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The InfraStruXure Central Console

InfraStruXure Central 4.0 User’s Reference 45

Interface Navigation

After you have logged in, you will see the InfraStruXure Central console. The InfraStruXure Central

console is divided into three main regions, or panes. The upper-left corner pane is called the Device

Group Navigation pane. The lower-left corner pane is called the Device Selection pane. Finally, the right-

side pane is called the Action/Information pane.

Configuring Offline Devices

If a device goes offline, InfraStruXure Central will assume that the offline state is a temporary event.

When a device is in an offline state you can still perform Mass Configuration tasks on the device.

InfraStruXure Central will store these tasks in the Management Device Job Control queue, and will

automatically perform the tasks as soon as the device comes back online.

The Device Group Navigation Pane

The Device Group Navigation pane displays a tree view of all device groups that are defined for this user

account. The Device Group Navigation pane also functions as a basic status monitoring view. If a

monitored device reports an alert the device group (or device groups, if the device is included in multiple

device groups) to which the device belongs turns red.

About Device Groups

Device groups contain monitored devices (such as NetBotz devices, camera pods, sensor pods, and other

physical infrastructure devices). Device group definitions allow you to more easily manage devices by

sorting them into smaller device groups, called “child groups.” Child groups are nested beneath their

“parent group” in the Device Group selection tree. Device groups enable you to set security policies for

your device groups by specifying what local user accounts or local user groups can access the device and

group and usage privileges they have while doing so.).

Child device groups automatically inherit the settings of their parent device group and can have

additional settings as well. For example, if you create a child device group that contains only NetBotz

500s, and nest it inside a parent device group that includes only appliances with IP addresses in the

192.168.1.* subnet, your new child device group would include only NetBotz 500s with IP addresses in

the 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.256 range.

The contents of a device groups can be dynamic or static. Static device groups do not change, even if new

devices are discovered on the network which conform to the device groups settings, while dynamic

device groups are automatically updated to include newly discovered devices that fit the device groups

settings.

The Device Selection Pane

When you select a device group from the Group Navigation pane, all devices contained within the

selected device group are displayed in the Device Selection pane. Depending on your Client Preferences

(see “InfraStruXure Central Client Preferences” on page 61) each device will be identified by its IP

address, Location value, MAC address, or Hostname.

The Device Selection pane functions as a status monitoring view for the currently selected device group.

If a monitored device in the currently selected device group reports an alert, the device will turn red in the

Device Selection pane. If the device has gone offline it will be “grayed out” and will have a large red X

over its icon. This can be used to simplify troubleshooting and to quickly identify trouble spots.

The Device Selection pane also supports filters. You can use filters to quickly and easily limit the devices

that are displayed in the Device Selection pane. Because the contents of the Device Selection pane

determine what devices are displayed in the various Action/Information pane views (i.e. the Map, Table,

Alert, Graph/Report, Mass Configuration, and Surveillance Views), by filtering the contents of the

Device Selection pane you also filter the contents of all of the other panes as well.

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