The new Ciscoworks server has been passed off to telecom for them to do Cisco things to it. I wish them luck. We used Ciscoworks at my last job, and installng the thing was a pain in th rear. The guy had to reinstall it several times in order to get some install-time settings done correctly.
Such as, what is your seed-device when you do your first discover. We set it to the wrong device, and the map that generated was really screwy as a result. That and what devices are set for SNMP discovery can bite you.
As this application is written in Java, worlds of problems can come up when trying to access it from browsers with different JRE's installed. At OldJob, I had three different JRE's I 'needed' in order to access various web-based consoles. Ciscoworks, which required a specific JRE. Elron Software's WebInspector console, which needed a different JRE than Ciscoworks. McAfee's E500 device, which also had a specific JRE needed. Fortunately, the JRE for the E500 and WebInspector were close enough that I could use the same one for each with only minimally annoying problems. Ciscoworks' JRE was cranky enough I had to have my test machine have that JRE in order to use that application at all.
Such as, what is your seed-device when you do your first discover. We set it to the wrong device, and the map that generated was really screwy as a result. That and what devices are set for SNMP discovery can bite you.
As this application is written in Java, worlds of problems can come up when trying to access it from browsers with different JRE's installed. At OldJob, I had three different JRE's I 'needed' in order to access various web-based consoles. Ciscoworks, which required a specific JRE. Elron Software's WebInspector console, which needed a different JRE than Ciscoworks. McAfee's E500 device, which also had a specific JRE needed. Fortunately, the JRE for the E500 and WebInspector were close enough that I could use the same one for each with only minimally annoying problems. Ciscoworks' JRE was cranky enough I had to have my test machine have that JRE in order to use that application at all.