Monitoring Your Network - Understanding NerveCenter - Role in Network Management Strategy - Standalone Operation -
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Standalone Operation

At smaller sites, you can use NerveCenter alone for your network management tasks. As we've seen, NerveCenter is very strong in the areas of event correlation and automated actions. In addition, NerveCenter includes an alarm console, as shown below.

NerveCenter's Alarm Console

This console displays information about every current alarm instance. In addition, if you double-click on a line in the event console, you are taken to an Alarm History window that displays information about all of the alarm transitions that have occurred for the alarm instance you selected.

At small installations, no discovery mechanism is necessary; you can add nodes to NerveCenter manually. At somewhat larger sites, however, such a mechanism is helpful, and NerveCenter provides one in its Discovery behavior model.