Can Ciscoworks LMS be used for WAN (urgent)

[nehasingh_me]

can Ciscoworks LMS be used for WAN (a network spread throughout the country) management.if yes then why is it called LAN Management Solution.

[Keyan]

It would depend entirely on the type of WAN, the size of your data connections, the number of devices, etc. As long as you have IP connectivity from the server to the devices you can run Ciscoworks on them.

[akemp]

Yes, LMS 2.5 is made for that very function. Internet Performance Monitor (IPM) has migrated from te RWAN bundle (now EOS, soon EOL). Why its called LMS is a purely marketing decision.

[mia.miraples]

how about LMS 2.2? We installed LMS and advised users that it can only manage Layer2 or L2/L3 switches. How come it worked when we used a cisco router as seed device on ANI server setup? Is there any explanation why it worked? Does the LMS update solved the issue or it is already capable of discovering L3 devices even without the update?

[Keyan]

You are supposed to use routers as the seed devices since they are generally in the central parts of the network. LMS was designed to manage ANY cisco device and has been managing routers since it was created.

Who told you it could only do switches?!

[Marvin Rhoads]

LMS and (it's predecessors back to CiscoWorks 'classic' in the mid 90's) has always been able to manage both Layer 2 and Layer 3 Cisco devices. As noted in an earlier response, the distinction was primarily marketing based with the (now deprecated) RWAN adding primarily the IPM and ACL manager and LMS adding (relatively recently) the DFM component.

As long as you have contiguous CDP discovery, you can use almost any Cisco device as a seed device. You might want to start from the core for reasons of efficiency and completeness. You may need to add seed devices in your remote locations if you can't pass CDP over your WAN connection (e.g., 3rd party L3 transport only or ATM (in most cases)).