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CNC Quick Start Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1
Purpose .................................................................................................................................................... 1
Scope and Program Limitations .............................................................................................................. 1
Audience.................................................................................................................................................. 1
CNC v5.x Overview .................................................................................................................................. 1
Usage Restrictions................................................................................................................................... 2
Download and Install the CNC Software .................................................................................................. 2
Read the Release Notes ............................................................................................................................. 2
Access CNC............................................................................................................................................... 3
Add Devices............................................................................................................................................... 5
View Inventory Status and Inventory Details............................................................................................ 8
Modify Device Access............................................................................................................................. 10
Access Verification ............................................................................................................................... 12
Retrieve and Verify Configuration........................................................................................................ 14
Net Audit ................................................................................................................................................. 16
Transfer Inventory and Reports Data to Cisco ........................................................................................ 20
Network Profile Backend page................................................................................................................ 21
Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................................... 22
Discovery Hangs ................................................................................................................................... 22
Import the Seed File............................................................................................................................ 22
View the Inventory ............................................................................................................................. 23
Run Device Inventory Again .............................................................................................................. 24
Appendix A—CNC FAQs ....................................................................................................................... 26
Appendix B—CNC Commands............................................................................................................... 28
Terminating CNC Processes to Restore System Resources.................................................................. 28
Introduction
Purpose
The Cisco Network Collector (CNC) Quick Start Guide is a simple step-by-step guide to quickly start using the CNC Version
5.x GUI to perform customer network hardware and software discoveries and inventories and Net Audits, and transfer that
data back to Cisco.
CNC also has the capability to conduct network audits, network profile data collections, and generate reports. For auditing
customer networks, Cisco’s Advanced Services should be engaged. If your customer is interested in a network audits, please
contact the Advanced Services Manager within the customer’s region.
Note: Discovery is currently limited to a maximum of 5000 devices. For a list of supported devices, click:
http://commanche/NP/rbml/LWCDEVICE.html.
Audience
The CNC tool is intended for use by Cisco Systems Advanced Services (AS). Installation and deployment of CNC on a
customer network and subsequent analyses of the inventory data should be performed by Network Consulting Engineers and
the customer’s STS Support engineer.
Version 5.x of the CNC tool is a Java-based tool. It is supported on Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and
Solaris platforms, with the Java Runtime Engine, and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser.
Usage Restrictions
CNC is used by various programs within Cisco. However, AS subscription customers are entitled to the full functionality of
the tool.
Access CNC
Follow the steps in the table below to get started using CNC.
Add Devices
Next you will need to add your devices to CNC. There are three ways to do this:
• Device Discovery
• NMS Integration
• Importing a Seed File
Device Discovery can be performed by clicking Device Discovery Administration from the Discovery option of the Device
Manager tab, and following the steps provided by the Wizard. Explanation of the options provided by the Wizard is given in the
CNC User Guide. For all other details and aspects of discovery configuration, such as additional options, filters, scheduling,
etc., please also consult the CNC User Guide.
NMS Integration is supported with CiscoWorks RME versions 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 on the Solaris platform. A small package must be
installed on the customer’s CW box to enable the NMS integration functionality. This package can be obtained by contacting
your Cisco network consulting engineer.
Importing a Seed File is the easiest and most common way of adding devices, and is the method described below. You can use
the import seed file method if the customer’s network is running CiscoWorks 2000/Resource Manager Essentials to manage all
devices. First, you will need to export a Seed File from their RME server as follows:
Step 1. Select Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Inventory and choose Export to File
Step 2. Save file as 1.0 CSV format. This will give you a Seed File like the following example:
Sample Seed file
//
snmp ro
snmp rw
serial number
user field 1
user field 2
user field3
user field 4
telnet password
enable
enable secret
tacacs username
tacacs password
tacacs enable username
tacacs enable password
local user
local password
rcp user
rcp password
//
Step 3. Next, follow the steps in the table below to import the Seed File.
To view the current inventory status of discovered devices, use the following procedure:
The IP address of each device is listed in the Available Devices column of the Device Inventory Viewer screen.
The Inventory Summary screen lists a summary of devices, giving the following information:
Note on Device Installed Memory: To capture devices’ installed memory, you must have telnet user level access to the device,
provided by the customer. For more information on telnet access and getting installed memory data, see “Modify Device” in the
following section.
• To obtain the installed memory of all devices, CNC must run the show version command.
• If you do not require the device memory or device config information, skip this procedure and proceed to the “Net
Audit” or “Transfer Data to Cisco” section. The Net Audit or CNC report can be processed properly without these
procedures.
