PMVision 1.3b5 Open Beta Release Note1998/11/11PMVision(TM) is a configuration and monitoring application for Lucent PortMaster(R) products based on Sun Microsystem's Java Virtual Machine version 1.1.4. Version 1.3b5 of PMVision is available for open beta to any Lucent customer at no charge. This beta version of PMVision works best with the following ComOS(R) versions and provides equivalent functions:
If you are running an older version of ComOS, not all PMVision functions are available. Contents
Main FunctionsPMVision was designed to do the following:
PMVision provides a single document interface (SDI) panel. A control tree appears on the left, a list of currently open PortMaster products -- including selection information -- appears at the top center, and the main function window is in the center. To access a PortMaster, you select the Connect option from the PortMaster pull-down menu, or select PortMaster in the control tree. PMVision allows you to connect to a PortMaster using the default !root login, or to use RADIUS authenticated administrative logins if the PortMaster is appropriately configured. If RADIUS authenticated administrative logins are used, the password for these logins is currently sent over the connection in cleartext.
A RADIUS NAS-Prompt-User has limited command rights. A RADIUS Administrative-User is equivalent to the !root administrative login. PMVision treats the RADIUS NAS-Prompt-User administrative user the same as the RADIUS Administrative-User until ComOS denies access to a function. For example, a user at the NAS-Prompt-User level can use PMVision to create a user or location record, but creation of that record is denied when the command is sent to the PortMaster. You access PMVision functions by clicking them in the menu tree. PMVision provides the following main functions:
PMVision provides extensive monitoring capabilities, including the ability to monitor diagnostic commands. The Monitor tree item allows you to monitor operations on the PortMaster as follows.
The Graph tree item allows you to view and log the history of modem and session summaries. You can specify the log interval, log file, and colors for each item in the display. The colors are saved to a preferences file. This feature is currently available only on the PortMaster 4 running ComOS 4.0 or later.
Debug allows you to select a variety of debug information to be displayed.
* Upgrade allows you to upgrade with a ComOS upgrade file. * Back Up allows you to save certain parts of your configuration to a file. This configuration is saved in ASCII file format. Restore allows you to restore a previously saved configuration file. When doing a restore, PMVision is not just performing an erase and restore operation. Instead, the configuration file overwrites the specific configuration information that is being restored from the file. NOTE: Any items that are not overwritten by the restore operation are left unchanged. WARNING: If you are running ComOS 3.8 or earlier, backing up the user table fails to recover the individual user passwords. For this reason, restoring a user table from a PMVision backup produces null passwords in the user table. If a user entry has a null password, the PortMaster does not prompt the user for a password at login. As a result, the user might be unable to log in. In addition, an unauthorized user might gain access to the user account because no password is required. After a backup and restore operation, you must add user passwords through either PMVision or the command line interface. NOTE: As of PMVision 1.3b5 and ComOS 3.9b5 or ComOS 4.0, user passwords can be retrieved from the PortMaster. However, the passwords are passed from the PortMaster to PMVision in clear text. They are then encrypted when saved to the file. WARNING: If you are running ComOS 3.8 or earlier, the administrative (!root) password and RADIUS and ChoiceNet secrets are not saved by the backup operation. Unless you add the administrative password and RADIUS and ChoiceNet secrets to the backup file, they are not restore and the previous password and secrets remain in effect. NOTE: As of PMVision 1.3b5 and ComOS 3.9b5 or ComOS 4.0, RADIUS and ChoiceNet secrets can be retrieved from the PortMaster. However, the secrets are passed from the PortMaster to PMVision in clear text. They are then encrypted when saved to the file. PMVision does not read or restore binary backup files. However, you can use Upgrade to send binary backup files created by pmreadconf to a PortMaster. CAUTION: Because the binary backup file format is heavily dependent on ComOS version, restoring a file saved from one version onto another is not recommended.
Command provides a command window for entering ComOS commands and viewing command output.
