Network Devices

To open this page, click on the icon available in the Monitor tab. Then, select the Network Devices option from the Hosts/Applications tile. By default, the page allows a user to view the current state of all the network components that have been directly assigned to him/her, and those network components that belong to the segments/services/zones that are under his/her monitoring purview.

To view the state of only independent/unassociated network components - i.e., those components that are not associated with any segment/service - deselect the Show All Components check box.

By default, the page represents all managed network components as icons. Corresponding to every component icon, the monitored components of that type and their current state will be displayed.

Note:

In target environments where a large number of components are managed, the component-type icons could cramp the component display. To avoid this, you can set the Show icon for component-type flag in the MONITOR SETTINGS - Other Display Settings page to No. Doing so removes the icons from the Component List page, and replaces them with the names of the corresponding component-types.

The color-coding associated with a component indicates its state: Red indicates critical problems, Green is used to indicate good health, while Blue is used to indicate an unknown state. Also, orange indicates major problems, and amber indicates minor ones. Clicking on the independent components will take the user to the corresponding layer model.

If too many network components are being currently monitored, then you can use the search options in this page to search for a particular component(s) and view its current state. To achieve this, follow the steps given below:

• To view the network components that are in a particular state, select the state of your choice from the State list.

• To view the state of components that use a specific nick name, specify the whole/part of the Nick name to search for. Multiple nick names can be provided, separated by a white space - for example, Cis_Swit, Cis_rou.

• If you want to view the state of systems that are hosting components of a particular type, select the Type to search for.

• You can also enter the whole/part of the component-type to search for in the Search Types list box. This will enable you to view the status of those network components on which component-types that contain the specified search string are executing. Here again, you can search for multiple component types, by separating every type specification by a white space - for example, Cisco Router.

• Click the Submit button to generate the network components list that fulfills the specified criteria.