Owner's Manual

Getting Started
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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. If you import
a license that, for example, changes the application’s expiration
date, it does not immediately take effect. You must restart
application server or wait at least 15 minutes. If you license new
features, restart the application server and client.
Getting Started
The following section outlines the steps in a typical installation and subsequent first use.
Because the software described here is both flexible and powerful, this section does not
exhaustively describe all the details of available installations. Instead, this Guide refers to
those descriptions elsewhere in the NMS200 Installation Guide, Administration Guide, User
Guide or online help.
A typical installation means doing the following:
• Installation and Startup— Installation and Startup on
page 16 below includes
instructions for a basic installation. If you have a large network, or anticipate a large
n
umber of web clients, then best practice is to install NMS200 as the Installation Guide
guide instructs.
• Discovery — After you first install the application, you mu
st discover the equipment you
want to manage. See Discovery on p
age 26.
• Resource Management — See Managed Resources on p
age 28, and Chapter 6 in this
Guide.
• Configuration
Management — Use NMS200 to backup, restore, and compare
configuration files. See Top Configuration Backups on
page 114.
• Pro
blem Diagnosis — See Alarms on page 51 for information about Fault Management.
• Netwo
rk Troubleshooting — See Alarms on page 51, and Chapter 5 for details of
NMS200’s performance management capabilities.
• Reports — Run reports to clarify the state of your network and devices. See Reports on
page 161 for details.
• Real-time
Diagnosis thru Collaboration — Collaborate with others about network
issues, both by sending them messages that display the device conditions of concern,
and with online chat within NMS200. See Sharing o
n page 43, and Status Bar Messaging
on page 34 for details.