The Manager user interface is designed with a task-based approach. This gives you the ability to view and drill down into network issues easily throughout the interface.
The Manager user interface is a two-tiered structure to facilitate ease of navigation. You can use the Menu bar to logically navigate around the user interface based on what task you want to perform. The left navigation pane is designed such that you can manage your tasks with more ease in your enterprise level deployments.
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The design provides you with these advantages.
Callout | Description |
|---|---|
1 | Tab - Tabs are located on the menu bar and display specific set of tabs, menus, and options. |
2 | Sub-tab - A tab contains sub-tabs, which display a number of menus when clicked. |
3 | Menu - A menu displays one or more sub-menus when clicked. |
4 | Sub-menu - A sub-menu displays options or more sub-menus when clicked. |
5 | Option - An option displays a page in which you can either view or view and modify settings. |
6 | Display pane - When you click an option to display a page, the area within which the page is displayed is known as the display pane. |
Information availability — Network information is available at your finger tips in the Dashboard page and helps you to immediately check on any issue.
Customized display — You can drag and drop monitors and set dashboard preferences based on your needs.
Operational and Security monitoring — You can view top threats in your network and check the overall system health on the Dashboard page.
Dynamic control — The hyperlinks in the Dashboard page enable you to dynamically click and investigate any network or system health issue across the Manager.
Context-aware interfaces — From the Dashboard, you can click and drill down into the Threat Explorer and other relevant pages for further analysis. The details are in sync with what you choose in the Dashboard page and help you to investigate further. For example, if you click a hyperlink in the Top Attack Applications monitor, you are directed to the Threat Explorer with the core attribute already set in the view. You can then choose to add more filter criteria and drill down to resolve an issue.
Scenario: System Health Check
Assume that you want to view the overall system health and fix an issue with a faulty device.
The Dashboard page allows you to view multiple operational monitors namely Manager Summary, Release Announcements, Running Tasks and System Faults.
Select Dashboard → Dashboard Settings → Monitors list and select the Operational monitor.
View the System Faults monitor for Manager and device status.
For a faulty device, under the Critical column, click the hyperlink.
The Faults tab in the Logs page display the fault severity and summary details.
View the fault details. For example, a link failure between the port and external device.
Fix the issue. In the preceding example, the link needs to re-established between the port and the external device.