AutoNOC 2.5 User Guide
Preface
Acknowledgements
System Requirements
Legal

Part 1 - Introduction
1.1 The Ideal Difference
1.2 Automated Operations
1.3 Services & Scaler
1.4 Acquisition Stacks
1.5 Portal Deployment
1.6 Discovery and Crawler
1.7 Monitoring Agents
1.8 Recoiling Database
1.9 Multiple Languages
1.10 Security

Part 2 - NOC Views
2.1 Investigate
2.2 Observe
2.3 Visualize
2.4 Alarms
2.5 Analyze
2.6 Design
2.7 Configure

Part 3 - Model Design
3.1 Object Model
3.2 Devices
3.3 Sets
3.4 Set Criteria
3.5 Probes
3.6 Logs & Events
3.7 Alarms
3.8 Actions
3.9 Reports
3.10 Users
3.11 Polling
3.12 Service Levels
3.13 Dependencies
3.14 Performance

Part 4 - Developer Features
4.1 Adding SNMP MIBs
4.2 Variables
4.3 OSP API
4.4 Probe Template
4.5 Log Template
4.6 Device Template
4.7 Interface Template
4.8 Rebranding

Part 5 - Troubleshooting
5.1 General Issues
5.2 Linux
5.3 Windows

Appendix
A.1 OSP API Functions
A.2 Variables
A.3 Object Reference

2.3 Visualize
AutoNOC provides three visualization capabilities. A global or world visualization, a LAN visualization, and a device visualization. All of the visualizations are interactively clickable.

2.3.1 Toolbar
The visualization toolbar has the following buttons and functionality:

  • Center
    Center and reset the model.
  • Move (Left, Right, Up, Down)
    Moves the user's view around the display.
  • Zoom (In, Out)
    Magnifies the visualization, increases detail and enlarges the picture.
  • Window (Bigger, Smaller)
    Changes the size in pixels of the displayed view of the model.

2.3.2 World Visualization
The world visualization displays all of the Sets that have been setup to be shown on the world display.  See 3.3 - Sets for more information on creating your own sets and configuring them to display properly on the visualize page.

The world visualization analyzes each set that is shown, determines any links between the sets and plots each group on the global map according to their longitude and latitude.

The user can click on any set shown to highlight the current, most high priority object. The user can then click again on the same set to zoom in to that set and open a LAN view on the set.

Follow these instructions to add new locations to the world visualization.

  1. To put a location on the world view, go to the Design page and open Sets by clicking on the + sign next to Sets. Next click on the + sign next to Offices to open the Offices folder. A "Main Office" has been configured by default. Click on Main Office and a dialog box will pop up with seven tabs: Menu, Settings, Investigate, Observe, Visualize, Location and Query Results.
  2. First look at Settings. Under this tab is the name of the location (which you should change to be the location of an office you want to place on the world map), the criteria you specify to identify how the devices at this location will be identified, Union or Intersection (usually you'll use Union here, for more information see the topic on 3.3 -Sets) and then a selection box showing the available Bases for identification on the left and the selected Bases on the right (usually, you will only want Devices selected). Click on Save when you are ready.
  3. Now click on the Visualize tab and notice that the Show on Visualize check box is checked. This puts the office on the world map. Next click on the Location tab. If you chose the default Atlanta, Georgia set, then you will see the Latitude and Longitude for this location. To look up the Latitude and Longitude of a location in the USA, you can use http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html.
  4. Type in the latitude and longitude of your location as well as the City, Country, Region and Postal Code if desired and click on Save.
  5. Now open the office by clicking on the + next to it and notice that there is a Device Criteria object specified. Click on  Device Criteria 1 and a dialog box will pop up that contains two tabs; Menu and Settings. The Menu tab only has a Delete button. The Settings tab has the criteria name (which you can change) and then specifications for Model, Manufacturer, Type, User Category, IP Rule, and finally a selection box showing all devices on the left and the selected devices on the right. Modify the selection criteria to fit the office you have specified and click on Save.
  6. Click on the tab identifying the dialog box for the office and look at Menu. Note that you can add more criteria to identify the set of all devices at this location if needed. Finally, click on the Query Results tab and review the set of devices identified by your criteria to make sure all devices at this location are there. If you made changes, you will need to close the dialog and open it again to refresh the results.
  7. Add other offices until you have the topology of your WAN specified. Now go to the Visualize page. Note that the offices appear at the locations you specified. If you click on a spot on the world view map, the map with center on that point. Note that you can zoom in and zoom out and use the arrow keys to move the map. Also note the tabs behind the world view map. Click on one of them and see the thumbnail of the LAN at that location.
  8. When a problem arises at the location will change color and the most severe (highest service level) problem will be reported on the world view map.

2.3.3 LAN Visualization
AutoNOC's LAN view shows a local network layout of devices contained within the opened set. Pretty much everything is clickable within this display. AutoNOC resolves defined links between devices (for information on configuring links between interfaces see the topic 3.2 - Devices).

It also shows Traffic Flow arrows (by default) which indicate which way traffic is flowing through the network. IP address information is shown and device problems are shown as components of each device.

Pretty much everything is clickable on this display. You can click on both sides of an interface link to see each interface specifically. Click on the flow arrows to see flow rates. Click on the devices themselves to show the top level state of the devices. If you click on a device itself and then click on it again, AutoNOC will zoom in to the device.

2.3.4 Device Visualization
When you have clicked on a device twice the device visualization will open up and be shown, which looks something like the following picture.

The device visualization shows the state of every component, probe, and object on the device. Every interface, everything, on a single, clickable, navigable display. This display is most useful for zooming in to a subsystem on a device and evaluating the things happening on it. Any individual object can be clicked to see the state of the object.

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