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Vinod Arya Customer Support Engineer

August 20, 2013

Cisco Support Community Expert Series Webcast:

CiscoWorks Prime LAN Management Solution: Implementation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting

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Vinod Arya

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Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco

Prime LMS

Panel of Experts

Event Date: August 20, 2013

Afroz Ahmad

CSE, CCNA, CCNP, OCJP

Syed Khalid

CSE CCNA, CCNP


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a) I am a beginner in NMS and have little or no experience with Cisco Prime LMS.

b) I have vast experience with Network Management Tools but limited experience with Cisco Prime LMS.

c) I’m an experience Network Administrator with basic/running knowledge of Cisco Prime LMS.

d) I’m running Cisco Prime LMS in production and I have in-depth knowledge of it.

What is your exposure and experience with Network Management with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution?


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Vinod Arya

August 20, 2013

Customer Support Engineer


Introduction to Cisco Prime LMS

Basics of NMS

Evolution of Cisco Prime LMS

What is Cisco Prime LMS

Installing Cisco Prime LMS

Configuring and implementing Cisco Prime LMS

Troubleshooting Cisco Prime LMS

Live Demo


Does Network issues

Keeps you in tension?

QoS

Medianet

Cisco

Energy

Wise™

VSS

Cisco

TrustS

ec®

Routers

UT

IP

SLA

Topology Fault

Switches

CCM

NBAR

IP SLA

Config

Inventory

Reports Security Software

Mgmt

Support ??? ???

NMS


LMS has all the solutions


Single product for all “Wired” lifecycle needs

Simplifies and automates many day-to-day tasks

Troubleshoot

Discover

Manage

Monitor

Optimize

Remediate

• Quickly discover all network elements

• Create common device list – for all managed elements

• Review and modify network management processes

• Improve manageability • Improving network availability while

lowering OpEx

• Quickly fix problems through automated or manual intervention

• Best practices and discrepancy checking with automated fix to prevent problems before they affect service

• Provide visibility of all network changes – configuration, inventory

• Proactively monitor network faults and performance

• Identify problems before they affect service

• Collect inventory details and back up all device configurations

• Deploy configuration changes and image updates

• Maintain device configuration consistent with industry, IT or corporate policies and best practices

• Quickly isolate and identify network problems

• Problem isolation with drill down for root cause analysis


Efficiently manage network Assets and facilitate updates

Continuously monitor instantaneous configuration changes

Quickly identify policy deviations and comply with regulations

Proactively monitor health of network

Connect with community and remediate network issues

Improved contract connection for an improved lifecycle management

Leveraging the Best Practice and value added service

End to end visibility and complete of the network

Integrated Function Business Scenario


Discovery/Inventory management

Configuration management

Monitoring / Faults

Troubleshooting

Compliance & Auditing

Administration

Reporting

Best Practice Designs (SBA)

Network Refresh - EoX, PSIRT, etc.


Introduction to NMS

Evolution of Cisco Prime LMS

What is Cisco Prime LMS


Network Management Systems usually are specialized software's intended to monitor essential Networking Equipment's, covering both Software and Hardware sides (In our case it is Routing, switching, Security, Voice, Content and Optical Networking etc.)

Network Management Systems are based on FCAPS and majorly use SNMP to communicate to Network Devices.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) network management model defines five functional areas of network management : Fault Management, Configuration Management, Performance Management, Security Management, Accounting.

Cisco Prime LMS covers most of the functional areas of FCAPS except Security, which itself is a big functional area with dedicated Software’s.


Network traffic and network technology

Network resources (support staff, $$)

Growth

Network are increasing in scale and complexity

Manage the elements of Infrastructure

Support staff and budget

Cost


The Goals:

Ensure that users of a network receive information technology services with the quality of service they expect.

Ensure the strategic and tactical planning of the engineering, operations, and maintenance of a network and its services.

Help network engineers manage the complexity of a data network and ensure that data can go across the network with maximum efficiency and transparency.

Prepare for disaster recovery.


Simplifies and automates tasks associated with day-to-day management – inventory, configuration, software deployment and troubleshooting tasks.

Supports a broad range of Cisco devices down to the interface – detailed reporting, monitoring and configuration

Provides detailed visibility of users, ports and network connectivity – topology services, user tracking, inventory

Automates the change management process quickly identifying hardware, software and configuration changes – change audit reports


Bundle of Application

A suite of Integrated applications that simplify and augments the daily tasks required to manage a cisco end-end network reducing total cost of ownership and improving network availability.

Functional Architecture

Architecture is based on Clients, Servers and Agents.


Network Devices

CiscoWorks Servers

MIBs HTTP

HTTPS

User Authentication and Authorization

Multi-Server Trust

Cisco.com

A client/server/agent architecture

Access to information using web browser

Central storage of information

Automatic collection of updates and changes

Simplifies the deployment of change s to network devices


Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Proactively identify and quickly fix network problems before they affect end users and services with out-of-the-box preconfigured monitoring dashboards

Configuration Management

Simplify the roll-out of new technologies and network changes through guided workflows based on Cisco best practices with built-in configuration templates that help reduce errors.

Compliance and Audit Management

Quick visibility of compliance status of the network.

Comprehensive Reporting

Get immediate up-to-date information about the network through flexible reporting for inventory, user tracking, compliance, switch port usage


LMS evolved since its first introduction as CiscoWorks 2000 in early 2000.

It had following versions since then :

CW2000 LMS 2.1 LMS 2.2

LMS 2.5 LMS 2.5.1 LMS 2.6 (EOS)

LMS 3.0 LMS 3.0.1 LMS 3.1 LMS 3.2 LMS 3.2.1

LMS 4.0 LMS 4.0.1 LMS 4.1 LMS 4.2.x*

* LMS 4.2 has 4 service packs till date.


Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS) offered as part of Cisco Prime Infrastructure, delivers powerful network lifecycle management by simplifying the configuration, compliance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and administration of Cisco networks. This innovative solution offers end-to-end management for business-critical technologies and services. It aligns management functionality with the way network operators do their jobs.

