The main window and menu items highlight the individual tasks and complete workflow available for leveraging the core network, infrastructure, and application management capabilities of .

The steps for managing your network and application infrastructure with include:

  • Explore your network. Get a visual map of the topology.
  • Apply monitors.
  • Reveal and share monitor operational status and trends through dashboards.
  • Analyze historic and forensic data by way of reports, logs, charts, and graphs.
  • Group monitors and associate them with actions to implement policy for specific standards

Step-by-Step Guide

When managing your network infrastructure, host devices, and virtual devices in , the typical workflow includes:

Step 1: Discover devices on your network

Run a discovery scan associated with initial credential types.

  • Discover devices based on IP address.
  • Batch discover using an IP address to walk network segments.
  • Discover based on a hosts file.

Step 2: Promote discovered devices to managed devices (enable device-level monitoring)

Step 3: Set up monitors

  • View current monitors for a selected device in Monitor Setup.
  • Select or 'bulk select' devices and switch on individual monitor types.
  • Associate new custom monitors with device profiles.
  • Add individual and specialized monitors and credential sets as needed.

Step 4: View detailed reports and summaries of device statistics and status

Step 5: Create user roles, policies, chains of notification, and automate corrective actions for handling network, device, and application alerts and events.