Configure allows you to enter, view, and update configuration information for the PortMaster. When controlling a PortMaster running a ComOS release earlier than 3.8, PMVision does not provide configuration for SNMP, the host table, or static routes. New FeaturesFollowing is a list of the new features in PMVision 1.3b5: * The Macintosh platform is now supported. You must use Apple's MRJ 2.1ea3 version of their Java Virtual Machine. * Support for PortMaster 4 Tri E1 boards has been added. * A new monitoring option, Users, shows a list of users currently connected to the PortMaster. * A new monitoring option, Alarms, shows a list of alarms triggered on the connected PortMaster. * A new monitoring option, OSPF Neighbors, shows the list of OSPF neighbors on a PortMaster 3 running ComOS 3.9b5 or a PortMaster 4 running ComOS 4.0. * A new backup option, Save User Passwords is available on a PortMaster 3 running ComOS 3.9b5 or a PortMaster 4 running ComOS 4.0. NOTE: The user passwords are sent between the PortMaster and PMVision in clear text. You are prompted when making a backup, about whether to retrieve the user passwords. The passwords are encrypted when saved to the back up file. * A new backup option, Save Secrets, is available on a PortMaster 3 running ComOS 3.9b5 or a PortMaster 4 running ComOS 4.0. This option saves the secrets for RADIUS and ChoiceNet servers. NOTE: The secrets are sent between the PortMaster and PMVision in clear text. You are prompted when making a backup about wheter to retrieve the secrets. The secrets are encrypted when saved to the backup file. * During configuration, adding an item will now allows you to immediately edit the item's configuration. * Filters, locations and users can now be renamed. * Double-clicking an item in a configuration display allow you to edit the item's configuration. * Monitor panels can now be shown in a separate window. Select the "New Window" button at the bottom of the Monitor panel to create the separate window. NOTE: Because each monitoring option is only turned on once per PortMaster, you might not see monitor data appear in a panel until the next set of monitoring data is sent from the PortMaster. LimitationsFollowing is a list of the known limitations in PMVision 1.3b5: * The Monitoring->Interfaces option does not show the point-to-point interfaces on the PortMaster 4. * You cannot currently add DLCI entries to a Quad T1 or Triple E1 board on a PortMaster 4. * Configure->Routes has been removed from this release. * Although hypertext links in the help system work under Sun's JRE 1.1.4, they do not work under JRE 1.1.5. This bug is fixed in Sun's JRE 1.1.6. * The backup operation (Maintain --> Back Up) does not save the administrative password. * Do not connect to more than five PortMaster 3 products unless you have more than 32MB of RAM in the computer running PMVision. * Monitor --> Modems shows different call and retrain counts than a "show modem" command entered at the command line. * Modem information is not always displayed in the correct order. Click the column name to sort the column correctly. * During configuration, an invalid entry is changed to a valid value on some Configuration panels. In a future release of PMVision, an invalid input will be identified so that you can change it to a valid value. * On the Diagnose --> Debug panel, the debug options do not always turn off correctly after you deselect them, and might continue to display debug information. Turn off all debug options to stop the display of all debug information. * Because ComOS has only one set of debug flags, changing the debug settings on the command line affects the debug messages displayed in the PMVision debug panel. * In Microsoft Windows, the "hourglass" cursor remains visible after PMVision completes an operation. Move the mouse to correct the cursor. * The scroll bar might not work correctly if you have JDK or JRE version 1.1.3 or earlier. Use JDK or JRE 1.1.4 or later. * When PMVision is run under Motif or OpenWindows. The following text might appear but does not indicate any runtime problems in PMVision:
* Occasionally, the initial PMVision overview panel might not appear. Resize the PMVision window to display the panel. * If a PortMaster running a release earlier than ComOS 3.8 is sent unsupported commands, a Command Error dialog box is displayed. Click Done to dismiss the box and return PMVision to a normal state. System RequirementsPMVision is a Java based product that can run on any system with JDK or JRE (Java Runtime Environment) version 1.1.4 or later installed. Nondevelopers can use JRE rather than JDK. Currently, JDK 1.1 and JRE 1.1 are available for the following platforms. * Windows NT 4.0 http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/ * Windows 95 http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/ * Solaris 2.5.1 http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/ * Solaris x86 2.5.1 http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/ * Linux 2.x ftp://lagrange.la.asu.edu/pub/Linux_jdk/ * FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/java/ * SGI IRIX 6.3 http://www.sgi.com/Products/DevMagic/products/java.html * HP-UX 10.02 http://www.hp.com/esy/go/java.html * Alpha Digital Unix 4.0 http://www.digital.com/java/download/jdk_du/1.1.5/index.html * IBM AIX 4.1 http://www.ibm.com/java/tools/jdk.html * All other platforms http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/java-ports.cgi InstallationTo install PMVision use the following steps: 1. Download files from ftp.livingston.com as follows:
