Owner's Manual

Introduction
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
actions like email, paging, SNMP traps, Syslog messaging, and external application
execution.
• T
raps 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.
• Report
s and Graphs. NMS200 comes with many pre-configured reports and graphs to
display data from its database. You can archive and compare reports, or automate
creating them with NMS200’s scheduler.
Networks with NMS200
The beginning of network management with NMS200 is Discovery of the resources on a
network. After that occurs, you can configure Visualize My Network , Resource Monitors and
Performance Dashboards.
Once you have done these initial steps, NMS200 helps you understand and troubleshoot
your network. For example: Suppose a NMS200 Performance Dashboard displays
something you want troubleshoot. You can right-click the impacted device in the Visualize My
Network to access configuration and actions. The color of the icon in topology indicates the
highest severity alarm on the device or its sub-components. For example, read indicates a
Critical alarm.
Displays include right-click access to the Details screen (see Equipment Details on
page 146), where you can examine each section of device information and right-click to see
further applicable actions. For example right-click to Show Performance, and edit and/or save
that view of performance as another Performance Dashboard. Performance can also display
portlets that Show Top Talkers (the busiest devices) or Show Key Metrics.
From looking at Performance Dashboards or Top [Asset] Monitors you may conclude some
configuration changes made memory consumption spike. Right-click to access resource
actions under File Management that let you see the current configuration files on devices,
and compare current to previous. You can also back up devices (see How To Backup on
page 141) and restore previously backed up files (see How To Restore on page 142). Finally,
you may simply want to Resync (another right-click menu item) to insure the device and your
management system are up-to-date.
Tip: Alternatively
, the Alarms portlet also lets you right-click to expose Alarm
Actions.
You can right click for Direct Access – Telnet or Di
rect Access – MIB Browser to display a
command line telnetting to the device, or an SNMP MIB browser to examine SNMP
possibilities for it.
The Managed Resources portlet can display the anatomy of a Resource with its right-click
actions (see Equipment Details on page 146). Click the plus in the upper right corner to see
Managed Resources Expanded. This displays detail or “Snap-in” panels with additional
information about a selected resource.