Clicking on any device's name in the Name column, you open a set of five tabs revealing information about the selected device (see the following sections for details on discovered and managed devices):
The Interfaces tab (see Viewing Interface Information for Discovered Devices below);
The Networks tab (see Viewing Networks Associated with Discovered Devices);
The IP Addresses tab (see Viewing IP Addresses Associated with Discovered Devices ); The Assets tab (see Viewing Assets Associated with Discovered Devices);
The Components tab (see Viewing Components of Discovered and Managed Devices).
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- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab. The Devices Home page displays a list of all devices currently found and catalogued by discovery.
- Click the Action icon
for a chosen device and choose Interfaces from the drop-down menu, or simply click the device name to display the Interfaces list. Click Devices Home to return to the main Devices page.
This panel displays the following information for each interface. Note that some data may appear for some device types and not for others.
- Name: The name of the interface (usually a switched interface) associated with the discovered device.
- Reservation: Indicates whether the port has been reserved by NIOS as part of a Port Control operation.
- IP Address: Detected IPv4 or IPv6 address of the interface.
- VRF Name: The name of the VRF associated with the interface, if applicable.
- Network View: The name of the network view to which the VRF instance belongs, if applicable. If there is only one network view in the Grid, which is the default view, the Network View column is hidden by default.
- VRF Description: The description about the VRF instance, if applicable.
- VRF RD: The route distinguisher associated with the VRF instance, if applicable.
- MAC Address: The hardware address associated with the interface.
- Description: Port description associated with the interface, such as ge-0/0/5 or FastEthernet0/13.
- VLAN ID/VLAN Name: The data VLAN identifier and VLAN name that is bound to the interface, if applicable.
- Port Speed: Interface speed, in Mbps.
- Port Type: Type of interface as detected by NIOS Discovery. Examples include ethernet-csmacd, propPointToPoint Serial, l2vlan, tunnel, and others.
- Admin Status: Shows whether the interface is administratively Up or administratively Down.
- Operating Status: Shows whether the interface is operationally Up or operationally Down.
- Trunk Status: Where applicable, shows the trunking status of the interface.
- Link Aggregation: Shows the state of the interface if it is part of a LAG (Link Aggregation Group).
- Status: Shows whether the interface is Used or Unused.
- IPAM Type: The object type that is associated with the IP address for the interface. Possible values can be Lease, IPv4 DHCP Range or Fixed Address.
- Usage: Indicates whether NIOS has configured the IP address for DNS or DHCP.
- Managed: Shows whether the interface is managed under IPAM, by being associated with a managed IPAM object such as a Fixed Address. Check the IPAM Type field for related information.
- Reservation: Indicates whether the interface has a port reservation bound to it. For information,
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- Capabilities: Describes the capabilities of each interface in the selected device. Hover the mouse over each entry to view the complete listing. For information, see Determining Interface Capabilities.
- Site: This is a predefined extensible attribute.
You can also click the Action icon
next to an interface name and select one of the following to perform the specified task:
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- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab. The Devices Home page displays a list of all devices currently found and catalogued by discovery.
- Click the Action icon for a chosen device and choose Interfaces from the popup menu.
- Click the right end of a column header and choose Columns –> Edit Columns from the drop-down menu.
- Select the Capabilities check box and click Apply.
The text listing for the Capabilities field may be too long to display in the Interfaces table. Hover the mouse over any table row to display the complete entry for the Capabilities field:
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Figure 15.7 Capabilities information for the selected interface
Critical values in the Capabilities field include the following:
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- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab. The Devices Home page displays a list of all devices currently found and catalogued by discovery.
- Click the Action icon for a chosen device and choose Interfaces from the drop-down menu, or simply click the device name to display the Interfaces list. Click Devices Home to return to the main Devices page.
- Click the Network tab. Grid Manager displays all networks to which the chosen device connects. The Networks page uses the same conventions as the main IPAM page for network listings.
You see three types of networks in this page:
- Networks shown in grey table rows are discovered networks that cannot be added to IPAM because they do not fit within the list of currently configured or discovered networks. (These networks are also called
- Non-NIOS networks.) Grey rows appear with an empty value in the Managed column. When a network is in this state you are limited to de-provisioning discovered networks of this type from their host device, and viewing device details.
- Networks shown in yellow table rows are unmanaged networks, but are recognized by IPAM and can be converted to managed status. Yellow rows appear with a value of No in the Managed column. You can provision these networks onto devices;
- Networks shown in white table rows are managed networks, appearing with a value of Yes in the Managed column. You can provision and de-provision managed networks.
Grid Manager displays the following applicable information for each network found on the selected device. A field is left blank if the information is not applicable to the network.
- Network: The network IPv4 or IPv6 address.
- VRF Name: The name of the VRF associated with the interface, if applicable.
