ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 User Guide 350 East Plumeria Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA January 2012 202-10838-04 v1.
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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Why NMS200? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Networks with NMS200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Additional Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Online Help / Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Status Bar Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Chat / Conferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Portlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Key Metric Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Chapter 6 Resource Management Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Resource Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Discovery Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Appendix A Glossary Index 6
1. Introduction 1 NMS200 can give you automated, consolidated configuration and control of your network’s resources. NMS200’s Administration Guide describes some of the runtime features supporting these applications. The NMS200 Installation Guide and Administration Guide discuss licensing. Consult Release Notes for information about changes not covered in this Synergy User Guide. Why NMS200? NMS200’s benefits: • Productive.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 actions like email, paging, SNMP traps, Syslog messaging, and external application execution. • Traps and Syslog. NMS200 lets you investigate network issues with traps and Syslog messages. You can use NMS200 to set up events / alarms and then receive, process, forward, and send syslog and trap messages. • Reports and Graphs. NMS200 comes with many pre-configured reports and graphs to display data from its database.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Reports let you take snapshots of network conditions to aid in analysis of trends, and Audit Trail Portlets track message traffic between NMS200 and devices. Additional Products The following describes how to increase the power of your NMS200 installation. While the documents mentioned above describe everything available with NMS200, your installation may provide only a limited subset of those features.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 This opens an online help screen with information about the portlet in which you click. By default, this opens a separate browser window. You can arrange the display so the help screen does not conceal the portlet it describes. By default it also appears without the table of contents, index and search tabs.
2. Getting Started 2 This chapter describes how to install and start NMS200 for basic network monitoring and management. If you are sure your hardware, software and network is correct and just want to get started immediately, go to Getting Started on page 15.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Note: Windows Terminal Server is not supported. The installer becomes non-responsive with Data Execution Prevention enabled. This option is disabled by default on Windows Server 2008, but is enabled on a Windows Server 2008 machine running Terminal Server. - You must disable User Account Control if you are installing on Vista or Windows Server 2008. - In Vista, you must either to disable User Account Control or run application server as service.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Hardware Recommendations NMS200 contains an Application Server that runs continuously in the background, and a Client (the user interface you actually see). The stand-alone installation runs a Web Server in addition to the application server. Minimum hardware recommendations are based on the different types of installation available: • Full Installation (Application server + Web Server) — 2.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 If your network does not have DNS, you can also assign hostnames in %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows. Here, you must assign a hostname in addition to an IP address somewhere in the system. Here are some example hosts file contents (including two commented lines where you would have to remove the # sign to make them effective): # 102.54.94.97 # 38.25.63.10 127.0.0.1 rhino.acme.com # source server x.acme.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 File and choose the file. Your updated license should be visible in the License Viewer. See License Viewer on page 25 for details. Note: You must also re-register licenses if you have updated your installation from a previous version where you previously upgraded licenses. In any case, you must restart application server or wait up to 15 minutes before a license modification is effective.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Unified View — You can scale your NMS200 installation to handle the largest, most complex environments with distributed deployment. Consult the Installation Guide for more about installing distributed, and even high availability systems. • Finally do not neglect what Common Setup Tasks on page 28 describes. Installation and Startup Application server produces the NMS200 information for web clients.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The default login user is netgear, with a password of netgear. The application server hostname is the name of the system where NMS200 is installed. A Printer Management - Web layout also comes with the application. Use this for better performance from web clients. HTTPS You can connect to application server securely by configuring the included Apache Tomcat server for secure access. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html, among other resources.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 CAUTION: When you create users with less-than-Administrator permissions, those users may not see all of the features described in this guide. Portal > Users Add users with the following steps: 1. Click Manage > Control Panel > Portal Users. 2. Click the Add tab under the Users heading at the top of the page. 3. Enter the details of the new user (Name, Job Title, and so on). 4.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Your organization has a number of geographic locations and you plan to manage the network infrastructure for all these locations using RC7 Synergy. You can define the geographic locations to which devices can be associated. This will help you manage and view your network, grouped by location or branches. See Locations on page 83 for the specifics about the portlet where you can set up locations.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 triggering three Actions (Edit, Delete and Execute). Notice that the bottom right corner of this page also lets you Enable / Disable / Execute All policies listed. DAP Workflow The following are steps typical for implementing DAP: 1. From the screen listing Database Aging Policies (DAP), click Add Policy, and select a policy from the displayed list of alternatives. 2. This opens Aging Policies Editor. 3.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Description — A text description of the policy • Enabled — Check to enable the policy. • Schedule Interval — Use the pick list to select an interval. Once you have configured an interval here, you can re-configure it in the Schedules Portlet. • Base Archive Name — The prefix for the archived file. • Compress Archive — Check to compress the archive file. • Archive Location — Select from the available Repositories in the pick list.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Sub-Policies Some types of Database Aging Policies can have sub-policies that further refine the aging for their type of contents. These appear listed in the Aging Policies Options tab. Click Add Sub Policy to create them. Notice that you can Edit or Delete listed policies with the icons in the far-right Action column in this list. Such sub-policies contain the following types of fields: • Component — Select the component for the sub-policy from the pick list.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Archive — Check this to activated archiving according to this policy. Repositories When you select a repository in the Aging Policies Editor, the available policies come from what is configured in this tab of the editor. Available repositories appear listed in the initial screen. Like the Aging Policies Editor, you can click Add Repository to create a new repository, and Edit or Delete selected, listed policies with the icons in the Action column.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Repository Name — An identifier for the archiving destination. • Description — A text comment. • Virtual Path — This is the path relative to the installation root directory. • Online — Check this to put this repository online.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • View / Add Licenses — This lets you see and manage the licensed capabilities of NMS200. See License Viewer below for details. License Viewer This screen appears when you click View / Add Licenses in the Quick Navigation portlet. Register License To register a license click the Select File button at the top, and use the subsequent screen to select a license file.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Device Licenses This tab displays the Maximum Allowed number of licenses for devices, the Count Managed the Variance between maximum and managed, and Type of license. Discovery To begin managing resources in your network, you must discover them to store their information in the application database. This begins with Discovery Profiles portlet. By default, this appears in the Admin page. Discovery profiles configure equipment discovery for NMS200.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Network 5. After you click Next, the Network screen appears. • Network Type and Addresses — Select the type of entry in the pick list (IP Address(es), CIDR Address, Hostname, SNMP Broadcast, Subnet). Tip: You can specify an IP Address range by separating the beginning and end with a dash. For example: 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.240. The tooltips in the data entry field describe what valid entries look like. 6.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 11. The devices in your network now appear in the Managed Resources portlet, and elsewhere (in Topology, for example). See Discovery Profiles on page 124 for more details about this process. Managed Resources This portlet displays all the devices you have discovered. See Managed Resources on page 133 for the details of this screen’s capabilities. See also Managed Resource Groups on page 130.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 have a mail account. This screen configures the e-mail server so NMS200 can send such automated e-mails. This screen contains the following fields: • SMTP Server Host — The IP address or hostname of your SMTP server. • SMTP Server Port — The port for your SMTP server (110 is typical). • Authentication Enabled — Check this to enable authentication for this server. Checking enables the next two fields.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Netrestore File Servers The Netrestore file servers provide FTP connections for retrieving and deploying devices’ configuration files, and for deploying firmware updates to devices on your network. See File Servers on page 74 for a description of the portlet that manages file servers. If you want to configure servers from the Common Setup Tasks portlet, a slightly different screen appears when you click Edit. This displays configured file servers.
