Manage Your Network Resources and Devices, Inspect

ProSafe NMS200 Network Management System

Inspect

7.Inspect—This screen lets you preview the discovery profile’s actions and access to devices. If you clicked Next rather than Inspect at the bottom of the previous screen, click Start Inspection in the top right corner of this screen to begin the inspection process that validates the device’s credentials.

Notice that the Inspection Status fields at the bottom of the screen indicate the success or failure of Ping, Hostname resolution, and Authentications.

When authentications are unsuccessful, you can click Previous to go to the Network screen and remove or edit them.

8.Save—Click Save to preserve the profile. You can then right-click it to select Execute and begin discovery. If you select Execute from the profile editor, NMS200 does not save the profile to execute later.

Results

9.Execute—Click Execute to begin discovery, and the message traffic between NMS200 and the device appears on the Results screen. This is a standard Audit screen.

10.A message (Discovery Profile Execute is complete) appears in the Messages at the bottom left of the status bar.

Tip: You can also schedule discovery profiles to run periodically, updating your NMS200 database with any network changes.

11.The devices in your network now appear in the Manage Your Network Resources and Devices portlet, and elsewhere (in Topology, for example).

Manage Your Network Resources and Devices

The Managed Resource portlet displays all the devices you have discovered. Right-clicking a listed resource displays a menu with options.

NMS200 lets you manage device configurations. Before you begin that management, you must first configure an FTP/TFTP Server to get or send such configurations from / to

devices. After configuring the FTP/TFTP Server , you can do Configuration File Backup /

Restore described below.

FTP/TFTP Server

Follow these steps to configure a server:

1.Click either the Common Setup Tasks at First-timeSign-inportal Netrestore File Servers link, or right click and select New in the Configuration Management > File Management page’s the File Servers portlet.

2.After entering all required details click Save to save new file server.

3.Optionally click Test to validate the new file server.

How to Use the NMS200