Introduction
CNC Overview
CNC is a cloud-based network management system that allows management and monitoring of:
1. NWA/NXC/WAC wireless devices with SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled;
2. (X)GS Ethernet switches with SNMP enabled;
3. ZyWALL/USG/UAG security gateways with SNMP enabled;
Feature support for products above includes:
• Multiple Views - MSP Portal, Organization and Site
• License Calculator
• CNA Management
• Discover devices connected to the CNAs
• View events, such as when a device goes down, and receive email notifications of events
• Graphically monitor individual devices
• Backup and restore device configuration
• Restore a failed device’s configuration to a replacement device with just one click
• Install firmware to multiple devices of the same model at one time
• Directly access a device for remote configuration via HTTPS or SSH
4. Nebula APs, Ethernet switches and security gateways. You need a Nebula management license; license credit is not consumed from CNC.
Feature support for products above includes:
• Multiple Views - MSP Portal, Organization and Site
• License Calculator
• CNA Management
• Discover and rescan devices connected to CNC
• Graphically monitor the on/off status of individual devices
5. SNMP-Enabled devices, which refer to the following:
• Zyxel devices that are not on the supported model list with SNMP enabled
• Non-Zyxel devices with SNMP enabled
Feature support for products above includes:
• Multiple Views - MSP Portal, Organization and Site
• License Calculator
• CNA Management
• Discover and rescan devices connected to CNC
• Graphically monitor the on/off status and interface (not including CPU and memory utilization) of individual devices
• Directly access a device for remote configuration via HTTPS or SSH
• Issue commands, push CLI, via SSH
Note: A supported model list with corresponding firmware support is available at the Zyxel website.
Multiple Views - MSP Portal, Organizational and Site
A site is a group of devices managed via a CNA (Cloud Network Agent). An organization is a group of sites managed by one or more operators. An MSP (Managed Services Provider) is a group of organizations managed by an operator.
The MSP Portal is your home page if you are managing two or more organizations. You can add, edit or delete organizations. Select an organization to add, edit or delete sites to/from that organization.
The organization view is your home page if you are managing just one organization. You may also see this view when you select an organization from the MSP Portal. You can add, edit or delete sites to/from an organization. You can also view organization events, create operators and manage CNAs. If there is only one organization in your account, you can not edit or delete it, but you could create a new one and then delete the original one.
You see the site view when you select a site from an organization view. You can add, edit, delete and manage devices in a site.
Site Management
CNA is a network agent that allows secure communications with CNC. One CNA may be used to manage a single site or multiple sites. When managing a single site, the CNA can be at the customer’s site.
When managing multiple sites, the CNA can be at the control center with individual VPN tunnels to each customer site. You may need to adjust the monitor interval (maximum device polling reply time) when a CNA at the control center is used to manage multiple sites via VPN tunnels.
Operators with different privileges can be assigned to different sites.
Getting Started
See the Quick Start Guide for CNA hardware connections and initial configuration to access the CNC. You can perform network management by the CNC using an Internet browser. Browsers supported are:
• Firefox 36.0.1 or later
• Chrome 41.0 or later
• IE 10 or later
CNC Login
Go to the CNC website.
1 Type
https://cnc.zyxel.com in a supported web browser. Log into CNC with your myZyxel account and select your organization and site. If you don’t have a myZyxel account yet, please refer to
myZyxel Account and CNA Registration.
Note: This may take around 20 minutes to complete (depends on the Internet speed connection to CNC).
• After you log in, you will be automatically logged out by CNC if there is no activity for 120 minutes. Simply log in again if this happens.
• The CNC portal uses cookies to record login information. You will not be able to log in if you block cookies. You will have to log in again if you clear cookies. See http://www.zyxel.com/privacy_statement.shtml for more information.
• Task-based activities such as firmware upgrade, push CLI, and so on have 30 minutes to complete before the task is terminated.
• Auto-restore has 60 minutes to complete before the task is terminated.
myZyxel Account and CNA Registration
You need to have a myZyxel account in order to access and log into the CNC. You also have to register your CNA(s) with myZyxel before you can manage devices via the CNA.