3. Portal Conventions 3 This section explains how to navigate and configure the NMS200 web portal. Because this portal is based on open source features, and can be so flexible, this is not a comprehensive catalog of all its features. The following discusses only features significant for using NMS200.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Help / Tooltips In NMS200, the far right menu item is typically a Help page, with links to this document and others, but the whole application has extensive tooltips that appear when you the cursor over the blue circle with a question mark (the help icon). Tooltips also display the full content for most fields in portlets.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Show Versions To see which products are installed, and what versions, select the Manage > Show Versions menu item. This can be critical information if you request support for your NMS200 installation. The Application Software Versions screen appears with the product versions listed in the bottom. Device drivers list supported devices and their operating systems. This can be important for troubleshooting, and is vital information for support.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 CAUTION: NMS200 does not support multiple tab browsing as a reliable way to see its screens. Pages overcome that limitation. • [User Name] (sign out)— Opens the My Account screen in Control Panel, where you can configure your name, job title, image, and so on. The Sign out link lets you log out of NMS200. Status Bar Messaging The Message bar appears at the bottom of the portal.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • (Settings) — This configures your user settings for any online chat with your colleagues, including the saying, whether your online presence appears, and whether to play a sound when messages arrive. Tip: When you have a message from another user, that user’s name appears on the status bar to the left of this icon. • (Conferences) — This configures your user settings for any online chat with multiple colleagues.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Graphs Graphs appear in alarm and performance portlets functions. These display the real-time division of total alarms or performance metrics, and you can change their appearance, or associated data lists display. For example, clicking the Critical alarms slice means only Critical alarms appear listed in the portlet. Notice also that the graph “explodes” to highlight the selected slice.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Portlets Portlets are the elements of any page within the NMS200 web client. Initially, they appear in a small, summary screen format. Click Add > More... to add a portlet to a page you have created. For a more specific look at available portlets, see the chapters following this one. The following describe common portlet features. One of the first portlets typical users see is Discovery Profiles. To act on listed items, right-click.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Note: Screen size limitations may require you to expand the browser to see expanded screens correctly. You must have at least 1250 pixels in width. You can right-click to act on listed elements as in the basic, smaller portlet, but here you can also see details about a selected row in the Snap Panels below the table list items in an expanded portlet. Tip: Best practices uses the “breadcrumb” trail of links at the top pages to navigate.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 the panel to toggle its expansion or collapse. In the Reference Tree snap panel, click the plus (+) to expand the tree of connections. Filters Filters typically appear at the top of expanded portlets. You can pick from already-configured filters with the drop-down on the left, or you can click Advanced Filter to create one of your own. After you click the green plus (+), select and or or on the left to combine more than one filter.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Rows and Search The “basket” icon midscreen on the left opens Rows per Page and Max Items selectors, along with a Go button to activate any changes you make there. For performance reasons, these are set to relatively low defaults. You can search by clicking the magnifying glass icon. This opens a search field where you can enter search terms for all the fields that appear in the list at the top of the portlet.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Exports At the bottom right corner of the list, appear an Excel and Acrobat icon. Click these to export the list contents as either an Excel spreadsheet (.xls), or a pdf file. These download to the default download location you have configured on your browser. Snap Panels (Reference Tree) These vary, depending on the portlet, but the convention of displaying a Reference Tree panel is common. This displays items related to the selected list item in tree form.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Common Menu Items Several menu items appear in multiple portlets. In addition to editing commands (New, Open), such menus let you: • Import / Export • Share with User (see Sharing on page 43). • View as PDF Note: You can also export or import page configurations as well as items NMS200 manages like equipment, discovery profiles, locations and so on.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Note: Use the More Options link at the bottom of the Export screen to expose more export options. Use this same page to import, if it is enabled. Sharing You can share elements within NMS200 with colleagues, and consult with them using the texting described in Status Bar Messaging on page 34. To share an something, first select it where it appears listed in the appropriate portlet. Right click and select Share Asset.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 View as PDF This displays the selected asset’s information as a PDF. You can search, print or save this to file, and use any of the other Acrobat capabilities. Clicking the acrobat logo docks the floating / disappearing Acrobat toolbar within this screen. Tip: To search the PDF produced, click the binocular icon in the docked toolbar.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Audit Trail / Jobs Screen When you execute an action, for example discovering network resources, an audit trail screen appears with a tree displaying the message traffic between NMS200 and the device(s) the action addresses. To see the details of any message, click on it, and those details appear in the lowest panel of this screen. If you click on a summary message (not a “leaf” on the tree), a graph appears displaying the time for its component messages.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Audit Trail Viewer Some portlets also offer an Audit Trail menu item that displays Audit Trail / Jobs Screens for the selected item. The top of this screen contains a list of Audit Records. Click one of this list to see the Job details as you would in the Audit Trail / Jobs Screen.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Right click to Delete a message, View job (see the message traffic archived) or Share with User. Tip: To see the audit trail for recently completed processing, open the Messages tab in the lower left corner of the portal, and click the magnifying glass to the right of the appropriate message. Expanded Audit Trail Portlet When you click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen, the expanded portlet appears.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 View Job The Audit Job Viewer displays the audit trail messages in tree form. To see the contents of an individual message that appears in the upper panel, select it and view its contents in the bottom panel. The divider has the binoculars in the left corner, and the Refresh icon in the right. Click Refresh to clear an old message so you can view a new one. Click the binocular icon to check (info, warning, error) filters that limit the types of visible messages.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Schedules Portlet You can view and modify schedules in the Schedules portlet, or the Expanded Schedules Portlet This displays the Enabled status, a Description, the Type of schedule, its Next Execution and Recurrence in columns. You can do the following by right-clicking a scheduled item, and selecting the appropriate menu item: • Delete — Deletes the selected scheduled item, displaying a confirming dialog box.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: Schedule new actions from the portlet that ordinarily executes them, for example Resource Discovery on page 123. Expanded Schedules Portlet When you expand this portlet, the additional columns that appear include Submission Date, Start Date, whether the schedule is still active (Scheduled), and the Execution Count. If a green icon appears in the Scheduled column, it means the schedule will be executed on next start date.
