Hi,
I have just installed LMS 3.0 in the hope that the upgrade costs would mean that a whole lot of new features would be apparant.
On the whole the main interface looks a little more polished , and its usefull that the product now works correctly with Firefox and IE7 and possible more fluid in changing between screens. Other than that its a lot of money to spend on the front end interface, with the same backend applications as in LMS2.6. It seems a bit premature to call this LMS3.0 it should have been called a conservative 2.8.
Anyways back to my topic, The Baseline Template for Compliance checking does not seem to work as desired if a all.
Even trying the built in Templates yeilds success on configs which should fail.
It seems that if you do a check for access list statements the job will be successful if just the access-list is configured no matter what condidtions follow the access-list.
Eg:
im doing a check for:
access-list 81 permit 10.10.10.10
so following the template example I copy the template with the required changes.
When run on a config that has:
access-list 81 permit 11.11.11.11
it will come back as successful.
When run on a config that has:
access-list 82 permit 11.11.11.11
It is still successful.
This isnt to say that I only get successes, if trying the template 2 with Class statements the only time it fails is if the config does not exist.
Surely this feature would have been greatly improved/functional considering the charge for the software, and it does mean unfortunately that I would have to invest in a config/compliance application.
I do like the individual application summary screens , which has given dfm a little more use, however the alerts and activities is still inefficient in being the type of screen that you can use as your main display for realtime alerts, as opposed to the original screen a couple years back where you could create a type of portal interface with different windows for different groups, and had alerts flash up.
Just my thoughts;-)
Im sure if there was more money internally for the development of this product it would have the possibility to be the one stop NMS shop for Cisco Products however, were still having to use one 3rd Partyapplication for real time monitoring , Ciscoworks for Configuration/Software management.
