalize your application, using options and icons such as Layout, Look and Feel, and Configuration in CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

•Lightweight GUI—Eliminates the need to install any plug-ins to launch the application.

•Multi-server support—Lists all the portlets based on the applications installed on remote servers.

What's New in This Release

The following are the new portlets in CiscoWorks LMS Portal 1.1

•Device Allocation Summary portlet

In the Device Allocation Summary portlet, you can view the summary of all the devices managed by each application. It also displays the devices not managed by any of the application.

If the server is in Master/Slave setup, the Device Allocation Summary displays the device management information about all its Masters and Slaves.

•RME CDA Error Summary portlet

The RME Check Device Attribute Error Summary (CDAE) portlet displays information about the different type of errors in RME devices with credentials such as SNMP, Telnet, SSH and so on. It displays the device count along with the type of error.

•RME Config Protocol Summary portlet

The RME Config Protocol Summary portlet displays information about the configuration protocol usage details for successful configuration fetches. This portlet also enables you to change the Config Protocol Order.

•IPM Availability Dashboard portlet

The IPM Availability Dashboard portlet will display the following details:

–Availability percentage for the operation type groups

–Availability percentage ranges

–User-defined collectors group based on configured Time Interval

Based on configuration, this portlet displays the selected operation types groups and selected user defined collectors groups.

•IPM Violation Summary portlet.

The IPM Violation Summary portlet displays the summary count of collectors that have violated Latencty, and Jitter dMOS Thresholds. These violations are based on the configured time interval.

•DFM Events Summary portlet.

The DFM Events Summary portlet displays information about the events and the severity of the events such as critical or informational.

•User Tracking Summary portlet

The User Tracking Summary portlet displays the number of MACs. These are:

–Rogue MAC— MACs that are not in the network.

–New MAC— MACs that are seen newly in the network. These MACs are not configured as Rogue.

–Dormant MAC— If a MAC is inactive for a period more than the specified date, it is considered as a Dormant MAC.

This portlet also gives the summary about the last User Tracking information such as the number of end hosts and active hosts.

•Supported Device Finder portlet

The Supported Device Finder portlet helps you to view the details of the devices that are supported in various LMS applications such as Resource Manager Essentials (RME), Campus Manager (CM), Device Fault Manager (DFM), and CiscoView.

This portlet enables you to:

–Locate the supported devices in the LMS applications.

–Get the latest updates on devices that are supported and those that will be supported in the upcoming releases.

–Raise a request through mail to support a new device if it is not supported.

•LMS Workflows Demo

LMS Workflows Demo portlet displays the most commonly used workflows in LMS 3.1.

You can click the workflow links to launch the demo.

Launching CiscoWorks LMS Portal

LMS 3.1 uses port 1741 for the HTTP server and port 443 for HTTPS server (SSL).

To access the server from a client system, enter any one of these URLs in your web browser:

•If SSL is disabled, and if you have installed LMS applications on the default port, enter:

http://server_name:1741

•If SSL is enabled, and if you have installed LMS applications on the default port, enter:

https://server_name:443

where server_name is the hostname of the server on which you have installed LMS applications.

•If IIS is detected on your system, the port number 443 cannot be used as it will result in port conflict. Instead, you can use a port number ranging from 1024 to 65535.

The CiscoWorks LMS Portal is displayed.

Logging Into CiscoWorks LMS Portal

To log into CiscoWorks LMS Portal:

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Step 1 Enter your user ID in the User ID field, and your password in the Password field of the Login Page.

The CiscoWorks server administrator can set the passwords to admin and guest users during installation. Contact the CiscoWorks server administrator if you do not know the password.

Step 2 Click Login or press Enter.

You are now logged into CiscoWorks server.

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Logging Out of CiscoWorks Server

To exit from CiscoWorks LMS Portal, click the Logout link displayed at the top right corner of CiscoWorks LMS Portal.

The CiscoWorks LMS Portal log-in page appears.