User guide

AlliedView NMS Backup (On Demand) Backup and Restore
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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide (File Administration)
The “Discover Parent Network” tab means to discover all the devices in the parent network as well. The parent network will
be considered to be all IP addresses in the same subnet as the node defined by its IP Address and its Net Mask. When
unchecked, only the one node will be discovered.
If SNMP discovery is enabled, node discovery will normally use the parameters configured on the SNMP tab, but they can
be overridden for specific nodes by selecting the SNMP option on this tab and supplying the version, community, and port
values.
The SNMP version used can be selected here as well, with the properties determined by the version.
Note: If nodes are failing initial discovery, you can (for SNMP) change the “Retries” parameter (default 0) and
the “Timeout” parameter from the SNMP v1/v2c Tab, and then use the Network Inventory / Edit -> Add
Node to retry initial discovery. If you are using ICMP, you can change the “Retries” parameter (default 0)
and the Timeout parameter from the Basic Tab.
3.4 Backup and Restore
3.4.1 AlliedView NMS Backup (On Demand)
To make an immediate backup of the server and database files, choose from the main menu Tools -> NMS Database
Backup, and the option On Demand. A dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 3-17.
FIGURE 3-17 NMS Backup Confirmation Dialog
Clicking OK starts the backup process window. When finished, the window will show whether the backup was successful
and where the backups were written to, as shown in Figure 3-18.