Chapter 2 Overview Of Netsight Element Manager; About Netsight Element Manager - Enterasys Netsight User Manual

Overview of
NetSight Element Manager
Key NetSight Element Manager features; customizing the NetSight Element Manager platform;
backing up data files
NetSight Element Manager for Windows™ provides a powerful and easy-to-use tool for
monitoring and managing Enterasys and Cabletron devices from a Microsoft Windows
workstation. Its open architecture and broad feature set also make it an attractive platform
for third party development of management applications.
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NetSight Element Manager support on the Solaris platform is limited to the
installation of NetSight Chassis Manager, either alone or integrated with
NOTE
Hewlett Packard's HP OpenView Network Node Manager, and only for
Solaris 2.7. See your NetSight Element Manager Installation Guide for
more information.

About NetSight Element Manager

NetSight Element Manager -- like its predecessor SPECTRUM Element Manager -- is
comprised of several independent but interrelated applications:
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The Network Status application is responsible for polling nodes in the central
database. It provides you with feedback regarding the status of devices on your
network through the central NetSight Element Manager user interface via the List
Views, Tree Views, and Maps. Node status is propagated right up through these views
and onto your desktop via NetSight Element Manager's minimized icon. Key features
of this user interface are highlighted in the
Workspace, beginning on
The Event Manager application is responsible for alarm and event management. It
receives traps from network nodes and events from other NetSight Element Manager
processes, maintains the Log Views in which you view received events, and carries out
Management and Monitoring
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