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This topic describes the following:
- Enabling NetMRI Tasks
- Disabling NetMRI Tasks
- Registering NetMRI with NIOS
- Running NetMRI Tasks
- Viewing Tasks Execution Logs and Approving Tasks in the Task Viewer
- Viewing Tasks Execution Logs in NetMRI
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Enabling NetMRI Tasks
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After you install the NetMRI appliance into a managed network and ensure the appliance is reachable by the NIOS Grid Master, register the NetMRI appliance with NIOS.
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| If two superusers are logged in to the NIOS system and one superuser enables the NetMRI Tasks pack on their console, the other superuser will not see the task pack on their console until their next login; the Disable NetMRI Tasks from the Configure icon menu shows the correct state. |
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Disabling NetMRI Tasks
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To disable the NetMRI Tasks pack:
- Click the Configure icon at the top right corner of the Tasks page.
- Choose Disable NetMRI Tasks.
The Disable NetMRI Tasks dialog box appears, requesting verification of your action:
Though you can see the change immediately, other users who are currently logged in will not see the change until they log in again.
Are you sure you want to proceed? - Click Yes to disable the NetMRI Tasks pack.
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Registering NetMRI with NIOS
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You must register a NetMRI appliance with NIOS using Grid Manager to support NetMRI Tasks. You need an account with admin privileges on the NetMRI appliance and the appliance hostname or IP address.
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| After you successfully register a NetMRI appliance with NIOS, you can use the Ecosystem > Cisco ISE Endpoint feature. It is available with the NetMRI license or Network Insight license that is installed by default on the discovery member in NIOS installations. This feature enables you to enhance identity management across devices and applications that are connected to your network routers and switches. You can monitor domain users, the IP addresses they log on to, the login status, and the time duration of their current status in the IPAM tab. For information about how to collect user and device information from Cisco ISE, see Integrating Cisco ISE into NIOS. |
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Running NetMRI Tasks
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The NetMRI task pack contains the following tasks:
- Network Provisioning
- Port Activation
- VLAN Reassignment
- Bare Metal Provisioning
- Rogue DHCP Server Remediation
Depending on your administrative permissions, Grid Manager displays tasks that you can access in the Automation tasks panel. You can configure the displayed tasks pack by adding or hiding tasks.
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The system sends the request to the NetMRI appliance and displays a notification message.
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VLAN Reassignment
VLANs can be reassigned to new interfaces on individual L2/L3 switches in the managed network. A VLAN can have a path across several switches; when you make changes on a given switch, make sure that the path is maintained.
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The VLAN Reassignment task will also write the full running configuration to the device's memory, making it the saved configuration. If the user made a change to the running configuration, in parallel with the port activation change, and did not save it, those changes will also be saved.
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Bare Metal Provisioning
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The Bare Metal Provisioning automated task enables automated installation of new switches and routers into the network. The Trinzic Automation task enables cost and convenience savings by detecting the default behavior of new devices on the network, pointing them to customized TFTP servers from which standardized bare-metal configuration files are downloaded and installed onto the new devices.
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All DHCP servers on the network should be under administrative control. If any device offering DHCP leases to clients on the network is not properly administered, it violates many security guidelines and at the very least may cause configuration problems throughout the network. Some events may be unwitting or innocuous (an office worker installing a wireless access point in their cube to share a resource), or may be an attempt to hijack clients and steal information. To prevent such issues, the Rogue DHCP Server Remediation task enables the detection, location and isolation of such devices.
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Viewing Tasks Execution Logs and Approving Tasks in the Task Viewer
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You can view the logged results from any task run from the Automation Tasks panel through Grid Manager's Task Viewer that displays the following pages:
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- From the Dashboards tab, select the Tasks tab.
- In the Automation Tasks panel, click the down arrow icon on the right and select Task Viewer.
The Task Viewer window appears, displaying a scrollable and sortable Job History table. Important columns include the Start Time, the Job ID (a numeric value with a clickable link to the TAE Job Details Viewer, which will open in a new browser tab), the Job Name, the User account that executed the task, the job Status and the # Devices (the number of devices) against which the task ran. The Job History page shows the most recent subset of executed NetMRI jobs. A yellow bar at the top of the table provides a click here to see more link, which takes the user to the NetMRI appliance Job History page in a new browser tab. - If an item appears in the Issues & Approvals page, do one of the folllowing in the Action column:
a. To view an issue in more detail, click an Issue Details link. This displays the NetMRI appliance Job Details page in a new browser tab for the selected job.
b. To approve a job, click an Approve Job link. This displays the Summary page of the NetMRI Job Wizard. Click Approve Job. - Click Close to close the Task Viewer.
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Viewing Tasks Execution Logs in NetMRI
You can start NetMRI directly from the Grid Manager's Dashboards tab to view tasks execution logs:
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