Cisco CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0 Release Notes

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Release Notes for CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0
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  What’s New in This Release
Navigating Menus
The LMS 4.0 menus are organized as follows:
Menu
Description
My Menu
My Menu helps you to consolidate information specific to particular functions 
as dashboards. My Menu also enables you to group data from different functions 
into a single page. You can add, view and manage dashboards using the 
following options in My Menu:
My Dashboard
Public Dashboards
Default Dashboards
Monitor
You can use the Monitor menu for monitoring and troubleshooting your network 
in LMS. The menu also offers performance and fault management tasks and 
diagnostic tools.
Inventory
You can use the Inventory menu for discovering network devices, managing 
device credentials, generating inventory and device reports, and managing 
inventory dashboards. 
Configuration
You can use the Configuration menu for deploying configurations on devices, 
updating software images, archiving and comparing device configurations, 
configuring VLANs, configuring technologies, converting standalone switches 
to a virtual switching system. Configuration menu also offers compliance tasks 
and you can generate configuration compliance reports.
Reports
You can use the Reports menu to view and generate reports such as device 
reports, fault and event reports, audit reports, inventory reports, performance 
reports, cisco.com reports, and system reports.
Admin
You can use the Admin menu for performing all the network and system admin-
istration activities such as Device Credential Repository settings, collection 
settings, tools settings, purge settings, report settings, group management, 
server administration, software center.
Work Centers
You can use the WorkCenter menu for configuring Cisco technologies such as 
Identity, EnergyWise, Smart Install, and Auto Smartports on devices using 
LMS.
Legacy
You can use the Legacy menu to perform LMS functions by using the legacy 
LMS 3.x navigation menus.