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Monitoring and Reporting in ACS
The Monitoring and Reports drawer appears in the primary web interface window and contains the
Launch Monitoring and Report Viewer option.
The Monitoring and Report Viewer provides monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities for
the ACS servers in your network. You can extract consolidated log, configuration, and diagnostic data
from one or more ACS servers for advanced reporting and troubleshooting purposes.
You can configure the network access devices (NADs) in your network to send syslog messages to the
Monitoring and Report Viewer. To do this, you must configure the logging port on the NAD to UDP
20514.
For example, to enable a NAD in your network to send syslog messages to the Monitoring and Report
Viewer, you must enter the following commands on the NAD through the CLI configuration mode:
1. logging monitor informational
2. logging origin-id ip
3. logging host ip transport udp port 20514—where ip is the IP address of the Log Collector in your
network.
4. epm logging
Click Launch Monitoring and Report Viewer to open the Monitoring and Reports Viewer in a
secondary web interface window, which contains these drawers:
•Monitoring and Reports
•Monitoring Configuration. (See Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring
and Report Viewer, page15-1.)
The Monitoring and Reports drawer provides the following functionality:
•Dashboard—Provides a high-level summary, updated in real time, of the ACS servers in the
deployment, the authentication activity, and a summary of authentications against each identity
store. See Dashboard Pages, page11-2.
•Alarms—You can define thresholds to represent acceptable system performance. Measurements are
taken on an ongoing basis and compared against these thresholds. If the thresholds are exceeded,
alarms are generated. See Understanding Alarms, page 12-1.
•Reports— A rich set of reports are available. See Managing Report s.
•Troubleshooting— Provides tools to assist in troubleshooting the ACS system, including tests for
system connectivity and a tool to download support bundles. See Troubleshooting ACS with the
Monitoring and Report Viewer.