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The Monitor one control panel

The Monitor one main window (sometimes also referred to as control panel) provides general information about the status of the network being monitored. The main window stays always on top. All navigation through the program starts from here.

Start a new project

Click the speedbutton or select File|New project to start a new project. Select the directory for the database of your project and assign a unique project name. The name may consist of up to 16 characters (a..z,A..Z,0..9,_) and may not contain spaces. The project's name of an existing project cannot be modified! It is strongly recommended to select a directory on your local drive (not a server drive). This guarantees availability in case of serious network failures!
A project database consists of a set of database files all beginning with <Projectname>_. A project is uniquely identified by a file named "<Projectname>.amd". By default Monitor one creates new projects in the c:\Monitor one Maps\ directory that has been created during installation.

Open an existing project

Click the speedbutton or select File|Open project to select and open an existing project. Browse to the directory that contains the project database and select the <Projectname>.amd file.

Bring Rootmap to front

Use the speedbutton or select File|Bring rootmap to front to open a project's root map in case you've closed all maps.

The Discovery window

Click the speedbutton or select Options|Discovery / Discover IP nodes to open the Discovery window. The Discovery feature allows you to define IP ranges (subnets) and scan these ranges for IP nodes. You can use the discovered nodes to easily setup and draw your project by copying and pasting them to your network maps.

Manage classes

Click the speedbutton or choose Edit|Manage Classes to open the "Manage classes" window in order to Add, Modify or Remove Monitor one Classes.

New user Help

By default, Monitor one opens a Help window that provides basic information for new users each time Monitor one is started. The speedbutton lets you toggle this help on/off. You can control this Help feature by selecting Options|Global configuration and then the Various tab.

Operator and Designer mode

Use the speedbutton (or select the menu item Operation mode) to toggle between Operator and Designer mode. In "Operator mode", you can use all program functions but you cannot make any modifications to the project. In "Designer mode", you can use all program functions and you can also make changes to a project's configuration, it's (sub) maps or functions
By default, Monitor one switches from Designer mode to Operator mode automatically after ten minutes in Designer mode. You can change this behavior by selecting Options|Global configuration and then the Various tab.

Audible alerting

Use the speedbutton to toggle audible Alerting on/off.

Ping

You can use the speedbutton to start FinePing (Monitor one's implementation of the ICMP Ping command tool)

Traceroute

Use the speedbutton to start FineTrace (Monitor one's implementation of a traceroute tool)

Find a device on the map

Use the speedbutton to find a device (or a sub-string of a device name) on the map. Monitor one will automatically open all maps that contain the requested device (or the sub string). All others maps are closed!

Namelist

Click the speedbutton to open the namelist window. The namelist window gives access to information about IP addresses, MAC addresses etc... that Monitor one has collected from several sources. Note that this is a learning process! For new projects, there will not be much information available but the amount information will rapidly grow.

Global configuration

Click the Speedbutton to access the Global configuration database. This Speedbutton is only enabled in Designer mode.

Error control ready indicator

You can verify whether your map is "EC proof" by enabling EC and after that clicking the speedbutton on the Monitor one control panel.

No response indicators

The 10 green or red lights are "No response indicators". The lights indicate how many devices at a time have the 'No response' status subdivided by increasing priority level from left to right. If the mouse is moved over a light, a hint box shows all devices with the no response status for that level.

The Alert, EC and Lic indicators

• The indicator labeled Alert is used for visual alerting. In the event of an alert, it turns red. If the Alert indicator is clicked, the Event control windows opens showing all currently pending "No response" and "Threshold exceeded" events!
• The indicator labeled EC is used to indicate whether 'Error control' is disabled (white), enabled but idle (green) or active (yellow).
• If the indicator labeled Lic turns red, it indicates that there are not enough license related resources to monitor your network. A green indicator indicates "license Ok" (sufficient license related resources). When this indicator is clicked, the license information window opens!

The Info panel

Periodically (if enabled) Monitor one accesses the FineConnection website ( http://www.fineconnection.com ) and checks for information on version updates or other important issues. If there is new information available, the Info panel turns yellow. The Info panel stays invisible if there is no new information. You can access new information on our website by clicking the Info panel or choosing Info|Service page from the menu.

The control tabs

The tabs at the right of the control panel give access to various program options. By default, the Event control tab is selected.

• The Event control tab and its speedbuttons provide information about events that have occurred.
• The Trap control tab and its speedbutton lets you zoom-in on received traps.
• The Threshold control tab gives access to the list of running Threshold monitors (Shooters in Monitor one terminology) and their status.
• Use the History control tab to view all running History monitors (Shooters) and to get access to their collected data.
• Use the TFTP server tab to view the received TFTP read and write requests.
• The Desktop tab lets you save your current desktop configuration (open maps, running real-time graphs or tables etc...) to the database for later use.