4. NMS200 Portlets 4 This section describes the available NMS200 portlets. You may not have access to all of these with the user permissions you have been assigned by the portal administrator. Alarms In its summary form, this portlet displays alarms and a graph that summarizes them. To filter the listed alarms that appear on this screen to a particular severity, click a slice of the graph or on a color in the legend to its right.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The alarm display includes the following columns: • Severity — The alarm severity indicated by the color of the leftmost icon. The severity only has meaning for Alarms and Security Alarms. Informational Alarms get a severity level of Indeterminate. • Date Opened — The date the alarm appeared. • Entity Name — The entity emitting this alarm (often within the Equipment). • DeviceIP — The IP address of the equipment where the alarm appeared.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded Alarm Portlet The expanded Alarm portlet appears when you click the plus (+) in the top right corner of the smaller screen. This displays listed alarms and Snap Panel details of a selected alarm. The colored icons at the top of this screen display a count of the open alarms in each severity category (hover the cursor over the icon to see which severity it represents), and a total.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Rather than filtering with the pie graph, the expanded portlet lets you either the pick list at the top left, or create custom filtering by clicking Advanced Filters. Menu Right clicking an alarm lets you select from the following menu items: • Acknowledge / Unacknowledge Alarm — Acknowledges the selected Alarm(s). The current date and time appear in the Ack Time field.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Aging Policy — This lets you select a policy that determines how long this alarm remains in the database. See Database Aging Policies (DAP) on page 19 for information about configuring such policies. • View as PDF — Create an Acrobat PDF document containing this portlet’s contents. • Share with User — Selecting this opens a screen where you can select the user you want to send the selected alarm, and can enter a message you want to send with it.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Device IP = Message = Alarm State = Open Severity = 5 - Major Count = 1 Date Opened = Tue Dec 14 22:01:30 PST 2010 Update Date/Time = Tue Dec 14 22:01:36 PST 2010 Entity Name = Entity Type = Entity Description = Equipment = Region = SUPDEMOPartition Location = Assigned By = OWSystem Date Assigned = Thu Dec 16 10:40:24 PST 2010 Assigned User = qatester Acknowledged = false Ack By = Ack Time = Cleared By = Date Cleared = MIB T
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: Hovering the cursor over the DeviceIP column produces a tooltip that lets you know the device’s current state (up / down) and that contains Model, Vendor, Discovery Date, Ping Rate (ms), and the device’s Description information. Expanded Event History Portlet Clicking the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the initial portlet view displays the expanded Event History.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Event History Snap Panels Click a listed alarm to display its details in the Snap Panels. The Reference Tree displays the event’s relationship to any alarms, and to the source device. Click the plus (+) next to an item in the tree to unpack it. The Bindings Snap Panel displays the event’s varbind information, including the trap OID, the device’s IP address, and other event-specific information.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded Event Processing Rules Portlet The expanded portlet displays additional columns. Details about selected rules appear in the snap-in panels at the bottom of this screen. The Reference Tree panel displays the selected rule’s connection to events. The Rule Actions list any configured actions associated with the rule. The Event Filter Summary summarizes any configured filter(s) for the selected rule.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 2. For this example, we select Pre-Processing > Device Access. The Rule Editor screen appears. Enter a Name to identify the rule, an optional Description, and check Enabled if you want this rule to begin working immediately. 3. Click Next to open the Filtering / Settings tab. Specify Event Filtering In this panel select the Event Definition. Click pick list to find available events. Typing a letter goes to that letter in the list.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Rule Editor After you select between pre- and post-processing rules for new rules, the following screens manage the event processing described in brief in the Rule Editor Example on page 59. The following screens and fields appear in this editor. • General • Filtering / Settings • Syslog Escalation Criteria (for pre-processing Syslog rules) • Actions (for post-processing, automation rules) The following sections describe these in detail.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 displayed events. After you finish event selection, click Done at the bottom of this selection screen. Click Add Filter to further filter the selected events. See Filters on page 39 for more about this feature. After you Add Filter the button changes to Clear Filter so you can remove any filter from the event rule. Tip: NMS200 supports multiple IP addresses per resource.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Device Access — The Device Access example creates a specific device access event for user login, logout, login failure or configuration change. Select the Access Type (Config Change, Login Failure, User Login, User Logout) from the pick list for that field. Enter the User Name Variable and/or User Name RegEx match string in those fields. This confines rule response to the selected users.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 After you select the event and filtering, enter the Interval (seconds), the Action (Reject or Suppress the event) and check Publish Event if you want it to register for NMS200. If you Reject an event, it does not appear in Event history; if you Publish it, however, listeners for that event will “hear” it. • Suppress Alarm — This screen presents the Specify Event Filtering portion of the screen without any Settings in the lower screen.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Criteria: Syslog Event Setup This portion of the Criteria screen sets up the event emitted when matching occurs. Here are the fields: • Category — The syslog category varbind value. • Event Severity — Select the alarm severity of the event emitted when a match occurs. • Message Pattern — An optional regular expression for the text to retrieve and transmit in the created event’s message. • Message Template — The configuration of the message when sent.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Custom Click Apply to accept configured actions, or Cancel to abandon their editor and return to this screen. Tip: Actions available here are like those for Discovery Profiles on page 124. Forward Northbound When you want to forward an SNMP v2 event (trap) to another host, then configure automation in this screen to do that. Enter the following fields: • Destination Address — The IP address of the northbound destination.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Email Email actions configure destinations and messages for e-mail and SMS recipients. You can include fields that are part of the event by using the variables described in Email Action Variables on page 69. The SMS tab is similar to the e-mail tab, but limits the number of characters you can enter with a field at its bottom. Note: You must send SMS to the destination phone carrier’s e-mail-to-SMS address.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Notification: redcellInventoryAttribChangeNotification Notification Attributes: =============================== sysUpTime.0 = 5 hours, 16 mins, 43 secs snmpTrapOID.0 = 1.3.6.1.4.1.3477.2.2.1 redcellInventoryAttrName.0 = RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Notes redcellInventoryAttrChangedBy.0 = admin redcellInventoryAttrNewValue.0 = hello world severity auto redcellInventoryAttrOldValue.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 If you select an action with additional parameters, those parameters appear in the screen below the Target field. To see definitions for such parameters, hover the cursor over the field and a tooltip describing the field appears. Click Apply to accept your edits, or Cancel to abandon them. Email Action Variables The following are the Email Action variables you can use in customizing the content of action e-mail.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Basic Variables Attribute Description Email Action Variable Name The event / alarm name {Name} Message Description from the event {Message} Entity Name The entity (interface, card...) name {EntityName} Equipment Manager Name The name of the equipment, parent or chassis.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Managed Equipment Variables Attribute Description Email Action Variable Custom 1 Note that although you can re-name {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Custom1} any Custom attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManage r_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Custom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Custom3} Custom 4 {RedCell.Config.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Attribute Description Email Action Variable Last Modified Timestamp of Last Modified {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_LastModifi ed} Model Model number of the equipment {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Model} Name Component name {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Name} Network Status Network Status {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_HealthStat us} Notes Equipment Notes {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Notes} OSVersion OSVersion {RedCell.Config.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Entity Type: Port Attribute Description Email Action Variable Custom 1 Note that although you can re-name {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom1} any Custom attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManage r_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom3} Custom 4 {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom4} Encapsulation Encapsulation {RedCell.Config.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Entity Type: Interface, Logical interface Attribute Description Redcell Email Action variable Custom 1 Note that although you can re-name {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom1} any Custom attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManage r_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom3} Custom 4 {RedCell.Config.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 the file server mode by checking/unchecking the Show All Servers check box. When this is un-checked, only the relevant file server(s) appear onscreen. Right clicking a file server, or the empty list space lets you do the following: • Delete — Removes the selected file server from the list. This appears for External File Servers only. • Disable — Disables the selected file server.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Note: The internal FTP/TFTP server is for testing only, not for production use. For those concerned that the internal server provides some insecure access to NMS200, it was designed to be ultra-secure. It literally creates a separate authentication and virtual file system for each file retrieved. It also responds only to Redcell’s internal requests. File Server Editor This editor lets you configure new and existing file servers.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Notice that you can now configure an IP address used by NMS200, and another External IP Address used by the devices. If you configure multiple file servers, NMS200 selects the server with the Net Mask whose subnet is closest to the device(s) with which it communicates. OS Images OS Images are typically the firmware updates you want to deploy to devices in your network. You must add such software to your NMS200 system before you can deploy it.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded OS Images portlet When you click the plus, this portlet expands to display the OS images list, a snap panel Reference tree of the connections to devices, and another panel listing the files within the selected image. OS Image Editor When you open or create an OS image, its configuration appears in this editor. The General Parameters tab contains its OS Image Name, Description, Version, and a Create Date.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 can consist of multiple files, you can import multiple files here. Finally, you can also import a Readme File to accompany this image, and view it in that tab. Click Save to preserve the OS Image you have configured, or Cancel to exit these screens without saving.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Deploy OS This screen lets you configure a deployment, whether triggered from resource groups, individual resources, or the OS Images screen. Deployment validates the selected image is appropriate for the selected devices, or appropriate devices within a group. To deploy an OS image, follow these steps: 1. Make sure you have an FTP / TFTP server correctly configured. See File Servers on page 74. 2.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Image Type — A read-only reminder of the type of image. • Select Targets for Deployment — Select targets for deploying the image. This defaults to the device right-clicked in Managed Resources to initiate this action, or devices that match the selected file you want to deploy. You can then click the Add Equipment button (again, restricted to devices that match the deploy file’s type).
