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 Manual12
Device groups
To simplify the management of networks with many devices, you can create device groups.
Group devices by vendor, location, device type, device model, and contact. Device groups
are optional.
Internet
NMS300
server
Network
device N1
Network
Device Nn
Web
browser
Web
browser
Internet
gateway
Local area network
Device group N
device M1
Network
device Mm
Network
Device group M
Static IP
address
Figure 2. Device groups
You can create two types of device groups:
• Static device groups. A static group is a fixed list of specific devices.
You must configure
this list manually. For more information, see
Add or modify a static device group on
page 73.
• Dynamic device groups. A dynamic group is a dynamic list of devices that filter
selection criteria determine.
The list changes automatically as devices that meet the filter
criteria are added to and removed from the network. For more information, see
Add or
modify a dynamic device group on page 75.
Types of users
The application includes the following default user security profiles:
• Admin. A user who can perform administration-related functions.
An admin user is
authorized to perform all application functions. Only an admin user can modify and delete
the default security profiles, can define new security profiles, and can add or remove user
profiles.
For more information, see
Chapter 11, Manage Users and Security Profiles.
• Operator. A user who can manage the enterprise network functions, but cannot perform
administration-related functions.
•
Observer. A user who can only monitor and view enterprise network functions.
This manual is written for the admin user but also contains information that is useful for
operators and observers.