1 Open your web browser and go to https://portal.myzyxel.com.
2 Sign in with your email and password. Click Sign Up if you don't have a myZyxel account and create an account.
3 Register CNA on myZyxel using the Device Registration menu. Enter your CNA’S MAC Address and Serial Number.
CNA Connection
Connect your CNA to your network router or switch using the LAN port. Your network must have Internet access. CNA has DHCP enabled by default so will try to connect to CNC using a DHCP-assigned dynamic IP address. The CNA’s SYS LED blinks as it is connecting to the CNC. When the CNA connects to the CNC for the first time, it will check if there is a later CNA firmware available on the CNC server and will update it automatically if it finds one.
Note: CNA will automatically reboot after the firmware update has completed. The CNA LAN port link LED starts blinking when the link is up again. Wait around 5 minutes for the CNA’s Status icon in CNA Management to turn green which means that the CNA is working normally.
First Time Discovery
In order for managed devices to display in the Site View after you log into CNC, you must set a discovery range for managed devices in Site View > Admin > Discover Nodes. To access the Site View screen select an organization and select then a site.
1 Choose a specific IP address(es) and/or IP address range(s).
2 Click the Discover button, wait for two to six minutes, and then select the Discovery Result tab to see what devices were found.
3 In Discovery Result, select a discovered device(s), click Add, then go to Site View. Wait two to six minutes for discovered devices to appear in the Site View menu.
CNC Screen Overview
The CNC screen is divided into these parts:
• Title Bar
• Main Window
Main Menu Summary
This is an overview of the top-level menus. Select a menu item from the main menu list in the title bar to configure network management for an organization and/or a site.
Main Menu Summary
Level 1 | level2 | Function |
MSP Portal | | Use this menu to view organizations. |
Add Organization/Site | Use this menu to configure organizations and sites. |
OrganizationOperators | Use this menu to create operators that can manage organizations, sites and devices. |
Click on an organization to view the following: |
Organization View | Use this menu to add, edit or delete sites to/from your organization. |
Organization Events | Use this menu to view logs of things that have happened in an organization. |
Organization Settings | Use this menu to set up schedules for firmware upgrade and issue CLI commands. |
Site View | Click on a site to view the access the Site View. Use these menus to manage devices. |
License Calculator | | Use this menu to view license keys and plan licenses that you need. |
CNA Management | Managing CNA | Use this menu to view CNA details and remove organizations and/or sites. |
Update Schedules | Use this menu to view CNA firmware upload schedules and edit future schedules. |
Administrator | Use this menu to create and view administrators that manage CNAs. |
User Profile | | Use this menu to add names and a time zone for your myZyxel account. |
System Information | | Use this menu to view system notifications or enable/disable notifications. |
MSP Portal
The MSP Portal is your home page if you are managing two or more organizations. You can add, edit or delete organizations from this page. Also, if a Nebula device is working under an organization, an icon will appear, and direct you to the screen of Nebula portal.
The following table describes the labels in the MSP portal.
MSP Portal
Label | Description |
MSP Portal |
Search | Type (part of) the name of an organization or tag, then click Search to display matches found. |
Auto Refresh | Select this to have the CNC update sites found every 30 seconds. |
n Organizations | This displays the number of organizations in this MSP Portal. |
Organization | This displays the name of the organization. |
Site | This displays the number of sites (groups of devices) in this organization. |
Devices | Status may display the following colors: • Green: This displays the number of devices that are online. • Amber: This displays the number of devices that are online with non-acknowledged notifications in this organization. • Red: This displays the number of devices that are offline in this organization. |
Tags | A tag is an alternative way of searching by grouping organizations with a common tag. For example, you could group organizations by customer or region. If you tag all organizations based in Germany with ‘DE’, then all organizations located in Germany will display when you search for the tag ‘DE’. You can create up to 10 unique tags for each organization. A tag name can be no more than 32 characters long. |
Action | The Setting icon allows you to change the name, and/or the search tags of an organization. The Delete icon allows you to remove an organization. If you only have one organization, you can't edit or delete it. But you could create another organization, and then edit or delete the previous one. |
Add Organization/Site
Click Add Organization/Site to create a new organization and site.
The following table describes the labels in Add Organization/Site.
