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Node Properties
This gives you access to all information known on this specific node. Part of this information is read only, and you may change manually the others. To access these pages:
- double click on this node
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- right click on the node and select the Properties menu
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- Select the menu Edit, Properties
There are 7 tabs displayed, grouping information logically by subject.
- General
- NetBIOS
- SNMP
- TCP Ports
- WMI
- Note
- Monitoring
General
To edit the values that can be changed in a node,
- Select the node and select the menu Edit, Properties
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- Right click on the node, select the contextual menu Properties
or
- Double click on the node
The General Tab provides synthetic information in a simple grouped view. Some of the vales you find here are coming from the other specialized tabs behind.
- Discovery date: first time the node was discovered
- Last Update: date and time the node was last updated (see Map update - In, Update)
- IP Address: used as an identifier for this node (read only ).
- MAC Address: Physical address associated with the IP address. You can change it.
- NIC Manufacturer: Manufacturer of the physical network card. You can change it.
- DNS Name: FQDN found for this node. You can change it.
- NB/SYS Name: Another name assigned to the node. Either the NetBIOS name or the SNMP sysname. You can change it.
- NetBIOS Domain: Domain or Workgroup for Windows based machines. You can change it.
- Type: Choose the type (icon) you want for this node (Printer, Switch...)
- Locked: node remains untouched during updates, and you cannot delete it in anyway, both manually and in discoveries. Unlock if deleting is necessary.
- Export: export this information to a file or the clipboard.
To edit a value, double click on the selected value. Slightly grayed values can be edited.
NetBIOS
This tabs shows the five values retrieved by the NetBIOS call during discovery. Of course this is only for Windows based operating systems, or compliant devices or nodes (printers, shared CD Roms towers, ...)
- NetBIOS Name: Up to 15 characters unique machine name
- NetBIOS Domain: central domain or Workgroup
- MAC Address: the remote Physical address found
- Adapter Type: generally Ethernet
- NetBIOS Version: most of the nodes use 3.0
NetBIOS is also used by computers integrated in Active Directory, and is still a very good way to know something sure about a specific computer. The information is retrieved from the node itself, not from a external directory (AD, or DNS).
SNMP
Most of the fields in this tab are from the standard SNMP MIB2. Refer to the mib_ii.mib that comes with Windows to find the exact meaning of each. There is only one values from the lmmib2.mib: the NetBIOS domain.
All the fields are read only
- Community (read): the community name used to retrieve SNMP information. It is the community name that worked for a successful access (one of those specified in Discovery Options).
Addresses and Routes
This dialog displays the list of TCP/IP addresses found on this node, and also the routes when it has a routing function. Two views are available:
- Formatted view: all important values are extracted and presented in an structured way
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- Raw view: this the data as stored in the database. More data is shown than in the formatted view.
Add To OID Database
This button helps you entering new OID / Types couples into the database directly from the node itself. New pairs entered this way will allow for an easier classification during the next discoveries. Also, if you have found a device that is classified with a too general company name or even a wrong type, you to add a record for this specific device.
- OID: this is the discovered OID of the node, you cannot change it.
- Company/Device : associate either a company or a specific device name to the above OID.
- Type: the icon you want for this OID.
This is a important thing to do to increase the power of NetworkView for your next discoveries.
Edit Routes Labels
Using this button will allow you to
- Add names to exiting routes (for example city, building,room names)
- Add new routes to a device without automatically detected routes (you know it is has a routing function, but do not have the community name, for example)
The new names or new routes will appear inside a yellow (default) box linked to the node.
Export
Exports this information to a file or the clipboard.
TCP Ports
This tab show the different values retrieved from both the port analysis and the port scan.
- Active TCP Ports: the number of the ports in your list that were active during the scan
- FTP, Telnet, Smtp, Http, Pop3, Imap4, ...: The text string analyzed from the 5 built-in ports and the 3 additional customizable ones.
- Export: Export this information to the clipboard or a text file.
WMI
This dialog contains the result of the WMI queries.
- The first two lines are always queried and displayed. They show the MAC and IP address(es) read from WMI. These values are used to test WMI accounts, are compared and finally used in the aggregation with the other information sources (ARP, SNMP, NetBIOS)
- Description: the WMI class and the column used for the query, separated by a comma.
- Value: the value returned by WMI
- Export: export this information to the clipboard or a text file.
Note
This dialog allows to enter a comment, description or anything worth notice regarding the current node.
The information is kept when you update the node with the Update, Refresh option.
- Undo: revert to information stored on disk.
Monitoring
- Monitor: Whether or not this node is included in the monitoring process.
- Use this specific timeout: a timeout used for this node only. In milliseconds.
- Send email alerts to: several choices are available below:
- Globally defined address(es): use the default general value for email
- Addresses below: send only to the addresses in this dialog
- Global and below: use global and node email address(es)
- No alerts for this node: this node will be monitored, but no email alerts are sent.
- Email address(es): one or several SMTP email addresses.
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