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Labeling NEs Using Business Tags
A business tag is a string that is meaningful to the business, and which can be used to label a co mponent
of a network element for use in Prime Network screens and reports.
Business tags are normally applied to a business element, which is a construction or organization of
certain network elements and their properties into a logical entity . Thi s pro vides us ers with the abilit y to
track them in a way that makes sense from a business perspective. Examples of business elements
include Layer 2 VPNs, Layer 3 VPNs, and virtual routers.
The following topics describe how to manage and view Cisco Prime Network Vision business tags and
business elements:
• User Roles Required to Work with Business Tags and Business Elements, page 7-1
• Using Chinese Characters, page 7-2
• Attaching and Detaching Business Tags, page 7-3
• Searching for Business Tags and Viewing Their Properties, page 7-4
• Renaming a Business Element, page 7-7
• Deleting a Business Element, page 7-7

User Roles Required to Work with Business Tags and Business

Elements

This topic identifies the roles that are required to work with business tags an d business elements. Prime
Network determines whether you are authorized to perform a task as follows:
• For GUI-based tasks (tasks that do not affect elements), authorization is based on the default
permission that is assigned to your user account.
• For element-based tasks (tasks that do affect elements), authorization is based on the default
permission that is assigned to your account. That is, wheth er the element is in one of your assigned
scopes and whether you meet the minimum security level for that scope.
For more information on user authorization, see the Cisco Prime Network 4.0 Administrator Guide.
The following tables identify the tasks that you can perform:
• Table 7-1 identifies the tasks that you can perform if a selected element is not in one of your
assigned scopes.
• Table 7-2 identifies the tasks that you can perform if a selected element is in one of your assigned
scopes.