Cisco Acs 57 User Guide

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Navigation Pane
Use the navigation pane to navigate through the drawers of the web interface (see Figure 5 on page 7). 
Figure 5 Navigation Pane
Table 17 on page 7 describes the function of each drawer.
To open a drawer, click it. A list of options for that drawer appears. You can view the contents of only one drawer at a 
time. When you open a drawer, any previously open drawer automatically closes. 
Click an option to view the hierarchy of items...

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For example, beneath the Network Resources > Network Device Groups option, there are two preconfigured network 
device groups (options)—Location and Device Type. 
Figure 6 on page 8 s h o w s  t h a t  t h e  a d m i n i s t r a t o r  h a s  u s e d  t h e  N e t w o r k  D ev i c e  G r o u p s  o p t i o n  p a g e  t o  c r e a t e  a n  a d d i t i o n a l  
network device group called Business, which appears in the tree structure in the...

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Using this location as an example, ACS documentation uses this convention to indicate interface locations—Policy 
Elements > Policy Conditions > Network Devices and AAA Clients > Location. The remainder of the content area 
shows the content of the chosen page.
The interface location also displays the action that you are configuring. For example, if you are in the Users and Identity 
Stores > Internal Identity Stores > Users page and you attempt to...

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Tree table pages are a variation of list pages (see Figure 8 on page 11). You can perform the same operations on tree 
table pages that you can on list pages, except for paging. In addition, with tree table pages:
Table 18 Common Content Area Buttons and Fields for List Pages
Button or Field Description
Rows per page Use the drop-down list to specify the number of items to display on this page. Options:
10—Up to 10.
25—Up to 25.
50—Up to 50....

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A darker background color in a row indicates the top level of a tree.
If the first folder of a tree contains fewer than 50 items, the first folder is expanded and all others are collapsed. You 
must use the expanding icon (+) to view the contents of the collapsed folders.
If the first folder of a tree contains 50 or more items, all folders in the tree are collapsed. You must click the expanding 
icon (+) to view the contents of the folders.
If...

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Note: For tree table pages, you can only perform filtering on a root node, the top-most parent.
Sorting
Most nontree list pages support sorting by the Name column or the Description column, when available. You can sort 
pages in an ascending or descending manner. 
For pages that do not have a Name or Description column, the sorting mechanism may be supported in the left-most 
column of the page, or the Description column. Place your cursor over a...

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Figure 9 Sorting Example
Secondary Windows
The content area serves as the launching place for any secondary (popup) windows that you access by clicking Select 
(see Figure 10 on page 13) from single, tabbed, or wizard pages. You use these secondary windows to filter and select 
data that you want to use in your configuration (see Figure 11 on page 14 and Table 19 on page 12). 
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Figure 11 Secondary Window
In addition to selecting and filtering data, you can create a selectable object within a secondary window. 
For example, if you attempt to create a users internal identity store, and click Select to assign the store to an identity 
group (a selectable object), but the identity group you want to associate it with is not available for selection, you can click 
Create within the secondary window to create the object you want....

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Figure 12 Transfer Box
Schedule Boxes
Schedule boxes are a common element in content area pages (see Figure 12 on page 15). You use them to select active 
times for a policy element from a grid, where each row represent s  a  d ay  o f  t h e  w e e k  a n d  e a c h  s q u a r e  i n  a  r o w  r e p r e s e n t s  
an hour in a day. 
Click one square to make one hour active. Table 21 on page 16 describes the Schedule box options.
Table 20...

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Figure 13 Schedule Box
Rule Table Pages
Rule table pages display the rules that comprise policies. You can reorder rules within a rule table page and submit the 
policy that is associated with a table. You can access properties and customization pages from rule tables to configure 
your policies. 
For more information on specific rule table pages, and properties and customization pages, see Managing Access 
Policies, page 1. 
Directly above the rule...