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 New or Open displays the Contacts Editor. Contacts Editor This editor has two panels where you can enter contact information (Name, Address, Phone, and so on). Click the tabs at the top of this screen to move between the panels. The Contact ID, a unique identifier for the contact in your system, is a required field at the top of the first page. Click Save to preserve your new or modified contact information. Click Cancel to leave the contact unmodified.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Locations In its summary form, the locations portlet displays configured locations in your system. You can right-click to create, modify or remove (New, Open, Delete) the selected location. You can also Share with User. See Sharing on page 43. This screen has the following columns: • [Icon] — The icon for this location. • Name — The name for this location. • Details — A description for this location. • Type — A designated type for the location.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Parent — The “parent” of this location (the location to which this location is subordinate). Select a Parent Location from the pick list. The maximum number of levels supported is 15. • Type — Type of location, as selected from the drop-down menu. Available types are: Area Hub, Customer, National Hub, Other, Provider, Regional Hub, and State. • Postal Address — The Street, City/State, Zip address of the location. • Additional — Any optional notes.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Visualize My Network The Visualize My Network portlet displays discovered devices, mapping them in relationship to each other. You can click and drag displayed portions of this screen to see other parts of the topology. To move the display more, click in the OVERVIEW panel. You can also expand / collapse the panels on the left of the screen by clicking their title bars. (Figures below display them expanded.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Click on the title bars when these appear collapsed on the left of the screen to expand them. Click the blue left arrow at the top of them to re-collapse them. In addition to the screen components immediately displayed, you can right-click an icon or component, and Drill in or Expand a device to see its subcomponents. If you expand, then its subcomponents appear onscreen with the rest of the topology.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The Action Tree panel displays the available actions. The Action Search panel lets you enter a desired action and search for it. Select an action and click Execute to implement it. Click Cancel to dismiss this screen without running any action. Control and Styles • ZOOM • DISPLAYED LEVELS ZOOM Click the + or - icons to zoom in or out. The 1 icon returns to the original default magnification (100%). The Autofit icon zooms to fit all devices in the topology.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Level 3 Filters Select a Minimum Alarm Severity to display from the pick list. This restricts the display on a lower level than Level 2. Condition Override(s) When active, this excludes level expands on nodes with links that do not match the severity filters. Click the Apply Filtering button to implement your configuration, or Cancel to dismiss this screen without applying it. STYLE OPTIONS This tab’s options configure node and line appearance.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Edge Style Options — This lets you configure the colors on connections between icons. First, click to Enable Edge Labels. To have the edge reflect speeds, you can then elect Layer 2 Speed Styling (enable Use Style Overrides). Select colors for speeds by clicking the lower right corner of the colored boxes that appear next to speed range labels. You can also configure the thickness of the edge next to that color selector.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 GRAPH INVENTORY This displays a legend of icon types followed by a count (in parentheses) of how many of each appear in the topology. The switch at the bottom of this panel centers the display around the selected icon. Click the plus (+) to the left of the inventory category icons to display a list of devices in that category in the topology. Click on a list item to highlight that device and its network connection in the topology view.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Icon Type Explanation Status Green means the device is Online, red means Offline, and yellow means indeterminate. Topology Alarm These appear next to the device icons. The upward pointing triangle indicates the icon Triangle attached is a top-level device. The color in the circle is connection status color described above. The color in the triangle the device’s alarm state.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Balloon Balloon layouts display links between managed objects in a balloon tree structure. The root is typically whatever device you have expanded or drilled into. You can specify the following in the settings for this layout: • Minimal nodes spacing – Use the slider to determine how close nodes are to each other. • Child / Root angular sector (.o) – Use the slider to determine the angular sector.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Radial Radial layouts arrange nodes in concentric rings. • Minimal concentric rings radius – Use the slider to determine the concentric ring spacing. • Minimal nodes spacing – Use the slider to determine the nodes spacing. • Angular sector (.o) – Use the slider to determine the arc where child nodes appear. • Overlap avoidance method – Select Approximate or Deterministic.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Link drawing type – Select from Straight, Straight polyline, Curved polyline, Orthogonal polyline, Orthogonal curved. • Cluster Policy – Select Vertical or Horizontal. This determines the (automated) orientation of the topology. Remember, you can click and drag device icons. • Cluster Spacing — Use the slider to determine the spacing between icons not in child / parent hierarchy. Hierarchical-Cyclic This arranges connections in a hierarchy.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 OVERVIEW This displays a thumbnail of the entire topology that appears in the larger screen to the right. Click a location to move the larger view to center on it. Alarms in Topology Colored circles and triangles appear next to topology nodes to indicate its network status (circles) or the alarm state of the device (triangles, apex points up) or the alarm state of its child entities (off-center triangles, apex points down).
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded Vendor Portlet When you expand the Vendor portlet, besides sharing you can also Add / Remove Columns item (see Add / Remove Columns on page 40). This screen has the same columns available as the summary screen. Vendors Snap Panel The snap panel displays the containers where the selected vendor is a member.
