Table Of Contents
Introduction
Lesson 1-1: Getting Started with QPM
Starting QPM
Understanding the QPM User Interface
Exiting QPM
Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
Lesson 1-3: Creating the Tutorial Device Folder
Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group
Introduction
This tutorial introduces you to QoS Policy Manager (QPM) and provides examples of many of the tasks that you can perform with it. To make these examples easier to follow, you can follow the procedures on virtual devices that are provided with the product.
This tutorial is not intended as an exhaustive description of QPM's features or of quality of service (QoS) technology. For more information about these topics, see to the QPM online help and User Guide for QoS Policy Manager.
The tutorial is structured as follows:
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Chapter 1 "Introduction" provides information about getting started with the product and the tutorial.
•Chapter 2, "Data Network Tutorial" allows you to practice configuring QoS for data networks.
•Chapter 3, "IP Telephony Network Tutorial" allows you to practice configuring QoS for voice-over-IP (VoIP) networks.
•Chapter 4, "QoS Analysis Tutorial" helps you to understand how to use QPM monitoring to analyze the effect of your QoS policies on your network traffic.
Chapters 2 and 3 use separate example networks, but the virtual devices on which you perform the tutorial procedures are provided in one virtual device file, which is provided with the product.
For more information about the virtual devices, see Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices.
Understanding the Tutorial Environment
The QPM environment for the tutorial has the following characteristics:
•The virtual devices you import from the provided file use IP addresses that are within a range designated as internal and private. Owing to this, they are unlikely to conflict with any real addresses already in your QPM inventory.
•To separate the tutorial policies from your existing policies, the tutorial instructs you to create a new policy group for the tutorial. For more information, see Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group.
Tutorial User Permission Requirements
To use the tutorial, you must log into QPM with user permissions, to modify devices in the default device group. For more information, see the user permissions information in Installation Guide for QoS Policy Manager.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Lesson 1-1: Getting Started with QPM
•Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
•Lesson 1-3: Creating the Tutorial Device Folder
•Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group
Lesson 1-1: Getting Started with QPM
The following topics describe getting started with QPM:
•Starting QPM
•Understanding the QPM User Interface
•Exiting QPM
Starting QPM
QoS Policy Manager is accessed from the CiscoWorks desktop.
Step 1 In your web browser, start CiscoWorks. The default URL is http://QPMinstall:1741, where QPMinstall is the name of the computer with the QPM installation.
The CiscoWorks desktop is displayed.
The first time you start CiscoWorks on a CiscoWorks server or a client machine, the Java Runtime Environment is automatically installed.
Step 2 Check the front page whether Java, JavaScript, and cookies are enabled.
If they are not enabled, change your browser preferences to enable them, then continue to the next step.
Step 3 Log into CiscoWorks with your user name and password.
The CiscoWorks navigation tree appears in the left pane.
Step 4 Click QoS Policy Manager in the navigation tree.
QPM opens in a separate browser window.
Related Topics
•Understanding the QPM User Interface
•Exiting QPM
Understanding the QPM User Interface
All the pages in the web-based QPM user interface have a consistent look and feel.
Figure 1-1 shows an example of a QPM page.
Figure 1-1 Example of a QPM Page
Table 1-1 describes the common elements in each page.
Table 1-1 Common GUI Elements in a QPM Page
Number
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Name of the Element
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Description
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1
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Navigation Pane Tree
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Displays hierarchical data in the form of an indented outline.
In this outline, the nodes can be expanded (to display the next level in the hierarchy) or collapsed (hiding levels in the hierarchy).
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2
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Navigation Pane Drawer
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Groups elements that are logically related. When a drawer is open, its content opens below it, as a tree.
The following drawers are available in QPM:
•Getting Started—Displays basic information about the various features in QPM
•Devices—Contains options to manage devices and device groups in the QPM inventory. It also provides launch point to the Device Credentials Repository
•Provisioning—Contains options to define policy groups and policies and to configure QoS for IP telephony. It also allows you to work with global library policy components.
This drawer also contains options to deploy QoS policies and to preview the CLI configuration on the devices.
•Monitoring—Contains options to monitor traffic on devices with QoS policies attached to them. You can perform Real-time, Historical, and Threshold analysis of the traffic
•Administration—Contains additional administration options.
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3
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Object Selector
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Allows you to select objects so that the corresponding information appears in the Content Area.
Although this element is a part of the Content Area, it may not be present in all pages.
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4
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Content Area Title Bar
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Displays the title of the Content Area, based on the node you selected under a drawer
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5
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Content Area
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Displays information and controls or components, based on the node you selected under a drawer.
This element frequently serves as a launch point for wizards, dialog boxes, message boxes, or other secondary windows.
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6
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Header
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Separates the application from the browser components (that is, the browser toolbar), to brand the application, and to provide access to items that apply to the application as a whole.
