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Objects

A Monitor one network map is built using icons, lines and text-labels on one or more maps, representing the physical nodes and networks in buildings, rooms, subnets etc. These icons, lines and labels are called map objects.

If you are planning to enable Error Control then it’s important to setup your network maps as factually as possible. Monitor one uses the map information for determining the root-cause of "Device down" event.

There are different types of objects:

• Device objects are objects that represent physical devices in a network. Monitor one polls device objects periodically for status and health.
  
• The representation of a physical link between device objects is called a link object. You can choose between different link types as: UTP/STP, Fiber, Coax etc.
• Virtual objects are objects that do not represent any physical device or link. Virtual objects are used for drawing reasons only.
  
• For better readability and presentation, you can also use free text objects. Free text objects are text labels from which the font, color and size can be adjusted.
• The ThisStation object is a special purpose object. It represents the physical workstation (or server) that runs the Monitor one software. The ThisStation object is the key object for the "Error control" feature. Error Control is automatically enabled when the ThisStation object is added to the map. Error Control is a Monitor one feature that tries to find the root-cause of a failure in the network in order to prevent superfluous alert messages.