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Step 7See Installing a License File, page 18-35 to install a valid license.
If your login is successful, the main page of the ACS web interface appears.
If your login is unsuccessful, the following error message appears:
Invalid username or password specified.
The Username and Password fields are cleared.
Step 8Re-enter the valid username and password, and click...

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Web Interface Design
Figure 5-1 shows the overall design of the ACS web interface.
Figure 5-1 ACS Web Interface
The interface contains:
Header, page 5-6
Navigation Pane, page 5-7
Content Area, page 5-8
Header
Use the header to:
Identify the current user (your username)
Access the online help
Log out
Access the About information, where you can find information about...

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Navigation Pane
Use the navigation pane to navigate through the drawers of the web interface (see Figure 5-3). 
Figure 5-3 Navigation Pane
Ta b l e 5 - 3 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...

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The options listed beneath drawers in the navigation pane are organized in a tree structure, where 
appropriate. The options in the tree structure are dynamic and can change based on administrator actions. 
Creating, deleting, or renaming objects in the content area can change the option display in the 
navigation pane. 
For example, beneath the Network Resources >...

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Web Interface Location
Your current location in the interface appears at the top of the content area. Figure 5-5 shows that the 
location is the Policy Elements drawer and the Network Devices and AAA Clients page. 
Using this location as an example, ACS documentation uses this convention to indicate interface 
locations—Policy Elements > Policy Conditions > Network...

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Table 5-4 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.
100—Up to 100.
Go Click to display the number of items you specify in the Rows per page field.
Check box or radio 
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Tree table pages are a variation of list pages (see Figure 5-6). 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:
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...

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Filtering
Large lists in a content area window or a secondary window (see Figure 5-9) can be difficult to navigate 
through and select the data that you want. You can use the web interface to filter data in these windows 
to reduce the data that appears in a list, based on criteria and conditions that you choose. Ta b l e 5 - 5 
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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 column heading 
to determine if sorting is available for a column. If sorting is available, the cursor turns into a hand and 
the text 
Click to sort appears. 
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Figure 5-9 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...