HP Netsight manual Overview NetSight Element Manager, About NetSight Element Manager

Chapter 2

Overview of

NetSight Element Manager

Key NetSight Element Manager features; customizing the NetSight Element Manager platform; backing up data files

NetSight Element Manager for Windows™ provides a powerful and easy-to-use tool for monitoring and managing Enterasys and Cabletron devices from a Microsoft Windows workstation. Its open architecture and broad feature set also make it an attractive platform for third party development of management applications.

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NetSight Element Manager support on the Solaris platform is limited to the installation of NetSight Chassis Manager, either alone or integrated with Hewlett Packard’s HP OpenView Network Node Manager, and only for Solaris 2.7. See your NetSight Element Manager Installation Guide for more information.

About NetSight Element Manager

NetSight Element Manager -- like its predecessor SPECTRUM Element Manager -- is comprised of several independent but interrelated applications:

•The Network Status application is responsible for polling nodes in the central database. It provides you with feedback regarding the status of devices on your network through the central NetSight Element Manager user interface via the List Views, Tree Views, and Maps. Node status is propagated right up through these views and onto your desktop via NetSight Element Manager’s minimized icon. Key features of this user interface are highlighted in the Management and Monitoring Workspace, beginning on page 2-5.

•The Event Manager application is responsible for alarm and event management. It receives traps from network nodes and events from other NetSight Element Manager processes, maintains the Log Views in which you view received events, and carries out

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