Cisco Configuration Engine Administration Guide 3.5.4

Graphical User Interface

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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:

• Administrator
• Operator

An Administrator has full access to system administration tasks. An Operator has access to only limited set of tasks (see “Operator-Level Operations” section).

Feature Operations

The Cisco Configuration Engine GUI (see Figure 2-2) provides the following feature operations:

• Devices – Click this tab to conduct operations on Devices and Subdevices (see Chapter 3, “Device and Subdevice Manager”).
• Users – Click this tab to operate on user accounts (see Chapter 4, “User Account Manager”).
• Jobs – Click this tab to access background update tasks that have been assigned a Job IDs (see Chapter 5, “Configuration and Image Update Jobs Manager”).
• Tools – Click this tab to access the following features:

– 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”)

• Image Service – Click this tab to work with Images and Search Parameters (see Chapter 18, “Image Service”).