Icons and Popup Windows

NetMRI uses a set 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. The following tools are included:
  • Ping/Traceroute: Use this tool for verifying basic connectivity.
  • SNMP Walk: Use this tool for retrieving SNMP variable information from a device on the network. For more details, see SNMP Walk.
  • SNMP Credential Test: Use this tool for verifying whether a set of community string credentials will work for a given device. For more details, see SNMP Credential Test.
  • Cisco Command: Use this tool for issuing a configuration command to a Cisco device. For more details, see Cisco Command Tool.
  • CLI Credential Test: Use this tool for testing admin login credentials. For more details, see CLI Credential Test.
  • Discovery Diagnostics: Use this tool for enabling troubleshooting by Infoblox Technical Support. For more details, see Discovery Diagnostics.

• Settings: Provides several categories of important NetMRI software configuration settings governing how the appliance operates. The following settings are included:
  • User Admin: Use this to define administrator accounts for the NetMRI appliance.
  • Setup: This is a crucial block of settings for information collection. See Creating Admin and User Accounts for more details.
  • Issue Analysis: Use this to configure Issue Group settings and define the suppression of issues. For more details, see Evaluating Issues in NetMRI.
  • Notifications: Use this to define user event notifications. For more details, see Event Notifications and System Health Monitoring.
  • Settings: Use this for a diverse block of NetMRI-specific configuration elements including license management, system security protocols, and Custom Fields definition.
  • Database Settings: Use this for copying, restoring and archiving. For more details, see NetMRI Database Management.
    
    

• Define and Configure Network Editor: Enables the assignment of unassigned VRFs to network views, and the reassignment of VRFs to different views.
• Device Viewer: The Device Viewer is a popup window that provides many details about any single router, switch, firewall, or other devices, including interface configurations, device identification and location, functioning network services, neighboring devices in the network, and other information. For more details, see The Device Viewer.
• 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 ran 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.