- Overview
- Product Documentation
- CML Release Notes
- Getting Started
- CML 2.1 User Guide
- CML User's Guide
- Overview of CML 2.x
- Using CML and the HTML5 UI
- Dashboard
- Workbench
- Adding Nodes to a Lab
- Starting, Stopping, and Wiping Nodes
- Deleting Nodes
- Creating Links
- Rules for Creating Links and Interface Overprovisioning
- Adding Interfaces and Overprovisioning
- Overprovisioning Interfaces with Link Creation
- Starting Simulations
- Connecting to a Node's Console
- Setting CPU limit on node
- Launch sequencing and CPU limiting
- Stopping Simulations
- External Connectivity for Simulations
- Link Packet Capture
- Breakout Tool
- Custom VM Images
- Creating a New Node Definition
- CML 2.1 Admin Guide
- Resources
Using You New CML System¶
Now that your Cisco Modeling Labs system is installed and licensed, you can start using it to simulate network topologies. In this section, you will create a lab by drawing the network topology. Then you will start the simulation. Once the lab simulation is running, you can connect to virtual nodes in the lab. When you’re done with the lab, you can stop the simulation, preserving the lab for later use.
Note that sample labs are included with CML and may also be used to become familiar with the platform. Sample labs can be found under , located on the menu bar. When using the included sample labs, note the topology size (node count), and select an appropriate topology based on your system’s available resources. If you try to start a large topology simulation on a CML server that’s using the minimum system requirements, it may return errors or make the nodes unusable. CML-Personal licensing constrains simulations to a maximum of 20 nodes.