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Chapter
2
Network Advisor Configuration
In this chapter
•Configuring Network Advisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
•Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
•Syslog troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
•Installing the ODBC driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
•Smart Card driver installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Configuring an explicit server IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
•Product improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
•Configuring remote client access to the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Configuring Network Advisor

If you have not installed the application, refer to “Installation” on page 1. If you are migrating data,
refer to “Data Migration” on page 43.
To configure Network Advisor, complete the following steps.
1. Click Next on the Welcome screen.
2. Click No, don’t any copy data and settings (default) on the Copy Data and Settings (Migration)
screen and click Next.
NOTE
You cannot migrate data from an earlier release of Network Advisor to 12.3.x after you
complete the 12.3.x configuration.
To migrate data from a previous management application version, refer to “Data Migration” on
page 43.