Cisco Support Tools User Guide for Cisco Unified Software
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Table of Contents
Part 3. Installing, Upgrading and Configuring Support Tools
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Part 4. The Support Tools Dashboard
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Part 6. Using Cisco Common Tools 153
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Part 8. Reference 249
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List of Figures
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Purpose
Preface
Audience
Related Documentation
Organization
Conventions
Cisco.com
Obtaining Documentation
Documentation Feedback
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Product Alerts and Field Notices
Reporting Security Problems in Cisco Products
Cisco Product Security Overview
Cisco Technical Support & Documentation Website
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Definitions of Service Request Severity
Submitting a Service Request
Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
Preface Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
Preface Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
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Chapter
New Features in this Release
New Features in this Release
This section contains the following topics
Support Tools Node Requirements
Cisco Intelligent Contact Above All Management ICM and IP
Support Tools Server Hardware Requirements
Support Tools Server Requirements
Support Tools Node Hardware Requirements
Support Tools Node Software Requirements
Support Tools Server Network Requirements
Support Tools Server / Node Version Compatibility
Support Tools Port Requirements
Support Tools Server OS Requirements
Support Tools Listening Port
Support Tools Dashboard Web Browser Requirements
Part 2 Support Tools Overview
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About Cisco Support Tools
Key Features
About Support Tools Components
Key Features
Support Tools Server
About Support Tools Network Topology
Support Tools Node
What is the benefit of Support Tools?
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can use Support Tools?
About Cisco Support Tools Frequently Asked Questions
Support Tools Utilities List
About Support Tools Utilities
Trace and Log Tools
Web Tools
Cisco Common Tools
3rd Party Common Tools
Enable specific debug tracing in the call router
Viewing status, statistics, etc. It is also possible to
Use to view user-defined number of lines from
Use to view statistics for the local Workstation
Automatically restart the host after 60 seconds
Displays and configures event triggers on local
Privileged Utilities
Utility Installation Locations
Non-Dashboard Utilities
Command-Line vs GUI Access
About Support Tools Utilities Command-Line vs GUI Access
Working in Interactive Mode
Interactive Mode vs. Batch Mode
Working in Batch Mode
Canceling a Batch Mode Job
Using Tools in Batch Mode
Pending Jobs
Click Cancel
Interactive Mode vs. Batch Mode Pending Jobs
About Support Tools Security
Support Tools Security Features
Automated IPSec Implementation
Using IPSecurity with Support Tools
Manual IPSec Implementation
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Part 3 Installing, Upgrading and Configuring Support Tools
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About Installing Support Tools
Installing Support Tools
Support Tools Installation Tasks
Collect information for the install
How to Collect Information for Support Tools Installation
Post-Installation Configuration
How to Create Support Tools User Groups
To Create Support Tools User Groups
How to Create the Distinguished User Account
Creating Local Accounts on the Support Tools Server
How to Install the Support Tools Server
How to Create the Distinguished User Account
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How to Install the Support Tools Node
Press Enter. The Support Tools Dashboard Login screen opens
How to Test the Support Tools Installation
Password field, enter your Windows password case-sensitive
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About Configuring Support Tools
Configuring Support Tools
How to Modify Support Tools Basic Configuration
TCP/IP Port
How to Disable Continuous Virus Scan for the Repository
Supporttoolsroot\repository\system files\
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List/wmi.asp
Configuration of sysquery and Trace
How to Uninstall Support Tools
Uninstalling, Reinstalling and Upgrading Support Tools
Upgrading Support Tools
How to Reinstall Support Tools
Part 4 The Support Tools Dashboard
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Support Tools Dashboard
Using the Support Tools Dashboard
Accessing Utilities in the Dashboard
Accessing the Dashboard and Privileges
Using the Dashboard for the First Time
Accessing the Dashboard
Adding a System to the System List
Selecting a System to Work With in Interactive Mode
To access the Support Tools Dashboard
How to Access the Support Tools Dashboard
Navigating and Refreshing Pages in the Dashboard
To Add a Node to the System List
How to Use the System Management Screen
Click the Add System Button
To Automatically Add CVP and Support Tools Server Nodes
To Test the Connection to a Node
To Delete a Node from the System List
Using the Select System Screen
Using the Select System Screen
Adding a Support Tools Node to the System List
How to End a Dashboard Session
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Part 5 Using Support Tools Web Tools
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How to Use the System Interrogate Screen
Using Support Tools Utilities from the Dashboard
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Interactive
Component & Sub-components
Mode
Odbc
Cisco ICM/IPCC Agent Reskilling
