Viewing network devices in TrueSight

To view the Devices dashboard

To view details of an individual device

To navigate through different Views, Subviews and devices

The Devices dashboard displays a summary of all devices that are directly within the View that the user has selected from Entuity. This dashboard lists all of the discovered devices and details the following metrics:

• status
• device name
• polled IP address
• device type
• details (e.g. OK, ICMP responding, etc).

Devices will have one of the following statuses:

• OK (green)
• polling off (blue)
• uninitialized (blue spanner)
• degraded (yellow)
• down (red)
• unknown (grey)

To view the Devices dashboard:

1. Click Network.
2. Click Devices. This will open the Devices dashboard.

To view details of an individual device:

1. From the Devices dashboard, click on the name of the device that you want to look at.
2. This will open the device's summary details page.
3. This page is divided into four sections:
   • Key Metrics - these are gauges displaying metrics on the device. Click on a Key Metrics gauge to open a chart view of that metric.
   • Ports - this section displays a status icon for each port under management on the device. Click on a port status icon to open its summary details page, which displays key metrics and general information for the selected component. From this summary details page, you can also click Open in Entuity to open the selected component's Summary dashboard in Entuity in a new tab.
   • General Info - this section provides details on attributes and parameters for the device.
   • Annotation - enter notes or annotations for the device here.

To navigate through different Views, Subviews and devices:

There are two ways to navigate through the different Subviews and devices within the selected View:

Drill down

1. Navigate to the Devices dashboard.
2. Click on the name of a Subview in the table to drill down into that Subview. The dashboard will reload, and will now have the selected Subview as its context View.
3. Navigate back up the View hierarchy by either clicking on the [parent View] in the link at the top of the dashboard, or by clicking the Back button.

Filter by status

1. Navigate to the Devices dashboard.
2. At the top of the dashboard, you can filter the Subviews and devices within the selected View by their status. Subviews and devices are filtered together:
   • these apply to devices by checking to see if they have the filtered status.
   • these apply to Subviews by checking to see if any of the devices contained within them have the filtered status.
3. Click on a filter (one of All Devices, OK, Degraded, Down, Unknown) to display the devices and Subviews that match that filter. On each filter you will see two numbers:
   • the first number is the number of devices that fulfill that particular filter, including both direct and indirect members of the current View.
   • the second number, which is in brackets, is the number of devices that particular filter, only including direct members of the current View. For example, if the OK filter had the numbers 200 (48), this would mean there were 200 devices in total that matched the OK filter, and 48 of those were direct members of the current View.
4. Click on the table column headings to sort the results as you want. Subviews will be listed above devices, though each group will adhere to the sorting specification.