Access Verification
After modifying device access information, perform access verification by following the steps in the table below:
After you have verified access to the modified devices, you will need to schedule a full inventory to retrieve and verify
configuration information. To retrieve and verify configuration information, follow the steps in the table below:
Procedure Retrieve and Verify Configuration
Step 1. From the Device Manager tab, click
Inventory.
Net Audit
Important Notes:
• In Step 2 below, never click the Submit button more than once. If you do, all net audit data will be lost and not
recoverable.
• Some7 day audits may take longer than 7 days, sometimes as many as 10 or 11, so don’t return the laptop until it is
finished.
o Since the last telnet iteration starts at the end of the 7 days, if you have a 300 device switch v4 audit, the telnet
alone will take about one to two days to finish at the end, so you have a 9 day audit.
o If download task and preparser for telnet comes in, then it will be an additional one or two days, so you will
have a 10 day audit. It is suggested not to power off the laptop at all until you get confirmation from your CNC
support engineer.
The Data Transfer certificate is completely different from the Entitlement certificate you entered when installing CNC. For
more information, see Appendix A: FAQs.
Procedure Transfer Data to Cisco
Step 1. From the Data Transfer tab,
choose the Set Parameters option from the
menu. Then check the Enable Data
Transfer check box and click Save
Configuration.
Currently, after data download and audit download if you want a report right away, you need to call the support engineer to have
the NP run manually for the ID, and tell them the ID. Or you can wait, but since the backend is profiled once every 24 hours
hence may have to wait another day before scheduling the report. The CNC support engineer will call an infrastructure engineer
to have the process done if needed immediately.
Replace the above xxxx with your ID number. You may then select the REP tab and schedule IOS profile report, SSR report and
Cat OS report. To get a BP report, select the Other links under the home page, select Extract Device Configurations, and select
all devices and get the zip and tar file.
After you get the file, select the BP tab, from a regular CNC page, eg:
http://commanche/cgi-bin/netw/bp/main.pl?p_cust_id=&cust.id=care and select On demand and then On demand batch. Upload the file
and then you will receive a BP report.
Troubleshooting
The topics in this section give general guidelines to resolving common issues.
Discovery Hangs
Use the procedures in this section if the discovery process either dies or hangs, or if you need to manually stop discovery to
import the device data for inventory collection. This section includes the following procedures:
c:\progra~1\CSCONsap\objects\CSCOad\nsa\natkit\data\crmexport.txt
Import the Seed File using the procedures outlined in the section above titled “Add Devices”.
If the string is correct, then check the SNMP access list configured on the first router. Your computer IP address may not have access privileges
for SNMP queries if it is not on the router’s SNMP access list.
For CDP and IP Route Table based discovery, the first router must be accessible by SNMP. If the first router is not accessible by SNMP, then
no devices will be discovered.
Q. Why do devices become unmanaged (active)? And, how can I troubleshoot this state?
A. Devices become unmanaged for the following reasons:
• A hostname problem due to an invalid DNS server or DNS server entry. To remedy, try issuing a PING to the hostname,
and check your PC DNS settings.
• An IP address problem may be due to an n invalid gateway setting. Check your TCP/IP settings in your PC network
control panel.
• If devices are still unmanageable, use snmputil.exe to attempt a MIB walk (e.g. snmputil.exe walk devicename snmpro
.1.3.6 to see if you can get a response. If you still get no response, then verify your SNMP read only strings, and check
SNMP access list settings on device).
Wait one minute, and then type the following command string:
Wait one minute, and then type the following command string:
Wait one more minute, and then type the following command string:
Q. What is the difference between entitlement certificate and data transfer certificate?
A. During the install of the CNC software, it will ask you for the path to a file before you can continue. This file is called the Entitlement
certificate Obtaining the Entitlement certificate is part of the process you do at CCO for getting the transaction ID. The Entitlement certificate
is necessary to verify you are allowed to use CNC, and what features are enabled for you depend on your program. Each certificate represents a
different customer and can not be used for anything else.
The Data Transfer certificate is the encryption key used by the software to handshake with the Cisco backend. This certificate is located at
../CSCONsap/lib/classpath/xxxxxxx.cer, not the outback.cer and you need to upload the certificate into the CCO for the backend to be able to
handshake.
Q. What will happen if the Data Transfer certificate did not get imported?
A. If the Data Transfer certificate is not imported, then the transferred data file will be disregarded by Cisco and you will not get a report.
Please be sure to import the certificate.
Note: Wait two minutes for processes to terminate before restarting. Then, wait another two minutes for processes to start
up again
• To terminate CNC processes, go to the PC command line interface (Choose Run from Windows’ Start menu to access),
type run psterm all, and press Enter.
• To restore CNC processes to use the tool later, go back to the command line, type run psterm all and press Enter.