Simplifies the Management of Borderless Networks.

Contd..


Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Proactively identify and quickly fix network problems before they affect end users and services with out-of-the-box preconfigured monitoring dashboards.

Configuration Management

Simplify the roll-out of new technologies and network changes through guided workflows based on Cisco best practices with built-in configuration templates that help reduce errors.

Compliance and Audit Management

Upgradable compliance engine offers extensive modeling of industry, corporate, IT, and technology policies and quick visibility into compliance status of the network.

Comprehensive Reporting

Get immediate up-to-date information about the network through flexible reporting for inventory, user tracking, compliance, switch port usage, end-of-sale, PSIRT, and other critical areas.

Work Centers

Easily manage all phases of the end-to-end lifecycle of Cisco value-added technologies and solutions, such as medianet, EnergyWise, TrustSec and Identity, Auto Smartports, and Smart

Install


LMS 4.2 supports the following Solaris 10 releases:

• Solaris 10, 10/09 release • Solaris 10, 05/09 release




LMS 4.2 supports the following Windows systems (only 64bit OS):

Windows 2008 Standard and Enterprise Edition Release 1 with SP1 and SP2

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition with SP1

LMS 4.2 supports the following Virtualization Systems:

•VMware ESX server 3.0.x •VMware ESX Server 3.5.x

•VMWare ESX Server 4.0.x •VMWare ESX Server 4.1

•VMWare ESXi Server 4.0 •VMware ESXi Server 4.1

•VMware ESXi Server 5.0 •Hyper V Virtualization (As an installable Windows 2008)


QUICK INSTALL


Why Quick install?

To reduce getting more number of inputs from the end user.

Instead of getting more number of passwords for admin, System identity , casuser and database prompting one login password from the end user and reusing the same for necessary terms.

Reduced the number of screens into to a single dialog.

Combined the number of user pre action information into single dialog called ‘Prerequisite’.


Quick Install contains 3 Major terms for Windows

Prerequisites of LMS

Combined all the prerequisites messages like disabling anti-virus ,

installing from network drive , DHCP service enabled.

LMS setup Dialog

Contains Welcome Message, License Agreement , LMS install

Destination Location , License Information , Login Password and

Backup Data.

Reboot Dialog

Contains Install information (like LMS download structure , license

validity and device information.) , Also contains view buttons for Errors

and Warnings available in the install log, Health monitor report and

finally reboot section.


Following default screens are having changes in Install

Mail Settings pages has been moved to the Getting Started. Launch

LMS42 and you can view the email setting screens.

Self-Signed certificate will be created randomly in the backend.

Summary window has been removed and the end of the reboot dialog

we have provided the view button to list passwords given by the end

user during install time.

And additionally health Monitor reports will provide the RAM ,SWAP

and Database details.


Warning when IIS is enabled and port 443 in use:

Prerequisite Warning or when there is an error:


Warning when all prerequisites are met and satisfied :

License and Install details and login setup:


Installation in Progress:

Installation completed window:


License Agreement message prompted option to enter YES or NO to view

the details

LMS4.2 installation has only Custom mode here after.


Like windows passwords screens are reduced and getting one login

password from the user and reusing the same. Provided the new prompt for

database password whether user can reuse the login password as

database password else system will generate a random password.


LMS supports reinstallation of product in Windows and Solaris platform.

Reinstallation processes of LMS 4.2 are same as installation process for Windows and Solaris.

NOTE: Reinstallation is not supported in Linux.


Configuring Cisco Prime LMS


Log into the portal for the first time, and use the Getting Started workflow to configure the server

Explore and customize the dashboards in My Menu, manage portlets, and change the portal layout

Manage the network device inventory

Manage network device configurations and software images.

Monitor and troubleshoot the network

Use the Work Centers to perform complete lifecycle management of network devices

Perform advanced administration tasks in CiscoWorks LMS


The First login page shows following details :

New Features

Migration procedure

Search Bar

Min. Options to Run LMS

Navigation Menu/Mouse Hover


System settings page is optimized. We can see and update the license information and other details directly.

Single page to set Authentication mode, Email server setting, Proxy setting, Backup and RCP and SCP setting


Device Allocation Setting:

Devices can be auto allocated to the selected device management

functions, or they can be allocated based on policies that can be

configured. Allocate all devices is enabled by default.

Device Addition:

Using this page we can add devices to Device Credential Repository

(DCR), and if required, create credential sets, and configure policies.

Devices can be added directly, using credential sets, or policies.


Manage Roles:

A role is a collection of privileges that dictate the type of system access we have.

The Manage User Roles workflow allows us to add, edit, copy and delete user-

defined roles in LMS. We can also set default user roles.

Manage User:

The Manage Users task in the Getting Started flow allows us to add, edit and

delete users in LMS. We can also set the authorization levels for the user.


Software and Device updates:

LMS periodically releases software and device package updates. We can check for these

updates from Cisco.com, and download them to a location on the server. We can install

these updates from this location.

In the case of device updates, we can install the updates using a web-based user interface,

and command line interface, wherever possible. The Getting Started workflow does not

support installation and uninstallation of software updates.

For downloads from Cisco.com to work, we should have access to Cisco.


Standard Discovery allows to run discovery with minimal settings.

The comparison of Standard Discovery with Custom Discovery

Standard Discovery Custom Discovery

Default Gateway as Seed Default Gateway as Seed

Support not provided

Discovery Fallback Support No Discovery Fallback

Support

Discovery using Existing

Policy Configuration

This option is not Supported

Default Credentials Set can

be used as SNMP

Credentials for Discovery

This option is not Supported


The discovery makes use of below protocols in specified order for discovering the devices.

• CDP

• LLDP

• Routing Table

• ARP

To Configure Standard Discovery following inputs have to be provided

Default Gateway ( as Default option)

Use DCR as seed

Seed device can be provided by user


By Choosing “Use Policy Configuration Settings option”, the configured policies (if any), will be taken as input for running discovery.If no policies are configured, Edit Policy Configuration link is provided to add policies with Credential Sets.

Credential Sets can be added using the link "Edit Credential Set".