Add Organization/Site
Label | Description |
Add Organization/Site |
Organization Name | Select an existing organization or click + Add New Organization to create a new one. |
Consume credit from | First, select the account of the CNA owner. Then select the CNA registered to this account in the CNA field below. The CNC consumes license credit from this CNA linked account. When activating a license, you must also use the account of the actual CNA owner.  You cannot change the linked account after the organization is created. To change the linked account you would have to delete the organization and then recreate it. |
Site Name | Type the site name belonging to this organization. |
Tags | A tag is an alternative way of searching by grouping sites with a common tag. For example, you could group sites by customer or region. If you tag all sites based in Germany with ‘DE’, then all sites located in Germany will display when you search for the tag ‘DE’. Type up to 10 unique tags for each site. A tag name can be no more than 32 characters long |
CNA | CNAs belonging to the above selected account (in Consume credit from) appear here. Select one. (No CNA) appears if there are no CNAs belonging to the above selected account. |
Cancel | Click this to return to the previous menu without saving any changes. |
Save | Click this to save your changes. |
Organization Operators
An operator can manage organizations, sites and devices (Interfaces monitoring, Push CLI, Config backup/restore, FW upgrade, Auto-restore). Operators with full privileges can assign other operators to manage sites. An operator created at this level can manage several organizations, their sites and devices.
The following table describes the labels in Organization Operators.
Organization Operator
label | description |
Action | Select Add Organization Operators to create a new operator at MSP level. Select Delete Organization Operators to remove an operator. |
Operators |
Email | This displays the email address of the operator. |
Organization Privilege | This displays the organization privilege for this operator: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove organizations. You also have full privileges to all sites. • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can view individual organization information. • None - with this privilege, you cannot add, remove or view organizations. |
Site Privilege | This displays the site privilege for this operator: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove devices from sites. • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can view individual device information. • Monitor-Only - with this privilege, you can view device summary table information only. |
Action | The Setting icon allows you to change the organization and site privileges of an existing operator. The Delete icon allows you to remove the operator. |
Organization |
Organization Name | Select the organization on which you want to create this operator. |
License Calculator
There are three types of licenses that you can buy:
• 1yr 250-node - one year CNC service for up to 250 managed devices.
• 1yr 100-node - one year CNC service for up to 100 managed devices
• 1yr 50-node - one year CNC service for up to 50 managed devices
License expiry depends on the license credit which is the product of remaining time AND the number of devices currently being managed by CNC. For example, if you have a 1yr 50-node license, but 100 actual managed devices, then you may use this license for all 100 devices for up to six months. If you have a 1yr 50-node license, but 25 actual managed devices, then you may use this license for all 25 devices for up to two years.There is a calculator in the License menu to help you determine the expiration date of the license credit.
Note: A CNA license owner can activate licenses in myZyxel or in CNC for himself. An administrator can register/activate licenses in CNC only for the CNA owner.
The CNC consumes license credit from the CNA owner.
When a license expires, there is a 30-day grace period in which to update the license before the site or the organization is permanently removed from CNC. During the grace period, you can only activate new licenses. After the license is extended, you can then manage the devices again. If the license is not extended after the grace period, then the site or organization is removed from CNC and the deletions cannot be recovered.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
License
Label | Description |
License Calculator |
License Keys | These fields display information on currently registered licenses. |
Activated at | This shows the date the license was activated. |
License key | This displays the license key. |
service | This shows the number of devices that can be managed for one year with this license. |
Type | This shows that this is a standard license. |
Status | The Activate icon displays if the license needs to be activated. Click it to activate the license. |
+License | Click this to register a new license key. |
Plan to add | Use these fields to select the type and number of licenses that you plan to have. |
Managing | Select the number of actual managed devices that you plan to have. Depending on the type and number of licenses that you have, you will then see the expiry date for this number of managed devices below this field. |
Contact Zyxel Sales | Click this to go to a web page that shows you how to contact sales agents for your region. |
CNA Management
Use these menus to schedule firmware uploads to a CNA and create administrators for a CNA.
