Quick Reference Guide

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NMS200 Quick Reference Manual
Getting Started
This section outlines the steps in a typical installation and first use. This section does not
describe all the details of possible installations. Refer to the NMS200 User Guide or online
help for additional information. A typical installation will consist of the following:
1. Installation and Startup— See the NMS200 User Guide for additional information.
2. Discovering Reasources — After you first install the application, you must discover the
equipment you want to manage.
3. Alarm Panels — See Alarm Panels for a discussion of alarms and events managed by the
application.
You can also set up users, device access passwords, and groups for both users and devices.
For example, use Group Operations to perform or schedule operations on multiple devices.
Consult the NMS200 User Guide for details about administration and the many additional
discovery, management, and reporting options available.
Note: Best practice is to use the default Admin user unless security
concerns dictate otherwise. If you must add a new user, best
practice is to add that user to a User Group and modify that group’s
permissions rather than adding permissions user-by-user
Also: bash.exe or md5sum.exe (two files that are installed with this
product) may trigger false positives with some anti-virus software. If
you get a virus detection warning for these files during installation,
take no action.
Installation and Startup
For a basic installation, install and start your management software with these steps:
1. Unzip (decompress) the file if you downloaded the application in .zip format, and close
any applications that might interfere with this installation.
2. To install this software, log in to your computer as an administrator-type user that can install
software, and run either
win_install.exe . Do not install as a user named “admin” or as
the root user.