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
Register Devices User Manual299
Register one or more devices
You can register a single device or a selection of devices. However, the application cannot
register NETGEAR devices that do not report their serial number to the application. If the
Devices table does not list a serial number in the Serial Number column for a device, the
device does not report its serial number to the application.
To register one or more devices:
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.
2. Enter your user name and password.
The default administrator user name is admin and the default administrator password is
also admin.
3. Click the Sign In button.
The Network Summary page displays.
4. Select RESOURCES > DEVICES.
The page displays the devices that the application discovered.
5. To add columns to or remove them from the Devices table, right-click the table heading
anywhere, and specify the columns by selecting the corresponding check boxes.
Y
ou can choose from the following columns: Status, Device Name, IP Address, Device
Model, Device T
ype, Firmware Version, Serial Number, MAC Address, Last Update Time,
Location, Registered, Hostname, Managed By, Date of Purchase, Vendor, Country of
Purchase, Hardware Version, Configuration Version, Contact, Discover Time, and
Description.
6. T
o filter the devices that are listed, click the Show Filter button.