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7signal Sapphire Carat Carat User Guide Release 3.1
9 NETWORK TOPOLOGY CONFIGURATION
Network topology is defined in Carat to reflect geography and organization and help with
reporting necessary entities separately. Network topology consists of organizations, locations,
service areas, Eyes and managed access points.
9.1 Choosing Networks To Be Monitored
9.1.1 Organization
Sapphire can simultaneously manage networks in several independent organizations. A
company or other organization can have many separate locations. The networks are displayed
in a hierarchical tree starting from the Organization.
A company can have several networks, for different purposes. For example:
• Office network
• Warehouse network
• Guest network
To meet this need, Sapphire can monitor several networks at the same time.
To handle a hierarchy that might grow utterly complex, 7signal uses a tree-structure.
Organization is a starting point to create tree structure. User can add one or more
organizations depending what is an appropriate structure.
1. Right click Organizations node in tree and select “Add Organization”
2. Enter the organization’s name
3. Save by clicking “Save”
4. The Network topology is automatically displayed after saving