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1. Install and activate NetBrain Workstation ........................................................................................... 3
1.1 Setup NetBrain Workstation Personal Edition 4.1 ..................................................................... 3
1.2 Activate the license ................................................................................................................... 3
2. Work on Qmaps ................................................................................................................................. 4
2.1 Create Qmaps .......................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 Set up the live network access .................................................................................................. 8
3. Use Map for Network Analysis ........................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Navigate Qmap ....................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Annotate Network Configuration in the Map ............................................................................. 11
3.3 Create New Map Page ............................................................................................................ 13
4. Use Qmap to Document the Lab ...................................................................................................... 14
4.1 Document CLI show command outputs ................................................................................... 14
4.2 Benchmark the Lab ................................................................................................................. 17
4.3 Add Map Notes ....................................................................................................................... 19
5. Configure, Document and Review Network Changes ....................................................................... 20
5.1 Configure the Lab ................................................................................................................... 21
5.2 Compare Configurations and Routings ................................................................................... 22
5.3 Compare Show Command Results ......................................................................................... 23
1. Install and activate NetBrain Workstation
1.1 Setup NetBrain Workstation Personal Edition 4.1
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 4.1 setup file. Follow the instructions in the NetBrain Workstation
Personal Edition 4.1 – Installshield Wizard window.
1.2 Activate the license
Before you can use NetBrain Workstation PE4.1, you must activate the license. There’s no expiration
time for PE 4.1, you can use it as long as you would like to.
1. Launch NetBrain Workstation PE 4.1. 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/downloads/form-pe.php and fill in the form.
2. Work on Qmaps
NetBrain PE provides a visual environment to help you learn the network technology either for career
growth or for network certifications 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 create a Qmap. This section also shows ways to create Qmaps such as
discovering the live or virtual Dynamics lab.
2.1 Create Qmaps
Import configurations to create Qmaps
Before importing configurations, you need to 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
sample 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.
Import a Dynamips Virtual Lab
If you build a virtual network lab using tools such as dynamics/GNS3, you can load the lab to create a
map.
1. Enable 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 Discover Live Network button on the start page of NetBrain Workstation. In the pop-up
window click the Import .net File button to select the .net file that you created and click the OK
button. The Discover Live Network window will show 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.
1. Click the Map
Configuration Files
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 OK button.
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 the same 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.
Discover the Live Network
If you have a live lab, you can import the IP list of the live devices to discover them. Or you can enter the
IP addresses in this window manually. As the shown in the picture below, remember to set the correct
telnet port for live access (in most cases, this should be the default number “23”).
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. Right click on a device and
select the Device Settings
option.
2. Set the corresponding
credentials and access
method for this device.
3. To apply some or all items of
device settings to all the
devices within the current
map page, check the
corresponding checkboxes.
4. Click OK.
5. You may need to repeat step
1 and 2 for other devices
3. Use Map for Network Analysis
Once a data-driven Qmap is created, many types of 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 Qmap.
Context Menu Network Analysis
Qmap Floating Menu
Click the blank space in a Q-map to
bring up the context menu for a map.
Highlight routing protocol
Compare Configurations and
routings
Retrieve live data
View data attached to map
Add map note
Router Floating Menu
Click a router to bring up the context
menu for a device.
View configurations
View route table
Live access
View MAC table (only applicable to
switch)
3.1 Navigate Qmap
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 Qmap
1. Mouse over a text along a
link to display the relevant
configuration snippet in the
Tip Window.
Tip: Click the button on the
Map ribbon menu to turn on/off Tip
Window.
3.2 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 the context menu and select highlight routing protocol.
2. To clear the highlight, click highlight in the context menu and select Clear All.
3.3 Create New Map Page
You can create multiple map pages within a Qmap, this can be useful if a network task is involved in
more than one topology map, and all information will be saved in a single file. You can then easily send
the Qmap file to your colleagues for review.
In some cases, you may need to select several devices on the current map page and then work them on
another Qmap page. To copy/paste device configuration files from one map page to another, you can:
Copy/Paste Device Configuration Files between Map Pages
1. Select one or more devices on the current
Qmap page. Use Ctrl for multiple selections while
use Shift to select all devices.
2. Right click on one of these devices and select
the Copy Device(s) option.
3. Open a new Qmap page or switch to another
map page.
3. Open a new Qmap page or switch to another
map page.
4. Right click on the blank area of the current map
page and select Paste Device(s) Configuration
Files, the copied devices are added to current
map page successfully.
4. Use Qmap to Document the Lab
NetBrain Qmap is a knowledge map ideal for documenting the lab. You can highlight routing design and
annotate the configure snippets in the map as shown in section 3.2. The benchmarked results, including
the customized show command outputs, can also be added into the map as a hyperlink in the map note.
4.1 Document CLI show command outputs
You can telnet to a network device from NetBrain, issue CLI show commands and save the results as a
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 built-in data such as configurations, route tables, ARP tables, MAC tables
and CDP tables. The system parses these types of data and provides a toolkit for you to work on and
analyze the data. You can also define and retrieve customized show commands.
To retrieve the system built-in data:
1. In the map floating menu select Benchmark -> Retrieve Live Data.
2. Select a Map DataFolder to store the data.
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.
6. After the execution, you can click the View Outputs button to see the results.
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. Click the Map Note icon in the map bar to view all the map data folders attached to the
Qmap.
2. Click the blank of the map note then click the triangle icon ( ) on the right side of the Link icon ( ),
and then select the 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 Network Changes
With NetBrain Workstation you can perform the following steps to document and review a learning
scenario:
1. Benchmark the lab including retrieving key show command results.
2. Make necessary network changes.
3. Benchmark the lab after changes including the retrieving key show command results.
4. Add a map note and benchmark the results as a link.
5. 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 logs into the device.
3. Enter the configuration mode and change the configurations.
5.2 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.