Perle Systems 5500320-12 Network Card User Manual


 
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Introduction Chapter 1
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User Guide
This user guide is provided to help you understand the management features of PerleVIEW.
PerleVIEW is a Network Management System designed to help you maintain, control, configure,
update and track the health of devices on your network. PerleVIEW can discover devices,
automatically respond to events from these devices and track your device hardware and software
inventory.
PerleVIEW User Guide Layout
z Getting Started
This chapter contains the information you will need to set up PerleVIEW on your server. It describes
the processes for installing PerleVIEW, logging into PerleVIEW, using a web browser and Getting
Started with the PerleVIEW Wizard.
z Groups of Devices, Hardware and Events
This chapter contains information you will need to view, manage and monitor your device groups,
hardware groups and to monitor and manage events within your network.
z Working with Device Operations
This chapter contains information you will need to create task instances for discovering devices on
your network, device scripting, backup and restore of device lists, backup and restore of device
configuration, setting PerleVIEW Server parameters and creating custom device groups.
z Hardware Activities
This chapter contains information on how to add task instances to collect statistics, check for
firmware updates, deploy firmware and create custom hardware groups.
z Events
This chapter contains information on how to create tasks instances for automatic event handling,
event filtering, event cleanup and create custom event groups.
z Tasks
This chapter contains information on working with tasks. It includes information on adding new
tasks, editing tasks, controlling and deleting existing tasks as well as displaying task results.
z Administration
This chapter contains information on configuring PerleVIEW server settings, PerleVIEW User
Accounts, File Transfer Settings, PerleVIEW software updates, Audit Trail Log, Internet Proxy
Settings, E-mail Account Settings and Configuring Twitter Users.
z Admin Utility