5. Monitoring 5 This chapter describes Resource Monitors as they appears in NMS200’s web portal. For more information about creating, managing and configuring such monitors, refer to NMS200’s User Guide. The following describes these monitors: • Resource Monitors • Top [Asset] Monitors (pre-configured monitors that come with your installation by default. Finally, this chapter contains a reminder about scheduling refreshes of monitor target groups. See Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets on page 113.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The graph that appears to the right of the monitors displays the aggregate availability information for the enabled monitors. Topics graphed include, Available, Not Available, No Data and Not Applicable. Right-click a listed monitor to do the following (not all menu items appear for all types of monitors): • Refresh Monitor — Re-query to update any targets for the current monitor.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The Details Snap Panel displays the attributes the popup shows when you hover the cursor over the Monitor Type column in the summary screen, and adds Emit Availability (events), Retain Availability, Retain Polled Data, and Retain Calculated Data parameters.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 General The General panel is common to all different monitor types. • Name — The identifier for this monitor. • Description — A text description for this monitor. • Polling Interval — Use these fields to configure how often the monitor polls its target(s). • Retention Policy — This configures how long NMS200 retains the monitor’s data. • Enabled — Check to enable. • Emit Availability Events — Check to activate emitting availability events.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Monitor Options Monitor options contains two panels. The entity panel lets you select the monitor targets. The types of monitor entities allowed varies depending on the type of monitor. The second panel contains options specific to the monitor type being edited. The entity and options panels for the various types of monitors appear below in Monitor Options Type-Specific Panels on page 106.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The Configured Metrics table lists the calculated metrics. An edit and delete action appears to the right of each row. The Add button creates a new calculated metric and the Remove All button deletes all the calculated metrics. Clicking on the Add button or edit button displays the calculation editor.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Units — Units string to appear in graphs • Max Value — Maximum value to be used in graphing (0 = no max) • Formula — The formula for the calculation using the assigned formula codes from the metric attribute legend. Thresholds The thresholds panel allows the user to set threshold intervals on attributes in the monitor. The table lists the attributes for which attributes have been configured. Each row has an edit action and delete action.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Configure threshold intervals you Add at the bottom of this screen according to the following parameters. • Attribute Name — Appears when you click Add rather than Editing a selected threshold. Use the pick list that appears in this screen to select the attribute for which you are specifying threshold information. When you Edit, the name of the attribute appears as a title within the editor screen. • Calculation Type — Select from the pick list.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 This screen contains the following fields: • Name — The identifier for the threshold interval. • Severity — The event severity for crossing this threshold interval (informational/indeterminate/warning/minor/major/critical) • Color — The color to display threshold interval on graphs. • Lower Boundary — The interval’s lower boundary. • Upper Boundary — The interval’s upper boundary. May be blank. • Matching String — A Regex matching string.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 You can Add a new mapping with that button, or Remove All listed mappings with that button. You can also edit or delete listed mappings with the Action icons to the right of each row. Adding or editing opens the Inventory Mapping Editor.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 3. In the General screen, enter a name, leave Enabled checked, enter a polling interval (5 minutes is the default). For this example, check Retain polled data and accept the remaining defaults for checkboxes and the retention policy. 4. Select an entity to monitor by clicking the Add button in the top portion of the Monitor Options screen. For an interface monitor, select Interface as the Type at the top of the screen.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: Calculated Metrics is particularly valuable if you want to monitor a composite like ifInErrors + ifOutErrors or want to calculate a parameter like errors per minute when you have a 5-minute monitoring interval. Consult the sections above for more information about the other screens and their capabilities. 9. Click Apply for each threshold interval you configure, then Apply for the entire threshold configuration. 10. Click Save and the monitor is now active.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The ICMP Entity Panel lets you select resource groups and Resource manager objects. Clicking Add button displays a selector panel for these. Select the type of entity you want to add, then select any desired filter attributes, then click Apply Filter. Select from the entities that appear and add them to the monitor. Key Metrics Monitor The Key Metrics Properties panel contains a list of key metrics you can add to the monitor. They are grouped by category.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 SNMP Monitor The SNMP attributes panel lets you specify which SNMP attributes are to be monitored. You can specify the SNMP attributes the following ways: • With the SNMP browser, or • Entering the SNMP attribute properties explicitly. The Browse button launches the SNMP browser.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Click on the desired SNMP nodes and then click on the Add Selection button to add an SNMP attribute. When done selecting, click the Done button to add selected attributes to the monitor or Cancel to abandon the operation and close the browser. The Add and Edit buttons in the SNMP attribute panel launch the SNMP Attribute editor.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 SNMP Interface Monitor The SNMP Interface Monitor Entity editor supports the following entity types: group, equipment manager, port and interface. It also supports port and interface filters on groups and equipment manager objects. The PF and IF table columns indicate if a port filter or interface filter is configured for the entity. Click the icons on the right side of the list of Monitor Entities to configure filters.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets Because monitors can address targets that are members of dynamic groups, refreshing these ensures that group memberships are up-to-date. To do this, you can create or alter the schedule for Monitor Target Refresh. When executed, this updates monitors with groups as targets based on current memberships. This removes targets no longer members of a monitored group and adds new group members.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Performance History — When this appears, it can open a screen that by default displays the past 30 minutes of the selected portlet’s monitoring. Click the clock icon in the upper right corner of this screen to change the default interval. Click the green checkbox to confirm your selected interval and display the re-configured graph. The change only lasts while this screen appears. Close and re-open it, and the interval returns to the default.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Dashboard Views The Dashboard Views portlet lets you assemble several monitors into a single display, or dashboard. You can create and display dashboards by right-clicking items in Managed Resources, selecting Show Performance, or by selecting New in the Dashboard Views portlet. Right-click the listed dashboards, and a menu appears that lets you Copy and rename, Delete, Edit, or Launch a Dashboard View.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Launch a Dashboard View Launching a view lets you view the monitors active for a Dashboard view. You can make Dashboards appear by selecting a device or devices in Managed Resources portlet, right-clicking and choosing Show Performance. To select more than one device, use the expanded Managed Resources portlet. The first time you create a default dashboard for a single device, NMS200 saves it in the Dashboard Views manager.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Dashboard View has been set:” appears with a Select button. Click that button to open the Dashboard View Selection screen. Dashboard View Selection This screen displays any existing dashboards so you can select one for the Performance Dashboard you want to appear on a page in NMS200. Use the filter at the top of this selector to limit the listed dashboards from which you can select.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 an editor appears that lets you select and rearrange the monitor components of the dashboard. This screen has the following fields: • View Name — The identifier for the dashboard. The default is “Performance dashboard for [IP address],” but you can edit this. This is what appears in the Dashboard Views list. • Show Composites — Show attributes that are constructed from other attributes.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Metrics This panel’s display depends on the selected device. Chart Click Chart to first select up to three metrics you want to graph, and the polling interval for the graph.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Then click Save, and the graph appears. Click the screwdriver / wrench icon in the upper right corner to return to the chart configuration screen.
6. Resource Management 6 The Resource management portlets let you manage devices you have discovered or created on your network. Resource Management portlets let you view device-specific information, both general (name, type, location, contact) and technical (vendor, subcomponents, and so on).
