Introducing the Setup Web UI

The regional and local clusters of Cisco Prime Network Registrar web UI provides a setup environment in Basic user mode. The setup is in the form of a series of interview pages, very much like a wizard, based only on the selections you make.

License management is done from the regional cluster when Cisco Prime Network Registrar is installed. You must install the regional server first, and load all licenses in the regional server. When you install the local cluster, it registers with regional to obtain its license. See Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.1 Installation Guide for details.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Setup Functions Regional

The setup pages provide these functions:

  • Dynamic Host Configuration:
    • Enable the Dynamic Host Configuration (DHCP) service
    • Set up DHCP failover between two servers
    • Set up subnets, scope templates, prefixes and prefix templates
  • BYOD:
    • Caching DNS configuration
    • Policy creation (BYOD_unregistered)
    • Client Classes (BYOD_registered; BYOD_unregistered)
    • Scope/Prefix splitting for BYOD unregistered
    • BYOD Web server HTTPS configuration
    • Reload clusters
  • Security:
    • Setting the External Authentication

Setup Functions Local

The setup pages provide these functions:

  • User password change
  • Dynamic host configuration:
    • Enable the Dynamic Host Configuration (DHCP) service
    • Set up DHCP failover between two servers
    • Set up classes of service
    • Choose the server logging mode
    • Enable Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps
  • Caching DNS configuration:
    • Enable Caching Domain Name System (CDNS) service
    • Set up CDNS access control
    • Set up CDNS traps
  • Authoritative (Auth) DNS configuration:
    • Enable the Auth DNS service
    • Set up High-Availability (HA) DNS servers
    • Set up zone distributions to coordinate primary and secondary servers
    • Manage forward and reverse zones
    • Configure access controls
    • Enable SNMP traps
  • DNS Update for dynamic hosts
  • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap recipients
  • Trivial File Transport Protocol (TFTP) server

Setup Features and Navigation

The setup pages:

  • Take you out of Basic and Advanced user modes and into special Setup mode. Basic and Advanced modes are for more specialized configuration after you set up the environment using the setup interview. These modes (and the server concepts) are described in detail in the Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.1 Administration Guide.
  • Include a Setup this Server page where you can enable and disable functions and which is the point of departure for all enabled function pages.
  • Include Back, Next, and Finish buttons on pages so that you can step through sequentially, except that the Back button is not on the Setup this Server page and both Back and Next buttons are not on the Setup Interview Tasks page. The Finish button takes you directly to the Setup Interview Tasks page.

    Caution
    Do not use the Back and Forward buttons of your browser to navigate through the setup process. Using the Back and Forward buttons of the browser can cause erratic behavior.
  • Includes the Next button that opens further pages depending on the criteria you set. For example, if the DNS server is enabled, but the server is not indicated as primary, the setup pages bypass the High-Availability (HA) DNS server, zone distribution, and forward and backward zone configuration pages.
  • Local setup interview provides the Services, DHCP, CDNS, DNS, DNS Update, Traps, and Finish tabs so that you can access functions despite their enabled or disabled status on the Setup this Server page. However, if a function is disabled on the Setup this Server page, the function appears disabled on its setup page. You can change the status on the particular setup page, which resets the status on the Setup this Server page.
  • Regional setup interview provides the Services, DHCP, BYOD, Security and Finish tabs so that you can access functions if enabled on the Setup this Server page
  • Is sometimes transactional and sometimes not. In some cases (such as with creating clusters and keys), writes to the database occur immediately when you enter a value. In other cases, writes to the database occur only when you click Next or Finish.
  • Keep track of database writes and summarizes them on a report page when you click Finish.
  • Provide initial selection defaults, and persist changes to the next setup. (For subsequent setups, the previously configured values become the new defaults.)