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Building the Network
Once you have planned your network (see Chapter 3, “Planning the Network”), you can begin building
network elements and their related aspects, such as groups, network partitions, and Network Maps.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• 4.1 What Network Elements Are Available?
• 4.2 How Do I Add and Delete Network Elements?
• 4.3 How Do I Build Groups?
• 4.4 How Do I Configure the SNMP Community String?
• 4.5 How Do I Build Network Maps?
• 4.6 How Do I Discover the Network?
• 4.7 How Do I Synchronize the Network?
• 4.8 How Do I Test Connectivity?
4.1 What Network Elements Are Available?
The Cisco MGM management domain contains and lists network elements (NEs) and groups of NEs.
The management domain can be found as the top-level root node in the topology tree of the Domain
Explorer. In the management domain, you can add, delete, and modify the following NE:
• Groups—Collection of groups or collection of NEs. NEs are often grouped geographically or by
domain.
• Network partitions—Groups of users who have access to groups of NEs.
• Network Maps—Geographic representation of the NEs which displays the NEs in a map, and the
number of alarms associated with the NE.
4.2 How Do I Add and Delete Network Elements?
This section contains the following information:
• 4.2.1 Prerequisites for Adding Network Elements
• 4.2.2 Enabling Performance Monitoring
• 4.2.3 Adding Network Elements