Troubleshooting guide

1 — 5620 SAM System Administrator Guide overview
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5620 SAM
System Administrator Guide
Table 1-1 5620 SAM system administrator task or information location
Task or information Information location
Installation and upgrades
Provides OS considerations, configuration information, and procedures for
the following:
• installing, upgrading, and uninstalling 5620 SAM and 5650 CPAM software
in standalone and redundant deployments
• 5620 SAM system migration to another system
• conversion from a standalone to a redundant 5620 SAM system
5620 SAM | 5650 CPAM Installation and
Upgrade Guide (issued as a separate
guide)
Security management
Provides information to help you access the requirements for user access to
the 5620 SAM functional areas and configure and manage the following
5620 SAM user security functions and elements:
• creating and managing user groups which 5620 SAM users are assigned to
• creating and managing 5620 SAM user accounts
• monitoring and managing active client sessions
• configuring or managing 5620 SAM security functions
• deleting 5620 SAM security elements that are no longer required
Chapter 2
Provides security support information for accessing managed devices,
including the following:
• create and manage users, profiles and passwords for access to NEs
• configure RADIUS, TACACS+ or LDAP authentication to control access to
the managed devices using 5620 SAM user accounts
• configure device system security through CPM traffic filtering and
management
• configure DoS protection to protect NEs from high incoming packet rates
that characterize DoS attacks
Chapter 3
Describes the configuration and management requirements for TCP
enhanced authentication for NEs based on the MD5 encryption mechanism
Chapter 4
Provides a listing of the permissions, access levels, and descriptions of all
pre-defined scope of command roles and profiles
Appendix A
Advanced configuration
Describes how to perform miscellaneous configuration changes on the
following 5620 SAM components:
• 5620 SAM software and licences
• System components
• Network management functions
• System preferences
Chapter 5
Describes how to perform the following redundancy tasks using the 5620 SAM
GUI, or scripts on a 5620 SAM main server:
• Check the 5620 SAM server and database redundancy status.
• Perform a manual activity switch from the primary to standby server.
• Enable or disable automatic 5620 SAM database realignment.
• Reinstantiate the former primary database as the standby database
when an automatic or manual activity switch occurs.
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Release 12.0 R6 | November 2014 | 3HE 08861 AAAF TQZZA Edition 01