Owner's Manual

Get to Know the NMS300 System
9
NMS300 Network Management System
 To prepare the devices on your network:
1. Upgrade your devices to their latest released firmware.
To upgrade the firmware, use the user interface of the device.
Each device has to run the latest firmware before the NMS300 software can discover and
manage it. Once this one-time upgrade is done, future upgrades of device firmware can
be done centrally with the NMS300 software.
2. Create the correct credentials for your devices.
The NMS300 software uses a combination of SNMP, HTTP, and Telnet protocols to
interact with the devices on your network.
The NMS300 software has to be configured
with the correct device credentials to authenticate successfully with the devices over
these protocols.
• T
elnet and HTTP protocols. When the devices do not have the default password for
the admin user, create two new credentials in the NMS300 system.
Create one credential for the Telnet protocol and another credential for the HTTP
protocol that contain either the admin user credential or the credential of another user
of the device with administrative privileges.
• SNMP community strings. When the devices do not have the default SNMP
community strings, create a credential in the NMS300 system for the SNMP protocol
that contains the matching community strings.
For more information, see Add a Device Credential on page 21.
3. Make sure that each device on your network is configured to send SNMP traps to the IP
address of the NMS300 server
.
The NMS300 software listens for SNMP traps. The devices have to be configured to send
SNMP traps to the NMS300 software. Both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 traps are supported.
Log In to the NMS300 System
The NMS300 software uses a browser server architecture. Administrators and other users
can access the NMS300 software from any supported browser.
Before you log in to the NMS300 software, check the following items:
• Make sure that the NMS300 software is installed on a machine with a static IP address.
• T
o prevent issues, clear your browser cache before you use the NMS300 software.
• The NMS300 software b
y default allows you to manage up to 200 devices. For information
about managing more devices than this number, contact your NETGEAR sales team.
• For more information about this NMS300 software release, see the NMS300 Release
Notes.
To prevent issues, clear your browser cache before you use the NMS300 software.