Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Administrator Guide Release 5.0
Settings View

Table Of Contents

Settings View

Defining Settings

Defining Users

About User Access

Adding Users

Modifying Users

Defining Alert Recipients

Modifying Mail Server Settings

Adding Alert Recipients

Modifying Alert Recipients

Defining Traps

Adding a Trap Forwarding Rule

Defining Alarms

Modifying an Alarm

Defining Network Subsets

Adding a Network Subset

Adding a Criteria

Defining Logs

Defining Element Logs

Defining Element Access

Managing an Endpoint

Adding Auto-detect Access Information

Modifying Auto-detect Access Information

Configuring a Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper


Settings View


This section covers the basic principles for using the Settings view. Topics in this section include:

Defining Settings

Defining Users

Defining Alert Recipients

Defining Traps

Defining Alarms

Defining Network Subsets

Defining Logs

Defining Element Logs

Defining Element Access

Managing an Endpoint

Defining Auto-detect

Configuring a Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper

Defining Settings

The Settings interface includes the following tabs:

Users—Enables you to add new Network Manager users, as well as modify and remove existing users.

Alert Recipients—Enables you to add new alert recipients, as well as modify and remove existing alert recipients.

Traps—Enables you to automatically update the elements to either enable or disable sending traps.

Alarms—Enables you view and sort alarms generated by network elements. Allows you to customize alarm severity levels displayed per user profile, enable and disable alarms and create events for alarms to display in the Events table.

Network Subsets—Enables you to define subsets of the network according to zones and element types used to outline Local user profile network access capabilities.

Logs—Enables you to define the Network Manager log files and view the logs directory.

Element Logs—Enables you to define the element log files.

Element Access—Enables you to define the default access information for each element type.

Endpoint Management—Enables you to configure the default communication port and access settings for common endpoint types recognized by the Network Manager.

Auto-detect —Enables you to define when auto-detect should be performed to search the network for elements and add them to the Network Manager database.

Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper—Enables you to configure the Network Manager to open a communication port with the Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper using the GKTMP TCP-based management protocol.

Defining Users

The Users tab enables you to create, modify or remove Network Manager user profiles, as well as define the access level for Network Manager user.

Topics in this section include:

About User Access

Adding Users

Modifying Users

About User Access

The Network Manager supports three types of network users:

Administrator—Full read/write access to all managed elements and zones on the network.

Read only—Read Only access to all elements and zones on the network.

Local user—Restricted access to managed elements and zones on the network. This user profile is defined with specific read/write and read only access according to zones, elements and criteria for network subsets configured on the Network Subsets tab.

Adding Users

Click New to display the Add User window, which enables you to add new users and define user access rights. Add a new Network Manager user by typing a user name and password in the relevant fields and select the appropriate user access level.

Local users can also be configured with read/write access and read only access permissions according to zones and criteria for network subsets defined on the Network Subsets tab. You can also indicate whether a local user may freely add new elements to the Network Manager database throughout all network zones and subsets.

Modifying Users

Select a user from the displayed list and click Edit to display the Edit User window. Modify the fields, as required. For more information, see the "Adding Users" section.


Note To remove a user from the database, select the user from the list and then click Delete.


Defining Alert Recipients

The Alert Recipients tab enables you to create, modify or remove alert recipients. This includes defining the name and e-mail address of the recipient, the severity level of the alerts to be sent to alert recipients and the user access profile of the recipients.

You should note the following:

Local users only receive notifications about the alerts on the network subsets for which the local user has been defined as a recipient.

The alarm level for which you configure an alert recipient to receive notifications is based on the alarm level definitions defined by that user.


Note The Restriction column indicates the user profile of the alert recipient according to user access profile settings configured on the Users tab.


Topics in this section include:

Modifying Mail Server Settings

Adding Alert Recipients

Modifying Alert Recipients

Modifying Mail Server Settings

The mail server through which alert messages are sent by e-mail can be modified using the Network Manager Server Configuration Utility.


Note To send email alerts outside of your mail domain to an external address, your mail server should be configured to allow mail relay. An alternative method is to forward the email from a local address to the desired external address.


