Perle Systems 5500320-12 manual Health Status Panel, Health Icons, Navigating the Options

Health Status Panel

Navigating PerleVIEW

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.

Navigating the Options

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.

Health Icons

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.

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