Raritan Engineering Command Center CC-SG - Manual (Page 53)

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• Devices—are Raritan products such as Dominion KX116, Dominion SX48, Dominion
KSX440, IP-Reach, Paragon II System Controller, Paragon II UMT832 with USTIP, etc. that
are managed by CC-SG. These devices control the target servers and systems that are
connected to them.
• Ports—are connection points between a Raritan Device and a target system or server. Or, a
port can be a device that is directly connected to a LAN/CC-SG via In-band access. In CC-
SG, you click on a port to access and manage the target. The port is essentially the destination
system and should be named appropriately for that system, for example, NYC_SunSRV1.
How to Create Associations
An easy way to create categories and elements within these categories is by using CC-SG’s
Association Wizard. The wizard prompts you to create categories and elements and automatically
creates port groups and default user policies based on the categories and elements defined.
You can also manually create or edit associations with the Association Manager. This will require
you to manually create policies.
Association Manager
Association Manager commands allow you to add, modify, or delete Categories and Elements. In
CC-SG, each device or port has an associated IP Address and Port Name by default. For further
differentiation, additional types of attributes, known as categories, are associated to the device or
port for ease of administration. Each Category has elements associated with it.
For example, the category “Country” might have the elements “USA,” “Japan,” and “Germany”
associated with it; the category “Location” might have the elements “San Jose,” “San Francisco,”
and “New York” associated with it, and so on. Once the tree view is customized using these
attributes, you can easily find, for example, all Firewall devices located in the New York location
without searching through an extensive list of managed devices/ports.
Once you add a new category and its elements, you can associate CC-SG’s configured
devices/ports. When configuring devices/ports, you can choose one element from each category
to associate with each device/port.
Please see Appendix C: Initial Setup Process Overview for a summary of this process within
CC-SG.