Menus

NetSight Console menus provide access to tools and functions that help you manage your network. Console menus are available in several forms, designed for your convenience when accessed in a given situation. Many of the options available from menus are also available as buttons on one or more toolbars. Icons associated with these menu options indicate when the same option is available from a toolbar. Specific menu options are dynamically enabled and disabled depending on which window, object, and tab is selected.

Here are the types of menus that you'll find in Console:

Main Window Menu Bar

The main window menu bar provides access to functions that serve the overall operation of Console. The main window Toolbar and left panel Right-click menus provide many of the same options available from the menu bar.

The following menus are available on the menu bar:

Click menus for more information.

File Menu

ACL Manager Database > Properties: Opens the ACL Manager Database Properties window where you can view information about the database contents.

ACL Manager Database > Initialize all ACL Manager components: This menu option provides a way for you to initialize only the ACL Manager components in the NetSight Database. Using this operation instead of the Restore Initial Database function (accessed in the Server Information window) allows you to initialize your ACL Manager components while retaining your other NetSight data elements in the database. It is recommended that you make a backup of your NetSight Database prior to performing the initialize operation by using the Backup Database window accessed from the Server Information window.

Device List > Export: Saves the content of the currently selected Device Group as a text file listing all of the devices in a format that can be imported by other NetSight applications.

Device List > Import Devices: Opens a file browser where you select a previously exported device list to be imported into the currently selected Device Group.

Exit: Exits NetSight Console.

Edit Menu

Cut, Copy, and Paste: These selections let you move, copy and paste devices and other objects in the left panel.

Add Device: Opens the Add Device window where you can define the IP address and community name for a device being added to the selected group.

Add Device Group: Opens the Add Device Group window where you can enter a name for a new group and add it to the left tree panel.

Rename Device Group: Highlights the selected group name to allow typing a new name.

Delete Device(s): Removes the selected device from the NetSight database.

Delete Device Group: Removes the selected Group from the left panel.

Remove From Device Group: Removes the selected item from the group without deleting it from the database.

Tools Menu

Authorization/Device Access: Opens the Authorization/Device Access window where you can define users and groups and configure their access to features available in NetSight applications.

Server Information: Opens the Server Information window where you can view and configure certain NetSight Server functions, including management of client connections, locks, and licenses.

Discover: Opens the Discover tool where you can discover devices on your network and populate the NetSight database.

NetFlow Sensor Configuration: Opens the Flow Sensor Configuration window where you can enable or disable NetFlow on your network devices that support it.

MIB Tools: Opens the MIB Tools that allows you to navigate the supported MIBs, examine MIB objects and perform SNMP sets to change their value.

FlexView

These selections let you add and remove tabs for FlexViews in the right panel and Find, Filter, Sort, Print and Export the information in FlexViews.

Add FlexView Tab - Adds a new FlexView tab in the right panel. Once the tab is added you can select a specific FlexView and its title will appear on the tab.
Remove FlexView Tab - Deletes the currently selected FlexView tab from the right panel.
Find in FlexView - Opens the Find toolbar at the top of the table in the right panel.
Filter FlexView - Opens the Filter toolbar at the top of the table in the right panel.
Sort FlexView - Opens the Sort toolbar at the top of the table in the right panel.
Export FlexView - Exports the currently selected FlexView. When a Pie Chart or Bar Graph is displayed, the information is exported to a GIF formatted image file. When a table is displayed, the table information is exported to and HTML file or Delimited Text file.
Print FlexView - Prints the currently selected FlexView tab.

Alarm/Event: Alarms Manager - The Alarms Manager window is where you can configure alarms when certain trap/event conditions occur on your network.
Event View Manager - The Event View Manager window lets you add your own tabs to the Event View panel to create custom tables that provide the information needed to manage your network.

TFTP: Firmware Image Download - Opens the Firmware Image Download window which enables you to download a firmware image file to a device.; Configuration Upload/Download - Opens the Configuration Upload/Download window where you can upload configuration files from devices to save them elsewhere as backups, or download configuration files to devices. Using these functions, you can copy configuration files from one device to another.

Options: Opens the NetSight Console Options window where you can set suite-wide and Console options.

Wireless Manager: Launches the NetSight Wireless Manager, a tool that enables you to configure and manage multiple ExtremeWireless wireless controllers and their associated wireless APs.

Policy Control Console: Launches Policy Control Console, a separately licensed tool that allows IT to delegate control of network usage to less technical personnel.

RoamAbout Wireless Manager: Launches the RoamAbout Wireless Manager, a tool that provides network management for Wireless RoamAbout Access Points and RoamAbout R2 devices.

Applications Menu

Lets you launch other installed NetSight applications from Console. You can also customize the Applications menu to launch your own applications. For more information, see How to Add Applications to the Applications Menu.

Help Menu

Help Topics (Contents): Opens the help browser to the Help System Welcome topic where you can access all of Console's online help topics.

NetSight Tips and Tutorials: Opens your system's Web browser and takes you to the NetSight Tips and Tutorials where you can access Flash tutorials on the NetSight suite of products.

Release Notes: Opens the help browser to the Release Notes that were effective when this version was installed. For more current information, visit the Network Management Suite (NMS) Documentation web page: https://extranet.extremenetworks.com/downloads/Pages/NMS.aspx and open/download the latest version of the NetSight Console Release Notes.

Support Center (Help Center): Opens your system's Web browser and takes you to the Extreme Networks Support Web page.

Check for Updates: Allows you to update Console with the latest software patches. Refer to the Suite-Wide Tools Web Update Help topics for more information.

Getting Started: Opens the Getting Started Help information to introduce first-time users to the features in NetSight Console.

About This Window: Displays help for the content currently displayed in the Main window.

About NetSight Console: Displays the revision and copyright notice information for the currently installed version of NetSight Console.

Related Information

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