User Guide for CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager 4.0
Appendix E Administration Tab Reference

Table Of Contents

Administration Tab Reference

Audit

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Audit Calendar Dialog Box

SNMP

User Permissions Report

License


Administration Tab Reference


The following topics describe the pages in the Administration tab. Topics are organized according to the following Administration tab options:

Audit

SNMP

User Permissions Report

License

Audit

The following topics describe the fields in the pages that are accessed from the Audit option:

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Audit Calendar Dialog Box

Audit Trail Policies Page

Use this page to view changes made to policies in a policy group.

To open this page, do any of the following:

Select Administration > Audit.

Select Policy in the Audit TOC.

Table E-1 Audit Trail Policies Page 

Field
Description

Policy Group

Select the policy group for which you want to view audit logs.

No.

Displays the audit log number.

Date

Displays the modification date.

Time

Displays the modification time.

Login Name

Displays the login name of the user that made the changes.

Message

Describes the modification that was made.

Item

Displays the type of item that was modified. Click the link to view a summary of the modified item.

Modification

Displays the type of modification that was made, for example whether a new item was created, or an existing item was modified or deleted.

Clear button

Click to clear old audit logs. A Calendar dialog box opens. See Audit Calendar Dialog Box.


Related Topics

General Page (Policy and Template), page B-54

In/Out Traffic Rule Summary Page, page B-75

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Use this page to view actions performed on a policy group. These actions include uploading policy groups, importing policy groups, deployment, saving and restoring historical versions, and so on.

To open this page, select Policy Groups in the Audit TOC.

Table E-2 Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page 

Field
Description

Policy Group

Select the policy group for which you want to view audit logs.

No.

Displays the audit log number.

Date

Displays the modification date.

Time

Displays the modification time.

Login Name

Displays the login name of the user that made the changes.

Message

Describes the modification that was made.

Action

Displays the action that was performed. Click the action to open the corresponding Reports page.

Clear button

Click to clear old audit logs. A Calendar dialog box opens. See Audit Calendar Dialog Box.


Related Topics

Job Details Report Page, page C-24

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Use this page to view changes made to global library items—IP aliases, application aliases, and policy templates.


Note System-created templates do not appear in the Audit logs.


To open this page, select Libraries in the Audit TOC.

Table E-3 Audit Trail Library Components Page 

Field
Description

No.

Displays the audit log number.

Date

Displays the modification date.

Time

Displays the modification time.

Login Name

Displays the login name of the user that made the changes.

Message

Describes the modification that was made.

Item

Displays the type of item that was modified. For policy group templates, click the link to view a summary of the modified item.

Modification

Displays the type of modification that was made, for example whether a new item was created, or an existing item was modified or deleted.

Clear button

Click to clear old audit logs. A Calendar dialog box opens. See Audit Calendar Dialog Box.


Related Topics

General Page (Policy and Template), page B-54

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

Use this page to view actions on device inventory items, for example, device rediscovery, the movement of a device between device groups, or the updating of the mapped operating system version for a device.

To open this page, select General in the Audit TOC.

Table E-4 Audit Trail General Logs Page 

Field
Description

No.

Displays the audit log number.

Date

Displays the modification date.

Time

Displays the modification time.

Login Name

Displays the login name of the user that made the changes.

Message

Describes the modification that was made.

Item

Displays the type of item that was modified.

Clear button

Click to clear old audit logs. A Calendar dialog box opens. See Audit Calendar Dialog Box.


Related Topics

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Calendar Dialog Box

Use the Calendar dialog box to specify the date up to which you want to delete Audit logs.

The Calendar dialog box opens after you click Clear in an Audit page.

Table E-5 Audit Calendar Dialog Box 

Field
Description

Date Navigation

Use the navigation arrows above the calendar table to navigate through the calendar.

Calendar Table

In the calendar table, choose the date to which you want to delete logs. The audit logs before and including the selected date are deleted.


Related Topics

Audit Trail Policies Page

Audit Trail Policy Group Actions Page

Audit Trail Library Components Page

Audit Trail General Logs Page

SNMP

Use this page to change the default SNMP settings for devices in the QPM inventory.

To open this page, select Administration > SNMP.

Table E-6 SNMP Parameter/Properties Page 

Field
Description

Timeout

The amount of time the system should wait for a device to respond before trying to access it again.

Retries

The number of times the system tries to access devices.

Min Thread Number

The minimum number of SNMP requests that can processed concurrently.

Max Thread Number

The maximum number of SNMP requests that can processed concurrently.

Save button

Click to save the displayed SNMP settings.


User Permissions Report

Use this page to view a matrix of how QPM tasks relate to CiscoWorks/ACS user roles.

If you are using ACS to control authorization, you should register QPM with ACS by enabling the `Register all installed applications with ACS' checkbox in the AAA Mode Setup page, as described in Integrating QPM with Access Control Server (ACS), page 4-35. This enforces the user permissions as displayed in this matrix, for all ACS roles.

To open this page, select Administration > User Permissions Report.

Table E-7 User Permissions Report Page 

Field
Description

Task Path

A type of task that can be done in QPM.

Permissions Matrix

The kinds of tasks that each type of CiscoWorks user can perform. An X in a field indicates that a user can perform the associated task described in the task path column. The user types are described below.

System Admin

The following are the tasks a System Administrator can perform in QPM:

View all information in QPM

Make changes to devices in the QPM device inventory

Delete policy deployment jobs and logs

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers

Delete Monitoring Tasks (under Historical Trends)

Delete Threshold Assignment jobs

Delete Audit logs

Create and retrieve backups of the QPM database

Configure SNMP Configuration Rights

Add/remove Licenses

System Admin is the only user role that can delete logs, jobs, and reports in QPM.

Network Admin

The following are the tasks a Network Administrator can perform in QPM:

View all information in QPM

Make changes to devices in the QPM device inventory

Create and edit policies

Deploy policies on devices

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers

Create Monitoring Tasks (under Historical Trends)

Create Threshold Sets and assign Threshold Sets to interfaces

Configure SNMP Configuration Rights

Network Admin is the only user role that can deploy the QoS policies on the devices in the network.

Network Operator

The following are the tasks a Network Operator can perform in QPM:

View all information in QPM

Create and edit policies

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers

Approver

The following are the tasks an Approver can perform in QPM:

View all information in QPM

Create and edit policies

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers

Create Monitoring Tasks (under Historical Trends)

Help Desk

The following are the tasks the Help Desk can perform in QPM:

View all information in QPM

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers


License

You must obtain a product license before you start using an application. You can obtain a product license and license your application, view details of your current software licenses or install a new license using the License option.

Viewing your License

To view details of all your installed licenses, select Administration > License.

The License Overview page appears. The license name, license type, device limit, devices in use, and the installation date of the license appear in the License Overview page.

Table E-8 License Overview Page 

Field
Description

License Name

The name of the License.

License Type

The License type. QPM 4.0 provides an evaluation license, three types of base licenses and three types of incremental device update licenses or device packs.

Device Limit

The maximum number of devices that can be added to the inventory.

Devices in Use

The number of devices currently in use.

License History table

Displays the history of all installed Licenses, with columns for License Type, Installation Date, and Device Limit.