Using the Web UI

Using the Web UI

The Cisco Configuration Professional for Catalyst provides network administrators with a single solution for configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the device.

System Requirements

You can access the application from a client web browser. Ensure that the following web client requirements are met:
  • Hardware - A Mac (OS version 10.9.5) or Windows (OS version 7) laptop or desktop compatible with one of the following tested and supported browsers:
    • Google Chrome 52 or later
    • Mozilla Firefox 48 or later
    • Apple Safari 9 or later
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, or later

  • Display resolution - We recommend that you set the screen resolution to 1280 x 800 or higher.

Using the Toolbar

The application pages contain the following static global toolbar:

  • Product Information - Displays information such as the device name and version.

  • Save Configuration - Saves your configuration.

  • Help - Launches the user guide for the Web user interface.

Using the Navigation Menu

The Web user interface allows you to perform the following tasks from the navigation pane:

  • Monitoring - Monitor your network on a daily basis and perform other ad-hoc operations related to network device inventory and configuration management. View the dashboard for a snapshot of connected client devices, performance information, incidents, and search options.

  • Configuring - Configure device ports, STP mode and VLANs.

  • General Settings - Configure device time settings, user administration settings, SNMP and HTTP settings.

  • Help - Access product support and documentation.

Understanding the Dashboard

The Dashboard displays a snapshot of the overall status and statistics for your device.

  • Switch View - Displays a snapshot of the ports on the device.

  • CPU and Memory Utilization - Displays CPU usage on the processors on each core, every 5 minutes, every 1 minute and every 5 seconds. The Memory Utilization section displays a chart of the device memory usage. Hover over the graph to view the processor pool and the I/O pool percentage.

  • System Messages - Displays high severity, critical alerts that require your attention.

  • System Information - Displays temperature and power usage statistics on your device.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, using the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation at:

http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​c/​en/​us/​td/​docs/​general/​whatsnew/​whatsnew.html

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