By choosing “Use Custom Policy Configuration Settings” option user can add policies manually.


For fallback, the user has to check the option Snmp v3 to Snmp v2 Fallback and/or Snmp v2 to Snmp v1 Fallback

Select “Default Credential Set” option to apply the selected credentials to devices discovered and that will be added to DCR.

In Discovery Summary page , “Discovery Type” label have been added which depicts the Last Run Discovery.

For eg:Custom/Standard

When user clicks “Start Discovery” from Discovery Summary Page the last configured Discovery settings will be taken for Discovery.

In Discovery Schedule page, the option is provided for scheduling both Custom Discovery and Standard Discovery.

Discovery CLI supports Standard Discovery too

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Smart Interactions


Key Use Cases

Customer or Partner is able to raise support cases for their network and track their cases from Prime Infrastructure.

Customer or Partner IT organization is able to go to Support communities with proper contextual information from Prime Infrastructure/LMS to self-diagnose and resolve network problems quickly before engaging Cisco Services.

Significant time savings for IT operators by

attaching contextual information


LMS allows users to create/update a Support Case and access the Cisco Support Communities.

Create / Update

support case


Clicking Search Community

yields below screen


Inventory Management in Cisco Prime LMS groups the various activities in LMS involved in managing your inventory: your network devices. You can access these features from the Inventory menu in the Cisco Prime LMS home page.

Tools in the Inventory menu are:

Ciscoview

Mini-RMON

Device Center

SmartCase


Inventory Dashboard can be accessed via Inventory > Dashboard >

Inventory and we can configure the following Inventory dashboard

portlets from there:

Discrepancies Portlet

Here we can view the type and count of discrepancies, such as network inconsistencies and anomalies or wrong configurations in the discovered network.

The Discrepancy portlet gives a description of the discrepancy, the impact it has on the network, and ways to resolve it. Also, LMS provides reports on discrepancies in the discovered network, enabling identification of configuration errors such as link-speed mismatches on either end of a connection. Discrepancies are computed at the end of each data collection schedule.

Device Change Audit Portlet:

In the Device Change Audit portlet, we can view the changes in the inventory and configuration information for all the devices after every Inventory or Configuration Collection. However, the VLAN config change details will not be displayed and the changes in the exception period are displayed in red.


Hardware Summary Portlet:

In the Hardware Summary portlet, you can view a pie graph that displays the distribution of all managed Cisco devices in the inventory.

Software Summary Portlet:

In the Software Summary portlet, you can view the software version information and count for selected devices such as Cisco Interfaces and Modules, Switches and Hubs, Universal Gateways and Access Servers, and Routers.

Calendar Portlet:

In the Calendar portlet, we can view the jobs scheduled for the current month or day. When we launch the portlet, a calendar of the current month appears with the details of scheduled jobs in the Job Summary grid. Also, we can click the Day tab to view the jobs scheduled for the current day.


a) Windows

b) Solaris

c) OVA/OVF image on Linux shell

d) Not using Cisco Prime LMS

What is the preferred/existing OS for LMS in

your network?


Tools in the Inventory menu CiscoView

Mini-RMON

Device Centre

SmartCase


CiscoView is a graphical SNMP-based device management tool that provides real-time views of networked Cisco Systems devices. These views deliver a continuously updated physical and logical picture of device configuration and performance conditions. Simultaneous views are also available for multiple device sessions.

Use CiscoView to:

View a graphical representation of the device, including component (interface, card, power supply, LED) status.

Configure parameters for devices, cards, and interfaces.

Monitor real-time statistics for interfaces, resource utilization, and device performance.

Set user preferences.

Perform device-specific operations as defined in each device package.

Manage groups of stackable devices.


CiscoView can be accessed from:

Inventory Tools CiscoView


Device Chassis View in CiscoView:


Device Chassis View in CiscoView:

Configuring

Chassis

Configuring

Port/Interface

Configure Card

Physical

Configure Card


CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager provides web-enabled, real-time, remote monitoring (RMON) information to users to facilitate troubleshooting and improve network availability. When you use CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager with some Cisco devices, it provides visibility into network problems before they become critical.

It is a real-time remote monitoring tool that provides option to enable RMON collection, display the collected Ethernet statistics and lets you set thresholds against any of the collected statistics. An alarm is generated whenever the threshold is breached. This facilitates troubleshooting and improve network availability

To use this application, you must first install the Mini-RMON patch. This patch makes necessary updates to the CiscoView engine and installs the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager device package. See Device Packages for more information.

We can access Mini-RMON from Inventory > Tools > Mini-RMON.


We need to configure Alarms and thresholds on device using Mini-RMON due receive alerts.

We can configure Alarms using the Mini-RMON Setup Tab and selecting Alarm.

The following information appears:

Alarm Source

Indicates whether the device, as a whole, or a port on that device is the source of an alarm.

Alarm Variable (alarmVariable)

Indicates the MIB variable to be sampled. Only variables that resolve to an ASN.1 primitive type of INTEGER (INTEGER, Integer32, Counter32, Counter64, Gauge, or TimeTicks) may be sampled.

Rising Threshold (alarmRisingThreshold)


Rising Threshold (alarmRisingThreshold)

A threshold for the sampled statistic. When the current sampled value is greater than or equal to this threshold, and the value at the last sampling interval was less than this threshold, a single event is generated. A single event is also generated if the first sample after this entry becomes valid is greater than or equal to this threshold and the associated alarmStartupAlarm is equal to "Rising" or "Rising or Falling".

After a rising event is generated, another such event will not be generated until the sampled value falls below this threshold and reaches the alarmFallingThreshold.

Falling Threshold (alarmFallingThreshold)

A threshold for the sampled statistic. When the current sampled value is less than or equal to this threshold, and the value at the last sampling interval was greater than this threshold, a single event is generated. A single event is also generated if the first sample after this entry becomes valid is less than or equal to this threshold and the associated alarmStartupAlarm is equal to "Falling" or "Rising or Falling".

After a falling event is generated, another such event will not be generated until the sampled value rises above this threshold and reaches the alarmRisingThreshold.


