Installation Guide

NMS300 Network Management System Application
Monitor Your Network Quick Start Guide50
Monitor device and network information
The network monitor lets you view device and interface information, network summary
information, performance statistics, real-time information, and historical information.
The application provides the following types of views:
• Inventory and interface view. View the devices that the application discovered and the
interfaces that are associated with the devices. For more information, see
View and
export the Inventory table and Interface List table on page 50.
• Device view. View and manage the information for devices that the application
discovered. For more information, see
View device information and device details on
page 52.
• Wireless device view. View and manage the information for wireless devices that the
application discovered. For more information, see
View wireless device information only
on page 55.
• Wireless client view. View and manage the information for wireless clients of wireless
devices that the application discovered. For more information, see
View wireless client
information on page 58
• Network summary view. Display a network overview with a device tree, an enterprise
network map, and the status of and statistics for the devices that the application
discovered. For more information, see
View the default network summary on page 61.
The application provides several more views that you first must configure before they display
useful information: the topology map view, network topology view, and dashboard views that
you can display on the network dashboard. For information about these views and
dashboards, see the NMS300 Network Management System Application User Manual.
The following sections describe the tasks that you can perform:
• View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
• View device information and device details
• View wireless device information only
• View wireless client information
• View the default network summary
View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
You can view the table of wired and wireless devices and interfaces that the application
manages, and export this table to an Excel or PDF file.
To view and export the Inventory table and Interface List table:
1. Open a browser and connect to the application through the static IP address of the
NMS300 server.
For more information, see Log in to the application on page 17.