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Monitor a Router

Monitor a Router

Monitor a Router

You can use ClickStart to monitor any running Cisco IOS Release 11.0(6) or later software. To do this, you use ClickStart to issue Cisco IOS EXEC commands.

You can also use ClickStart to access most other Cisco IOS commands. These commands let you modify the router's configuration.


Enable Router Monitoring

If you have a Cisco 1003 or Cisco 1004 router, you can automatically use ClickStart to monitor your router.

If you have any other Cisco router, you must enable ClickStart before you can use it to monitor your router. To do this, follow this procedure:

  1. To enable ClickStart, use the ip http server global configuration command.

  2. By default, ClickStart uses port 80 to communicate with the router. If you want to configure a different port, use the ip http port number global configuration command. number is the number of the port you want to use for ClickStart.


Use Router Monitoring

The router's home page contains some commands that are frequently used to monitor the router. These commands include show interfaces, which displays packet activity, and show dialer, which shows whether you are connected on the ISDN link and, if so, how long you have been connected. One of the links on the router's home page, Monitor the Router, leads to a menu that lists other commands you can use to monitor the router. From this menu, try the various show commands.

To issue an Cisco IOS command, first enter the router's privileged password. If you configured the router using ClickStart, you entered the password during the configuration.

To issue an EXEC command, go to the following URL:

http://router-address/exec/exec-command        

Change router-address to your router's IP address and exec-command to the name of the command. (The initial router configuration is done with a URL that points to http://new-router.cisco.com/ezsetup . You can use this URL only for the initial configuration.)

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