You can organize your data according to the way in which you want eHealth to store it, and present it in reports. For example, you can create groups of elements of the same type and you can create group lists for certain group types. Before you group your elements, you need to understand the eHealth elements that represent the objects in your Cisco VPNSC-managed network. Table 5 lists these objects and elements.
Table 5. eHealth Elements for Network Objects Cisco VPNSC-Managed
Network Object
eHealth Element
CE router Router/switch element with
child interface elements
PE router Router/switch element with
child interface elements
CPE router Router/switch element with
child interface elements CE router acting as a source
router for an SA Agent
Response source endpoint element
PE router acting as a source router for an SA Agent
Response source endpoint element
SA Agent Response path element
SA Agent acting as a target element
Response destination endpoint element
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For more conceptual information about eHealth elements,
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groups, and group lists, refer to the eHealth Administration Guide.
Group lists appear in Service Level reports. If you are running these reports, you can create domain and customer group lists as a means of displaying and comparing your data. For more information, refer to “Creating Response Element Group Lists”
on page 44 and “Creating Router Element Groups” on page 46.
The following sections describe variations of the nhConfig command that you can run to create groups and group lists for response and router elements. When you run these commands, eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts elements from the Cisco VPNSC database. The eHealth configuration process then creates groups and group lists according to the values that you specify within the commands.
Creating Response Element Groups
To create groups for response elements:
1. Complete Steps 1 through 3 in the procedure “To add response element information” on page 40 to log in to the eHealth system, change to the eHealth directory, and optionally source the eHealth resource file.
2. To group response elements, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy grouptype"
Enter one of the following values for grouptype:
• vpn - VPN name
• domain - Domain name
• region - Region name
• customer - Customer name
• protocol - Protocol name
• site - Customer site name
• tos - Type of service
• all - All group types
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For example, when you enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy customer"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically groups these elements by customer.
Creating Response Element Group Lists Optionally, you can create two types of group lists for your response element groups; customer and domain. Customer group lists can contain VPN groups and site groups. Domain group lists can only contain region groups. When you create these group lists, eHealth displays them in Service Level reports.
To create customer and domain group lists for your response element groups:
1. Log in to the eHealth system, change to the eHealth directory, and optionally source the eHealth resource file.
2. Create a customer group list for your response element groups by entering the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -grouplistBy customer"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups of these elements by customer. eHealth then places the new groups in a response element group list named
“AllCustomers.”
3. Create a domain group list for your response element groups by entering the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -grouplistBy domain"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups of these elements by domain. eHealth then places the new groups in a response element group list named
“AllDomains.”
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4. Optionally, enter one or more of the following commands to create additional response group and response group list associations.
To create customer group lists that contain VPN groups, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy vpn -grouplistBy customer"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each VPN element. It then creates a group list for each customer, and places each VPN group in the
associated customer group list.
To create customer group lists that contain site groups, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy site -grouplistBy customer
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each site element. It then creates a group list for each customer, and places each site group in the associated customer group list.
Domain group lists can only contain region groups. To create these group lists, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy region -grouplistBy domain
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each region element. It then creates a group list for each domain and places each region group in the associated domain grouplist.
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When you use the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscSlaConfig -groupBy all -grouplistBy all
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts response elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups for each VPN, domain, region, customer, protocol, site and tos. It then creates group lists for each domain and each customer element in the database. eHealth places each region group in the associated domain group list, and places each VPN and site group in the associated customer group list.
Creating Router Element Groups
Use the following procedure to create various group types.
To create groups for router elements:
1. Log in to the eHealth system, change to the eHealth directory, and optionally source the eHealth resource file.
2. To group router elements, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy grouptype"
Enter one of the following values for grouptype:
• vpn – VPN name
• domain – Domain name
• region – Region name
• customer – Customer name
• site – Customer site name
• CEPE – CE and PE router groups
• all – All group types
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For example, when you enter the following command:
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nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy region eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically groups these elements by region.
Creating Router Element Group Lists
Optionally, you can create two types of group lists for your router element groups; customer and domain. Customer group lists can contain VPN groups and site groups. Domain group lists can only contain region groups. When you create these group lists, eHealth displays them in Service Level reports.
To create customer and domain group lists for your router element groups:
1. Log in to the eHealth system, change to the eHealth directory, and optionally source the eHealth resource file.
2. Create a customer group list for your router element groups by entering the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -grouplistBy customer"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups of these elements by customer. eHealth then places the new groups in a router element group list named
“AllCustomers.”
3. Create a domain group list for your router element groups by entering the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -grouplistBy domain"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups of these elements by domain. eHealth then places the new groups in a router element group list named “AllDomains.”
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4. Optionally, enter one or more of the following commands to create additional router group and router group list associations.
To create customer group lists that contain VPN groups, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy vpn -grouplistBy customer"
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each VPN element. It then creates a group list for each customer, and places each VPN group in the associated customer group list.
To create customer group lists that contain site groups, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy site -grouplistBy customer
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each site element. It then creates a group list for each customer, and places each site group in the associated customer group list.
Domain group lists can only contain region groups. To create these group lists, enter the following command:
nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy region -grouplistBy domain
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates a group for each region element. It then creates a group list for each domain, and places each region group in the associated domain grouplist.
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When you use the following command:
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nhConfig -dciCmd "nhGetVpnscRouterConfig -groupBy all -grouplistBy all
eHealth – Cisco VPNSC extracts router elements from the Cisco VPNSC database and automatically creates groups for each VPN, domain, region, customer, site, and CEPE. It then creates group lists for each domain and each customer element in the database. eHealth places each region group in the associated domain group list, and places each VPN and site group in the associated customer group list.
While running the nhConfig command, you can use the -dciOut argument to create an element file to review information for each added element. For more information, refer to the eHealth Integration Guide.
You can also specify the dciOutputFile from a previous run of the nhConfig command for the -dciIn argument. This allows you to examine the output of a previous configuration extraction without having to repeat the extraction process.
NOTE
For complete information about the nhConfig command syntax and the configuration log, refer to the eHealth Administration Reference.
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