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Device Management

Interface description

When the user display the tab Device a graphical interface will be displayed similar to the one shown in the following figure

The graphical interface consists of a toolbar (items 1 to 6) and a table (8) showing the list of devices. On top of the table on each field you can enter a text filter (7). The buttons in the toolbar are as follows:

  1. Add New Device
  2. Delete Device
  3. Reload: reload the content of the device table
  4. Export: export the content of the device table; the drop down menu contains two options:
    • Export all items
    • Export selected items
  5. All Last Config: when users click on this button Ne.Mo. get for each device the last configuration gathered with success and make a zipped that is downloaded.
  6. Advanced functions

Each row of the devices table has the following fields:

  • Status
  • ID
  • Name
  • IP Address
  • Type
  • Software Version (SW Ver)
  • Life Cycle Info (Life Cycle)
  • Site Network

It's possible to insert additional custom fields. Double clicking on the row will open a tab that shows detailed information about the selected device. See the Device Detail Tab for more information.

Add New Device

To insert a new device, go to the “Device” tab and click to “Add New Device” as it is shown in the picture below:

Than a popup dialog appears asking for these information:

  • IP Address
  • Hostname (optional): if not provided, NeMo get the hostname through SNMP asking for sysName
  • SNMP Community

After clicking the Add button, Ne.Mo. ties to contact the device and discovers all the available information. A new tab will be created and shown with the name of the device: this tab reports the information discovers by Ne.Mo. See the Device Detail Tab for more information.

If the IP address is not reachable or a wrong community string is provided, will nevertheless inserted an empty device called “_NEW_DEVICE_xxxxxxx” where xxxxxxx is a number.

After that it needs to choose what information NeMo will collect from the device (interface traffic, packets, CPU, …). To do that user can go to the Discovery tab and starts collect data by clicking on che checkbox near each available entity shown.