Monitoring Your Network
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Monitoring Your Network
Preface
Monitoring Your Network
Preface
- Overview of this Book
- Overview of the Open NerveCenter Documentation and Help
- Viewing the Online Documentation
- Printing the Online Documentation
- UNIX Man Pages for NerveCenter Commands
- Getting Help While Working in NerveCenter
- Accessing the Open NerveCenter Web Site
- Accessing the Open Technical Support Web Site
- Conventions
- Typographical Conventions
- Tips, Notes, and Cautions
Understanding NerveCenter
- What is NerveCenter?
- How NerveCenter Manages Nodes
- Defining a Set of Nodes
- Detecting Conditions
- Correlating Conditions
- Detecting the Persistence of a Condition
- Finding a Set of Conditions
- Looking for a Sequence of Conditions
- Responding to Conditions
- Notification
- Logging
- Causing State Transitions
- Corrective Actions
- Action Router
- Main NerveCenter Components
- The NerveCenter Server
- The NerveCenter Database
- Objects in the Database
- Behavior Models
- Predefined Behavior Models
- The NerveCenter User Interface
- The NerveCenter Administrator
- The NerveCenter Client
- The NerveCenter Web Client
- The Command Line Interface
- Role in Network Management Strategy
- Standalone Operation
- Using Multiple NerveCenter Servers
- Integration with Network Management Platforms
- Integration with NMPs for Node Information
Getting Started with NerveCenter Web Client
- Starting the Web Client
- Modifying the Server Connection List
- Setting Preferences
- Defining a Partition
- Disconnecting from a Server
Getting Started with NerveCenter Client
- Starting the Client
- Connecting to a Server
- Connecting to a Server Manually
- Connecting to a Server Automatically
- Sharing MIB Information from Multiple Servers
- Selecting the Active Server
- Deleting a Server from the Server List
- Changing the Client's Server Port
- Setting Up Alarm-Instance Filters
- Filtering Alarms by IP Range
- IP Subnet Filter Exclusion Rules
- IP Subnet Filter Examples
- Filtering Alarms by Severity
- Filtering Alarms by Property Groups
- Associating a Filter with a Server
- Rules for Associating Filters with Alarms
- Multiple Filters are ORed Together
- Multiple Conditions in a Single Filter are ANDed Together
- Specifying Heartbeat Messaging
- Modifying the Heartbeat Message Interval
- Deactivating Heartbeat Messaging
- Disconnecting from a Server
Monitoring Alarms
- Viewing Alarm Information
- Using the NerveCenter Web Client
- The Tree View
- The Alarm-Detail View
- Using the NerveCenter Client
- The Tree View
- The Alarm-Detail View
- Interpreting Alarm-Instance Information
- Getting Information about an Alarm
- Getting Information about a Trigger
- A Trigger Generated by a Poll
- A Trigger Generated by a Mask
- A Trigger Generated by an Alarm
- A List of Built-In Triggers
- Viewing an Alarm Instance's History
- Using the NerveCenter Web Client
- Using the NerveCenter Client
- Reading Logged Data
- Determining Where Data is Being Logged
- How to Interpret Logged Data
Resetting Alarms
- Using the NerveCenter Web Client
- Resetting an Alarm Instance to Ground
- Resetting a Set of Alarms
- Using the NerveCenter Client
- Resetting an Alarm Instance to Ground
- Resetting an Alarm Instance to a Non-Ground State
- Resetting a Node's Alarm Instances
- Resetting All Instances of an Alarm
Monitoring SNMP Status and Operations
- SNMP Error Status
- SNMP v3 Operations Log
- Signing a Log for SNMP v3 Errors Associated with Your Client
- Signing a Log for SNMP v3 Errors Associated with a Remote Client or Administrator
- Viewing the SNMP v3 Operations Log
Monitoring Nodes
- Using the NerveCenter Web Client
- Using the NerveCenter Client
- Viewing Related Alarms
- Querying Nodes
- Viewing Parent Node Status
Generating Reports
- Reports Shipped with NerveCenter
- Adding a Report
- Generating a Report
- Using the Report Window's Controls
Checking the Status of the Server
- Server Tab
- License Tab
- Database Tab
- Node Source Tab
- Inform Configuration Tab
- Connected NerveCenters Tab
- Connected Clients and Connected Administrators Tabs
- OpC Host Tab
Communications and Data
Error Messages
- User Interface Messages
- Error Messages
- Action Manager Error Messages
- Alarm Filter Manager Error Messages
- Deserialize Manager Error Messages
- Flatfile Error Messages
- Inform NerveCenter Error Messages
- Inform OV Error Messages
- LogToDatabase Manager Error Messages
- LogToFile Manager Error Messages
- OpC Manager Error Messages
- Poll Manager Error Messages
- Protocol Manager Error Messages
- PA Resync Manager Error Messages
- Server Manager Error Messages
- Trap Manager Error Messages
- NerveCenter installation Error Messages (UNIX)
- OpenView Configuration Error Messages (UNIX)
Index