Graphical User Interface
The Cisco Configuration Engine GUI is partially compliant with the Accessibility Design Requirements. This chapter provides general information about the GUI.
Logging In
Step 1 Launch your web browser.
This user interface supports:
-
Internet Explorer 6.0 and above
Step 2 Go to the Cisco Configuration Engine URL.
For example:
http://<
ip_address
>
Note If encryption is set during Setup (see “Encryption” section), use https://<ip_address>.
The login window appears (see Figure 2-1).
Figure 2-1 Logging Into the Configuration Engine
Step 3 Enter your
User ID
.
This is the value for the Configuration Engine login parameter that you entered during setup.
Step 4 Enter your password.
Step 5 Click
LOGIN
.
For an Administrator, the full-function Cisco Configuration Engine Home page appears (see Figure 2-2).
For an Operator, a limited-function Cisco Configuration Engine Home page appears without access to user-related tasks.
Figure 2-2 Administrator-level Home Page
Logging Out
To log out of the system, click
Logout
.
Levels of Access
In Internal Directory mode, there are two categories of users who have access to device information:
An Administrator has full access to system administration tasks. An Operator has access to only limited set of tasks (see “Operator-Level Operations” section).
Operator-Level Operations
After logging into the Cisco Configuration Engine, an Operator has access to the following functions:
– Add
– Edit
– Subdevices
– Update Device
– Query Device Inventory
– Change Password
– View Event Log
– View Image Server Log
– Query Job
– Cancel/Stop Job
– Restart Job
– View Image
Administrator-Level Operations
An Administrator can access all of the functions provided by the Cisco Configuration Engine user interface in both Internal Directory mode and External Directory mode.
Feature Operations
The Cisco Configuration Engine GUI (see Figure 2-2) provides the following feature operations:
– Group Manager (see Chapter 6, “Groups”)
– Namespace Manager (see Chapter 7, “Namespace Manager”)
– Query Manager (seeChapter 8, “Query Manager”)
– Data Manager (see Chapter 9, “Data Manager”)
– Directory Manager (see Chapter 10, “Directory Manager”)
– Parameter Manager (see Chapter 11, “Parameter Manager”)
– Template Manager (see Chapter 12, “Templates”)
– Security Manager (see Chapter 13, “Security Manager”)
– Log Manager (see Chapter 14, “Log Manager”)
– Service Manager (see Chapter 15, “Service Manager”)
– Bulk Data Manager (see Chapter 16, “Bulk Data Manager”)
– Email Manager (see Chapter 17, “Email Manager”)