CNA Management: Managing CNA
Use this menu to view CNA details and remove organizations and/or sites.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
CNA Management: Managing CNA
Label | Description |
CNA Management |
Latest Firmware Version | This displays the latest firmware version available for the CNA. You will see a CNA Firmware Update screen if the CNA firmware is out of date. |
Release Note | Click this to download the release notes for the latest firmware version shown in the previous field. |
+Update Schedule | Select one or more check boxes for CNAs, then click this to schedule an upgrade for the selected CNAs to the latest firmware version. |
Own by: | Use this field to see all CNA(s) belonging to this account. You can select yourself or an account which is managed by you. |
CNAs | Select one or more check boxes for CNAs that require firmware upgrading. Use Search to find a particular CNA using (part of) a CNA name or tag. |
Status | This shows if the CNA is online (green) or not (red). |
Name | This is the name of this CNA. |
Current Version | This displays the firmware version installed now on the CNA. |
MAC | This the MAC address of this CNA registered at myZyxel. |
Organization and Site | This is the name of the organization to which the CNA belongs. Click the hyperlink to see the sites to which the CNA belongs. |
Utilization | This displays the number of devices currently being managed and the total number of devices that can be managed via this CNA (250). |
Tags | This displays the tags for this CNA. A tag is an alternative way of grouping CNAs. For example, you could group CNAs by customer or region. If you tag all CNAs based in Germany with ‘DE’, then all CNAs located in Germany will display when you search for the tag ‘DE’. |
Action | The Setting icon allows you to change the name, and/or the search tags of a CNA. You can also view CNA related details and remove organizations and/or sites. Say CNA owner A authorizes B to be an administrator for A. B can assign A’s CNA to serve any sites and these sites will consume A’s license credits. B has Full privilege on these sites. A has NO privilege to see or change the settings of these organizations or sites created by B. B can register and/or activate licenses for A. If A wants to stop B being an administrator, but B doesn’t remove the CNA from B’s organizations and/or sites, then A must come to this menu to remove B’s organizations and/or sites. Otherwise the CNC will consume A’s credit daily as usual. |
add/register CNA | Click the link to go to myZyxel to finish registering the CNA. |
CNA Management: Update Schedules
Use this menu to view CNA firmware upload schedules and edit future schedules.
Do not turn off power or reboot the CNA when firmware upload is in progress.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
CNA Management: Update Schedules
Label | Description |
CNA Management |
Latest Firmware Version | This displays the latest firmware version available for the CNA. |
Release Note | Click this to download the release notes for the latest firmware version shown in the previous field. |
Own by: | Use this field to see all CNA(s) belonging to this account. You can select yourself or an account which is managed by you. |
CNA Firmware Update Schedules |
Time | This displays the date and time the firmware upload to the CNA took place or will take place. |
CNA | This displays the name of the CNA to which the firmware upload took place or will take place. |
MAC | This displays the MAC address of the CNA to which the firmware upload took place or will take place. |
Target Version | This is the firmware version that the CNA will upgrade to. |
Action | Click the Setting icon to change a future schedule. Past schedules cannot be edited. Click the Delete icon to remove a schedule. Click the Result icon to see the status of the firmware upload. |
CNA Management: Administrator
Use this menu to create and view administrators. An administrator can perform CNA firmware upgrade, and register/activate licenses.
(An operator can manage organizations, sites and devices (Interfaces monitoring, Push CLI, Config backup/restore, FW upgrade, Auto-restore. Operators with full privileges can assign other operators to manage sites. See
Operators).
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
CNA Management: Administrator
Label | Description |
CNA Management |
Latest Firmware Version | This displays the latest firmware version available for the CNA. |
Release Note | Click this to download the release notes for the latest firmware version shown in the previous field. |
Own by: | Use this field to see all CNA(s) belonging to this account. You can select yourself or an account which is managed by you. |
n Administrators | This field displays the number of administrators managing this CNA. An assigned administrator can see and use the CNA of the owner. Sites created by these administrators consume license credits from the CNA account owner. These administrators can also register and activate licenses for the CNA account owner. For example, CNA owner A authorizes B to be an administrator for A. B can assign A’s CNA to serve any sites and these sites will consume A’s license credits. B has Full privilege on these sites. A has NO privilege to see or change the settings of these organizations or sites created by B. B can register and/or activate licenses for A. B can register and/or activate licenses for A. |
Email | This displays the email address of the administrator. |
Last login | This displays the date and time the administrator last logged in. |
Action | Click the Delete icon to remove an administrator. The CNA owner cannot be removed. You also cannot remove yourself. |
+Administrator | Click this and enter a valid myZyxel account email address to create a new administrator. |
User Profile
Use this menu to add names and a time zone for your account.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
User Profile
Label | Description |
User Profile |
Email | This displays the email address of the person logged into the CNC via myZyxel. |
First Name | Type the first name of the person for identification purposes. |
Last Name | Type the family name of the person for identification purposes. |
Time zone | Select the time zone where the person is located. |
Last Login | This displays the date and time this person last logged into CNC. |
Link to myZyxel | Click this to go to myZyxel. |
Update | Click this to save changes to this menu. |
System Information
Select
System Information from the main menu list or click the information icon (
) at the top right hand corner of any CNC screen to view system notifications.