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Functions common to many menus, in addition to the Import / Export and Sharing, include the following actions are available in the right-click menu: • Delete — Deletes the selected authentication. If it is in use, an error message appears saying that deletion is not allowed. • New — Opens Authentication Editor , where you can create a new authentication. • Open — Open Authentication Editor where you can edit the selected authentication.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded Authentication Portlet The right-click menu in the expanded Authentication portlet offers Add / Remove Columns in addition to those in the summary screen (see Add / Remove Columns on page 40). This offers the same column setup as the summary screen. Authentication Snap Panel When you select a listed authentication the Reference Tree Snap Panel displays a tree of that authentication’s connections to Discovery profiles and equipment.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Discovery Profiles The discovery profiles set up equipment discovery for NMS200. The summary view displays the Name, Description, Default (the green check indicates the default profile), whether the profile is Scheduled and Next Execution Date for scheduled discovery. Menu Options When you right-click a profile, the following menu options appear (in addition to the Common Menu Items): • Delete — Deletes a discovery profile, after you confirm deletion.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Schedule — Opens schedule editor where you can create and/or modify the schedule for a discovery profile’s execution. The remaining menu items include Import, Export Selection, Export All and Share with User. Discovery Profile Editor This editor lets you create or modify profiles.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Hostname(s), ICMP Ping Device(s), Manage ICMP-only Device(s), or Manage Unclassified Device(s). This last checkbox determines whether NMS200 attempts to manage devices that have no NMS200 device driver installed. If your system’s license permits it, such management may be possible, but more limited than for devices with drivers installed.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 4. Authentication — You can create new, or add existing authentications. See Authentication on page 121 for the way to create such authentications outside the discovery process. Notice that authentications appear with Edit / Delete icons and Up / Down arrows on their right. The Edit icon opens the authentication editor. Click the arrows to arrange the order in which credentials are tried (top first). Ordering only applies when two credentials are of the same type.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Edit, Delete, Move — These icons appear to the right of each action. If you Edit a profile with parameters, you can change them. The screen looks like the one that appears when you Add actions. Deleting actions removes them from the list, and the Move arrows help arrange the order in which actions appear listed, and are executed. The list of actions the profile executes goes from top-to-bottom. Inspect Using the Inspection Panel is an optional step.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 the Discover column to open an editor where you can revise the authentications for that device. Clicking Add lets you create new authentications, Test lets you try them out, and Close closes this screen. 7. Save — Click Save to preserve the profile. You can then right-click it to select Execute. If you select Execute from the profile editor, NMS200 does not save the profile to execute later. Results 8.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Discovery Profiles Expanded This larger view offers a Reference Tree snap panel where you can see the connection between a selected profile and the authentications and discovery tasks it includes. In addition to the right-click available in the summary screen, you can also Add / Remove columns (the same columns as the summary screen). Managed Resource Groups These groups make acting on several devices at once more convenient, making “Group Operations” possible.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Links — Create a new link or discover links between members of the selected group, and others. See New Link on page 144 and Link Discovery on page 145 for details. • New — Lets you make either a Static Group (one in which you select devices) or a Dynamic Group (one in which a filter selects devices). See details of these screens below. • Open — This opens the same editors as New, populated with the information for the selected group.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 group. Notice that you can continue to re-use this filter to list devices, and continue to select them. When you select a device, it no longer appears listed. When you click Done the subsequent screen displays all devices you have selected. You can click Add on this screen to return to the previous screen (or Remove All to delete the listed devices from the group).
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 General, click that at the top of the screen. Click Save to preserve the group configuration, or Cancel to exit without saving. Managed Resources The Managed Resources summary portlet displays the discovered devices on your network, their Network Status, Severity (of their highest recent alarm), Equipment Name, IP Address, and Vendor Name.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Click Save to preserve any changes made in these screens to NMS200’s database, or Close to abandon any changes made in editor screens. General This screen displays the Name, Description, IP Address, Location, and Contact for the selected device. You can also check Manage by Hostname on this screen. Authentication This screen lets you select authentications (that originate in the portlet described in Authentication on page 121) for the selected device.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Details — Displays several panels with detailed resource information. These include Response Times graphs, Interfaces, Alarms, Ports, Latest Configurations. and a Details panel with model and other information. Notice that you can right-click listed interfaces, configuration files, and so on to perform more actions. • Direct Access — This opens a sub-menu where you can select the type of available direct cut-thru access to the selected device.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: You can select multiple devices by Ctrl+clicking them in the expanded portlet (Managed Resources Expanded). This lets you do these same tasks on more than one device. You can also perform many of these tasks on configured managed groups. See Managed Resource Groups on page 130. • Links — Create a new link or discover links between members of the selected group, and others. See New Link on page 144 and Link Discovery on page 145 for details.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: If you want to multi-select within listed items in a portlet, you must expand it. Managed Resources Expanded If you click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen, this expanded screen appears. As in all such screens, you can limit what appears listed with the filters at the top of the screen. Select the filter from default, seeded filters with the pick list at the top left corner of the screen.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Restore Result — The result the device’s last restoration. This screen has several snap panels, some compressed “windowshade” style. Click the title bar for these snap panels to toggle expand / collapse. These display information about the device selected in the list at the top of the panel. Reference Tree This displays the device and connected components, tree style.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • If you select a config file that is a single file, without any historical precedent, no comparison option appears on the menu since the selected version does not have a prior version. • If you select a single config file of version two or higher, comparison is an option. When selected, Redcell automatically compares against the prior version for that device and file name.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Ctrl+click to select two different devices before you Compare. The comparison screen appears with the configurations side-by-side (note the file names in the title bar of this screen). Lines that differ between the two configurations appear highlighted green. Lines that are missing in one, but that appear in another appear highlighted red. Added lines appear highlighted in yellow. Use the right/left arrows to page through the side-by-side comparison.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 How To Backup NMS200 simplifies backing up devices so you always have their configuration files, even if the one on the device becomes corrupted or out-of-date. Tip: You can back up several devices at once for what amounts to a “group operation.” Select more than one device by Ctrl+clicking in the expanded portlet, then right-click as outlined below. You must expand portlets to multi-select. Here are the steps to back up a device: 1.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Device Options — This portion of the Backup Options screen displays detailed configuration options available for the selected target. For example, you could select between backing up the running-config and the startup-config. 5. Click one of the buttons at the bottom of the screen to initiate the next backup action. Add Schedule opens the scheduling screen to let you automate the backup you have configured on a specified date, time, or repetition.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Select what to apply to the selected target — This portion of the screen lets you select either a label (like Current, Compliant and so on), or Restore a specific Configuration File. The latter lists available files and lets you click to select. Click Apply to configure the selected target, or Apply to All to configure all targets. 5. Click one of the buttons at the bottom of the screen to initiate the next backup action.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Aging Policy — Opens the Aging Policy selector. See Database Aging Policies (DAP) on page 19 for more about these. The Expanded portlet lets you filter the list of files, and displays the file Type, Description, and Size in columns. To see the most recent configuration files, see Top Configuration Backups on page 114. New Link When you create a new link, the Link Details screen appears where you can configure the link.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Link Discovery This is an automated network link discovery feature that you can initiate from individual devices in the Managed Resources portlet, or with the Link Discovery button on the home screen. Links discovered can appear in the screen described in Visualize My Network on page 85. Check the type of links you want to discover or from which you want to refresh collected data.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Equipment Details This screen lets you “drill down” to display equipment details for resources. You can see it by selecting Details in the right-click menu for the Managed Resources portlet.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Ports • Details You can also right-click to open further Details screens about some subcomponents like Interfaces and Ports. These display a Reference Tree (like Snap Panels (Reference Tree) on page 41) too. You can even right-click nodes in that reference tree to drill down to additional details. Tip: Notice the breadcrumb trail at the top of the Equipment Detail panel tracks the levels through which you drill down.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Interfaces > Details The details available for interfaces can include a Reference Tree panel that displays the interface’s root equipment and its sub-components. The Details panel also appears with the following fields: • Creator — The user that created this interface. • Slot Number — This interface’s type. For example Loopback. • Name — The interface name. • Equipment Name — The name of the equipment that contains the interface.