Table Of Contents
Structural Overview
Overview
Service Inventory
Service Design
Monitoring
Administration
Structural Overview
Overview
After you log into IP Solution Center (ISC), the first window to appear is the Home window, as shown in Figure 3-1, "Home Window".
Figure 3-1 Home Window
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The tabs and choices navigating within the tabs that appear depend on the user permissions (Administration > Security > User Roles). The choices shown here are for all permissions (admin).
This manual is organized into the tabs described on this window. Click either the specific tab or the name in the data pane:
•Service Inventory An overview is given in the "Service Inventory" section and more information is given in "Service Inventory > Inventory and Connection Manager".
•Service Design An overview is given in the "Service Design" section and more information is given in "Service Design."
•Monitoring An overview is given in the "Monitoring" section and more information is given in "Monitoring."
•Administration An overview is given in the "Administration" section and more information is given in "Administration."
In the upper right-hand corner additional choices appear that function as follows:
•Home When you click Home, you always return to the first window as shown in Figure 3-1, "Home Window."
•Account When you click Account, you can change your password without the SysAdmin or UserAdmin privileges. This allows the user to edit the user profile, including changing the password.
•Index When you click Index, you receive an overall picture of all choices from which you can click and jump to, as shown in Figure 3-2, "Index of all Choices."
Figure 3-2 Index of all Choices
•Logout When you click Logout, you log out of the product.
•Help A pointer to the documentation set once it is on CCO.
•About When you click About, you are given the product name and version.
GUI components that are common on many windows are as follows:
•At the top of many windows you can filter information that appears in the window. As shown in Figure 3-3, "Example of Filtering and Rows per Page," you can click the drop-down menu for categories, then in the field enter the search criteria, using * if you wish, and click Find.
•At the bottom of many windows, as shown in Figure 3-3, "Example of Filtering and Rows per Page," you can change the number of rows shown on this window in Rows per page. Click the drop-down menu and you can select 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, or All. When more than one page exists, you can also use the arrow keys to move between pages of information.
Figure 3-3 Example of Filtering and Rows per Page
•At the bottom of many windows you can check the Auto Refresh button, as shown in Figure 3-4, "Example of Auto Refresh." This allows you to automatically refresh after n seconds, where n is the refresh rate set in DCPL, or you can unclick this button and not automatically refresh.
Figure 3-4 Example of Auto Refresh
Service Inventory
Service Inventory contains tools to manage inventory elements, service requests, and devices. This is explained in Chapter 4, "Service Inventory > Inventory and Connection Manager" and "Service Inventory > Deployment Flow Manager and Service Inventory > Device Console".
From the Home window you receive upon logging in, click the Service Inventory tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 3-5, "Service Inventory Selections".
Figure 3-5 Service Inventory Selections
The selections are as follows:
•Inventory and Connection Manager
The functions within Inventory and Connection Manager are shown in Figure 3-6, "Inventory and Connection Manager Selections," and are as follows:
–Service Requests Create, deploy, and manage service requests (SRs).
–Inventory Manager Bulk-manage inventory elements.
–Topology Tool View topology maps.
–Devices Create and manage Devices.
–Device Groups Create and manage Device Groups.
–Customers Create and manage Customers.
–Providers Create and manage Providers.
–Resource Pools Create and manage pools for IP address, Multicast address, Route Distinguisher, Route Target, Site of Origin, VC ID, and VLAN.
–CE Routing Communities Create and manage CE Routing Communities.
–VPNs Create and manage VPNs.
–AAA Servers Create and manage AAA Servers.
–Named Physical Circuits Create and manage Named Physical Circuits (NPCs).
Figure 3-6 Inventory and Connection Manager Selections
•Deployment Flow Manager Create, manage, and monitor Deployment Flows.
•Device Console Download commands and configlets to devices and view device configuration.
Service Design
Service Design contains management tools for creating and managing policies, templates, protocols, and service attributes. This is explained in "Service Design."
From the Home window you receive upon logging in, click the Service Design tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 3-7, "Service Design Selections".
Figure 3-7 Service Design Selections
The selections are as follows:
•Policy Manager Create and manage Policies for licensed services.
•Template Manager Create and manage Templates and associated data. The available choices are shown in the TOC area of Figure 3-8, "Template Manager Selections".
Figure 3-8 Template Manager Selections
•Protocol Manager Create and manage Protocols and Protocol Bundles, currently used only by Firewall. The following choices are shown in Figure 3-9, "Protocol Selections":
–Protocols Create new or manage existing Protocols.
–Protocol Bundles Create new or manage existing Protocol Bundles.
Figure 3-9 Protocol Selections
•Link QoS Manager Create and manage IP and Ethernet Over MPLS (EoMPLS) Link QoS settings, currently used only by QoS.
•Network Objects Manager Create and manage network objects for security services.
Monitoring
Monitoring contains tools to manage tasks, ping parameters, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) probes and reports. This is explained in "Monitoring."
From the Home window you receive upon logging in, click the Monitoring tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 3-10, "Monitoring Selections".
Figure 3-10 Monitoring Selections
The selections are as follows:
•Task Manager Create and schedule tasks and monitor task run details.
•Ping Perform Ping connectivity tests.
•SLA Manage probes and view reports.
Administration
Administration contains tools to manage users and ISC configuration, servers, remote installation, and licensing. This is explained in detail in "Administration."
From the Home window you receive upon logging in, click the Administration tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 3-11, "Administration Selections".
Figure 3-11 Administration Selections
The selections are as follows:
•Security Create and manage User, User Groups, and User Roles. The following choices are shown in Figure 3-12, "Security Selections":
–Users Create and manage Users to also access Inventory Manager, Topology, and Northbound API.
–User Groups Create and manage User Groups. A Group is used to combine the privileges of all the roles contained within it.
–User Roles Create and manage User Roles, which define a set of permissions.
Figure 3-12 Security Selections
•Control Center Manage ISC configuration, servers, remote installation, and licensing. The following choices are shown in the TOC area of Figure 3-13, "Control Center Selections":
–Hosts
Note From Hosts, you can choose Install. You can remotely install a Processing Server, Collection Server, or Interface Server. In this Remote Install, you must accept the default values, similar to the express install. If you want to do a custom install, this is only available through the Installation procedure explained in the Cisco IP Solution Center Installation Guide.
–Collection Zones
–Licensing
Figure 3-13 Control Center Selections
•Active Users View users currently connected to ISC. Disconnect users.
•User Access Log View the user access log.
•Manage Tibco Rendezvous, Specify attributes for proper messaging among all Java™ Web Start distributed applications.
