Tasks
This section contains the following topics:
Starting Task Manager
To start Task Manager, click Operate > Tasks > Task Manager. The Tasks list page appears.
The Tasks window displays information about each task by Task Name, Type, Targets, Schedules date and time, the User Name who created those tasks, and the date Created on. To view, schedule, or delete the listed tasks, check the corresponding check box.
New Tasks can also be created or audited using this window.
Create
To create a new task, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Task Manager Window, click Create. From the resulting drop-down list, you can choose from the following and that choice becomes the Type in Figure 12-1.
- Collect Config —Collects configuration from devices.
- Collect Config From Files —Collects configurations from files.
- Enable Disable VFW Traps —Enable or disable the VFW traps.
- L2VPN (L2TPv3) Functional Audit —
- Password Management —Manages user passwords and SNMP community strings.
- SLA Collection —Collects data from SLA enabled devices.
- Service Deployment —Deploys an existing SR.
- TE Full Discovery —Performs discovery of all TE enabled devices. The discovery task runs without stopping until all devices have been discovered.
- TE Incremental Discovery —In TE Incremental Discovery, the discovery tasks are run in increments whenever changes occur in the network, such as when a new device or link is added, causing a much smaller memory overhead than a TE Full Discovery.
- TE Interface Performance —Calculates tunnel and interface bandwidth utilization using SNMP.
Figure 12-1 Create Tasks
Step 2 Name —Enter the name of the task. You can accept the default value.
Step 3 Type —Defined in Step 1.
Step 4 Description (optional)—Enter a description.
Step 5 Task Configuration Method (default: Simplified)—Choose Simplified or Advanced (via wizard). If you choose Simplified, you can make many selections in one window. If you choose Advanced (via wizard), you navigate through many windows to make your selections.
Step 6 Click Next to continue.
Depending on what type of task you select, the Task Devices, Task Service Requests, or Configurations File Directory page appears with variations.
Step 7 Where appropriate, click Select/Deselect to add devices or service requests.
Note Step 7 to Step 10 do not apply for Collect Config From Files and TE Interface Performance.
Step 8 In the resulting selection window, select the devices or service requests and click Select.
The selected devices or service requests appears.
Step 9 Groups might or might not appear depending on the task you specify in the previous step. If it does appear, you can add groups of devices, similarly to Step 7 and Step 8. If it does not appear or after you complete this device group selection, proceed to Step 10.
Step 10 Choose the Options.
If the Retrieve Interfaces check box is checked, Prime Provisioning uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to retrieve device interface information, such as ifIndex, and so on. If the Retrieve Interfaces check box is unchecked, configuration collection information is still retrieved, but SNMP is not used. All scenarios other than doing IP Service Level Agreement (SLA) probes do not require SNMP or this option.
Step 11 If Configuration File Directory appears, enter the path to the directory on your Prime Provisioning server into the Configuration File Directory text box, to indicate the directory on the Prime Provisioning server where the offline configuration files are stored.
Step 12 For Schedule, click Now, Later, or None. If you choose Later, a Later Schedule category appears. You are then required to click the Edit button and the Task Scheduler page appears.
Step 13 Select information to schedule the task and click OK (default is to schedule Now).
Step 14 Click Submit to continue.
The new task is added to the list of tasks.
Audit
To get audit information, click Audit from the Tasks page. From the resulting drop-down list, you can choose from the following and that choice becomes the Type :
- Config Audit —Compares Prime Provisioning generated configlet against the one in the device.
- L2VPN (L2TPv3) Functional Audit —Audits L2TPv3 functionality.
- MPLS Functional Audit —Audits MPLS functionality.
- TE Functional Audit —Checks the Label-Switch Path (LSP) on a router against the LSP stored in the repository.
Details
To get details about a particular task, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Tasks page, check a check box for one task for which you want to see a detailed list of information.
Step 2 Click Details.
Step 3 Click OK to return.
Schedules
To change the scheduling of an existing task, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Tasks page, check a check box for the one task for which you want to reset the scheduling directions.
Step 2 Click Schedules.
Step 3 If you want to delete this task, proceed to Step 4. If you want to reset the scheduling directions, proceed to Step 5.
Step 4 In the new window, check the check box for the task you want to delete and click the Delete button. Then proceed to Step 7.
Step 5 In the new window, click Create.
Step 6 Make the new scheduling selections you want and click Save to reset the scheduling directions.
Step 7 Uncheck any check boxes and click OK to return.
Logs
This selection from the Tasks page, is another way of doing what is explained in the “Task Logs” section.
Delete
To delete one or more tasks, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Tasks page, check one or more check boxes for the task(s) you want to delete.
You receive a confirmation window.
Step 2 If you want to delete, click OK. If not, click Cancel.
Step 3 You return to an updated Tasks page.
Collect Config from Files
To use this feature, you should have the following:
- Configlets of a device saved as a XML file in the below format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
- Directory details where the XML file is placed.
To collect configuration details from a file, perform the below steps:
Step 1 Click Operate > Tasks > Task Manager.
Step 2 In the Task Manager window, click Create.
Step 3 Choose Collect Config from Files from the dropdown list.
Step 4 In the Create Task window, you are able to modify the name and description details.
Step 5 Click Next.
Step 6 In Collect Config Task window, enter the directory details of the XML file in the Configuration File Directory field.
Step 7 Choose Submit.
Note The device should be available in the Inventory for the collect config task to run successfully.
Task Logs
Task Logs can be used to understand the status of a task, whether it completed successfully. You can also use the Task Logs to troubleshoot why a task has failed. To view the Task Logs, follow these steps:
Step 1 Click Operate > Tasks > Task Logs.
The Task Logs window appears.
This window displays the task by Runtime Task Name, and the Action, Start Time, End Time, and the Status of the task. You can use this window to view or delete the logs.
Step 2 To view the log, check the check box for the row that represents the task and click the View Log button.
The Task Log page appears.
It is possible to set the types of log level you want to view. Specify the Log Level and click on the Filter button to view that information you want to view.
Step 3 Click Return to Logs to specify another log to view.