Alarm Action (eventType)

The type of notification that the probe will generate for this event and there are four possible values:

None: no notifications are generated

Log: an entry for each event is added to the log table

Trap: a SNMP trap is sent to one or more management stations

Log and Trap: both a log entry and SNMP trap are generated

Current Value (alarmValue)

The value of the statistic during the last sampling period. For example, if the sample type is "Delta", this value will be the difference between the samples at the beginning and end of the period. If the sample type is "Absolute", this value will be the sampled value at the end of the period.

This is the value that is compared with the rising and falling thresholds. The value during the current sampling period is not made available until the period is completed and will remain available until the next period completes.


Configuring alarm in CiscoView Mini-RMON:


Device center is a part of Troubleshooting workflow in LMS, which collects information from the network and helps you to overcome network management challenges.

Using Device Center we can view the details of a device in the Device Troubleshooting page.


AlarmDevice centre Tools Option have various troubleshooting tools like snmpwalk, SNMP set, ping, Edit Device Credentials, Edit device Identity, In Built Packet Capture, Traceroute, Mini RMON etc


Device center Tools Option have various troubleshooting tools like snmpwalk, SNMP set, ping, Edit Device Credentials, Edit device Identity, In Built Packet Capture, Traceroute, Mini RMON etc


Device center Task Option have list of most important and essential options of each module from LMS, which can be directly launched for open device.


Device center Reports Option have list of most used reports options of each module from LMS, which can be directly launched for the open device.


Device center also shows major details from each module related to Status, Configuration, Reachability, Fault, Events, Port Status and Performance Details.


Key Takes of Device Center:

It provides a device-centric view for CiscoWorks applications.

It Provides device-oriented navigation paradigm for features and information from a single location.

Device Center provides a central point from where we can see a summary and reports for the selected device.

We can invoke various tools and perform various tasks.

We can launch Cisco-View.

We can view small topology map for devices.

We can troubleshoot connectivity.


Objectives

Managing the Configuration Archive

Verifying Configuration Compliance

Using Configuration Tools

Using Configuration Workflows


Configuration Management allows to manage, deploy, and modify the configuration files used by devices in your network.

Configuration Dashboard in LMS provides information such as date of last configuration change, status of the configuration jobs, summary of inventory configuration protocol and Hardware and Software summary.

We can create configuration jobs to take active Archives device configuration.

We can define baseline configuration templates and determine the devices that are non-compliant in our network.

You can perform VLANs configurations and Virtual Switching System (VSS) conversions.


Configuration Archive Option are present under Configuration > Configuration Archive.

Configuration Archive maintains an active archive of the configuration of devices managed by LMS.


It enables to perform the following tasks:

Fetch, archive, and deploy device configurations

Search and generate reports on archived data

Compare and label configurations, compare configurations with a baseline, and check for compliance.

Summary/Status

of Archive for all

devices

Option to view

Configuration or

Search w/ or w/o

Patterns.

Run new Sync

Job or Sched for

future.

Compare configs

of same or diff

devices.

Label Configs to

save them from

Config purge.

View Protocol usage

for successful config

fetch


We can create a Config Archive job to sync Device configruration with LMS.

Select devices Run Now or Later

Job Options Submit Job

Name and Email


It is an integrated solution to manage, secure, administer and monitor heterogeneous networks.

Its functions include:

Compliance Management

• Enables regulatory check

• Helps to fix violations and to make device complaint with policies.

• Supports industry , IT and technology specific compliance

Audit reporting

• Enables to generate reports for various audits that were performed on the network devices.


Compliance Management functions helps to enable regulatory compliance checks against standards such as HIPAA, SOX, ISO/IEC 27002, NSA, PCI, DHS, DISA, CIS

Supports Industry, corporate, IT, and technology specific Compliance Policies.

Fix the violations to make the device compliance against the policies defined.

Policies are defined by a set of rules. LMS supports 293 policies.

HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Compliance

CSA : Cisco Security Advisory

DHS : Department of Homeland Security

DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency

PCI : Payment Card Industry

CIS : Centre for Internet Security


To run a compliance check on the network devices:

Either create a Policy Group or select a system-defined Policy Group

For user-defined Policy Group, add the required polices and rules to the Policy Group

Create a Policy Profile for the Policy Group

Map the required network devices to the Policy Group

Schedule a job to run the compliance check on the network devices and validate the status.

Fix the violations, if any using LMS


Out of the box support for regulatory standards like

HIPAA, SOX, ISO/IEC 27002, NSA, PCI, DHS, DISA, CIS

Life Cycle Management Reports

End of Life Hardware, End of Life Modules, End of Life Software

Device Contract Summary , Device Module Contract Summary

Services Reports

Security, Routing, Management, Capability (device is Capable or Not)

Improved PSIRT analysis

Analysis and reporting based on features enabled on devices, in addition to the hardware model and software version checks


Network Administrators can pick and choose the compliance policies and rules they want to enforce

• Create customized Policy Groups or select from one of the system defined policy group

• Create Policy Profiles to associate the devices against which you want to enforce the policies

• Schedule a Compliance Check on the profile to validate the compliance status

• Network Administrators and Operators can then verify the results of the job, to identify non-compliance and take corrective actions

Create Audit Reports as needed


Policy

Policy is a set of rules/conditions.

Policy Group

Policy Group is a set of policies.

Policy Profile

Policy Profile is a set of Policy groups where each Policy group is mapped with set of devices.

LMS supports 290+ policies.

In addition to the system defined Policy Groups, you can create your own Policy Groups by selecting a set of system defined policies.


Rules for the

selected Policy.

Policy group is a

collection of Policies.

Policy is defined by set

of rules/conditions.


Functions

Add Policy Group

Edit Policy Group

Delete Policy Group

Clone Policy Group

Note :- You cannot edit and save a System Policy Group. Hence, Save option will be disabled for System Policy Group. But you can modify System policy group and save as a custom policy group.


Click here to Add

New Policy Group.

Click here to add

policies to the group.

