Owner's Manual

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1. Introduction
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. Discove
ry and wizard-driven configuration features within minutes of
installing NMS200, you can monitor your network.
• Easy. NMS20
0 provides the network information you need, and offers advanced
capabilities with minimal configuration overhead.
• V
aluable. NMS200 often costs less to use and maintain than most other solutions.
• Scalab
ility. You can scale NMS200 to almost any size.
Key Features
The following are some key features of NMS200:
• Automate
and Schedule Device Discovery. Device discovery populates NMS200’s
database and begins network analysis. You can also create network discovery schedules
to automatically run Discovery whenever you need them.
• Op
en Integration. NMS200 supports industry standards. It comes with an open-source
MySQL database. It also uses industry-standard MIBs and protocols.
• T
opology. The NMS200 topology screen lets you create multi-layered, fully
customizable, web-based maps of your network to track devices wherever they are in
your network in real time.
• Alarms. Y
ou can configure custom alarms to respond to hundreds of possible network
scenarios, including multiple condition checks. NMS200’s alarms help you recognize
issues before your network users experience productivity losses. Alarms can also trigger