User manual
Table Of Contents
- NMS300 Network Management System Application
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Started
- 3 Discover and Manage Resources
- Discovery concepts
- Use quick discovery to discover devices on your network
- Use a discovery profile to discover devices on your network
- View and manage the wired and wireless devices on your network
- View device information
- View wireless device information only
- Modify the name, location information, and contact information
- Remove device information
- Synchronize a network device
- Log in to a device
- Ping, perform a traceroute, or reboot a device
- Use the SNMP MIB browser
- View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
- Manage device groups
- Search for the switch to which a host is connected
- 4 Monitor Devices and the Network
- Monitor the network
- Monitor the top 10 widgets for all devices
- Customize the top 10 page
- View the wireless summary and monitor the top 10 widgets for wireless devices
- View device details and interface details
- Monitor wireless clients and view client details
- Manage the configuration monitors
- Customize the optional network dashboard
- View and export audit logs
- View firmware version information
- View the NMS300 server information
- View application notifications
- 5 Manage Configurations and Firmware
- 6 Manage Alarms and Logs
- 7 Manage Maps and Topologies
- 8 Manage sFlow
- 9 Generate and View Reports
- 10 Manage Jobs
- 11 Manage Users and Security Profiles
- 12 Manage Global Settings and Backups
- 13 Manage Licenses
- 14 Register Devices
- A Technical Specifications
- B Device Details
- 1 Index
NMS300 Network Management System Application
Introduction User Manual11
Network environment concepts
The application resides on the NMS300 server at a static IP address on the local area
network. The application monitors the NETGEAR and third-party devices on the network.
Internet
NMS300
server
NETGEAR
devices
Third-party
devices
Web
browser
Web
browser
Local area network
Internet
gateway
Static IP
address
Figure 1. The Network Management System 300
You access the application through a web browser. The IP address for a web browser that is
located outside the Internet gateway must be permitted to access the network.
The application supports the following devices:
• NETGEAR devices
For detailed information about the supported NETGEAR devices, including model
numbers, see
Compatible devices on page 13.
• Third-party (non-NETGEAR) devices, including the following:
- Routers
- V
oIP gateways
- Hosts
- V
irtualization servers
• The managed NMS300 server
The application displays whether third-party devices are up or down. If a third-party device
supports SNMP
, the application uses SNMP MIBs to gather and present health and status
information about the device.