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NetBrain Technologies Inc.
Document the CCIE Lab
With NetBrain Personal Edition Plus
1. Install and activate NetBrain Workstation ........................................................................................... 3
1.1 Setup NetBrain Workstation Personal Edition Plus ................................................................... 3
1.2 Activate the license ................................................................................................................... 3
2. Setup Workspace .............................................................................................................................. 4
2.1 Import configurations ................................................................................................................ 4
2.2 Set up the live network access .................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Tune Live Access ...................................................................................................................... 7
3. Use Map for Network Analysis ........................................................................................................... 8
3.1 Navigate on Q-map ................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Decode Network Design via Design Reader ........................................................................... 10
3.3 Annotate Network Configuration in the Map ............................................................................ 12
3.4 Create New Maps ................................................................................................................... 15
3.5 Monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 16
4. Use Map to Document the Lab ........................................................................................................ 16
4.1 Document CLI show command results .................................................................................... 16
4.2 Benchmark the Lab ................................................................................................................. 19
4.3 Add Map Notes ....................................................................................................................... 20
5. Configure, Document and Review the Network Change .................................................................. 21
5.1 Configure the Lab ................................................................................................................... 22
5.2 Update the Map ...................................................................................................................... 23
5.3 Compare Configurations and Routings ................................................................................... 24
5.4 Compare the Show Command Results ................................................................................... 25
6. Other Ways to Setup Workspace ..................................................................................................... 26
6.1 Import Dynamips Virtual Lab ................................................................................................... 26
6.2 Discover the Live Network ...................................................................................................... 27
1. Install and activate NetBrain Workstation
1.1 Setup NetBrain Workstation Personal Edition Plus
To install and set up NetBrain Workstation, you must have administrator access to the computer in
which you install the software.
Double click the Personal Edition Plus (PE-Plus) setup file. Follow the instructions in the NetBrain
Workstation Personal Edition 3.1 – Installshield Wizard window.
1.2 Activate the license
The license of PE-Plus is free charged for the first year. The first time you use PE Plus, you must
activate the license.
1. Launch NetBrain Workstation PE 3.1. The Welcome to NetBrain window opens.
2. Fill in the Email address and Activation Key and click the Next button to start the activation
process.
Note:
If your PC is not connected to Internet directly, click the Internet Proxy link to set up the
Internet proxy.
The Email and Activation Key are included in the email sent to you from NetBrain after you
submit the download request from the NetBrain website. If you do not have the Activation
Key, please visit http://www.netbraintech.com/register/pe-plus/download.php and fill in the form.
2. Setup Workspace
NetBrain PE-Plus provides a visual environment to help you learn the network technology either for the
career growth or the network certification such as CCIE. To start with NetBrain, you need build the
workspace, a virtual environment to emulate the network such as your live or virtual CCIE lab. You can
just import the configuration files to set up a workspace. Refer to section 6 for other ways to set up the
workspace such as discovering the live or virtual Dynamics lab.
2.1 Import configurations
Before importing configurations, you need retrieve the configuration files and save them as text files in
your PC.
1. Collect configuration files into a file
folder.
Note: if you do not have configuration
files ready, you can download a set of
files from here.
2. Drag and drop the folder into the
Workstation.
3. A map is automatically created for all
devices in the folder.
Tip: you may also copy and paste a device’s configurations to Workstation.
2.2 Set up the live network access
Enter the credentials to access the live network so that you can work on your network from the
Workstation.
1. Click the Import
Configuration button.
2. Click the From
Clipboard… button.
3. Paste the configurations
here from the output of
show run command in CLI
command, for example.
4. Click the Import button.
1. Click Workspace >> Live
Network Setting.
2. Click the Telnet/SSH login
tag.
3. Click the Add button.
4. Enter the corresponding values.
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 to add all
possible Telnet/SSH login
credentials.
6. Click the other tags in Live
Network Setting window to
add Privilege Password,
SNMP community and
Jumpbox.
Note:
If the Workstation can access
your network directly, then
you do NOT need set a
Jumpbox. Otherwise you do
need set a Jumpbox.
Live Network Setting Examples
Telnet/SSH login Username nb
Password nb
Privilege Password nb
SNMP community nb
Jumpbox
IP address 72.85.225.144
Username netbrain
Password netbrain
Login Prompt login:
Command Prompt: :/>
2.3 Tune Live Access
Check the reach-ability of a device and fill in the credentials (device settings) for each device.
