Toolbars
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The standard toolbar facilitates navigation over the monitoring system and provides access to the following functions:
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Dashboard - launches a Web interface dashboard page.
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Discover Network - performing network discovery.
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New Monitor - creation of a new monitor.
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Copy - copying a host or monitor.
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Delete - permanent deletion of a host or monitor.
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Views - enabling / disabling GUI components.
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Settings - global setting configuration.
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Help Topics - access to the local help pages.
All these functions are also available from the menu.
This group of buttons helps you explore the monitoring system configuration. It consists of
well known Back and Forward buttons that work
exactly as in web browsers; each monitor, host or group you select in a tree
gets recorded in a "history" and you may return back to it or go forwards using these buttons.
The complete history may be opened using a button next to Forward; this makes
it easy to jump directly to any of recent locations.
Another useful navigation control is a Dashboard button. It opens a Web interface in your default web browser and shows you a Dashboard screen that presents summary information for your system for the past 24 hours. The dashboard gets updated automatically every few seconds. It is often enough to open this page in a Web browser rather than start a client GUI.
This button allows creating a new monitor (a wizard will be launched).
This button allows copying a host or monitor. When copying a monitor, you select a host for the copy (it may differ from host of the original) in a dialog. When copying a host, you select a host group and a way to poll (access) the copied host - using an IP address or a DNS name, and enter this address or name. The dialog that appears when copying a host is similar to the New Host dialog. A host is copied with all its monitors, and all them are initially stopped. Dependencies and alerts are also correctly preserved or copied.
This button allows deleting a host group, host or monitor. A confirmation dialog is displayed. You cannot delete one of the pre-defined host groups (Servers, Network Equipment, Desktops and Notebooks, Printers and UPS, Miscellaneous). When you delete a custom host group that has one or more hosts, a dialog appears that allows you to either delete these hosts or move them to a different host group. When you delete a host, all of its monitors get also deleted. This operation permanently removes all relevant information (both configuration data and monitoring results) from the database so it should be used with care. If you just want to avoid polling a particular monitor or all monitors on some host, you can stop them instead of deleting.
This item displays a Discovery Wizard that allows configuring and launching the network discovery process that should automatically search for available network resources. The network discovery process is described here.
This item allows showing and hiding the dockable windows provided by the user interface (Tree View, Property Editor, Log View and Report View). When the checkbox for a menu item is checked, the corresponding GUI component is shown.
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This item shows the Global Settings dialog. The dialog displays and allows changing administrator account settings, system settings such as application paths and port numbers, global lists of reusable alerts and alerting rules, the global maintenance table, various monitoring and reporting settings, and discovery parameters.
This standard item provides access to this help file you are now reading.
A shortcut for it is F1.
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This toolbar groups actions allowing you to control monitors that you observe in a Tree View as well as to change the way the tree is displayed.
First button group has four buttons:
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Start - allows starting a monitor or all stopped or discovered monitors from the current group. This button is inactive if the current group has no monitors to start.
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Stop - allows stopping a monitor or all active monitors from the current group. This button is inactive if the current group has no monitors to stop.
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Poll now - allows polling all active monitors from the current group immediately. If you press this button when the root item of some tree is selected, all active monitors of the system will be polled.
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Favorite - this is a checkable button; you can check it to add some monitor to the Favorites view or uncheck the button to remove monitor from this view. The button is inactive when a group object (not an individual monitor) is selected in the Tree View pane so you can only add and remove individual monitors from / to the Favorites view.
Second button group on the Monitor Control toolbar has five buttons affecting the Tree View state:
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Expand All - shows all levels of the tree
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Expand Problems - collapses all branches except for those containing monitors in a state Performance Warning, Performance Problem, Down or Extended Down.
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Collapse - shows only the topmost two levels of the tree
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Filter - displays a Monitors State Filter window that allows showing
and hiding monitors in particular state. For instance, you can only leave the
monitors with availability and performance problems visible. If some tree node
has no visible monitors, it also hides. The same filter applies to all trees;
filter settings are saved when you close the client and restored when you reopen it.
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Find - displays a search string. When you enter a few characters there, only the hosts and monitors that contain given characters in name or IP address are left visible in a tree. When you hide the search string by pressing Esc or a red cross icon, the tree shows all monitors again. If you use both a state filter and a search string, the tree will only show the monitors that match both. The same search applies to all trees; search settings are saved when you close the client and restored when you reopen it.