View Menu Options

Table Of Contents

View Menu Commands

Home

Configure

Monitor

Running Config

Show Commands

Cisco SDM Default Rules

Refresh

View Menu Commands

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The following options are available from the Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (Cisco SDM) View menu.

Home

Displays the Cisco SDM Home page which provides information about router hardware, software, and LAN, WAN, Firewall, and VPN configurations.

Configure

Displays the Cisco SDM Tasks bar, which allows you to perform guided and manual configurations for Interfaces and Connections, Firewalls and ACLs, VPNs Routing, and other tasks.

Monitor

Displays the Cisco SDM Monitor window, which lets you view statistics about your router and network.

Running Config

Displays the router's running configuration.

Show Commands

Displays the Show Commands dialog box, which lets you issue Cisco IOS show commands to the router, view the output, and save the output to your PC. The output file is saved with the default filename show_<command>[router_ip_address].

The Show Commands dialog box can display the output from the following show commands:

•show flash—Shows the contents of the router Flash memory.

•show startup-config—Shows the router startup configuration file.

•show access-lists—Shows all of the Access Control Lists (ACLs) commands currently configured on the router.

•show diag—Shows information about the hardware installed in the router.

•show interfaces—Shows information about the configuration of each interface and about the packets transferred over the interface.

•show protocols—Shows information about the network protocols configured on each interface.

•show version—Shows information about the version of Cisco IOS software running on the router.

•show tech-support—Shows the output from all of the other show commands.

•show environment—Shows information about the router power supply. This command may not appear in the Show Commands drop-down list if not supported by your router.

Cisco SDM Default Rules

The Cisco SDM Default Rules screen displays a list of all of the default rules configured by Cisco SDM. The screen is organized with a tree on the left side of the screen displaying options for Access Rules, Firewall, VPN - IKE Policy, and VPN - Transform Sets. To view the default rules for these options, click the option in the tree, and the default rules for that option are displayed on the right. For more information about the rules, see the option descriptions that follow.

Access Rules

Shows all of the default Access Control List (ACL) rules and a brief description of each.

Firewall

Shows Cisco SDM's default Application Security policies. Choose the security policy that you want to view from the list in the upper right corner of the window.

•SDM_HIGH—This policy prevents the use of Instant Messaging and Point-to-Point applications on the network. It monitors HTTP and e-mail traffic and drops traffic that does not comply with the protocol it uses. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

•SDM_MEDIUM—This policy monitors the use of Instant Messaging and Point-to-Point applications, and HTTP and email traffic. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

•SDM_LOW—This policy does not monitor application traffic. It returns other TCP and UPD traffic for sessions started inside the firewall.

VPN - IKE Policy

Shows the default Internet Key Exchange (IKE) policies.

VPN - Transform Sets

Shows the default IP Security (IPSec) transform sets.

Refresh

Reloads configuration information from the router. If there are any undelivered commands, Cisco SDM displays a message window telling you that if you refresh, you will lose undelivered commands. If you want to deliver the commands. click No in this window, and then click Deliver on the Cisco SDM toolbar.