1. Click Workspace >> Tune Live
Access.
2. Click Start Tuning.
3. Click an entry to view its log.
4. After the process is finished,
right click an entry and view
its device setting or
telnet/SSH to it.
Tip: if you get failure for some
devices, you can click Start
Tuning button again without
closing window. The system will
only try the devices which failed
in last testing.
3. Use Map for Network Analysis
Once a data-driven Q-Map is created, many network analyses can be automated from the map. The
frequently used functions can be launched from the context menu (also called the floating menu) bar.
The context menus change when different types of network objects are selected in the Q-map.
Context Menu Network Analysis
Q-Map Floating Menu
Click the blank space in a Q-map to
bring up the context menu for a map.
Highlight routing protocol
Validate an existing map
Compare Configurations and
routings
Monitor
Retrieve live data
Add map note
Export to Visio and Word document
Router Floating Menu
Click a router to bring up the context
menu for a device.
View configurations and config-let
via design reader
View route table
Live access
View MAC table (only applicable to
switch)
Extend neighbor
3.1 Navigate on Q-map
Apply Digital Zoom to a -Map
1. Scroll the mouse wheel forward to
zoom in the map and view the detail
data along the link.
Mouse over any Text in a Q-Map
1. Mouse over a text along a
link to display the relevant
configuration-let in the Tip
Window.
Tip: Click the button on the
Map ribbon menu to turn on/off Tip
Window.
One-Click Visio Diagram
1. Click the Export to Visio button
in context menu.
2. The system creates the Visio
diagram.
3.2 Decode Network Design via Design Reader
NetBrain design reader extrapolates detail design out of the configurations. The detail design can be
viewed in tip window conveniently and in design reader comprehensively.
1. Scroll the mouse wheel forward to zoom in the map and view the detail data along the link.
2. Move the mouse over the labels and the tip window opens (click the Map > Show Tip button
in the ribbon if it does not open).
3. Click the design reader button in tip window. The design reader pane opens.
4. Select a design filter in the left pane.
5. Click a device in the map to apply the design filter.
6. Click the button to view the sample.
Tip: You can use Design Reader to learn best practice by click view sample button. A map along with
common configure-let opens.
3.3 Annotate Network Configuration in the Map
Annotate Configuration in a Q-map
1. Move the mouse over the labels and the tip window opens (click the Map > Show Tip button
in the ribbon if it does not open).
2. Click the button to save the tip window in the map.
Tip: You many need to apply zoom in order to see multicasting label such as PIM-DM or PIM-SM
shown up in the map.
Highlight routing protocols in L3 map
1. Click highlight in context menu and select highlight routing protocol.
2. To clear the highlight, click highlight in the context menu and select Clear All.
3.4 Create New Maps
NetBrain provides many ways for you to create a L2/L3 map on-the-fly for a task in hand. For example, you can
map around a device, map the traffic path and map the trace route results.
Create map via Extending neighbors
1. Create a new map.
2. Drag a device from
the workspace pane
to the map.
3. Click button to
open the neighbor
window.
4. Double click all
neighbors or one
neighbor to draw the
neighbor(s) in the
map.
Please refer to Video Tutorials for other methods to create the maps.
3.5 Monitoring
Turn on a regular map to the heat map in one click. The device and interface status as well as the
performance data are displayed and updated in the heat map so that you can discover the hot pot
instantly.
1. Open or create a map.
Click the Monitor button
in the context menu.
2. The map is turned into
the heat map.
Tip: if the interface delay or
bandwidth usage is not
visible, you can zoom in the
Q-map or drag the link longer
to make them visible.
4. Use Map to Document the Lab
NetBrain Q-map is a knowledge map ideal to document the lab. You can highlight the routing design and
annotate the configure-let in the map as shown in section 3.3. The benchmarked results including the
customized show command results can also be added into the map as a hyperlink in the device or map
note.
4.1 Document CLI show command results
You can telnet to a network device from NetBrain, issue CLI show commands and save the results as
the note or a link in the map note.
1. Select a device from the map and click CLI Telnet/SSH CLI. The system automatically brings up CLI
windows and logins to the device.
2. Issue the show command.
3. Select and right click the show command results. From the pull down menu select Document Show
Command Results.
4. Select or create a map DataFolder and Click the OK button in the Document Show Command
Results window.
5. In the Show Command Results Browser window click the Create Hyperlink button.
6. In the Create Hyperlink window enter the note and click the OK button.
7. Select both notes and the device (press Ctrl key and left click the mouse to select multiple objects in
the map), right click the mouse and select Manual Link menu. The note is associated to the device.
