Preface

This preface describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the User Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager, 3.2. It refers you to related publications and describes online sources of technical information.

Cisco Multicast Manager (CMM) is a web-based software application that requires no client software. With the CMM, you can gather information about the multicast running in your network, monitor multicast networks, and diagnose problems.

This preface includes:

•Objectives

•Audience

•Organization

•Conventions

•Related Documentation

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Objectives

This guide describes how to use CMM to monitor, troubleshoot, and gather information about multicast networks. Using the information provided in this guide, you can complete the tasks that are necessary to use CMM in your multicast environment.

Audience

This guide is for network administrators or operators who use the CMM software to manage multicast networks. Network administrators or operators should have:

•Basic network management skills

•Basic multicast knowledge

Organization

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

•Chapter 1, "Overview of Cisco Multicast Manager," provides an overview of CMM system architecture and functionality.

•Chapter 2, "Getting Started" describes logging into the CMM, an overview of the CMM interface, and the initial tasks to perform.

•Chapter 3, "Initial System Setup," provides a list of the basic installation and configuration steps for CMM.

•Chapter 4, "System Configuration" provides information on managing domains and global polling configurations.

•Chapter 5, "Polling Configuration and Reports" describes how to configure devices for polling, viewing of events for polling, and how to view historical data files.

•Chapter 6, "Discovery and Trace" provides information on discovering network devices and multicast running traces.

•Chapter 7, "Topology" provides information on viewing topology and reports.

•Chapter 8, "Diagnostics" provides information on viewing both global and router-specific diagnostics.

•Chapter 9, "Configuration Management"describes how to view the running configuration of devices, validate device configuration using specified configuration templates, add static Rendezvous Point (RP) and SSM devices, and add a service type for multicast VPN (MVPN) trace operations.

•Chapter 10, "Administration" provides information on managing the address database, managing users, and configuring access control.

Conventions

This guide uses basic conventions to represent text and table information.

screen font

Square brackets ([ ]) 

 Braces ({ }) and separated by a 
vertical bar (|)

boldface screen font

italic screen font

Examples use the following conventions:

•Terminal sessions and information that the system displays are printed in screen font.

•Information that you enter is in boldface screen font. Variables for which you enter actual data are printed in italic screen font.

•Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are shown in angle brackets (< >).

•Information that the system displays is in screen font, with default responses in square brackets ([ ]).

This publication also uses the following conventions:

•Menu items and button names are in boldface font.

•If items such as buttons or menu options are dimmed on the application window, it means that the items are not available either because you do not have the correct permissions or because the item is not applicable at this time.

Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not contained in the manual.

Tip Means the following are useful tips.

Related Documentation

Additional information can be found in the following publications of the CMM documentation set:

•Installation Guide for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.2

•Release Notes for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.2

•Documentation Guide and Supplemental License Agreement for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.2

•Device Instrumentation Requirements for Cisco Multicast Manager 3.1

•Cisco Multicast Manager Developer's Guide and API Reference, 3.2

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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