Appendix A SNMPc Network Manager

Selection Tool

If you can’t see the selection tool, click View, Selection Tool to display it. Use the selection tool to manipulate objects from one of several databases. Use the drag control at the right of the selection tool to change its size. Select one of the selection tool tabs to display a tree control for the database. Right-click on an icon inside a selection tree for database-specific commands.

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Selection Tool

TAB

DESCRIPTION

Map

Map Object database, including devices and subnets.

 

 

Mib

Compiled SNMP Mibs, Custom Tables and Custom Mib Expressions.

 

 

Trend

Report profiles that define long-term polling procedures and scheduled reports.

 

 

Event

Event filters used to determine what happens when an event is received.

 

 

Menu

Custom menus that appear in the Manage, Tools and Help SNMPc menus.

 

 

Event Log Tool

The event log tool displays different filtered views of the SNMPc event log. If you can’t see the event log tool, click View, Event Log Tool to display it.

•Select the Current tab to show unacknowledged (current) events. These events have a colored box at the left side of the log entry. The color of map objects is determined by the highest priority unacknowledged event for that object.

•Select the History tab to show all events, including acknowledged and unacknowledged events.

•Select one of the Custom tabs and use the right-click Filter View menu to specify what events should be displayed for that tab.

•Double-click an event entry to display a Map View window with the corresponding device icon visible.

•To quickly view events for a particular device, first select the device and then use one of the View Events buttons (or the View, Active Events and View, History Events menus). This will show the device events in a separate window in the View Windows area.

•To remove one or more events, select the events and click the Delete key.

•To acknowledge (remove current status of) an event, right-click on an event entry and click Acknowledge.

•To completely clear the event log, click File and Clear Events.

View Window Area

The View Window Area is the main interface for viewing the SNMPc map and command results. This area uses the Multi-Document-Interface (MDI) specification to display multiple windows at the same time. Click Window and select Cascade, Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically to rearrange the windows in the View Window Area in a way that makes them all visible.

Windows in this area can be in one of several states:

 

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