Component & Sub-components Retrievable Only Interactive Mode
Cisco Agent Desktop CAD
Cisco CallManager
Cisco Ipcc Express
Component & Sub-components
Cisco Support Tools
To Retrieve System Information in Interactive Mode
To Save System Information to a File
To Retrieve System Information in Batch Mode
To Save Files Returned from a System Interrogate
How to Use the History Screens
To View a Saved File
To Set an Expiration Date for History Files
To Rename a File
To Delete a File
How to Use the Registry Screen
To Download a File
To use the Registry Screen
How to Use the Registry Compare Screen
To Compare the Current System to a Saved Registry File
To Compare the Current System to Another
To Compare Two Saved Registry Files
Click the Compare Registries Files button
Understanding the Compare Registries Display
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To Copy Key Values Between Registries and Files
Viewing Registry Keys for Multiple Customer Instances
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To Save a Registry Comparison to a File
To View Processes
How to Use the Processes Screen
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How to Use the Services Screen
To Save a Process
To Terminate a Process
To Stop or Start a Service
To View Services
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Trace and Log
To Save the Services List to a File
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To Create a Log Group
How to Use the Create Log Group Screen
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Click Next
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Renaming Log Groups
How to Use the Log Groups Screen
Viewing Log Groups
Editing Log Groups
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How to Use the Create Trace Group Screen Batch Mode
Deleting Log Groups
Refreshing the Log Groups Screen
Creating a Trace Group
How to Use the Create Trace Group Screen Interactive Mode
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Viewing a Trace Groups Settings
How to Use the Trace Groups Screen
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Editing a Trace Group
Viewing a Trace Groups File
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Renaming Trace Groups
Deleting Trace Groups
Refreshing the Trace Groups Screen
Scheduling a Trace
How to Use the Schedule Trace Screen
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About Log Collection
Products Supported for Log Collection
Collect Logs General Steps
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What are Merged Logs?
To Create a Log Collection
How to Use the Collect Logs Screen Batch Mode
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How to Use the Log Collections Screen
To Download Collected Logs
To View Details of Log Collections
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Log files use the following naming conventions For ICM
Log File Naming Conventions
To Delete a Log Collection
To Rename a Log Collection
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How to Use the Collect Logs Screen Interactive Mode
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Using Cisco Tools from a Command Line
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Command-Line Mode vs Interactive Mode
Selecting a System to Use
Selecting a Different Application Server
Saving, Viewing, and Retrieving Files
Getting Help for Command Line Tools
Selecting a Different Target System
Viewing a list of targetable systems
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How to Use the Services Utility from a Command Line
To Access the Services Utility from a Command Line
Embedded Spaces
Specified, the utility is run against the local system
Using the Services Utility from a Command Line
Utility Displays syntax for a specified command
Specified, the utility is run on the local system
Quit, q Ends the program
Starting a service
Stop Stops a started service on the target system
Readfile, read Directs command input to another input file
Viewing and Stopping a Service Examples
How to Use the Processes Utility from a Command Line
To Run the Processes Utility from a Command Line
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Using the Processes Utility from a Command Line
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Viewing and Killing a Service Examples
Kill Terminates a started process on the target system
Server
Using the System Interrogate Utility from a Command Line
To Run the System Interrogate Utility from a Command Line
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Repository on the application server
Viewing System Information Examples
How to Use the Registry Utility from a Command Line
Using the Registry Utility from a Command Line
To Run the Registry Utility from a Command Line
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Instance whose registry values will be returned
Command Description
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Timestamp.xml
Viewing Registry Information Examples
Invokes the Registry utility
Named customer1
Using the Compare Registries Utility from a Command Line
To Run the Compare Registries Utility from a Command Line
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By SRC =
Compare, comp
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Compare Registries Examples
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How to Use the Log Groups Utility from a Command Line
Cases these may not be identical instances
Apply
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To Run the Log Groups Utility from a Command Line
Using the Log Groups Utility from a Command Line
Enter lgtool
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Rl logname Lsl Lgdesc description Closelg Lslg
Repository Renameloggroup, renlg
Creating a Log Group Examples