The following items are displayed in the Header:
•Host—Name of the machine where you have installed QPM
•User—Name of the user that is currently logged in
•Dashboard—Click to go to the QPM Dashboard page that serves as another launch point to the various features in QPM
•Close—Click to close the QPM application window
•About—Click to view the details like Version, Installed Time, and License Type
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7
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Help icon
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Click to open the corresponding Online Help page for the information displayed in the Content Area.
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Note We do not recommend that you use the browser Back button to navigate in QPM.
Now that you understand the QPM user interface, you are ready to learn how to exit QPM.
Related Topics
•Starting QPM
•Exiting QPM
Exiting QPM
When you finish working with QPM, you must log out of CiscoWorks to close the application.
Step 1 Click Close in any open QPM windows to close them.
Step 2 Click Logout in the CiscoWorks Desktop window.
The CiscoWorks session ends.
Now you are ready to add devices to the QPM device inventory.
Related Topics
•Starting QPM
•Understanding the QPM User Interface
•Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
A file of the virtual devices that are used in the tutorial is included with QPM. To import the tutorial virtual devices, you must first copy the virtual devices file to your client system.
For information about the virtual devices used in the data network tutorial, see the Understanding the Data Network Tutorial, page 2-1. For information about the devices used in the voice-over-IP network tutorial, see Understanding the IP Telephony Network Example, page 3-2.
Virtual devices are not physical devices, but are defined in a file that contains the same device information required to import a physical device.
You can import these virtual devices into the inventory and use them to perform the tasks described in the tutorial.
Step 1 Copy the virtual devices file from the QPM server to a location on your client system.
The file is named TutorialDevices.xml. It is located at CSCOpx\MDC\qpm\tutorial, in the CiscoWorks Common Services installation directory on the QPM server.
Step 2 In QPM, go to Devices > Device Management > Device Summary.
The Device Summary appears.
Step 3 Click Import Devices to QPM > From Virtual Devices File.
The Import Devices Wizard - General page appears.
Step 4 Do the following in the Import Devices Wizard - General page:
a. Enter the path to the virtual devices file on your client system in the File field, or click Browse to navigate to the file. Figure 1-2 shows the completed Import Devices Wizard - General page.
b. Click Next.
The Import Devices Wizard - Select Devices page appears.
Figure 1-2 Lesson 1-2—Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
Step 5 In the Import Devices Wizard - Select Devices page, check the check box next to all of the devices, then click Finish.
QPM imports the devices from the file, and displays the Discovery Status page so that you can see the status of the import. The Discovery job that you just started is the last entry in the table.
Wait until the Discovery job is complete, as indicated by an entry in the Completed column.
Step 6 Verify that the tutorial virtual devices and their elements are added to the inventory:
a. Go to Devices > Device Management > Device Summary.
The Device Summary page appears.
You can find the imported devices under the Tutorial/Virtual Devices category in the object selector.
b. To view the network elements on a device, expand the node corresponding to the device name.
The interfaces of the device appear below the node, and you can click any interface to view its properties in the content area.
Now that you have imported the tutorial virtual devices, you are ready to create the tutorial device folder and policy group.
Related Topics
•Lesson 1-3: Creating the Tutorial Device Folder
•Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group
Lesson 1-3: Creating the Tutorial Device Folder
To make it easier to keep track of the devices used in the tutorial, create a device folder named "Tutorial" for the tutorial and move the tutorial virtual devices into it.
Step 1 Select Devices > Device Grouping > Device Folders.
The Device Folder page appears.
Step 2 Click Create.
The Device Folder Properties page appears.
Step 3 Do the following in the Device Folder Properties page:
a. Enter Tutorial in the Device Folder Name field.
b. Enter Tutorial device folder in the Description field.
Step 4 Do the following in the object selector:
a. Select the tutorial virtual devices by checking the check boxes next to them.
The following are the tutorial virtual devices:
•Access-Cat2900-2
•Access-Cat3500-2
•Access-Cat6000-1
•Access-Cat6000-2
•Access-Cat6000-3
•Access-Cat6000-4
•Core-2600-1
•Core-3600-1
•Core-3600-2
•Core-7200-1
b. Click Create.
The Device Folders page appears with the new device folder named "Tutorial".
Related Topics
•Lesson 1-2: Importing the Tutorial Virtual Devices
•Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group
Lesson 1-4: Creating the Tutorial Policy Group
To separate the tutorial policy groups from any existing policy groups, create a policy group named "Tutorial" for the tutorial.
Step 1 Select Provisioning > Policy Management > Policy Groups.
The Policy Groups page appears.
Step 2 Do the following in the Policy Groups page:
a. Click Create.
The Policy Group page appears.
b. Enter the name Tutorial in the Name field.
c. Enter the description of the Tutorial policy group in the Description field.
d. Click OK.
The Policy Groups page appears.
Step 3 Verify that the Tutorial policy group appears in the list.
After completing all the lessons in this chapter, you are ready to proceed with the data network or IP telephony tutorial. You can use the tutorials in any order (they are not sequential).
Related Topics
•Chapter 2, "Data Network Tutorial"
•Chapter 3, "Understanding the IP Telephony Network Example"
