Chapter 5. Using Cisco Configuration Professional to Protect the Network Infrastructure

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Introducing Cisco Configuration Professional

• Understanding CCP features and the GUI

• Setting up new devices

• CCP building blocks

• CCP audit features

There have been several flavors of graphical user interface (GUI) tools over the years, including Security Device Manager (SDM), CiscoWorks, and others. This chapter introduces you to another GUI tool called Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP), also sometimes shown as Cisco CP. Even if you believe that the command-line interface is the only “true” way to go, some nice features are built in to CCP such as smart wizards that can make the configuration of the ...

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