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
Discover and Manage Resources User Manual38
Add or modify a device credential
During the discovery process, the application must log in to devices to obtain the information
to discover and manage the devices. A device credential includes the user name, password,
and SNMP community string that allows the application to log in to the device. The user
name and password are the same user information that you use to log in to the device to
perform system configuration. The application provides default device credentials for
discovery over HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, and Telnet, and for discovery of a NETGEAR
FVS318G firewall over HTTPS. (The NETGEAR FVS318N, FVS336Gv2, FVS336Gv3, and
SRX5308 firewalls use an SNMP device credential.)
You must configure the correct device credentials for any device that you want the
application to manage. If a device is not configured with its default credentials, do the
following:
• If a device is not configured with its default admin user password, create two new
credentials in the application, one for
Telnet and another for the HTTP protocol. These
credentials contain either the admin user credential or the credential of another user with
administrative privileges.
• If a device is not configured with its default SNMP community strings, create a credential
in the application for the SNMP protocol that contains the matching community strings.
To add a device credential or modify an existing device credential:
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.