Technical information

CWI provides the following features:

• A user-friendly context-sensitive interface that is used for fault, configuration, inventory, and security management of a

router.

• A combinationof both graphical and text-based interfaces that allow the user to select the best interface for the task at hand.

• A powerful CWI feature set used to simplify managing the router scale and complexity.

• Access to the powerful manageability features of the router.

The following features are common among the CWI applications:

• Printing, exporting, and searching data.

• Sorting and moving columns.

• Filtering records.

• Setting preferences.

See theCisco CraftWorks Interface User Interface Guide for detailson common elements and proceduresfor common activities

in the CWI Desktop.

CWI provides multiple methods to connect to the router:

• Serial Port

• Terminal Server

• CLI over Telnet/SSH

• XML over Telnet/SSH

• XML over CORBA

The CWI provides three ways to configure a router:

• Using the Terminal, Telnet or SSH applications launched from the CWI, which allows you to configure and manage the

router using command-line interface (CLI) commands.

• Using the Configuration Editor or Replace Configuration Editor, which allows you to view and edit the running

configuration in CLI format. The configuration editors provide common text editing functionality as well astraditional CLI

features. See the “Replace Configuration Editor” section on page 25.

• Using the graphical configuration applications. See the “Configuration Desktop Window” section on page 23.

Controls are provided to manage the two-stage configuration process, which includes locking and rollback control.

3 Getting Started

This section provides information you need to know before you can start setting up a router and CWI client. Note that the

specific setup is dependent on the session used from the About The CWI section. The following information is provided:

• Network Considerations, page 3

• Prerequisites, page 5

Network Considerations

The following network information must be taken into consideration before starting the minimum router and CWI client

configuration.

Network Security

The default configuration is not secure. See the “Setting Up the Required Management Services Without a Secure Connection”

section on page 8 for procedures.