- Network View: The name of the network view to which the VRF instance belongs, if applicable. If there is only one network view in the Grid, which is the default view, the Network View column is hidden by default.
- VRF Description: The description about the VRF instance, if applicable.
- VRF RD: The route distinguisher associated with the VRF instance, if applicable.
- Comment: Any information entered by admins about the network.
- Managed: Shows values of Yes or No for managed status.
Using the Action icon
, you you can perform the following tasks in the Networks page:
- Show IPAM Network: Opens the IPAM IP MAP that illustrates the IP states for all IPs in the network.
- De-provision Network: Available for managed networks that are provisioned and active on a device. Allows you to de-provision (delete) the selected IPAM network from all devices connected to the selected network. See Provisioning and De-Provisioning Networks.
- Edit: Opens the network editor for the selected network. This option is enabled if the network is in managed status.
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- Delete: Select Delete to delete the network now or select Schedule Deletion to schedule the deletion at a later time. Note that the deletion function allows you to de-provision the actual network from the device. By default, when you choose Delete or Scheduled Delete, the network is de-provisioned from all interfaces listed in the panel. Exercise caution when using this feature!
- Extensible Attributes: Provides access to the extensible attribute settings for the selected network.
- Permissions: Provides access to admin permissions settings for the selected network. This option is enabled if the network is in managed status.
- Convert: Converts unmanaged network to a managed network in NIOS. All discovered networks on each device are automatically listed as Unmanaged after a discovery. This means that the discovered network, though visible, does not have its identities resolved by NIOS, nor are its IP address managed through IPAM or leased through DHCP. After converting the unmanaged network to managed status, Grid Manager uses the discovered router IP address to populate the same value under subsequent DHCP configurations for the network. You can also select an unmanaged network and convert it to managed status by clicking Convert from the Toolbar.
- Device Details: Provides information about the device to which the selected network belongs. The list includes information such as the IP Address and Device Type for the device, and in the IPAM Type field whether the device itself is a managed or unmanaged object in NIOS. It also provides the following status counters for the device:
- Administrative Up - Operational Up: The number of ports that are fully up and passing traffic
- Administrative Up - Operations Down: The number of ports that are administratively up, but have some kind of connectivity issues.
- Administrative Down - Operational Down: The number of ports that are administratively taken down.
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- Provision Network
: Available for managed networks and for unmanaged networks that are recognized by IPAM. For information, see Provisioning and De-Provisioning Networks on page 750). Clicking this icon opens the Provision Network feature, allowing you to provision the network onto the actual device by selecting a device interface, and enabling DHCP Forwarding and/or assigning a VLAN. Grid Manager creates a new port control task under Task Manager, and you can choose the interface on which the network is provisioned, along with VLAN configuration and other settings. - De-Provision Network
: Available for discovered networks that are not visible under IPAM. A dialog box appears summarizing the task. - Show Active Users: For Microsoft Management only. Displays the Active Users dialog box. You can view all the active users on the Active Directory domain for the selected device. For more information, see Viewing Active Network Users.
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- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab.
- Click the Name link for the device you want to inspect.
- Click the Networks tab.
- Click the Action icon
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- Click the DHCP Forwarding tab.
- Select the check box for any listed instance and do the following if necessary:
- Click Configure. Grid Manager queries you to confirm that DHCP Forwarding are configured on the selected network (A task will be created to configure DHCP forwarding for this network on these devices: <device_name>. You can view the execution log for the task in the Task Manager to see the results).
- Click Delete to remove the selected DHCP Forwarding instance from the network.
Figure 15.8 DHCP Forwarding confirmations
- Click Yes to confirm the activating or deletion of DHCP forwarding on the selection, or No to reject the change.
- Click Save & Close.
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You can view the complete list of discovered IP addresses bound to all interfaces for any device, discovered and managed devices alike.
Note: One useful trick for interfaces is to pick out an interface from the Interfaces page that has multiple IPs and open the IP Addresses tab; or sort the IP addresses table by its IP Address column, and locate the interface name that bears multiple IPs. Frequently, an interface with multiple addresses can have IPv4 and IPv6 addresses bound to it. Loopbacks are another example.
- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab. The Devices Home page displays a list of all devices currently found and catalogued by discovery.
- Click the Action icon for a chosen device and choose Interfaces from the drop-down menu, or simply click the device name to display the Interfaces list. Click Devices Home to return to the main Devices page.
- Click the IP Addresses tab. Grid Manager displays all IP addresses associated with the chosen device. Grid Manager displays the following information for each IP address:
- IP Address: The IP address for each discovered interface as managed by NIOS and IPAM. The table supports IPv4 and IPv6 values. Each IP address is a link to the home IPAM page for the interface. If an IP address does appear but is not a link, this indicates the discovered IP is not recognized under IPAM.
- VRF Name: The name of the VRF associated with the interface, if applicable.
