Finisar Surveyor manual Resources and Modes, Resource Browser

Chapter 5

Resources and Modes

Surveyor can gather statistical information and view network data from a variety of hardware sources. The types of information you receive from a resource depends on the hardware.

Surveyor’s auto-discovery feature automatically scans the network for available resources, or you can enter the IP address of any host you can reach through a TCP/ IP connection. Surveyor remembers the name of the most recent connection made so you can quickly reconnect to the host.

Resource Browser

The Resource Browser is a single window through which you can access all local and remote resources available in the network. The Resource Browser window works much the same as Microsoft Windows Explorer, allowing you to see hosts and their associated resources in a hierarchical relationship. “Branches” can be expanded or collapsed via point and click, so you can quickly customize your view of available resources.

Remote systems containing resources are listed by IP address unless there is a Surveyor name table on the system. If an entry exists in the name table for the IP address of a resource, the symbolic name in the name table is used to represent the resource. Resources within remote systems are listed by module type and module number. The module number is assigned by the software from the base address of the module, which is set by jumpers during hardware installation. For NDIS modules, the modules are numbered by the order in which they are discovered within the local or remote host. It is possible to have two different modules with the same name if they are within different hosts.

The Resource Browser opens as a docking window when Surveyor is started and can be moved to its own window outside the main window.

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