User Guide for CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager 4.1
Appendix E Administration Tab Reference

Table Of Contents

Administration Drawer 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 Overview Page

Install License Page

Notification Group Table Page

Notification Group Wizard - Define Notification Group

Notification Group Wizard - Notification Details Page

Notification Group Wizard - Summary

NCM Integration Page


Administration Drawer 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 Overview Page

Notification Group Table Page

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 the current 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

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

Device View Page, page B-40

Reorder Traffic Rules Dialog Box, page B-54

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 the current 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

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-18

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

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

Device View Page, page B-40

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

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

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

Number of times the system tries to access devices.

Min Thread Number

Minimum number of SNMP requests that can processed concurrently.

Max Thread Number

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 check box in the AAA Mode Setup page, as described in Integrating QPM with Access Control Server (ACS), page 4-24. This enforces the user permissions as displayed in this matrix, for all ACS roles.

To open this page, go to Administration > User Permissions Report.

Table E-7 User Permissions Report Page 

Field
Description

Task Path

Type of task that can be done in QPM.

Permissions Matrix

Types 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

Integrate NCM

Rediscover devices from the NCM Events page

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

Configure the TelePresence compatible policy

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

Integrate NCM

Rediscover devices from the NCM Events page

Import devices from the NCM Events page

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

Configure the TelePresence compatible policy

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

Configure the TelePresence compatible policy

Launch Real Time Charts and Event Browsers

Create Monitoring Tasks (under Historical Trends)

Import devices from the NCM Events page

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 Overview Page

Use this page to view details of your current QPM license or to install a new license.

To open this page, go to Administration > License > License Overview.

Table E-8 License Overview Page 

Field
Description

License Name

Name of the license that is currently installed.

License Type

Type of license. QPM 4.1 provides an evaluation license, three types of base licenses and three types of incremental device update licenses or device packs.

Device Limit

Maximum number of devices that can be added to the inventory.

Devices in Use

Number of devices currently in use.

License History table

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

Install License

Click to open the Install License page, so that you can add a new license.


Install License Page

Use this page to install a new license that you obtained.

To open this page, either:

Click Install License in the License Overview page

Or

Go to License > Install License

Table E-9 Install License Page 

Field
Description

Browse

Enter the path to the new license file, or click Browse to select the new license file from your machine

Next

Click to go to the License Details page after you select the license file in the Browse field.

In the License Details page, you can view the details of the license, and click Next to install the license.

Cancel

Click to go to the License Overview page, without adding the new license.


Notification Group Table Page

Use this page to work with Notification Groups that are used while configuring thresholds for TelePresence circuits.

Table E-10 Notification Table Page 

Field
Description

Name

Name of the Notification Group

Description

Description of the Notification Group

Type

Type of notification (Email or Trap)

Create

Click to create a Notification Group. The Notification Group Wizard opens.

Edit

Click to edit details of a selected Notification Group. The Notification Group Wizard opens

Delete

Click to delete the selected Notification Groups


Notification Group Wizard - Define Notification Group

Use this page to define the notification group to be included in the TelePresence Wizard, and the type of notification.

Table E-11 Notification Group Wizard - Define Notification Group Page 

Field
Description

Name of the Notification Group

Enter the name of the notification group

Description

Enter the description for the notification group

Notification Type

Select the type of notification you want as the alert when the threshold values are crossed in the TelePresence circuit, if this notification group is selected in the TelePresence Wizard.

Select Email if you want to obtain the notification through email.

Select Trap if you want to obtain the notification as SNMP trap.


Notification Group Wizard - Notification Details Page

Use this page to define the details of email notification and trap notification, for the notification group.

Table E-12 Notification Group Wizard - Notification Details Page 

Field
Description

Sender's Address

Enter the email address of the sender. This address will appear in the email alert to be sent to the recipient.

Email Server

Enter the name of the email server of the sender

Recipient's address

Enter the email address of the recipient(s). The alert mails will be sent to these email addresses.

Use commas to separate multiple email addresses.

Trap Receiver IP

Enter the IP address of the server that receives the trap notification.

Port

Enter the port number of the trap receiver.

Add Row

Click to add a new row for including another Trap Receiver IP and Port.


Notification Group Wizard - Summary

Use this page to view a summary of the Notification Group you created

You can edit these values by clicking the Back button or clicking the corresponding page in the TOC of the wizard.

Click Finish to save and close the wizard.

NCM Integration Page

Use this page to register QPM to receive events from NCM, for any device configuration change and image upgrade on the device.

Table E-13 NCM Integration Page 

Field
Description

Enable NCM Integration

Check this check box to enable NCM integration with QPM globally.

NCM Hostname or IP Address

Enter the DNS hostname or IP address of the NCM server. QPM receive events from NCM using this hostname or IP address.

Launch NCM

Click to launch NCM in a separate browser window.

Username

Username to login to NCM Server.

Password

Password to login to NCM Server.

Test Connection

Click to check whether the IP address or hostname, the username, and the password that you entered are correct.

Save

Click to save the NCM enable flag, IP address, and credentials that you entered.

Save and (Un)register

Click to save the NCM enable flag, IP address, and credentials that you entered, and also to register or unregister QPM with NCM:

If you check the Enable NCM Integration check box, clicking this button registers QPM with NCM and enables QPM to receive events from NCM for any configuration change and image upgrade on the devices. These events are displayed in the Historical Events page or Live Events page.

If you uncheck the Enable NCM Integration check box, clicking this button disables the events from NCM to QPM.