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Enter lctool
How to Use the Log Collection Utility from a Command Line
To Run the Log Collection Utility from a Command Line
Using the Log Collection Utility from a Command Line
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Ccolreq Specifies the new collections name
Lcdesc Seticmbinary, bin
Endtime
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Downloadlog, download
As your application server
Log Collection Examples
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Part 6 Using Cisco Common Tools
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Call Routers but can X be run from any ICM component
Utility Description Name
Vrutrace Use to output tracing information from a Voice
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Using Cisco Common Tools
How to Use the CICMan Utility
To Access CICMan from the Dashboard
Using CICMan Command line Options
To Access CICMan from a Command Line on a Node
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To Access CTITest from the Dashboard
How to Use the CTITest Utility
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Using CTITest Configuring
To Access CTITest from a Command Line on a Node
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Using CTITest Logging
Using CTITest Opening a Session
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Command Parameters
Below is list of frequently used commands in CTITest
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How to Use the DBDiff Utility
To Access DBDiff from the Dashboard
Command
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How to Use the DumpCfg Utility
To Access DBDiff from a Command Line on a Node
Using DBDiff
Using DumpCfg
How to Use the Icmdba Utility
To Access DumpCfg from the Dashboard
To Access DumpCfg from a Command Line on a Node
To run MPTrace from the Support Tools Dashboard
How to Use the MPTrace Utility
Accessing Icmdba
To Access MPTrace from the Dashboard
Using MPTrace Command Line Options
To Access MPTrace from a Command Line on a Node
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How to Use the Nicroi Utility
To Access Nicroi from the Dashboard
To Access Nicroi from a Command Line on a Node
Capturing Nicroi Data to niclog.xxx
Using Tracing in Nicroi
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Copying Nicroi Log Files
Capturing Nicroi Data to Roilog.txt
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Transferring Files
How to Use the NMStart Utility
Setting the Download Directory
To Access NMStart from the Dashboard
To Access NMStop from the Dashboard
How to Use the NMStop Utility
To Access NMStart from a Command Line on a Node
Using NMStart
To Access OPCTest from the Dashboard
How to Use the OPCTest Utility
To Access NMStop from a Command Line on a Node
Using NMStop
Using OPCTest
To Access OPCTest from a Command Line on a Node
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Debug Information
Example
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Exiting and Quitting OPCTest
How to Use the Procmon Utility
To Access Procmon from the Dashboard
Use the quit command to exit OPCTest
Using Procmon
To Access Procmon from a Command Line on a Node
Procmon Basic Commands
Procmon Process-Specific and Troubleshooting Commands
How to Use the RTRTrace Utility
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How to Use the RTTest Utility
Accessing RTRTrace
To Access RTTest from the Dashboard
Using RTTest
To Access RTTest from a Command Line on a Node
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Process LastStateChange LastHeartBeat
Status Output Process
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Process synchronized
Equipment use UTC time as a common time reference
Transfer to the other side
Signifies that the process is running fine
With the ICM call router
Status Output Controller
Date Current date Time Current local time
Data are sent to the ICM peripheral gateway
Status Output Peripheral
ICM peripheral gateway
Been established with the ICM peripheral gateway
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Parameter Descriptions
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Turning up ICM Call Router Tracing with RTTest
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Turning Off Debug Tracing in RTTest
To Access VRUTrace from the Dashboard
How to Use the SS7NICTrace Utility
How to Use the VRUTrace Utility
Accessing SS7NICTrace
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To Access VRUTrace from a Command Line on a Node
Using VRUTrace Command Line Options
VRUTrace Examples
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Systems
Utility Name Description
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Network Logman
Their properties Eventtriggers
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Tasklist Displays a list of applications and services
TasklistCSV Displays a list of applications and services
Properties, such as RAM, disk space, Network cards Taskkill
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Use the CAT utility to display, print, and combine files
Using 3rd Party Common Tools
Arp -a
Cat
Using CAT Command Line Options
To Access CAT from the Dashboard
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Use the Chmod utility to set file permissions
To Access Chmod from the Dashboard
Using Chmod Command Line Options
Chmod
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To Access CP from the Dashboard
Using CP Command Line Options
Use the CP utility to copy files
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To Access DF from the Dashboard
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Using DF Command Line Options
To Access Diff from the Dashboard
Diff
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Using Diff Command Line Options
