Viewing events in the Event Viewer

You can use the Event Viewer to see all network events.

About this task

In the Enabling Polls task, you enabled some poll policies that poll device interfaces, and others that monitor Cisco routers. Additionally, all devices in the network (except end nodes such as printers) are pinged by default. Now you can use the Event Viewer to see if any events have been raised on the network. You can also see the network context in which an event appears using the Network Hop View

The Fault-Finding View page appears with the Event Viewer widget above and the Network Hop View widget below.

Note: When you first open the Fault-Finding View page, the Event Viewer widget displays all events in the ObjectServer and the Network Hop View widget is empty.

Procedure

  1. Click the Incident icon and select Network Availability > Fault-Finding View.
  2. Select an event of interest in the Event Viewer, or right-click an event and then click Broadcast Topology Context.
    The Network Hop View GUI now displays the network topology related to the selected event.
    Restriction: Results vary if you select multiple events in the Event Viewer.
    • If all the selected events occurred on the same network device, then the Network Hop View widget only displays the network topology related to that device.
    • If the selected events occurred on different devices, then the Network Hop View widget does not display any network topology .

What to do next

Now you can investigate the events. You can investigate the root cause of events, view the structure of devices related to an event, and perform other tasks by right-clicking on an event.