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Total Visibility of
Network Activity
Immediate
Notification of
Problems
Setting up Network
Supervisor for the
First Time
Discovering and
Mapping Your
Network
Network Supervisor color-codes objects to indicate stress levels, providing
an accurate and easy-to-read indication of current levels of stress on any
monitored objects. A warning zone helps you predict when a device or
link may be about to become a problem.
You cannot always be scanning the Network Supervisor map for potential
problems. You need another way of achieving total visibility of your
network.
Network Supervisor provides this with an Event List which logs all issues
as they occur.
Network Supervisor's Event List also lets you annotate events, adding
additional information or comments on how the problem was solved.
This allows you to build a knowledgebase of your network, making
recurring problems easier to identify and resolve.
You also need to be confident that you will know of network problems
before or at the same time as your users.
Network Supervisor provides an alert system which ensures that you are
notified of problems immediately. You can choose various visual and
audible methods to notify you of significant network activity, for example,
an e-mail, sound or popup dialog box.
These are the initial steps which provide the context for your network
management:
Discovering and Mapping Your Network
Monitoring Core Devices and Links
Reacting to Network Events
Network Supervisor incorporates an easy-to-use Network Discovery
Wizard that guides you through the process of discovering the devices on
your network and determining the links between them.
You can choose to discover and map the local subnet, the whole network
or specify a group of subnets (including ranges of devices within a
subnet).
Setting up Network Supervisor for the First Time
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