Using DU Command Line Options
To Access DU from the Dashboard
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To Access FGrep from the Dashboard
Using FGrep Command Line Options
Fgrep
FindStr
To Access Findstr from the Dashboard
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Using Findstr Command Line Options
Grep
To Access Grep from the Dashboard
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Using Grep Command Line Options
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To Access Head from the Dashboard
Using Head Command Line Options
Head
Count defaults to
IPConfig /all
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To Access Isql from the Dashboard
Isql uses the following options
Using Isql
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Accessing ISQL/W
To Access LS from the Dashboard
Use the LS utility to view directory listings
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Using LS Command Line Options
Using MV Command Line Options
To Access MV from the Dashboard
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NBTStat
To Access NBTStat from the Dashboard
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Net Session
Using NBTStat Command Line Options
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NetStat
To Access NetStat from the Dashboard
Net Statistics Server
Net Statistics Workstation
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Using NetStat Command Line Options
To Access NSLookup from the Dashboard
NSLookUp
PathPing
Using NSLookup Command Line Options
To Access PathPing from the Dashboard
Using PathPing Command Line Options
Options for Ping are
To Access Ping from the Dashboard
Using Ping Command Line Options
Ping
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PStat
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To Access RM from the Dashboard
Using RM Command Line Options
Route -PRINT
StopShut
To Access Stopshut from the Dashboard
Using Stopshut Command Line Options
Shutdown Tool
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Accessing Sqlew
To Access Strings from the Dashboard
Strings
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Using Strings Command Line Options
To Access Tail from the Dashboard
Tail
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Using Tail Command Line Options
To Access Touch from the Dashboard
Touch
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Using Touch Command Line Options
Tracert
To Access Tracert from the Dashboard
Using Tracert Command Line Options
To Access WC from the Dashboard
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Using WC Command Line Options
To Access Which from the Dashboard
Which
Winmsd
Using Which Command Line Options
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NetshDump
Bootcfgqry
Accessing WinMSD
Displays the Boot.ini file settings of the selected system
Eventtriggers
To Access Eventtriggers from the Dashboard
Defragreport
Driverquery
Logman
Using Eventtriggers Command Line Options
To Access Logman from the Dashboard
Getmac
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Logman Command Line options
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Relog
Openfiles
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Using Relog Command Line Options
To Access Relog from the Dashboard
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Answer yes to all questions without prompting Examples
Schtasks
To Access Schtasks from the Dashboard
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SysteminfoTable
Using Schtasks Command Line Options
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SysteminfoList
SysteminfoCSV
Taskkill
Eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le PID value
Eq, ne Service name
Eq, ne
Eq, ne Image name
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TasklistTable
Tasklist
TasklistCSV
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Part 8 Reference
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Starting and Stopping Support Tools Server/Node Processes
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How to Enable/Disable the Stpa Process
How to Stop and Start the Support Tools Server
How Stop and Start the Node Agent Service
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How to View Stpa Log Files
How to View Support Tools Logs
How to View Support ToolsInstall Logs
How to View Support Tools Server and Stna Log Files
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IPSec Settings and Procedures
How to Examine Your IPSec Policy
Select the IP Security Policy Management snap-in
How to Enable/Disable the IPSec Policy
How to Verif the PreShared Key
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How to Modify the Login Screen Disclaimer
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How to Confirm the Support Tools Build Number
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Support Tools Fails to Install
Support Tools Troubleshooting
Installation Problems
Install Hangs
Services are not created and/or do not start
Dashboard Troubleshooting
Support Tools Installs Disabled
Connection Problems
Re-enter username and password as follows Network Users
Login Problems
Can Access Dashboard Login Page but cannot log
Incorrect or invalid username or password entered
Local Users
Utility Problems
Error When Selecting Host
Support Tools Server fails to connect to the Node Agent
Utilities Missing
Error Processing Request
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Dashboard Online Help Does Not Display
Dashboard Problems
Error Processing Request
Dashboard Will Not Load
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Dashboard online help does not display when selected
Popup blockers enabled on client machine
Disable popup blocking
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