At the time of writing, you will receive a system notification if you fail to get notifications via email or there is new firmware for your managed devices.
When the information Category is Notification,
• Click the
icon to view notification details.
• Click the
icon to verify your email address.
When the information Category is New Firmware,
• Click the
icon to download the firmware release note to see the changes in the new firmware.
• Click the
icon to select an organization and site for installing the new firmware in managed devices of the selected site. For a new firmware update, the
Add Firmware Upgrade Schedule screen then displays and you have to configure schedules for uploading firmware (see
Devices Firmware Upgrade).
Notifications
Use this menu to turn on or off notifications when there is new firmware for managed devices.
Organization View
The organization view is your home page if you are managing just one organization. You may also see this view when you select an organization from the MSP Portal. You can add, edit or delete sites to/from your organization. If there is only one organization in your account, you can not edit or delete it, but you could create a new one and then delete the original one.
You can also view links to organization events, create operators and manage CNAs from this menu. Also, if a Nebula device is working under a site, an icon will appear, and direct you to the screen of Nebula portal.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization View
Label | Description |
Organization View |
Search | Type (part of) the name of a site, then click Search to display organization matches found. |
Auto Refresh | Select this to have the CNC update sites found every 30 seconds. |
n Sites | This displays summary information for each discovered site. |
Site | This displays the name of the site. |
Devices | Status may display the following colors: • Green: This displays the number of devices that are online. • Amber: This displays the number of devices that are online with non-acknowledged notifications in this organization. • Red: This displays the number of devices that are offline in this organization. |
CNA | This displays the name of the CNA that is managing this site. |
Tags | A tag is an alternative way of searching by grouping sites with a common tag. For example, you could group sites by customer or region. If you tag all sites based in Germany with ‘DE’, then all sites located in Germany will display when you search for the tag ‘DE’. You can create up to 10 unique tags for each site. A tag name can be no more than 32 characters long. |
Action | The Setting icon allows you to change the name, and/or the search tags of a site. The Delete icon allows you to remove a site. You sill see a warning saying this action cannot be undone and you will immediately lose all configuration and client data associated with the site. |
Organization Events
An organization event is a log of something that has happened in an organization. For example, an organization may have been renamed, a site may have been added or an operator privilege may have been changed.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization Events
Label | Description |
Legend | Click this for more information on severity levels. |
Event ID | This ID uniquely identifies the event. An event is a log of something that has happened to a device. The hyperlink takes you a menu showing details of this event. |
Task ID | This ID uniquely identifies the task. Use [+] to specify an item to display exclusively and [-] to display everything except it. |
Severity | This displays the event severity level. Use [+] to specify an item to display exclusively and [-] to display everything except it. |
Time | This is the time that the event occurred. Click [<] to display events that happened before the timestamp. Click [>] to display events that happened after the timestamp. |
Organization Name | This is the name of the organization that caused the event. Use [+] to specify an item to display exclusively and [-] to display everything except it. |
Site Name | This is the name of the site in the organization named above that caused the event. Use [+] to specify an item to display exclusively and [-] to display everything except it. |
Event Name | This is the name of the event. Use [+] to specify an item to display exclusively and [-] to display everything except it. |
Organization Settings
Use the Organization Settings menu to schedule an organization’s firmware uploads, issue CLI commands, and/or create operators.
Organization Firmware Upgrade
Use this menu to configure schedules for uploading firmware to specific Zyxel models. Firmware to multiple models of the same type may be uploaded at the same time.
Note: Each device will automatically reboot after firmware upgrade.
Do not turn off power or reboot devices until after the firmware upgrade is complete!