Save the

Policy Group

Select

Policies


Click on the

policy group to

edit

Mouse hover the

policy group to

clone and delete


Policy Profile is a set of Policy Groups where each Policy Group is mapped with a set of devices to check the compliance.

Functions

Add Policy Profile

Edit Policy Profile

Delete Policy Profile

Clone Policy Profile

Check Compliance

View History of profile Jobs


A Policy Profile is a Set of Policy groups and

the devices mapped to each group

Devices mapped to the

policy group [ie HIPAA

here].


Click here to add

new policy profile.

Click here to

Clone policy

profile.

Click here to Delete

policy profile.

Click here to Check

Compliance.

Click here to view the

history of the selected

profile jobs. Mouse hover profile

for more actions.


Enter Profile

description. Enter Policy

Profile Name.

Click here to add

policy groups to

profile.

Select policy groups for

the profile.

Select the

group to map

devices

Select

devices Save the

profile


To run a compliance check job:

• Mouse-hover the icon next to the

• Policy Profile.

• Click Check Compliance.

• Enter the information required to

• schedule the Job and click Submit.

• You can check the status of

your scheduled job under

Configuration > Job Browsers >

Compliance Profile Execution.


Profile Name

Click here to view

the violations


Select a

device

Select a policy

Select the

violation to be

fixed

Click Fix Violations

to apply fix

Click OK to schedule

the fix job


Device management in LMS is always synchronized with Compliance-Engine. CAAMServer process performs the below tasks to achieve this synchronization.

On device add/modify, the device ip/host name and device id details are added to Compliance -Engine.

On device delete, the device is deleted from Compliance-Engine.

After inventory collection [with change detected], inventory details like device family, product model, platform, serial number ,image name will be passed from lms to Compliance-Engine.

After config collection [with change detected], running configuration will be sent to Compliance-Engine.

After first successful inventory collection, show command output will be collected and send to Compliance-Engine.


Baselining refers to identifying a set of standardized policy

based commands that we would want to have on a set of

devices. We can create a Baseline template containing a set

of commands identified through the baselining process. This

template contains placeholders for device-specific values to

be substituted.

It can check the presence or absence of any specific

command on network devices to consider them compliant or

non-complaint.


We can use this Baseline template to compare with other

device configurations and generate a report that lists all the

devices that are non-compliant with the Baseline template.

We can easily deploy the Baseline template to the same

category of devices in the network.

We can schedule a compliance check job and deploy the

Baseline template on the non-compliant devices. This can

be performed as a single job or as a separate job.

We can import or export a Baseline template. This template

is stored in XML format.


Go to Baseline template Manager

Create Custom Template

(Basic or Advance)

Create using Basic method which allows to enter the

conditions to be checked, and in turn checks for

compliance only if given condition is satisfied

Using Advance method to check compliance we can also

specify the Parent Command Sets and prerequisites can be

marked with the command sets to evaluate them first and if

they are satisfied, the new command sets are run and

compliance is checked.

Run Compliance check

Choose Type, Date and sched a job.

Deploy template on non compliant Devices

Using File System

1. Create Parameter file, which specifies the variables

for the command sets.

2. Select Template and deploy

3. Select Enter Data

4. Select devices

5. Browse Parameter file

6. Schedule a job

Using User Interface :

1. Select Template and deploy

2. Select Enter Data

3. Select devices

4. Browse Parameter file

5. Schedule a job

View Baseline reports

Configuration > Compliance > Baseline Compliance > Jobs


a) Configuration fetch and Deployment

b) Compliance check

c) Configuration Comparison

d) Software Backup and deploy

e) All of the Above

Most important feature of Configuration management in our network is :


Configuration Tools

NetConfig

Config Editor

Software Image Management


Netconfig is one of the Configuration Management applications that provides easy access to the configuration files of all supported devices.

It allows to change the configuration of network devices, provided the configurations are archived. Netconfig automatically updates the archive when it changes the configuration.


The advantages of using NetConfig instead of CLI configuration commands include but are not limited to:

Scheduling jobs

Using jobs to run multiple commands on multiple devices

Using tasks to carry out easy and reliable configuration changes

Mandating approval before running a job

Rolling back configuration changes when a job fails


1. Select the device, Module or Port base configuration:

2. Select the Device(s) and select System-defined task , user-defined or Adhoc to enter your own commands:


3. From Task Window Configure the CLI commands to complete task:


3. Select Scheduling option, details and other Job Options:


3. Click Next to see Job Work Order than Finish or directly Finish to start deploying:


The Config Editor provides easy access to configuration files. Config Editor allows a network administrator with the appropriate security privileges to edit a configuration file that exists in the configuration archive.

The Configuration Management application stores the current and a user-specified number of previous versions of the configuration files for all supported Cisco devices maintained in the Inventory. It automatically tracks changes to configuration files and updates the database if a change is made.

We can open the configuration file, change it, and download it to the device.


Configuration Tools

NetConfig

Config Editor



Manually upgrading your devices to the latest software version can be an error-prone, and time-consuming process. To ensure rapid, reliable software upgrades, Software Management automates the steps associated with upgrade planning, scheduling, downloading, and monitoring.


Reliably distributes single or multiple images in a single deployment operation

Repository of current images allows for rapid recovery from failure

Image can be deployed from repository or from another device flash

Set up your Software Management preferences

Analyze software upgrades

Perform In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

Import images into the software repository

Distribute software images to groups of devices

Distribute images as patches to group of devices

Reduce errors by using a recommended image

Track software bugs (Reports > Cisco.com > Locate Device Report)


Patch Distribution

We can distribute patches simultaneously to applicable devices. Patch distribution does not require reboot of the entire OS on a device. We can install a patches only to a search root where a base image exists. Patches, once installed, must be activated to come to effect on the running system.

Software Distribution

Software Distribution allows you to distribute images in your network by creating deployment Job with available option.

Software Repository

The Software Repository Management window displays the images that are available in the Software Management repository.


Repository Synchronization

The Synchronization report shows the Software Management-supported devices that are running software images not available in the software image repository. Using this option we can view and schedule the synchronization report.

