Basic Navigation - Cisco CS-MARS-20-K9 - Security MARS 20 User Manual

Navigation within the MARS Appliance
Enter your login name and password. If you do not have a login name, contact your network
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administrator.
From the Type drop-down list, select Local if you are logging in to a user account created on this MARS,
Step 3
or select Global if you are logging in to a user account created on the Global Controller to which this
Local Controller reports.
Click Login.
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The first page to appear after a login is the Summary tab Dashboard page. The duration of the delay in
displaying information results from a combination of the following causes:
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For most networks, the Summary page populates shortly after configuration. Some values are only
relevant after an interval of time. For example, the values in the 24 Hour Events and 24 Hour Incidents
tables.

Basic Navigation

The Local Controller uses a tab-based, hyperlinked user interface. When you mouse over an
alphanumeric string or an icon that is a clickable hyper-link, the mouse cursor changes to a pointing
finger cursor
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Click any of the seven tabs to navigate to the pages relevant to the tab's sub-tabs, as shown in
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How long the Local Controller has been powered up and connected to the network.
Amount of traffic on your networks
Reporting syslog levels of the reporting devices
Size of the network
The number and type of reporting devices
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Links, Icons, and Filters
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Link to the item's detail page or popup
window.
Pulldown lists filter what is displayed.
Figure 17-8.
Do not use the browser navigation buttons with the MARS Appliance GUI (for example, Back,
Forward, Refresh, or Stop).
shows some of the clickable objects on the Dashboard page.
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Query icon links to query page. The
corresponding query field is populated with
the item.
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Path icons launch Path or Incident Vector
pop-up diagrams.
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