You can customize many of Console's features to suit your needs or the needs of your network using Console options. These options are available from the Options window (Tools > Options).
We'll set the Discover option to familiarize you with the Console options. After that, you can refer to How to set Console Options to customize other options to suit your needs.
To open the Options window:
- Select Tools > Options from the menu bar. The Options window opens.
- Set Console's Discover Options:
These options apply only to the NetSight Console application.- Set the Number of SNMP Retries. This is the number of attempts that will be made to contact a device when an attempt at contact fails. The default setting is 3 retries, which means that Console retries a timed-out request three times, making a total of four attempts to contact a device.
- In the Length of SNMP Timeout field, enter the amount of time
(in seconds) that Discover waits before re-trying to contact a device.
NOTE: When SNMP requests are redirected through the server all SNMP timeouts are extended by a factor of four (timeout X 4) to allow for the delays incurred by redirecting requests through the server. - Set the Maximum number of devices to contact at once. This is the maximum number of IP addresses that Console will attempt to contact simultaneously. The default setting for Discover is 500.
- In the Table Colors section, use the buttons to select the primary and secondary row colors you want to display in tables. A sample of your selection will be displayed in the Sample table scheme to the right of your selections.
- Click OK to set the options and close the window.
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