Upgrade Analysis

Upgrade Analysis option is used to determine the impact to, and prerequisites for a new software deployment using images that reside in either Cisco.com or the image repository. This task analyze the device to be upgraded, to determine possible required hardware upgrades (boot ROM, Flash memory, RAM, and access)

Jobs

We can see all the completed, running and scheduled jobs for SWIM here.


WorkFlow Tools

Vlan

VRF Lite

Virtual Switching System


LMS collects data about devices so that we can configure and manage Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) in the network. We must set up LMS server properly to ensure that Data Collection is successfully performed. Data Collection

The configuration module in LMS helps to manage VLANs. We can configure and manage VLAN, Private VLAN (PVLAN), Trunk, and also assign ports to VLANs.


Using LMS, we can perform end-to-end VRF configurations in an enterprise network. We can perform the VRF Configurations using the option to create VRF.

In an Enterprise network, at a given time, we can select up to 20 devices and configure VRF using the Create, Edit and Extend VRF workflow.

VRF configurations comprises workflows used to create, edit, extend, delete and assign Edge VLAN to VRF.


The device must be managed by LMS.

The device must either be L2/L3 or an L3 device

The device must have the necessary hardware support, else it will be classified as Other devices

If a device does not support MPLS VPN MIB, it is classified as a Capable device.

VTP Server must support MPLS VPN MIB. If the VTP Server does not support MPLS VPN MIB, LMS will not manage VTP Clients.

Reports can be generated to see supported and Capable devices:

VRF Capable Devices : The count of VRF capable devices shows the devices that are hardware ready but need software updates.

VRF Supported Devices : It includes devices that are both hardware and software ready. These devices can readily be used for discovering, creating, editing, extending, and deleting VRFs on the network


Virtual Switching technology is the process of combining two standalone distribution switches found in the local distribution layer into a single management point.

The Virtual Switching System (VSS) functions and appears as a single switch to the wiring closet and the core layer.

LMS has the capability to convert devices to VSS using its VSS Configuration Tool.

This GUI based conversion tool allows us to select two compatible standalone switches and guides us in converting those standalone switches into one Virtual Switching System.

During the conversion process, the Virtual Switching System Configuration tool generates the required CLI commands, based on user inputs.


Prerequisites for Conversion

Candidate devices that are to be converted to a Virtual Switching System are managed by LMS so that they can use this conversion tool.

Fresh Inventory and Config Collection has been carried out.

Only VSS-capable IOS Software Modularity images are running on the Standalone switches.

To convert standalone switches to a Virtual Switching System

Select Devices for VSS Configuration

Perform Hardware Checks on the Devices

Perform Software Compatibility Checks on the Two Devices

Generate Compliance Report

Define Configuration Parameters

Deploy Commands on the Two Switches to Enable VSS Mode


Data Collection


Data Collection collects most basic essential details from devices to lay

foundation for Topology and End host management.

Obtains connectivity information for devices in DCR and keeps the

database up to date.

Data Collection gathers information by sending SNMP requests to each

of the devices and stores it in the database.

The Information gathered from the MIB tables on each of these devices

includes VLAN port membership, VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

domains, interface details, IP address and subnet information, etc.


Polls the entire network for device and link status periodically. This feature allows you to:

o Configure the time interval at which the network is polled.

o Poll only a critical set of devices (Critical Device Poller)

Use this option to see the device and link status without running Data Collection. Since Data Collection consumes significant system resources, we can simply poll the network and view the device and link status in Topology maps, using .

Devices can be added to the Critical Device Poller either from Topology maps or from N-Hop View portlet.


Data collection schedule enables us to schedule the Data collection for the devices periodically.

We can also start the data collection immediately for all the Devices or only for the failed Devices.

By Default, the Data collection will run for every 4 hours.

By Default, whenever an event like a device added, the data collection will run.

We can schedule Data Collection Jobs from:

Admin > Collection Settings > Data Collection > Data Collection Schedule


Run DC for All or

Failed device

Edit, Delete Or Add new DC

Scheduled Job.


User Tracking Acquisition


Collects the endhosts information and Cisco IP phone details from the managed network.

Endhosts information will be collected from the connected switches and the associated routers

IP phone information is collected from the Cisco Call Manager.

This is done through automated polling of the network, by User Tracking Major Acquisition process.

Dynamic UT provides real time data about end hosts coming into and moving out of the network.


The host acquisition

process reads the

CAM table of all

Cisco layer 2

switches managed by

LMS, resolves MAC

to IP addresses using

ARP table in LMS

managed Cisco

routers, and resolves

IP to Host name

using DNS


User Tracking Major Acquisition

Discovers all the end hosts that are connected to the devices managed by LMS

User Tracking Minor Acquisition

Minor acquisition occurs on a device if any of the following changes take place:

a. A new endhost or IP phone is added to the network.

b. Port state changes (when the port comes up or goes down).

c. A new VLAN is added to the network.

d. There is a change in the existing VLAN.

User Tracking IP Phone Acquisition

Discovers all phones registered in Cisco Call Managers (CCM), that are managed by LMS

Contd…


Subnet based User Tracking Major Acquisition

User tracking subnet based acquisition would run only on those subnets that are configured in LMS. LMS discovers end hosts on all the VLANs available in the configured subnets.

Do subnet based acquisition, when you need details about the end hosts connected to a particular subnet or a select set of subnets. The acquisition completes faster, since it is not run on all devices managed by LMS.

Single device on-demand User Tracking Acquisition

This discovers the end hosts on all the VLANs available in the selected device. Hence this acquisition is useful for collecting information only on end hosts connected to the specified device.


Dynamic updates are asynchronous updates that are based on SNMP MAC notifications traps.

When an endhost is plugged to a switch, an SNMP MAC add notification trap is sent immediately to Campus Manager.

Similarly when an end host is unplugged from a switch, an SNMP MAC delete notification trap is sent to Campus Manager.

Dynamic UT provides real time data about end hosts coming into and moving out of the network.


a) Inventory, Configuration and Software Management

b) Network Topology, Layer 2 Services and User Tracking

c) Fault Management

d) IP SLA Performance Management

e) Device Performance Management

What is the most used feature of LMS in your Network?


