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
Manage Global Settings and Backups User Manual271
5. Under Manage External File Server, click the External File Server Setting link.
The External File Server Setting pop-up window opens.
6. From the File Server Type menu, select
External File Server.
The pop-up window adjusts.
7. Specify the server settings:
• External Server IP. Enter the IP address of the external file server.
•
Directory Path. Enter the directory path where the configuration files are stored.
You must enter the directory path for the external file server in the xxx/xxx format, in
which the delimiting character is a slash (for example, backup/NMS300).
• User Name. Enter the user name to access the external file server
.
•
Password. Enter the password to access the external file server.
8. Click the Test button.
Access to the external file server is verified.
9. Click the Submit
button.
Your changes are saved.
Set the data retention period
You can change how long the application retains your network data. The longer information is
retained, the more disk space is required on the NMS300 server. You can monitor the
NMS300 server information (see
View the NMS300 server information on page 121).
To modify the data retention period:
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 21.
A login window opens.