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About the Graphical network map

To achieve a better understanding of the network, for better availability- and health monitoring and to understand the consequences of a failure more quickly, Monitor one allows you to create a graphical multilevel representation of your network that lets you move easily between parent maps and sub-maps (zooming-in and zooming-out).

The graphical network map uses colors and icons to indicate network status at a glance. The Map makes it easy to view the IP subnets and the IP hosts that have either been added manually or with help from the Discovery utility.

Monitor one has been designed to run on a Windows station in the network manager(s) control room or NOC and cannot be run as a service! The network maps can be viewed and accessed locally via the native interface and/or remotely by using the web-interface. The web interface provides limited functionality!

Uptime and Health monitoring is done by polling. Uptime monitoring is performed by periodically sending each device an ICMP echo request (ping), health monitoring by sending SNMP requests. In those special cases where devices are behind a firewall blocking ICMP, also SNMP can be used for uptime monitoring.