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization View > Organization Settings > Organization Firmware Upgrade
label | description |
Add New Schedule | Select this to configure a schedule to update firmware to a specific model. |
Delete Schedules | Select a schedule and click this to remove it. |
Delete All Completed Schedules | Click this button to remove all completed schedule tasks. |
Firmware Upgrade Task List |
Start Time | This is the date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time (hh:mm:ss) the task begins. |
End Time | This is the date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time (hh:mm:ss) the task ends. |
Model | This is the device type to which the firmware will be uploaded. |
Target Firmware Information | This is the firmware version that will be uploaded. The firmware version is in ‘trunk-version (model-code.release#)’ format. For example, V4.11(AAHY.1) means that the firmware trunk version is 4.11, AAHY identifies the NWA5123-NI model and .1 is the second firmware release (.0 is the first) for this model. Firmware versions followed by a date and time means ‘date version’ firmware which may be patch firmware to fix a bug and is not officially released yet. |
Status | The status may display the following colors: • Green indicates the number of devices that have successfully completed firmware upgrade. • Red indicates the number of devices that have failed to complete the firmware upgrade. • This shows Processing while a firmware upgrade task is ongoing. |
Result | Click the Result icon to see the summary of the firmware upgrade per site. This Result screen shows the status of the firmware upgrade task. • Green indicates the number of devices that have successfully completed firmware upgrade. • Red indicates the number of devices that have failed to complete the firmware upgrade. • Blue indicates the total number of devices in the firmware upgrade task. The Update Time shows the time when the table was last updated. Click Events to view the logs regarding this firmware upgrade task. |
Organization Firmware Upgrade: Add
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization Firmware Upgrade: Add New Schedule
Label | Description |
Add Schedule |
Model | Select one device type to which the firmware will be uploaded. |
Sites | Select the specific sites (of the type selected) to which the firmware are uploaded. |
Firmware | Select either an Official Firmware or Date Firmware version that will be uploaded. The firmware version is in ‘trunk-version(model-code.release#)’ format. For example, V4.11(AAHY.1) means that the firmware trunk version is 4.11, AAHY identifies the NWA5123-NI model and .1 is the second firmware release (.0 is the first) for this model. A firmware version followed by a date and time means ‘date’ firmware which may be patch firmware to fix a bug and is not officially released yet. |
Release Note | Click this to download the selected firmware related release note from the Zyxel website. |
Upload | First download the ‘date’ firmware to your computer and then click this to upload it to the CNC. |
Description | Type some optional information on the firmware upgrade schedule that may be helpful to other administrators. |
Download Firmware Setting | The following two settings are related to the firmware download from CNC to the CNA. These are the steps to upgrade firmware. • CNA downloads firmware from the CNC within the specified timeout and number of attempts allowed (retries). • CNA uploads firmware to its managed device(s). The managed device(s) reboots to complete the firmware upgrade. • After the managed device(s) reboots, the CNA polls it and send the result to the CNC. |
Timeout | Select how long the CNA should take downloading firmware from the server before the CNC considers the firmware upload task failed. |
Retries | Select how many times the CNA should retry downloading firmware from the server within the Timeout period before the CNC considers the firmware download failed. |
Schedule Setting |
Timeout | Select how long the firmware upgrade task should last, before the CNA. |
| The following two settings are related to the firmware upload from the CNC to the device(s). |
Upgrade Now | Select this to update firmware to the device after clicking OK below. |
Schedule Time | Select this and then the calendar icon to set a date for the upload. Select the clock icon within the calendar screen to set the time. |
OK | Click this to save your changes and proceed. |
Cancel | Click this to return to the previous menu without saving any changes. |
Organization Push CLI
Use this menu to issue commands to devices that support a Command Line Interface (CLI) and SSH.
Commands can be issued immediately or scheduled.
See the CNC Application Notes at the Zyxel website Download Library for examples of using commands.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization View > Organization Settings > Push CLI Commands
Label | Description |
Organization Push CLI |
Add New Schedule | Click this to configure the model type, nodes, commands and command transfer settings. |
Delete Schedules | Select a schedule and click this to remove it. |
Delete All Completed Schedules | Click this button to remove all completed schedule tasks. |
Push CLI Task List | This shows an overview of the command transfer tasks completed or in progress |
Start Time | This is the date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time (hh:mm:ss) the task begins. |
End Time | This is the date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time (hh:mm:ss) the task ends. |
Type | This displays whether the task is scheduled to occur once or is recurring. |
Model | This displays the model for the command transfer. Commands may be uploaded to many nodes of the same model in a task. |
Status | The status may display the following colors: • Green indicates the number of devices that have successfully completed push CLI task. • Red indicates the number of devices that have failed to complete the push CLI task. • This shows Processing while a firmware upgrade task is ongoing. |
Result | Click the Result icon to see the status of the push CLI task. The Result screen shows the status of the push CLI task. • Green indicates the number of devices that have successfully completed the push CLI task. • Red indicates the number of devices that have failed to complete the push CLI task. • Blue indicates the total number of devices in this push CLI task. The Update Time shows the time when the table was last updated. Click Events to view the logs regarding this push CLI task. |
Push CLI Command: Add
Use this to configure commands to be issued to multiple devices of the same model in different sites of an organization. Commands can be issued immediately or scheduled.