Objectives

Monitoring Tools

Troubleshooting Tools

Dashboards

Diagnostic tools


Shows graphical maps to view and manage Layer 2 and Layer 3

network devices.

Provide details about all VTP domains and VLAN memberships on

the network.

Provides launch points for configurations like IVR, Ether channels,

STP, and all UI based reports and configurations


Details

1. Menu

2. Toolbar

3. Topology Filters

4. Topology Map


The topology services will show the non-Cisco device

with new device icon.


Bandwidth Utilization is the measure of traffic flowing across a link.

It highlights bandwidth utilization across links in the Topology maps.

Bandwidth utilization is supported only on Ethernet links, and not on any other type of link.

To compute bandwidth utilization in LMS, you must enable Remote Monitoring (RMON). Enabling RMON depends on the following two parameters: Bucket size and Interval.


Selecting

Device Attributes,

Port Attributes and

VLAN Report from

Topology Services will

launch the

corresponding Reports

in UI


Discrepancies

Displays discrepancies or anomalies in the discovered network. You can generate a report on the discrepancies.

Best Practices Deviations

Displays Best Practices Deviations page in Report Generator, where you can generate a report of Best Practices Deviations.

Data Collection Report Displays Data Collection Metrics report.

Device Attributes Displays descriptive information about the selected device or devices.

Port Attributes Displays descriptive information about ports belonging to the selected device.

Link Attributes Displays descriptive information about the selected link or links.

VLAN Report Displays the VLAN Report for the selected devices in the Topology Map or for all devices in the Map.

Service Attributes

Displays descriptive information about any application servers that are running on the selected device or devices.

Multi-Layer Switching > Switching Engines

Multi-Layer Switching > Switching Engines

Multi-Layer Switching > Route Processors

Displays relationship between Layer 3 route processing devices in network.

IPv6 Addresses

Displays the IPv6 Addresses report.


TDR

Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) is used to detect faults in cable.

TDR checks and locates open circuits, short circuits, sharp bends, crimps, kinks, impedance mismatches, and other such defects.

You can generate TDR reports for links from Topology maps.

PoE

Power over Ethernet or PoE technology describes a system to transmit electrical power, along with data, to remote devices over standard twisted-pair cable in an Ethernet network.


LMS Fault Monitor is a centralized browser, where We can view the

information on faults, system events, and performance management

events of devices in a single place.

A fault refers to a problem in the device or in the network. Examples for

faults include Device Down, Link Down, and High Utilization.

An event refers to the activities or changes happening in the network.

Examples for events are Config Change, user login, and user logout.

Fault Monitor collects information on faults and events from all devices

in real-time and display the information for a selected group of devices.

Fault Monitor has two tabs: Device Fault Summary View and Fault View.

It provides a launch point for Event Monitor, and allows us to view event

forensic data collected.


We can access Fault Monitor through Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Fault Monitor:


Fault Monitor consist of three main parts :

Group selector, which lists the following groups in LMS to provide easy access to devices:

– System-defined groups

– User-defined groups

– Unreachable Devices group

– Unmanaged Devices group

– Suspended Devices group

Device Fault Summary view, which contains the Devices and Faults sub-panes. It provides a summary of devices selected from the group selector located on the right pane. If a device is selected, its faults are displayed in the Faults table.

Faults view, which provides fault details. When Fault Monitor is launched for the first time, it displays the details of all devices and for the subsequent times, it displays the focused device group faults based on user selections.


The Device Fault Summary tab contains two subpanes: Devices and Faults.

The initial display includes All Devices. After you select a group in the group selector, the Devices pane refreshes with devices belonging to that group.

The faults that correspond to the selections display in the Fault subpane.

Devices and events are sorted based on time, and not on severity. The most recent activity displays first. This pane is refreshed every 60 seconds. The tabular display pane is scrollable and can store up to 1,000 records.


Acknowledging an Event : Acknowledging active events signals to

other users that you are aware of the event. When you own an event, this status change is populated to all events displays.

Clearing an Event : Clearing an event moves the event to the

Cleared state. Cleared events are displayed for 20 minutes in the events display. The event is purged from database. As a result, when the next event is raised for the same device, a new event ID is generated.

Annotating an Event : We can annotate the event up to 255

characters. Any number of annotations can be entered. An annotation is shown whenever other users view the event from Fault Monitor.

Sending E-Mail in Response to an Event: With notify we can

manually sent event via email to multiple users. The e-mail notification adds the event details for the selected event.


Event Monitor can the fault history, syslog and system events

Displays the

latest 100

events from FH

DB.

Displays device

name or IP

Displays events

and its details

Mouse hover on

event shows

further details.

Shows Syslog

of selected

devices.

Shows other

system details

of devices


Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Generic Online Diagnostic (GOLD)


EEM (Embedded Event Manager) is an IOS technology that runs on the control plane of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 device. This EEM technology is integrated with Cisco IOS Software and because of this the Cisco IOS Software, EEM is aware of the state of the network from the perspective of the device on which it is operating. The Cisco Catalyst 2900XL, 2970, 2960, 3550, 3560, 3750, and 3750E switches also support EEM.


We can use LMS NetConfig EEM-specific tasks to configure the EEM-specific scripts, applets and variables on the devices managed by LMS.

We can view EEM syslogs report under Report > Fault & Event > Embedded Event Manager Syslogs


1. Select EEM > Configure Select device and

Task and click Next


3. Select Add

Instance and add

Env Variable to

be used by TCL

Script

4. We can view

CLI Commands

using View CLI

option.

5. Click Next or

Finish for Job to

config EEM on

device.


Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Generic Online Diagnostic (GOLD)


GOLD (Generic OnLine Diagnostics) is a device-specific IOS feature with fault detection capabilities. It defines a common framework for diagnostic operations across Cisco platforms running Cisco IOS Software. We can use LMS to configure GOLD on Supported devices.

