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Admin

Understanding the Admin Menu

The Admin menu contains administrative settings for the web, web applications, web user accounts, and monitoring activities on the server. Web settings include session timeout, message of the day, and web policies. Web applications include the diagnostic tools, ping parameters, and trace route parameters. Web user accounts includes user access, groups, and password reset. Server monitoring includes viewing logs, login history, memory, CPU, and IP/MPLSView system processes.

When you select the Admin menu, the Administration window is displayed. Among the suboptions under Application, you can remove stale interfaces, stale tunnels, and stale routers from your topology. For example, Figure 1 illustrates how to use the Adminstration window to remove a stale tunnel.

Figure 1: Administration Window for Removing Stale Tunnels

You can also use the Administration window to duplicate or rename an existing report group.

Duplicating or Renaming an Existing Report Group

To duplicate or rename an existing report group:

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select Application > Report Groups.
In the Report Groups pane, select the group name that you want to duplicate or rename.
Perform one of the following actions:
- To create a duplicate report group, click Duplicate Group and complete the fields in the Duplicate Group dialog box, as shown in Figure 2.
  
  Figure 2: Administration Window for Creating a Duplicate Report Group
- To rename a report group, click Rename Group and complete the fields in the Rename Group dialog box. The Duplicate Group dialog box and the Rename Group dialog box have identical fields.

Updating the GUI Login Policy

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select GUI User Admin > Update GUI Login Policy.
The Update GUI Login Policy window is displayed.

Figure 3: Administration Window for Updating the GUI Login Policy
Modify the fields, following the descriptions in the main pane and select the access control, if needed. Figure 3 shows the fields and descriptions.
Click Change Information to apply the changes.

Displaying Current Licenses

To display current licenses:

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select License > Show License.
The License File window is displayed, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Display Licenses

This window shows the description, password, expiration date, number of users and viewers allowed using the license, as well as the node limit.

Uploading a License

To upload a license:

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select License > Upload License.
The Upload Licence file window is displayed. Figure 5 shows the Upload License file window.

Figure 5: Upload License File
Click Choose File to locate the license file, then click Upload.

Viewing Vendor Icons

To view the vendor icons used in IP/MPLSView:

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select View > Vendor Icons.
The Vendor Icons window is displayed, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Vendor Icons
Click Refresh View to refresh the list.

Viewing the User Activity Log

To view the user activity log:

Select Admin and in the Admin pane select View > User Activity Log.
The User Activities window is displayed.
Double-click the timestamp entry to display the user activity. Figure 7 shows an example of user activity.

Figure 7: Viewing the User Activity Log
To modify the dates, select a start date and end date or search for a specific date and click Perform Query Search.