Adding Alert Recipients

To add alert recipients, use the following procedure:

Procedure


Step 1 Click Add.

Step 2 Enter the name and e-mail of the alert recipient.

Step 3 Select a user profile (Administrator, Read only, Local user).

Step 4 Select the minimum severity level of the alerts to be sent (Warning, Minor, Major, Critical).

Step 5 To enable you to receive an error report via the e-mail, when the alarms have been cleared, click Notify on alarms clearing.

Step 6 Select whether to include a custom subject line in the e-mail and enter a string for the custom subject line.

You may also indicate whether to include in the custom subject line details of the elements reported in the alerts.

Step 7 Select Enable alert to activate the recipient.


Note
1. In the Edit Alert Recipients window, when you configure the Minimum Severity tab to Critical (for example), you receive an e-mail notification for alarms that were configured only as critical by the user, that is selected in the User Profile field.
2. When you select a Local User (controls only the subset of the network) in the User Profile field, this alert recipient (i.e. the defined e-mail address) receives notifications only for alarms that belong to elements that are part of this network subset. If you select an Administrator or Read only user, then you receive notification on all the alarms.



Modifying Alert Recipients

Select an alert recipient from the displayed list and click Edit to display the Edit Alert Recipient window. Modify the fields, as required. For more information, see the "Adding Alert Recipients" section.


Note To remove an alert recipient from the database, select the recipient and then click Delete.


Defining Traps

The Traps tab enables you to define whether or not the Network Manager server receives SNMP traps such as alarms and events and allows you forward the traps to addresses specified in the trap forwarding rules. Check Receive traps from elements to configure the managed elements to send SNMP traps to the Network Manager.

The Traps tab displays the following information:

Description

IP Address

Port

Status

Adding a Trap Forwarding Rule

To add a trap forwarding rule, use the following procedure:

Procedure


Step 1 Click Add.

The Add Forwarding Recipient window appears, which enables you to define forwarding rules in which you specify an IP address and port number to which traps received from elements are forwarded.

Step 2 Click OK to add the new rule to the Network Manager database.


Note To modify and delete existing trap forwarding rules, use the Edit and Delete buttons.



Defining Alarms

The Alarms tab enables you view and sort alarms generated by the elements in the network according to alarm status, alarm message, date and time or element. The displayed severity level can be changed for each alarm according to the level defined by the current user, enable and disable alarms and create events for alarms to display on the Events tab.

The Alarms tab displays the following information:

Alarm

Severity

Status

Create Event

Modifying an Alarm

Select an alarm and click Edit to display the Edit Alarm Properties window which allows you to modify the alarm severity level assignment for each alarm, enable or disable the alarm and create an event which appears on the Events tab.

Defining Network Subsets

The Network Subsets tab enables you to define subsets of the network according to zones and element types using include and exclude criteria for use with Local user access level profiles.

Adding a Network Subset

To add a network subset, use the following procedure:

Procedure


Step 1 Click Add.

The Add Network Subset window appears for creating network subsets which are used to define areas of the network based on existing network zones and element types for use in Local user profiles.

The Add Network Subset window contains lists of include and exclude criteria for the network subset which contain details about the zone, child zone and element types specified in the criteria configuration.

For more information about specifying criteria, see the "Adding a Criteria" section.


Note A subset contains all elements which match at least one Include criterion but do not match any Exclude criterion.


For more information about user profiles, see the "About User Access" section.

Step 2 Click OK to add the new network subset.


Note To modify and delete existing network subsets, use the Edit and Delete buttons.



Adding a Criteria

To add a criteria, use the following procedure:

Procedure


Step 1 Click Add in the Include criteria or Exclude criteria areas of the Add Network Subset window.

The Add Criterion window appears for creating include or exclude criteria for network management access using the current network subset.

The Add Criterion window contains lists for selecting a network zone and element type and a check box to indicate whether child zones of the specified zone are contained in the criterion.

Step 2 To add the criterion to the relevant list in the Add Network Subset window, click OK.