4.2 Benchmark the Lab
NetBrain allows you to retrieve the built-in data such as configurations, route tables, ARP tables, MAC
tables and CDP tables. And the system parses these types of data and provides the toolkit for you to
work on these data. You can also define and retrieve the customized show commands.
To retrieve the system built-in data,
1. In the map floating menu select Benchmark -> Retrieve Live Data.
2. Select a DataFolder to store the data. You can select a map DataFolder to associate the data to the
map.
3. Click the Start button.
To define and execute the customized show commands,
1. In the map floating menu select Benchmark -> Execute Show Commands option.
2. Select a map Datafolder to store the result.
3. Click the Add… button to add the target devices where the show commands are executed.
4. Click the Add via Template… button to add show commands via templates. Or click the Add…
button to add an individual show command.
5. Click the Start button to execute these commands.
4.3 Add Map Notes
The map note is a good place to describe the network design or best practice. In the map note you can
insert a link for the network data or external document.
1. Open a Q-map and click the icon on the left of the Q-map.
2. Click the blank of the map note then click the triangle icon ( ) on the right side of the Link icon ( ),
and then select Link to show command data option.
3. Double-click the live data or the external document and the link of the selected data is inserted into
the cursor position of the map note.
5. Configure, Document and Review the Network Change
With NetBrain Workstation you can follow the following steps to document and review a learning
scenario:
1. Benchmark the lab including retrieving the key show command results.
2. Make the network changes.
3. Benchmark the lab after changes including the retrieving key show command results.
4. Update the map.
5. Add the map note and benchmark the benchmarked results as the link.
6. Compare the data before and after change.
5.1 Configure the Lab
1. Select a device from the map and click CLI Telnet/SSH CLI.
2. The system automatically brings up CLI windows and logins to the device.
3. Enter the configuration mode and change the configurations.
5.2 Update the Map
After making the network change, you need benchmark your lab again (refer to section 4.2). The system
will rebuild the network model including the topology. Then you can update your map based on the
network data after the change.
1. Open the existing map.
2. From the map float menu select Validate -> Regenerate Map. The map is automatically updated.
5.3 Compare Configurations and Routings
Compare the network data (configuration/route tables) and find out what has been changed.
1. From the context menu click
Compare > Compare Config &
Routing.
2. At the Compare Configuration
and Routing window opens,
select two DataFolders and
then click Compare.
3. At the batch compare route
table, double click an entry to
view the route changes for a
router.
4. Click Batch Compare Config to
view the batch configuration
comparison result and
Double-click an entry to check
the configuration change
details for a device.
5.4 Compare the Show Command Results
You can also compare the show command results before and after change.
1. In context menu, click Compare and Compare Show Command.
2. Select a device.
3. Select two DataFolders.
4. Select a show command to compare.
6. Other Ways to Setup Workspace
6.1 Import Dynamips Virtual Lab
If you build a virtual network lab using tools such as dynamics/GNS3, you can load the lab into the
workspace:
1. Enable the reverse telnet to devices and configure the IP connections properly. Then save the
configurations of the network devices as a .net file.
2. Click the Load Dynamips .net File button on the start page of NetBrain Workstation. In the popped
up window select the .net file that you created in the first step. The Import Dynamips window pops
up showing the device info such as hostname, IP address and port number.
Note: If the IP address may is 127.0.0.1 and the port is not defined in the .net file, you should change the
IP address and port number here.
3. Click the Login Credential button. In the Login Credential window, enter the Username/Password and
Enable Password.
Note: You can only enter one login credential. To make sure all devices can be accessed successfully, you
should configure this login credentials for all devices.
4. Click the discover button to start discovering your virtual network. Only Cisco routers and switches are
supported here. The discovery results are displayed under the status column. If the system fails to
discover some devices, the status is labeled as “failed”, otherwise “succeed”. You can select a device and
view the log for the discovery details.
6.2 Discover the Live Network
If you have a live lab, you can use discover the live network to setup the workspace. First follow the
section 2.2 to set up the live network access and then discover the network. The discovered devices are
automatically added into the workspace.
1. Click Workspace >> Discover.
2. Enter an IP address of the
seed router. Or click Select
Device to select a seed router.
3. Click the Start button.
4. Select an entry to view the log.
Note: the discovery statistics are
updated and displayed at .