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Alarms The alarm panel in Equipment Details displays alarms connected to the selected equipment. You can right-click these and Acknowledge, Clear, or Email the selected alarm. You can also Assign User and Share with User. Hover the cursor over an alarm and a popup appears with that alarm’s details just as described in Alarms on page 51. Ports This displays the equipment’s ports.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Ports > Details You can right-click to Share port information, or to open a Details screen for the selected port. This includes the device’s Reference Tree so you can see this port in relation to other parts of the device. It also includes a Details panel that can include the following fields: • Hardware Version — The port’s hardware version • Port Description — A text description of the port. • Model — A model number.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Port Icon — The port’s configured icon. • Learned MAC Addr — The port’s learned MAC address. • Count — The port’s count. • CLI Name — The port’s command line interface name. • Notes — Any notes recorded about the port. • Operation Type — The port’s operation type. • Switch Mode — Is the port in switch mode? • Duplex — Is the port in duplex mode? • Name — The port’s name. • Port Number — The port’s number.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Details This panel displays detailed information about the equipment selected. This can include the following fields: • Serial Number — The selected resource’s serial number. • Last Configuration — The date for the last backed-up configuration file. • Change — The date for the last configuration file change. • System Object ID — The SysObjectID of the resource.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Responding means the device does not respond to the protocol. Indeterminate means the monitoring software has not tried to reach the device or there was some other error which prevented us from determining one of the other two statuses. The appearance of Network Status depends on the default ICMP monitor (see Resource Monitors on page 97.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Live Details This panel appears for wireless devices. Click the View Data button to see live data of the selected category for the selected device. Scheduling Actions To schedule an action triggered from a right-click menu (for example from Managed Resources) rather than execute it immediately, follow these steps. 1. Select the action in the right-click menu. For example: Netconfig Backup. 2. Rather than clicking Execute, click Add Schedule.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 3. The schedule panel appears. 4. Once you click Apply on this panel, the previous panel returns, the Add Schedule button now appearing as Edit Schedule. 5. If you click Save, NMS200 creates a scheduled item around the activity and its data. A row also appears in the screen described in Schedules Portlet on page 49 for this schedule. 6.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 MIB Browser As part of the Direct Access menu, the MIB Browser lets you examine SNMP data available about devices. The screen that opens when you select this option displays MIBs available in NMS200 in a tree on the left. Notice that a pick list at the top of the left column narrows what appears in the tree. Note: A progress bar at the bottom of this screen indicates a query for the selected information is in progress.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 from the MIB, the MIB Information tab displays the parameters available for the selected node. Notice that the Description, Comments, Notification Variables, and Valid Values tabs appear at the bottom of this screen. Terminal This opens a terminal shell connected to the selected device. A green icon in the lower right corner indicates the device is online, while the IP address of the device appears in title bar.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 The following menus appear for your terminal session: • File — This menu lets you Connect or Disconnect to the device. • Edit —This menu lets you Copy or Paste text within the terminal session. Click and drag to select text. • Terminal — This menu lets you set Foreground and Background colors, as well as configuring the Font and Buffer sizes. Reset Terminal restores the defaults.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Port Details This screen displays all the port’s settings that have been retrieved, including a Reference Tree of logical interfaces below the port, a Learned MAC Address panel, Alarms related to the port, and other Details.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Ports Expanded Clicking the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen displays this expanded view of available ports. In addition to the right-click capabilities of the summary screen, you can Add / Remove columns in this one. The available columns for this view include many related to the attributes that appear in Port Details on page 159, above.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Reports This portlet’s summary screen lists the available reports that you can run with NMS200. The report Icon, Name, Template, and Subtitle appear in the columns in this summary screen. Right-click a selected report to Execute Report, Share with User or Execute Report (Advanced). When you execute a report, a numbered message notification appears, and a link to the report appears in the Messages panel to notify you the report is ready for viewing.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 When you Execute Report (Advanced), a configuration screen appears that lets you select several report parameters. The parameter selection includes the following: • Report Email / Export Type — Select the export file type from the pick list. Options include CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS, and XLSM. • Overwrite Existing — Check to activate overwriting any existing report. • Save — Check to activate saving the report to the database.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Expanded Reports Portlet Clicking the plus (+) icon displays the expanded portlet. the expanded portlet adds Add / Remove Column to the menu options available in the summary screen. Available columns are the same as the summary screen’s. Reports Snap Panels The Snap Panels for reports display a Reference Tree of connections between the selected report and target equipment, and between the report and any Report Template.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 redcell.report.branding.image= No need to include the path, just use the file name. CAUTION: You must create images that are no taller than 50 pixels, and no wider than 50 pixels.
7. File Server / File Management 7 This chapter contains information about the following portlets: • File Servers • File Management File Servers You must configure FTP and/or TFTP file servers to push and pull configuration files to and from devices, or to deploy firmware updates. With this portlet you can switch between internal and external file server mode, and Show or Hide not applicable File Servers depending on the file server mode by checking/unchecking the Show All Servers check box.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Note: You can select whether NMS200 is in Internal or External File Server Mode with the radio buttons at the top of this portlet. Checking Show All Servers displays the internal file server. CAUTION: Port conflicts prevent having an external file server and internal file server operate on the same machine. Columns in this manager identify the server, and describe whether it is enabled, and has TFTP enabled.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 File Server Editor This editor lets you configure new and existing file servers. This is where you specify the Name, whether the server is Enabled, whether the connection is secure (Secure FTP/SCP Server), supports TFTP, internal and external (optional) IP addresses, and Net Masks, and the login and password for the file server. Once you have configured a server, you can test the file server credentials by clicking on the Test button at the bottom of the screen.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 File Management In addition to letting you back up and restore configuration files, and deploy firmware updates to devices, this menu manages viewing and comparing configuration files backed up from the selected devices. Details about these capabilities appear below.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Close the screen with the buttons at its bottom. Notice you can also Backup or Restore what you are viewing with buttons at the bottom of the screen. • Assign Labels— Use this option to select an existing label or create a new one. You cannot assign System labels (Current, Compliant, and so on). • Compare Current v. Previous / to Label / Selected— You can compare configurations by right-clicking a device, or two devices then selecting Compare.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Export / Import — Export lets you save a local copy of the selected config file. Import opens a screen that lets you select a locally-accessible file to store, view, compare and deploy. Tip: You can see configuration files in the Latest Configurations portion of the Details screen for a device or in the Configuration Files or Top Configuration Backups portlets.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Execute performs the backup immediately. The Results tab in this screen opens, displaying the message traffic between NMS200 and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 46. Save preserves this configuration without scheduling or executing it. Close closes this screen without saving the configured restoration. Restore Configurations The following are the steps to restore a config file to a device: 1.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 You can create labels when you back up a config file, or you can compare to the default labels (Change Determination, Current, Compliant). If you select two configuration files in the expanded portlet, you can also Compare Selected. • Promote — Makes the selected config file available for mass deployment. This is a useful way to make a “pattern” configuration file to deploy to several devices.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Click the Find button to locate text in the config file. Click Replace to replace found text, once it is located. Check the All checkbox and click Replace to bulk replace all instances of the Find text. Click Save to preserve your edits, or Close to abandon them.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Click Save to preserve the OS Image you have configured, or Cancel to exit these screens without saving. Configuration Image Editor This editor appears for new configuration images, or for configurations you Promote in the Configuration Files portlet for mass restoration.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Deploy Firmware This screen lets you configure a deployment, whether triggered from resource groups, individual resources, or the Image Repository screen. Deployment validates the selected image is appropriate for the selected devices, or appropriate devices within a group. Notice you can Add Schedule to schedule this deployment rather than Execute it immediately. Click Save if you schedule this deployment, or Close to abandon your edits.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Add Schedule opens the scheduling screen to let you automate the backup you have configured on a specified date, time, or repetition. See Schedule Actions on page 169. Execute performs the backup immediately. The Results tab in this screen opens, displaying the message traffic between NMS200 and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 52. Save preserves this configuration without scheduling or executing it.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 4. Name the file, and, if necessary, configure a filter In the General Parameters tab of the editor. 5. In the Configuration tab, locate the parameters you want to preserve in discovered devices when you restore this file. This can include items like the device’s DNS Hostname, IP Address, and so on. Delete the file’s specifics and double-click to insert the Target Params in place of these variables. 6. Save the configuration. 7.
