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 Manual19
Prepare the network devices for discovery
To manage the devices on your network, you must prepare them for the application. By
default, the application lets you manage up to 200 devices. For information about managing
more than 200 devices, contact your NETGEAR sales contact.
To prepare the devices on your network:
1. Upgrade your devices to their latest released firmware.
To upgrade the firmware, use the local browser user interface (UI) of the device.
Each device must run the latest firmware before the application can discover and
manage the device. Once you perform this one-time upgrade, the application can
centrally manage future device firmware upgrades.
2. Create the credentials for your devices.
The application uses a combination of SNMP, HTTP, and Telnet protocols to interact with
the devices on your network.
You must configure the application with the device credentials to authenticate with the
devices over the following protocols:
• Telnet and HTTP protocols. If the devices are not configured with the default
password for the admin user
, create two new credentials in the application.
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. If the devices are not configured with the default SNMP
community strings, create a credential in the application for the SNMP protocol that
contains the matching community strings.
For more information, see
Add or modify a device credential on page 38.
3. Make sure that each device on your network is configured to send SNMPv1 or SNMPv2
traps t
o the IP address of the NMS300 server.
The application listens for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 traps.
What to do next
Before you can manage your network, you must perform certain basic configuration tasks
and let the application find the devices that are on your network. These tasks are described
in the following chapters:
•
Chapter 2, Get Started
• Chapter 3, Discover and Manage Resources