| User’s Guide – version 1.6 | NetWatch | 
Contents
| SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT | 2 | 
| CONTENTS | 10 | 
| CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION | 13 | 
| Overview | 13 | 
| Key Product Features | 13 | 
| Minimum System Requirements | 13 | 
| Installing NetWatch | 13 | 
| Accessing the User Interface | 14 | 
| Service | 14 | 
| Details | 14 | 
| Architecture Overview. | 14 | 
| NetWatch Monitoring System | 15 | 
| NetWatch Database | 16 | 
| Alerting System | 16 | 
| Web  | 16 | 
| CHAPTER 2 – NETWATCH CONFIGURATION | 17 | 
| Global System Settings | 17 | 
| Setting up a Device | 18 | 
| Step 1. Specifying Devices. | 18 | 
| Step 2. Select Service Types | 19 | 
| Ping | 19 | 
| TCP Port Test | 19 | 
| SNMP Interface Test | 19 | 
| SNMP Trap Reception | 19 | 
| Step 3. Alarms. | 20 | 
| Step 4. Discovery | 20 | 
| Step 5. Editing Devices | 21 | 
| Editing Services. | 21 | 
| Data Archiving. | 22 | 
| Enabling Data Archiving. | 22 | 
| Disabling Data Archiving. | 22 | 
| CHAPTER 3 – NETWATCH VISUALISATION | 23 | 
| Managing Visual Backgrounds | 23 | 
| Visual Backgrounds Supplied with NetWatch | 23 | 
| To Create a New NetWatch Visual | 23 | 
| To Rename a Visual | 23 | 
| To Delete a Visual | 23 | 
| To Create a Visual with an Existing Background | 23 | 
| To Change the Background image of a Visual | 24 | 
| Drawing the Visual | 24 | 
| Enter Administration Section. | 24 | 
| Add and Position Network Nodes | 24 | 
| Add links between two nodes. | 24 | 
| Define actions for Node and Links | 24 | 
| Set the default action taken on clicking a Node\Link. | 25 | 
| Align Node Descriptions. | 25 | 
| Set Node Description Colour | 25 | 
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