HP Netsight manual Customizing NetSight Element Manager, MIB Tools, Adjusting Default Settings

Overview of NetSight Element Manager

MIB Tools

The MIB Tools suite of MIB browsing and editing tools comprises:

•The MIB Browser — a simple graphical interface you can use to contact and query SNMP nodes on your network and examine their supported MIBs (as long as the MIBs are imported into the MIB Tools database). MIB Browser also lets you conveniently perform SETs on contacted devices.

•MIB Details — a display of the descriptive information for management objects that you query from a node.

•The MIB Editor, which lets you manipulate your database of network vendor’s MIBs. An extensive MIB database is provided with MIB Tools; you can input new MIBs (stored in ASCII text format) into this database, or you can delete any unnecessary MIBs (or MIB portions) so that the database maintains the precise MIB information that you need to manage your nodes.

•The Device Manager, which allows you to maintain a database of node IP addresses that you frequently contact, and displays summary information about these nodes.

•A Preferences option, which lets you view and change configuration settings for the MIB Tools suite.

Customizing NetSight Element Manager

There are a number of ways you can adjust NetSight Element Manager’s settings to customize its operation in the way that works best in your management environment. These are detailed in the following sections.

You can also do some batch customization outside of the NetSight Element Manager

TIP platform; see Appendix A, Batch Customization via AddTool, AddImage, and AddDevType, for more information.

Adjusting Default Settings

The Options window controls the default settings for NetSight Element Manager and some of its components. These settings control the operation of many basic features and functions in NetSight Element Manager, and they are referenced throughout the document set. You may want to adjust these settings so that they better suit your specific network management needs.

The Options window — accessed by selecting Tools—>Optionsfrom the primary window menu bar — has seven tabbed pages, each of which controls a set of related functions in NetSight Element Manager. Each tabbed page and the options it controls is discussed in the following sections.

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