5-27
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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Chapter
5






Importing

and

Managing

Devices
Discovering
Large

Numbers

of

Devices

Using

IP

Discovery
Enabling
a

Setup

Syslog

for

Autosync

for

Use

With

an

ACE
You
can

set

up

auto

synchronization

to

occur

when

ANM

receives

a

syslog

message

from

ACE

devices.
This
feature

allows

a

faster,

more

streamlined

synchronization

process

between

ANM

and

any
out-of-band
configuration

changes.

Rather

than

wait

the

default

polling

period,

ANM

will

synchronize
when
a

syslog

message

is

received

if

you

enable

the

Autosync

feature.
Note
ANM
does

not

support

Autosync

for

GSS

devices.
Procedure
Step
1
Choose
Config
>

Devices.

From

the

device

tree,

select

either

an

ACE

module

or

an

ACE

appliance.
Step
2
Choose
Setup
Syslog

for

Autosync.
The
Setup

Syslog

for

Autosync

window

appears.
Step
3
Choose
one

or

more

virtual

contexts

for

which

you

want
to
receive

Autosync
syslog
messages.
Step
4
Click
the
Setup
Syslog

button.
A
progress

bar

window

appears.
The
fo

llowing

CLI

co

mmands

ar

e

sent

to

th

e

enabled

ACE

devices:
logging
enable
logging
trap

2
logging
device-id

string

<ACE-Ip>/Admin
logging
host

<ANM-Ip>


udp/514
logging
message

111008

level

2
Step
5
If
the

setup

is

successful,

a

checkbox

with

check
mark
will

appear

in

the

Setup
Syslog
for
Autosync?
column
for

each

virtual

context

that

you

selected.

If

there

are

any

errors,

the

errors

will

be

shown

in

a
popup
window.
Discovering
Large

Numbers

of

Devices

Using

IP

Discovery
The
IP

Discovery

feature

allows

you

to

discover

and

import

Cisco

chassis

and

ACEs

into

the

ANM
database
as

follows:
1.
Preparing
devices
for
discovery.
This

process
involves

enabling

SSH

and

XML

over

HTTPS

and
adding
device

cr

edentials.

See

th

e

“Preparing

Devices

for

IP

Discovery”

section

on

pa

ge

5-28 .
2.
Discovering
devices

residing

on

your

network.

The

ANM

uses

SSH,

XML

over

HTTPS,

and

Telnet
to
discover

its

supported

devices.

When

you

run

IP

Discovery,

you

locate

IP

addresses

of

ACE
chassis
and

ap

pliances.

See

th

e

“Running

IP

Discovery

to

Identify

Devices”

section

on

page

5-31 .
After
discovery,

devices

do

not

appear

in

the

Devices

table

until

device

import

is

completed.

To
import
a

specific

chassis

into

the

ANM

database,

you

need

to

enter

IP

and

credentials

information
for
the

chassis

and

then

import

it

and

any

associated

modules.

While

this

discovery

method

requires
you
to

add

more

information

initially,

it

provides

more

control

over

the

discovery

process.