HP Netsight manual Introduction, Using This Guide

Chapter 1

Introduction

Using this guide; getting help

Using This Guide

This manual contains general information regarding NetSight Element Manager, including:

•Chapter 1, Introduction, which introduces the product, provides an outline of this book’s structure, describes how to access and use the on-line documentation, and tells you how to get assistance while using the product.

•Chapter 2, Overview of NetSight Element Manager, provides a more in-depth look at some of the application’s features and enhancements, and describes some general functions of the software platform such as configuring options, backing up data files, customizing the toolbar, and printing.

•Chapter 3, Discovering Nodes, provides details on how to use the Discover application to discover nodes on your network. It describes how to build scripts that will discover IP devices by address range or subnetwork range. The IP or Host Locator tool — which resolves IP addresses to host names, and vice versa — is also described here.

•Chapter 4, List Views, covers the List View workspace and List View windows. NetSight Element Manager stores all node information in a central database. List Views provide you with a variety of user configurable views into that database, including a wide selection of status and descriptive information about each node. This chapter also provides information on manually adding nodes to the node database, editing a node’s displayed properties and individual polling intervals, and launching device management.

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