Icons and Popup Windows

NetMRI uses sets of popup windows to organize software configuration settings and provide detailed viewing for devices and networks. Clicking certain icons or links will bring up separate browser windows. Popup windows you will frequently work with include the following:

Tools — Provides a set of networking tools for inspecting and testing parts of the managed network. Included are Ping/Traceroute for verifying basic connectivity; SNMP Walk for retrieving SNMP variable information from a device on the network; SNMP Credential Test , for verifying whether a set of community string credentials will work for a given device; Cisco Command Tool for issuing a configuration command to a Cisco device; CLI Credential Test for testing admin login credentials; and Discovery Diagnostics for enabling troubleshooting by Infoblox Technical Support.

Settings — Provides several categories of important NetMRI software configuration settings governing how the appliance operates: User Admin (see Creating Admin and User Accounts), for defining administrator accounts for the NetMRI appliance; Setup, a crucial block of settings for information collection; Issue Analysis (see Evaluating Issues in NetMRI), for configuring Issue Group settings and defining suppression of issues; Notifications, for defining user event notifications (see Event Notifications and System Health Monitoring); Settings, for a diverse block of NetMRI-specific configuration elements including license management, system security protocols and Custom Fields definition; and Database Settings for copying, restoring and archiving (see NetMRI Database Management).

Define and Configure Network Editor – Enables the assignment of unassigned VRFs to network views, and reassignment of VRFs to different views.

Device Viewer — The Device Viewer (see The Device Viewer) is a popup window that provides many details about any single router, switch, firewall or other device, including interface configurations, device identification and location, functioning network services, neighboring devices in the network and other information.

Interface Viewer – Provides information on individual interface connectivity, performance and configuration settings. 

Network Viewer – Lists VRFs that route traffic for the currently selected network, and VRFs imported from other VRF-aware devices that route traffic for the virtual network.

Issue Viewer — Shows detailed information about device Issues detected by NetMRI.

Job Viewer — Provides execution and error information about job scripts written and run through NetMRI.

The following table provides explanations about the various icons you will encounter in the NetMRI graphical user interface, including icons that appear in many tables in the system.