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
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Description.
6. To filter the devices that are listed, click the Show Filter button.
You can filter the devices by criteria such as device type, device name and IP address,
device model, and status.
To hide the filter, click the Hide Filter button.
7. T
o view interfaces for a specific device, click the table row for the device anywhere but in the
Device Name column.
8. T
o view details about an individual device or interface, in the Device Name column, click the
device name (or IP address), or, in the Name column, click the interface name.
For information about viewing device details, see
View device details and interface
details on page 99.
9. Click the Export to Excel button or the Export to PDF button.
10. T
o save the device information on your computer, follow the directions of your browser.
Manage device groups
To simplify the management of networks with many devices, you can create device groups.
Once they are discovered, you can group the devices on your network by location, device
type, and other criteria.
You can create static and dynamic device groups:
• Static device group. A fixed group of specific devices that you add manually. For more
information, see
Add or modify a static device group on page 73.
• Dynamic device group.
A dynamic list of devices that are selected automatically based
on your filter selection criteria. For more information, see
Add or modify a dynamic
device group on page 75.
For general information about device groups, see
Device groups on page 12.
Add or modify a static device group
A static group is a fixed list of specific devices. You must add devices manually.
To add a static device group or modify an existing static device group:
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.