NETGEAR NMS200 Fault Management and Problem Diagnosis, Performance Management and Troubleshooting

ProSafe NMS200 Network Management System

Fault Management and Problem Diagnosis

NMS200 lets you diagnose network problems with its Alarms viewer, and lets you monitor performance with its Performance Management and Troubleshooting capabilities, as described below. The following briefly outlines these capabilities:

Alarms

Alerts about network performance issues can include alarms about the following:

•Excessive interface utilization

•Unexpectedly high CPU load

•Loss of available memory

•Slow response time

•Excessive interface errors

When you receive an alarm you can take any of the following action on the alarm itself, or the target of the alarm:

•Assign User

•Acknowledge Alarm

•Unacknowledge Alarm

•Clear Alarm

•Show Performance

Follow these steps to get started:

1. Click Alarms > Summary from the default screens.

2. In the Alarms portlet, click on an Alarm of interest.

3. Right-click on the selected alarm, and then click Acknowledge Alarm to take ownership of the alarm.

4. Right-click then click Assign User to select a user owner for the alarm.

5. Right-click then click Clear Alarm to remove the alarm from list.

6. Click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the Alarms portlet to go into Expanded mode where you can view more details about an alarm.

Performance Management and Troubleshooting

In addition to troubleshooting faults, you can also monitor device performance with NMS200.

Monitors

Monitors display some critical performance metrics for devices on the network, including:

How to Use the NMS200

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