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Organization Push CLI: Add New Schedule
Label | Description |
Model | In order to issue commands to a managed device, make sure to select a model that supports SSH and has a Command Line Interface. |
Sites | Select the specific sites (of the type selected) to which the CLI commands are applied. |
Interface | This displays the IP address of the device to which the command will be transferred. |
Site Name | This displays the identification name configured of the sites in the organization. |
Node Number | This displays the how many devices of the model selected are in each site. |
Description | Type some text to describe the purpose of this command execution task. |
Commands | See the model CLI Reference Guide for command syntax. Each command must be on a separate row. • Type set timeout N (N = 1 to 1800 seconds) to set the timeout time limit on the expect commands. • Expect is to wait for a specific word string in a period of time configured with set timeout command. If the expected word string doesn’t show up, the next command written in the script will be implemented.
Type expect “Router>” to wait for the keyword “Router>”. • Send is the responding action when the expected word string configured with expect command shows up.
Type send “show version\r” to show the version of CNA, and type \r which means to enter, in the end of the command string when finished. • If a particular command needs more time to execute, type sleep N (N = 1 to 1800 seconds) after the command to delay execution of the following command by N seconds. |
Schedule Setting | Configure when the commands should be transferred here. |
Timeout | Set the timeout time for the entire push CLI task. |
Push Now | Select this, then click OK to transfer the commands immediately. |
Scheduled | Select this to configure a date and time when the commands should be transferred. |
Type | Select if the command transfer should recur Daily, Weekly, Monthly or just Once. |
Start Date / End Date | If you select a recurring type, then enter the beginning and end dates for transfer here (or select from the calendar). Date format should be yyyy-mm-dd. |
Every / Day | If you select Weekly, then select which day Every week it should occur. if you select Monthly, then select which Day of the month it should occur. |
Time | Select the time in hour-month format for when the command transfer should occur. |
OK | Click this to save your changes and proceed. |
Cancel | Click this to return to the previous menu without saving any changes. |
Operators
An operator can manage organizations, sites and devices (Interfaces monitoring, Push CLI, Config backup/restore, FW upgrade, Auto-restore). Operators with full privileges can assign other operators to manage sites. For example, if A has Full privilege to an organization/site, then A can authorize B to be an operator for the organization/site. B can in turn authorize C to be an operator for the organization/site. B can also remove this operator from the organization/site.
(An administrator can perform CNA firmware upgrade, and register/activate licenses - see
CNA Management.)
The following table describes the labels in this menu.
Operators
Label | Description |
n Operators where n is the number of operators created in CNC. |
Name | This displays the name of the operator. |
Email | This displays the email address of the operator. |
Organization Privilege | This displays the organization privilege for this operator: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove organizations. You also have full privileges to all sites. • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can view individual organization information. • None - with this privilege, you cannot add, remove or view organizations. |
Site Privilege | This displays the site privilege for this operator: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove devices from sites • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can view individual device information • Monitor-Only - with this privilege, you can view device summary table information only. |
Action | The Setting icon allows you to change the organization and site privileges of an existing operator. The Delete icon allows you to remove the operator. |
Add/ Edit Operators
The following table describes the labels in these menus.
Add/Edit Operators
Label | Description |
Add/Edit Operator |
Email | When adding an operator, type the email address of the operator. It must be a myZyxel account email address. When editing an operator, this displays the email address of the operator. |
Organization Privilege | Select an organization privilege from: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove organizations. You also have full privileges to all sites. • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can you can view individual organization information. • None - with this privilege, you cannot add, remove or view organizations. |
Site Privilege | Select a site privilege from: • Full - with this privilege, you can add or remove devices from sites • Read-Only - with this privilege, you can view individual device information • Monitor-Only - with this privilege, you can view device summary table information only. |
Cancel | Click this to return to the previous menu without saving any changes. |
Save | Click this to save your changes. |