Perle Systems 5500320-12 Health Status Panel, Health Icons

Health Status Panel

The left-hand side of this screen is referred to as the “Navigation” panel. Using this panel you can

quickly and easily see views for the Devices, Hardware and Events found in your managed network.

You can drill down though submenus to focus in on a device, hardware or events. For each category,

you can select from an existing PerleVIEW group or a custom group if you have created any. From

these submenus you can manage and control most features of your devices, as well, you can view and

edit your installed hardware modules such as management modules, media converter modules and

individual media converter ports. Events or alerts on your system can be easily acknowledged or

deleted to help you keep on top of the more critical events within your network. Custom device,

hardware and event groups can be created to sort and maintain your own custom views.

The left-hand navigation tree allows you to quickly and easily navigate the various group views for

your devices. Selecting the right arrow beside any of the options will further expand what options are

available to you. To collapse a section, click on the down arrow. For devices, clicking on a specific

device listed will bring up device specific information in the PerleVIEW workspace area allowing

you to obtain device specific information as well as perform some actions on this device.

Health Status Panel

On PerleVIEW startup, the health statuses of devices in this view are populated with the last known

statuses from the PerleVIEW database. PerleVIEW will automatically launch a task to obtain the

current device statuses and health information when it is re-started. From that point on, it will largely

rely on traps being sent from the device to report events and periodic checks by the “Poll Device

Reachable” task to maintain the current health status of the device. The health status of a device can

be one of the following; critical, major, minor, normal or suspended. If a device has more then one

health status, only the most serious status will be counted. The sum of the critical, major, minor,

normal and suspended counts will add up to the total number of devices that you are monitoring on

your network.

See Appendix B, "Event Information" for more information on health statuses.

Selecting the gearbox will give you a legend of the meanings of

the health icons. Click on the Show notifications button to show

any hidden notifications.