8. Storage Arrays 8 This chapter describes Storage Arrays as they appears in NMS200’s web portal. These appear in the portlet described in Managed Resources on page 133, as well as the Storage Array Portlet, which offers storage-array-specific capabilities. The following sections describe these capabilities. Storage arrays appear in the Storage Array Portlet when they are discovered. See Discovery on page 26 for a description of that process.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • Audit Trail — Displays the audit trails for the selected storage array, as described in Audit Trail Viewer on page 46. For additional information, you can click the plus in the upper right corner of this portlet to see the Storage Array Portlet Expanded. Storage Array Portlet Expanded The expanded portlet displays additional information about discovered storage arrays.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Tip: You can right-click some of the reference tree items to edit or otherwise act on them. Summary This panel displays the following information about the selected array: • STATUS — Whether the array is online. • DATA PROTECTION TYPES — The data protection types on the array. For example, the RAID type. • PROTOCOL — The protocol to communicate with this array. • CLONING OPTION — Whether the array is cloned or not.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • VIRTUAL DISKS— A count of the array’s virtual disks. • MAX VIRTUAL DISKS— How many virtual disks the array can support. Host Access and Ports • This panel displays the following information about the selected array: • CONFIGURED HOSTS— The hosts configured for the array. • MAX CONFIGURED HOSTS— The maximum number of configured hosts the array supports. • HOSTS TO VIRTUAL DISK MAPPINGS— Connections between virtual disks and configured hosts.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Hover the cursor over the graph to see the GB and percentage of the segment(s) displayed. Disk Groups and Virtual Disks This displays the disk groups and virtual disks for the selected array. This lists the RAID Group Name, the RAID Type, and its Virtual Disk. General This editor lets you configure general features of discovered storage arrays.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 General Details • Equipment Name — The identifier for the array. • Vendor — The brand of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field. • Location — The location of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field. See Locations on page 83 for information about configuring locations. • Contact — The contact for the array.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 • System Object Id — The Sys object ID of the array. • Date Created — The date the NMS200 record for the array was created. • Creator — The logged in user who created the record for the array. • Install Date — The date the array was installed. • Administrative State — The administrative state of the array (Not Determined, Unlocked, Locked, Shutting Down).
A. Glossary A Access Control Refers to mechanisms and policies that restrict access to computer resources. An access control list (ACL), for example, specifies what operations different users can perform on specific files and directories. Alarm A signal alerting the user to an error or fault. Alarms are produced by events. Alarms produce a message within the Alarm Window.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Ethernet Trunk An Ethernet Trunk service represents a point-to-point connection between two ports of two devices. Ethernet frames transported by the connection are encapsulated according to IEEE 802.1Q protocol. The each tag ID value in 802.1Q encapsulated Ethernet frames distinguishes an Ethernet traffic flow. Thus, an Ethernet trunk can aggregate multiple Ethernet VLANs through a same connection which is why “trunk” describes these.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 ICMP NMS200 uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to poll for status using ping and echo requests of managed devices. When it polls a managed device using ICMP, if the device is operationally up, ICMP returns a response time and record of any dropped packets. NMS200 uses this information to monitor device status and measure average response time and packet loss percentage for managed devices.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Policy Enforcement Points In a policy enforced network, a policy enforcement point represents a security (PEP) appliance used to protect one or more endpoints. PEPs are also points for monitoring the health and status of a network. PEPs are generally members of a policy group. Policy routing Routing scheme that forwards packets to specific interfaces based on user-configured policies.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol. Network management protocol used almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. SNMP provides the means to monitor and control network devices, and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security. NMS200 uses SNMP for many network monitoring and management tasks.
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Trap Forwarding The process of re-emitting trap events to remote hosts. Trap Forwarding is available from the application through Actions and through the Resource Manager. VLAN A virtual local area network (LAN), commonly known as a VLAN, is a group of hosts with a common set of requirements that communicate as if they were attached to the Broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location.
Index A Basic Network Considerations 13 Basic Spring 94 Branding Reports 163 Breadcrumb trail 38, 147 Browser Back button 38 A Note About Performance 10 About Box 33 Access Control 185 Active Performance Monitor SNMP Performance Monitoring 106 SNMP Performance Monitoring Example 106 Additional Products 9 Aging Policies Editor 20 Aging Policies Options 21 Alarm 185 Alarm Email 55 Alarm Snap Panels 55 Alarms 51 Alarm State 53 Assigned User 53 Date Assigned 53 Date Closed 53 Date Opened 52 Entity Type 52 Not
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Discovery Portlet 26 Discovery Profile Actions 127 General 125 Inspect 27, 128 Network 27, 126 Results 27, 129 Discovery Profile Editor 26, 125 Discovery Profiles 124 Discovery Profiles Expanded 130 DISPLAYED LEVELS (Topology) 87 DNS 13, 14 Dock 33 Domain 185 Domain Name Servers 14 Dynamic Group 132 Export / Import 42 Export / Import Page Configurations 42 Exporting 186 F File Management 138, 168 File Server Editor 76, 167 File Servers Portlet 165 Filter 9, 186
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 K N Key 187 Key Features 7 Key Management 187 Key Metric Editor 118 Key Metrics Monitor 109 Name Resolution 13 Navigation 31 Netrestore File Servers 30 Network Considerations 13 Network Requirements 14 Network Topology 85 New link creation 144 newlink ConfigImageEditor 174 L Labels 169 LAYOUT 91 Level 1 Filters 87 Level 2 Filters 87 Level 3 Filters 88 License 9, 14 License Viewer 25 Link Discovery 145 Location Editor 83 Location Manager Address 84 Parent locat
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 Quick Start 15 Starting Web Client 16 Static Group 131 Status Bar Messaging 34 Storage Array Capacity 181 Disk Groups and Virtual Disks 182 General 182 Host Access and Ports 181 Reference Tree 179 Storage Array Configuration 180 Summary 180 Storage Array Portlet 178 Storage Array Portlet Expanded 179 Sub-Policies 22 Supported Operating System Versions 11 Supported Web Browsers 12 Syslog Escalation Criteria 64 System Basics 11 System requirements 11 R RADIUS 188
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200 V Vendors Portlet 95 Vendors Snap Panel 96 View as PDF 44 Visualize My Network 85 VLAN 190 W Why Redcell Synergy? 7 Windows Server 2008 12 Windows Terminal Server 12 195