- Network View: The name of the network view to which the VRF instance belongs, if applicable. If there is only one network view in the Grid, which is the default view, the Network View column is hidden by default.
- VRF Description: The description about the VRF instance, if applicable.
- VRF RD: The route distinguisher associated with the VRF instance, if applicable.
- Interface Name: The name of the interface (usually a switched interface) associated with the discovered device.
- MAC Address: The hardware MAC address associated with the interface.
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VLAN Name/VLAN ID: The data VLAN name and VLAN identifier to which the interface is bound, if applicable. In most cases, you see both the VLAN name and the VLAN ID as two values in the same field. Multiple VLAN entries may be present for an interface or IP Address.Some interfaces may have a large number of associated VLANs. By default,
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- Network Insight does not automatically show all of them, instead providing a Show all... link for reference within the table cell. All VLAN ID/VLAN name values appear within the table cell, with a Hide... link provided to shorted the list back to original length.
- AdminStatus: Lists whether the interface is administratively Up or administratively Down.
- OperationStatus: The operational status of the interface (operationally Up or operationally Down).
- Managed: Indicates whether or not the IP Address is managed by Grid Manager. If the IP address is unmanaged, you will be able to Convert the IP address to an Object that is managed by Grid Manager.
- Site: This is a predefined extensible attribute. Extensible attributes may also appear in this table.
- Click the IP Address link for any interface to open the Related Objects page for the chosen port.
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- Edit Interface: Opens the interface general settings page. You can view and modify basic interface settings such as Admin Status (on the General page), Data VLAN and Voice VLAN (on the VLAN page), and add or modify extensible attributes.
- Convert: Depending on the address type and its IPAM status, you may be able to convert the selected IP to a Host Record, A Record, PTR Record or a Fixed Address. Otherwise, Grid Manager shows This object cannot be converted. You can also perform the same action by selecting an IP address check box and clicking Convert from the Toolbar.
- Device Details: Provides information about the device to which the selected IP address belongs. The list includes information such as the IP Address and Device Type for the device, and in the IPAM Type field whether the device itself is a managed or unmanaged object in NIOS. It also provides the following status counters for the device:
- Total Available Interfaces: The total number of interfaces associated with the device.
- Administrative Up - Operational Up: The number of ports that are fully up and passing traffic
- Administrative Up - Operations Down: The number of ports that are administratively up, but have some kind of connectivity issues.
- Administrative Down - Operational Down: The number of ports that are administratively taken down.
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- VIP: The Virtual IP for the router redundancy pair;
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- From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab. The Devices Home page displays a list of all devices currently found and catalogued by discovery.
- Click the Action icon for a chosen device and choose Interfaces from the drop-down menu, or simply click the device name to display the Interfaces list. Click Devices Home to return to the main Devices page.
- Click the Assets tab. Grid Manager displays all assets associated with the chosen device.
Note: The list of assets at this level may include devices that are trunked to the current device, including end-user host computers or routers and switch-routers neighboring the currently selected device.
Grid Manager displays the following information for each asset:
- Name: The asset name on the network as discovered by Grid Manager. If the name is that for another infrastructure device, you may click on it to see its associated assets.
- Interface Name: The name of the interface (usually a switched interface) associated with the discovered device.
- VRF Name: The name of the VRF associated with the interface, if applicable.
- Network View: The name of the network view to which the VRF instance belongs, if applicable. If there is only one network view in the Grid, which is the default view, the Network View column is hidden by default.
- VRF Description: The description about the VRF instance, if applicable.
- VRF RD: The route distinguisher associated with the VRF instance, if applicable.
- IP Address: The IP Address for each discovered asset as managed by NIOS and IPAM. The IP address is a link to the home IPAM page for the interface.
- Type: The type of device. Infrastructure devices such as routers and switches may also be categorized as an Asset.
- Username: The User Name for the asset, as defined from the host's DHCP lease.
- Asset MAC Address: The hardware MAC address associated with the asset.
- VLAN Name/VLAN ID: The VLAN identifier from which the asset is reachable.
- Admin Status: The administrative status (Up or Down) of the management port that identifies the asset device.
- Operation Status: Normally reads Up or Down. Asset records may appear as Down because they are disconnected from the network or being rebooted.
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- Managed: Indicates whether the asset is managed by NIOS.
- Reservation: Indicates whether the interface has a port reservation bound to it.
- Capabilities: Describes the capabilities of each interface in the selected device. Hover the mouse over each entry to view the complete listing.
- Site: This is a predefined extensible attribute.
Using the Action icon
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- Click the Name link for the device you want to inspect.
- Click the Action icon for an interface in the table, and choose Show Assets. (Applies only to switched interfaces that do not have an IP address.)
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In the Interfaces page, if you select an interface for a switch that is only connected to a neighboring switch, router, or switch-router, and then choose Show Assets, the Assets page displays only the neighboring device that is reachable from the chosen port.
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