NOTE : Only Cisco Catalyst 6500 (IOS), 2900XL, 2970, 2960, 3550, 3560, 3750, and 3750E switches are supported.


We can use LMS NetConfig to configure the GOLD Tests on devices managed by LMS.

We can view EEM syslogs report under Report > Fault & Event > Generic Online Testing > Create

GOLD specific NetConfig-Tasks are :

GOLD Boot level Task

GOLD Monitoring Task

GOLD Health Monitoring

task


NetShow Troubleshooting Workflow VRF Lite


Network show (NetShow) commands represent a set of read-only commands. These are primarily, show commands that we can run on devices that are managed in LMS.

Show Commands

Commands Output

Multiple Jobs/commands

200

Network

NetShow Command

using Cisco Prime LMS Show Command

Archive/Reports

Simplified

Automated

Efficient

Admins

Devices

Innovative Product Portfolio Simple NetShow Architecture

Network

Devices


Network Administrators can assign Command Sets to other users.

Network Administrators and Network Operators (if permitted) can execute the custom commands. This allows them to run a command against multiple devices.

Support for standard and non-standard Cisco devices.

Simplified new device support.

No device limit.

Integration with the Output Interpreter tool.


Troubleshooting workflow in LMS collects information from the network and helps you to overcome network management challenges.

Using this workflow, you can view the details of devices, endhosts, and links to troubleshoot the network connectivity problems or device diagnostics.

Troubleshooting workflow uses Device Centre to get collect Devices or End Host Troubleshooting details.


Device Information Portlet with device details


Using this tool we can troubleshoot Virtual Routing on enabled devices. It has following three option:

Ping : The ping command allows you to check the VRF connectivity between the source device and the destination device that are a part of the selected VRF, at various locations on the network. OR Ping is used to check the accessibility of devices in a VRF configured network.

TraceRoute : Displays a list of the routes traversed by the data packet to reach the Destination device in a particular VRF.

Show Commands : Show the result of the VRF-specific show commands. For example, we can get the output of

show ip route vrf <selected vrf> <selected protocol>


Shows VRF ping/trace route output

Shows VRF Show Commands output


From LMS 4.2 onwards Fault Management system will support all types of devices(Non Cisco, Uncertified and unknown devices)

Prior to LMS 4.2, all non cisco devices and unknown devices were moved to Question state. But LMS 4.2 onwards its moved to Known state.

Alert, event notification, polling and threshold is added for Generic Devices.

Fault Management will poll and monitor the below components by default:

• IP

• Port and interfaces

As part of Generic Device Support, added two different groups called

Non Cisco Device Type

Unknown Device Type

Generic Device Support (1/12)


LMS can use NetConfig Taks to configure Syslog on devices.


-If you DISABLE all the filters and have the filter type as KEEP, then all the syslog messages are processed (kept).

-If you DISABLE all the filters and have the filter type as DROP, then all the syslog messages are dropped. No filtering is done but everything will be dropped.

-If you ENABLE all the filters and have the filter type as KEEP, then all the syslog messages that match the filter criteria are processed.

-If you ENABLE all the filters and have the filter type as DROP, then all the syslog messages that match the filter criteria are dropped.


We can create automated actions to be executed automatically whenever Syslog Analyzer receives a specific message type. We have following Automated Action Options :

Email : Email(s) we want to send an update to.

URL : URL which can be invoked by AA.

Script : Any Script which can be invoked and executed by LMS.

Default AA

/ Example

Create New AA Edit AA Enable/DisableAA


License Management


LMS can be installed with 90 days of Eval period. During Evaluation period LMS stays Full functional and it can manage 100 devices.

If your current license count is lower than your earlier license count, and you restore the data now, devices that exceed the current license count will be moved to Suspended state.

We can apply license from

Admin > System > License Management

Click Update &

browse to

License File to

update License

License for LMS and

Components.

License for CAAM


LMS Backup


CWLMS Backup process takes full backup of all the databases, managed devices and their credentials, details from all modules like Configuration, Inventory etc. Additionally it also takes backup of user details and login credentials as well.

We should back up the database regularly so that we have a safe copy of the database, which is useful in data recovery.

Schedule backup from : Admin > System > Backup

Backup

Directory

Backup max

Generations

Backup

Schedule

Backup Apply

or Remove


Log Rotation using LogRot


Log files can expand and fill up disk space. Log files rotation helps to manage the log files more efficiently.

Logrot is a log rotation program that enables you to control the size growth of the log files.

Following are the benefits of using Logrot:

a. Rotate log files while Cisco Prime is running.

b. Optionally archive and compress rotated logs.

c. Rotate log files only when they have reached a particular size. Logrot

Directory

Restart

Daemon

Option

Added log file,

Size, format &

no. of backup


Device Management Function


Device Management Function enables to Manage Applications to enable/disable on entire LMS level.

Till LMS 3.2 there were 8 different applications like Common Services, Portal and applications covering functionalities in FCAPS model. LMS 4.2 removes application boundaries and provides tighter integration among the components. It groups all the related functionalities in one place, thus making the product more user friendly.

If we disable a function, the function will stop collecting device information. For IPSLA Management, history data will be deleted.

Inventory, Config and Image management is default, and can’t be removed.


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A. Nestlé food company, known for its chocolates, deployed the Cisco® Prime Network Control System (NCS), which is now Cisco Prime™ LAN Management Solution (LMS) offered as part of Cisco Prime Infrastructure, on its network.

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LAN Management Solution (LMS) throughout its headquarters in Mount Olive, New Jersey..

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Nestlé food company, known for its chocolates, deployed the Cisco® Prime Network Control System

(NCS), which is now Cisco Prime™ LAN Management Solution (LMS) offered as part of Cisco Prime

Infrastructure, on its network. Essentially, the platform provides full visibility of connectivity across sites,

regardless of device, network, or location. “IT now truly supports Nestlé’s business-critical production

processes, because we have full visibility of connectivity to networks across all our manufacturing facilities,”

says Kavi Garrib, senior systems engineer at Nestlé South Africa. In the event of failure, Nestlé is now able

to resume its production in minutes, instead of days.

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