Note To modify and delete existing criteria, use the Edit and Delete buttons.



Defining Logs

The Logs tab enables you to keep a log of operations performed in the Network Manager. The log file name, the maximum file size, the number of backup files to maintain and the level of detail can be defined to be included. In addition, to view the log directory, click the link.

Defining Element Logs

The Element Logs tab enables the Network Manager to locally save log files for those elements, such as MCU elements and gateways, that do not maintain a log of their own. The maximum size of each log file can be defined, as well as the number of backup files to maintain.

Defining Element Access

The Element Access tab enables you to define the default access definitions for each element type in the network. Default element access definitions are used by Network Manager to access elements which use standard settings in order to perform element monitoring and configuration.


Note The default element access settings on the Access tab for each element, can be overridden. For more information, see the "Configuring SNMP Access" section on page 12-8.


To define access rights, select the element type from the Element type list, and then define access information, including read and write communities, user name and the password (Telnet user name, password and password enable for Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper), HTTP communication port and Telnet password. Click Upload to save the information to the Network Manager database.

Certain elements using parameters other than the default settings for the element type may be edited by selecting the element in the Network Tree view and modifying the element Access tab accordingly. For more information, see Chapter 12, "Network Tree View".


Note To view SNMP Community names, select View SNMP Community names in the View menu, when the option is already enabled using the Configuration Utility.


Managing an Endpoint

The Access sub-tab of the Endpoint Management tab enables you to configure the default communication port and access settings for common endpoint types recognized by the Network Manager.


Note The default values configured in the Access tab may be overridden when configuring a single endpoint using the Endpoints tab in the Network Tree view. For more information, see the "Configuring Endpoints" section on page 12-14.


Defining Auto-detect

The Auto-detect tab enables you to define policies for running the auto-detect mechanism to discover new elements.

The Auto-detect tab includes a check box that configures auto-detect to run automatically whenever the server is restarted. In addition, to run auto-detect at regular intervals, check Run autodetect every (hrs) and then selecting the time interval from the list.

The Auto-detect tab includes a check box to configure whether the Auto-detect routine uses the default element access information defined on the Element Access tab. Additional access settings can be defined for element types with access settings which are different from the default settings. Each of the additional element access settings can be enabled or disabled. This provides additional control for determining on which types of elements the auto-detect routine performs a search.


Caution Elements manually deleted from the Network Manager database are not detected when running subsequent auto-detect routines. Deleted elements must be manually added to the Network Manager database.

Topics in this section include:

Adding Auto-detect Access Information

Modifying Auto-detect Access Information

Adding Auto-detect Access Information

To add auto-detect access information, use the following procedure:

Procedure


Step 1 Click Add.

Step 2 Select the unit type in the list, enter a description and SNMP read community, SNMP write community, user name and password details.

The SNMP read community is the only mandatory field.

Step 3 To activate the access information setting, select Enable.


Caution The access field definitions for SNMP communities and Telnet must correspond with the settings configured in the selected element in order to retrieve the information from the element. If these fields are not configured correctly, the required information cannot be displayed.


Note To view SNMP Community names, select View SNMP Community names in the View menu, when the option is already enabled using the Configuration Utility.



Modifying Auto-detect Access Information

Select an auto-detect access information setting from the displayed list and click Edit to display the Edit Auto-detect Access Information window. Modify the fields, as required. For more information, see the "Adding Auto-detect Access Information" section.


Note To remove an Auto-detect access information setting from the database, select the access type and then click Delete.


Configuring a Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper

The Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper tab enables you to configure the Network Manager to get calls and registration information from the Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper and allows you to modify the communication port number.


Note If the GKTMP port is not opened either by the Network Manager or the Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper, information is updated less frequently.


You configure the Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper by selecting Automatically open port for Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper GKTMP to enable communication with the Network Manager via the Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper GKTMP TCP-based management protocol. The default port is 20000 and automatically displays in the GKTMP port box which may also be set with an alternative value according to the settings on your Cisco IOS H.323 Gatekeeper.