Monitoring Your Network - Preface - Overview of this Book -
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Overview of this Book

Monitoring Your Network describes how NerveCenter works and how you can monitor your network most effectively. This book is written for users operating the NerveCenter Client and the NerveCenter Web Client.

Monitoring Your Network contains the following sections:

Title	Description
Chapter 1, Understanding NerveCenter	Discusses what NerveCenter is and how it works within your overall network management strategy.
Chapter 2, Getting Started with NerveCenter Web Client	Explains how to perform basic NerveCenter Web Client tasks such as: starting NerveCenter and connecting to a NerveCenter server; setting preferences; and disconnecting from a server.
Chapter 3, Getting Started with NerveCenter Client	Explains how to perform basic NerveCenter tasks such as: starting NerveCenter and connecting to a NerveCenter server; defining alarm-instance filters; and disconnecting from a server.
Chapter 4, Monitoring Alarms	Discusses how to interpret the information provided by the NerveCenter alarm monitoring interfaces and how to examine an alarm instance's history.
Chapter 5, Resetting Alarms	Documents the ways the NerveCenter Web Client and the NerveCenter Client enable you to reset alarm instances.
Chapter 7, Monitoring Nodes	Explains how the NerveCenter Web Client and the NerveCenter Client enable you to monitor and obtain information about network nodes.
Chapter 8, Generating Reports	Describes how to add and generate reports in the Windows environment.
Chapter 9, Checking the Status of the Server	Documents the various pages of the Server Status dialog that you use to obtain information about the active NerveCenter server.
Appendix A, Communications and Data	Discusses how NerveCenter communicates with other processes.
Appendix B, Error Messages	Lists the error messages that exist in NerveCenter.