Devices
The Devices (Device Manager) page in Data Insight is the eventual successor to the Device Manager in SevOne NMS. At present, it enables you to quickly filter, search, sort, and export the inventory of devices SevOne monitors. It also allows quick access to related reports via Global Report Linking.
To access the page, click Devices in the left navigation bar.
Filter
The left panel is to add/apply the Filter. Enter the fields in the panel to apply the filter(s) on.
- Click the Datasource drop-down and select the SevOne NMS cluster or appliance. This is a
required field.
If you are unable to connect to a datasource from the list available, you will get an error indicating that your SevOne Data Insight is unable to communicate to the selected NMS datasource.
- Click the Peers drop-down and select one or more peers from the drop-down. For example,
select staging-soa and staging-soa1.
Example
Note: Since 2 peers are added in field Peers, you will see as the filter count in the upper-right corner. This means that there are 2 pieces of the information, staging-soa and staging-soa1, that the filter will be applied on.To delete the filter(s) added, you can either:
- click on the peers selected, staging-soa or staging-soa1. If you click next to staging-soa for example, the filter count in upper-right corner will change to .
- click to delete on Peers field to clear all peers added as a filter.
- click next to to delete all filters.
- Click the Device Groups drop-down and select one or more devices from the list.
- Click the Alerts drop-down and select one or more alert severity level (Emergency, Alert,
Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Info, Debug). For example, select Emergency, Alert,
and Warning. Note: Since 3 alert severity levels (Emergency, Alert, and Warning) are added in field Alerts, you will see in the upper-right corner. i.e.,
- 2 filters added in field Peers
- 3 filters added in field Alerts
which results in 5 pieces of information that the filter will be applied on.
To delete the filter(s) added, you can either click to delete one filter at a time on the field or click to delete all filters on the field. Or, you can delete next to to delete all filters.
- In the Discovery Status drop-down, select one or more discovery status. For example, New, Queued, Working, Finished, and None.
- Under Technology, click Show more to view the entire list of available plugin
technologies. For example, SNMP, AWS, BULKDATA, CISCOACI, COC,
etc. Each plugin has 3 columns.
- Working - select the check box to filter the list of devices and display the devices where the plugin is successfully collecting the metrics.
- Not Working - select the check box to filter the list of devices and display the devices where the plugin is not collecting the metrics.
- Disabled - select the check box to filter the list of devices and display the devices where the plugin is disabled.
Based on the filter(s) selected in the examples above, the top-right and bottom-right panels reflect the results i.e., filters have been applied.
In the top-right panel, you will see the number of devices and its respective device alerts, after the filter was applied.
In the top-right panel, you will see the number of devices and its respective device alerts, after the filter was applied
In the bottom-right panel, you will see the list of devices on which the filter was applied
Discover
- By default, the Discover drop-down is disabled. To enable the Discover drop-down, select one or more device(s) in the table below.
- Click the Discover drop-down and select Discover to add the selected device(s) to
the discovery queue. The selected device(s) are now in the discovery queue.Note: If you want to remove the device(s) from the discovery queue, select Cancel from the Discover drop-down. The drop-down now changes to Cancel Discovery.
Now, if you choose to add device(s) to the discovery queue again, select one or more devices. Click Cancel Discovery drop-down and select Discover to add the selected device(s) to the discovery queue.
Search
Search by column
- Click to Search by column.
- In the Search field, enter text to perform a search on.
Global Search
Search can be performed against all selected columns.
Additional Data
Click to display the list of data columns you can choose from to appear in the device list.
- The Device Name column is pinned to be column 1. in the table, by default. However, you can drag-n-drop any column to the left of Device Name column and the column moved is now, also pinned.
- The device names in the Device Name column act as links and when clicked on, will display a context menu containing the available global report links.
- The Alert Status column shows the highest severity of the alerts on the device.
- Columns can be moved by using drag-n-drop of the column header. The order of the columns will persist.
- From drop-down, click Reset button to reset the column selections and the order to the default settings.
- drop-down contains the Metadata field names under the Metadata namespaces and also, contains the list of default columns.
Sort
To sort, click on any column header. The sort persists and stored in your browser's local storage. To clear the sort, you will need to click the header of the column until you see the inactive sort () icon. Some columns are not sortable; for such columns, you will not see the inactive sort () icon.
Icons
- - this icon represents active sort in ascending order.
- - this icon represents active sort in descending order.
- - this icon represents inactive sort.
Refresh
Click in to select the time based on which the summary and table data will refresh.
Export
Click drop-down and select,
- All Devices to export all devices in .csv format.
- This page to export devices on the page you are on, in .csv format.
Maximize
Click button to maximize the panel with the list of devices. Click to restore to device manager page.
Table Pagination
Button / Other | Description |
---|---|
Click the drop-down and select the number of items you want to display per page. You can choose from 50, 100, 500, or 1000 items per page. | |
Indicates that device 1 - 50 out of a total of 250 devices are being displayed. | |
Indicates that you are viewing page 1 of 5 pages. |
Report Linking
Please refer to section Configure > Report Linking which ties in as you click on Device Names.