Cisco Acs 57 User Guide

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Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring and Report Viewer
Viewing Log Collections
Log Collection Details Page
Use this page to view the recently collected log names for an ACS server.
1.From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, select Monitoring Configuration > System Operations > Log Collection.
2.Do one of the following:
Click the name of an ACS server.
Select the radio button of the ACS server name that you want to use to view recently collected logs, and click Get...

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Recovering Log Messages
Related Topic
Viewing Log Collections, page 7
Recovering Log Messages
ACS server sends syslog messages to the Monitoring and Report Viewer for the activities such as passed authentication, 
failed attempts, authorization, accounting, and so on. 
The syslog messages have a sequence number attached. If the Monitoring and Report Viewer goes down or if it is not 
able to receive messages from ACS,...

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Viewing Scheduled Jobs
Note: View logging recovery will not retrieve the missed logs when the View Logging Recovery feature is disabled and 
the view is down. 
Viewing Scheduled Jobs
Use this page to view the scheduled jobs.
From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, select Monitoring Configuration > System Operations > Scheduler.
Table 5 Log Message Recovery Page
Option Description
Log Message Recovery Option
On Enable...

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Viewing Process Status
Note: When you change any schedule through the ACS web interface, for the new schedule to take effect, you must 
manually restart the Job Manager process. For more information on the CLI command to restart processes, see CLI 
Reference Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.7.
Viewing Process Status
Use this page to view the status of processes running in your ACS environment.
From the...

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Viewing Data Upgrade Status
Viewing Data Upgrade Status
After you upgrade to ACS 5.7, ensure that the Monitoring and Report Viewer database upgrade is complete. 
You can do this through the ACS web interface. Refer to the Installation Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 
5.7 for more information on the upgrade process.
To view the status of Monitoring and Report Viewer data upgrade:
1.From the Monitoring and...

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Specifying E Mail Settings
Related Topic
Viewing Failure Reasons, page 13
Specifying E Mail Settings
Use this page to specify the email server and administrator email address.
From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, choose Monitoring Configuration > System Configuration > Email Settings.
SNMP Traps
SNMP traps helps you to monitor the status of ACS processes. If you do not have access to an ACS server, but want to...

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SNMP Traps
The cron job retrieves the ACS process status from the monit binary. ACS 5.7 supports both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c.
ACS sends traps for the following status to the configured SNMP server:
Process Start (monitored state)
Process Stop (not monitored state)
Execution Failed
Does not exists
In the SNMP server, for every object, a unique object ID is generated and a value is assigned to the OID. You can find the...

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SNMP Traps
/tmp
/boot
/dev/shm
You can also run the show disks command from ACS CLI to view the list of partitions available in ACS. A fresh ACS server 
does not have all the above partitions and a few partitions may not be available.
ACS 5.7 allows you to send SNMP traps to an SNMP host if any of the above ACS partitions reaches its configured 
threshold disk utilization value. ACS introduces a new CLI command...

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Configuring SNMP Preferences
The SNMP server is now configured to send SNMP traps for monitoring disk utilization. 
Configuring SNMP Preferences
You can configure SNMP preferences to authenticate access to MIB objects. The text string that you enter for SNMP 
preference functions as an embedded password.
To configure SNMP preferences:
1.From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, choose Monitoring Configuration > System...

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Understanding Collection Filters
Creating and Editing Collection Filters
Use this page to create or edit collection filters. To do this:
1.From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, choose Monitoring Configuration > System Configuration > Collection 
Filters.
The Collection Filters page appears.
2.In the Filters area, do one of the following:
Click Create to create a collection filter.
Check the check box of the syslog...