2. For UNIX systems only, define the path for jre/bin in your .cshrc file.
3. Run the installation.
Deinstallation* On a Solaris or Windows systmes, an application called Uninstall_PMVision is placed in the Lucent/PMVision directory. Run this application to remove PMVision from your system. * On a Unix system, remove the shell script and jar files to remove PMVision from your system. * On a Macintosh system, remove the Lucent/PMVision folder. Running PMVision* On a Windows NT system, select the PMVision icon from the Lucent folder in your Start, Programs menu. * On UNIX systems (including Solaris), you can run PMVision by typing "pmvision" when you are in the pmvision installation directory. If you have added the pmvision installation directory to your PATH, you can run it from anywhere. * On Macintosh systems, you can run PMVision by selecting the PMVision icon from the Lucent/PMVision folder. NOTE: If you are using a ChoiceNet server, make sure to increase the maximum number of pmconsole ports to at least 2 and preferably 10 with the "set maximum pmconsole" command. PMVision uses this port for communication and if only one port is available then ChoiceNet cannot send filters to the PortMaster. To increase the number of pmconsole ports, log into your PortMaster through the console or a telnet session at type the following command: set maximum pmconsole 10 Debug LogWhen running PMVision, you can use the following options:
Use the -h, -u, and -p options together to force PMVision to log in to the specified PortMaster at startup. For example: pmvision -h xxxxxx -u "!root" -p xxxxx If only -h is specified, the Connect dialog box is displayed with the hostname filled in. The -g <Debug level> option specifies the debug level. Valid debug level values are the following:
The -l option sends all debug output to the directory PMVision is installed in. By default, all debug output is sent to the Lucent\PMVision directory created in your home directory. On UNIX machines, the default works properly. However the concept of a home directory is not so clear on PCs and seems to differ for each vendor's Virtual Machine. Try looking for one of the following:
If you still cannot find the directory that contains debug output, do a Find, File for debuglog.txt. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions regarding this beta software to support@livingston.com. Mention that you are running PMVision 1.3b5, and include the version of JDK or JRE that you are running, the operating system version ("uname -a" output), and the version of ComOS on the PortMaster. The "About PMVision..." menu item in the Help menu displays the version of PMVision you are running including the build date, debug level, and location of runtime debug files. Copyright and TrademarksCopyright 1998 Lucent Technologies. All rights reserved.Copyright 1998 Lucent Technologies. All rights reserved. PortMaster, ComOS, and ChoiceNet are registered trademarks of Lucent Technologies, Inc. RADIUS ABM, PMVision, and IRX are trademarks of Lucent Technologies, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
NoticesLucent Technologies, Inc. makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents or use of this publication, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Lucent Technologies, Inc. reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to its content, any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes.
Contacting Lucent InterNetworking Systems Technical SupportLucent Technologies InterNetworking Systems (previously Livingston Enterprises) provides technical support via voice, fax, electronic mail, or through the World Wide Web at http://www.livingston.com. Mention that you are running PMVision 1.3b5, and include the version of JDK or JRE that you are running, the operating system version ("uname -a" output), and the version of ComOS on the PortMaster. Internet service providers (ISPs) and other end users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, and Pakistan should contact their authorized Lucent InterNetworking Systems sales channel partner for technical support; see http://www.livingston.com/International/EMEA/distributors.html. For North and South America and Asia Pacific customers, technical support is available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time (GMT -8). Dial 1-800-458-9966 within the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, and the Caribbean, or 1-925-737-2100 from elsewhere, for voice support. Otherwise, fax to 1-925-737-2110, or send email to support@livingston.com (asia-support@livingston.com for Asia Pacific customers).
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