Owner's Manual

NMS200 Portlets

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 p

age 19 for information about

configuring such policies.

• View as PDF —

Create an Acrobat PDF document containing this portlet’s contents.

• Share with Us

er — 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. See

Sharing on page 43. Clicki

ng Share Asset sends a chat message to the selected user

with a link that opens to display the Alarm Snap Panels for the selected item.

• Add / Remove Columns — The columns that appear by default in this expanded portlet

e not all the ones available. The screen that appears after you select this menu item

lets you configure what shows, and what is hidden.

Tip: Hover your cursor over the De

vice IP Address column, and a tooltip

appears with information about the alarm source’s Model, Vendor,

Discovery Date, and a Ping Rate bar graph. This can also include other

device-dependent items. For example: bar graphs to display the % CPU

[utilization], % Memory, and Description.

The convention indicating such tooltips

are available is the question

mark that appears next to the cursor when you hover it over the

displayed field.

Alarm Snap Panels

These include the following:

• Alarm Deta

ils — The source, Severity, Message, Date Opened, and so on.

• MIB Deta

ils—The Notification OID, and MIB Text for the selected alarm.

• Reference Tr

ee — The connection between the alarm and its source in tree form.

• Graph — Total occurrences of this alarm, by date.

Alarm Email

The e-mail sent by right-clicking an alarm has the subject specified when you send it, and

contains the information within the alarm. For example:

Alarm: monitorIntervalSkip

Alarm Attributes:

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