September 2004, NETGEAR, Inc | NETGEAR NMS100 instruction

Reference Manual for the ProSafe Network Management System NMS100

NETGEAR, Inc.

4500 Great America Parkway

Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

202-10058-01 September 2004

September 2004 202-10058-01

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NETGEAR NMS100 manual September 2004, NETGEAR, Inc

Contents

NETGEAR, Inc September 2004 Statement of Conditions TrademarksCustomer Support World Wide Web Contents Chapter Data and Statistics Appendix a Contents Typographical Conventions Audience, Scope, Conventions, and FormatsManual Scope Overview Other ProSafe NMS Features ProSafe Network Management System Device Access ModesSystem Requirements Recommended system requirements Package Contents Introduction Introduction Installing the ProSafe NMS Server and Local Console Chapter Installation and Startup Starting the ProSafe NMS Server and Local Console Installing the Air Messenger Pro Paging Software Starting a Local Console Session Disabling Automatic Console LoginStopping and Starting the Server Main button bar Edit button bar Selection Tool Console ElementsEvent Log Tool Element Function Zoom to Console Button Commands Event Log Tool Selection ToolSelection Tool tabs Selection Tab Description View Window Area Installation and Startup Map Selection Tree Working with the Map Database View All Zoom Out Using Map View WindowsZoom Rectangle Moving Objects at the Root Level Moving Map Objects Automatically arranged and manually arranged submap levels Moving Objects Inside Subnet Levels Moving Objects from One Subnet to Another Attributes Changing Object Properties Object Properties Access tab Access ParametersAttribute Name Description Type-Dependent Attributes Object Attribute Name Description Type a Object Properties Attribute tab Object Types Adding Map ObjectsType Description MIB Selection Tree Viewing Device MIB DataManage Menus Custom Menus Table Display Elements Graph Styles Graph Display Elements Creating a New Report Saving Long-term Statistics Viewing Trend Data in a Graph Window Limiting Saved Instances Threshold Alarms Setting Threshold AlarmsAlarm Type Description Configuring Automatic Alarms Setting Status Variable Polling Setting Manual Threshold Alarms Discovery of Four Built-in Services Polling TCP Application ServicesTCP Service Polling Managing Polling for the Device Custom TCP Service Polling To modify an existing Custom TCP Service definition Emailing or Paging the Administrator on an Event Then, set the Email/Paging global event options Add an Event Filter for the pollDeviceDown event Then, set the Email/Page event actions ProSafe NMS Events Other Event TypesEvent Subtree Trap Name Description First, add a grouped set of users Emailing or Paging Multiple Users Then, add an Event Filter for the selected devices Duration of Network Discovery Troubleshooting Network DiscoveryNormal Discovery Map Layout Sample top-level and Subnet Map views for a small network Failure Symptoms and Solutions Incorrect or Missing Community Names Discovery Agent Fails to Connect to the Server Firewalls Block Snmp Operations Snmp Device Access Control ListNot Enough Seeds Broadcast Packet Losses Setting Up New FiltersLimiting the Scope of Discovery Stopping Discovery Auto-Layout Event Parameters Event ParametersEvent Description Parameters Set Community name of the target device List of Glossary Terms Auto Uplink Denial of Service attackCat Domain Name DoS Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol IP Address GatewayInternet Protocol Local area network Lightweight Directory Access ProtocolMAC address Mbps Network Address Translation NetBIOSPacket Perfect Forward Secrecy PPP over ATM PPPoEPPP over Ethernet Router Subnet Mask Universal Plug and Play Wi-Fi Windows Internet Naming ServiceWEB Proxy Server Wide area network Wireless Network Name Ssid Index Index Index