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Cisco Configuration Professional Quick Start Guide
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Task 8: Start Using Cisco CP
Cisco CP works with device communities. A community consists of one or more devices that you specify
by providing their IP addresses and login credentials. After you create the community, you can begin
working with the devices in it.
This section contains the following parts:
•
Creating a Community and Adding Devices
•
Creating an Initial Configuration of a Feature
•
Editing a Configuration
Creating a Community and Adding Devices
Procedure
Use this procedure to create a community, add devices to it, and discover all the devices in a community.
Step 1
Use the Manage Community dialog box to create communities. The Manage Community dialog box
automatically displays when you start Cisco CP and a community called, New Community, is created by
default. See
Figure 12
.
Figure 12
Manage Community
You can also open the Manage Community dialog box in the following ways:
•
From the toolbar, click the
Manage Community
icon.
•
From the menu bar, choose
Application > Manage Community
.
