Device Inspector Panel

The Device Inspector Panel of the Devices page is a an expandable/collapsible panel that displays the properties and status of a single device selected from the Explorer Grid. The Device Panel has three sections: a Device Header section, a Device Details section and the Device Inspector section.

Device Header

The Header section of the Device Panel the main identifiers for the selected device.

• Name - The name of the device.
• OS - The type of device or operating system.
• Network - The network the device belongs to. The name of the network is expressed as the starting IP address of a range of IP addresses on the network, followed by number of bits—for example, /24—representing the network portion of the IP address.

Device Details

The Details section of the Device Panel displays properties and other types of information about the device.

• Summary - The tab provides additional general information about the device.
  • Name - The name of the device.
  • IP Address - The IP address of device on the network.
  • Last Detected - The last time the device was detected.
  • SNMP Enabled - Yes, in enabled.
  • OS - The type of device or operating system.
  • Network
  • Location Address
  • Logged In
  • RAM
• System - Displays an expandable/collapsible tree of a device's hardware or software components. If performance data exists for a hardware or software component, clicking the component in the System tree displays a graph of the performance data in the Device Inspector Panel. Types of hardware and software components can include:
  • Interfaces
  • CPUs
  • File Systems
  • Memory
  • Ports
  • Windows services
• Events - Lists discovery events for this device, such as the detection of a new port or starting or stopping of a Windows service.
• Collectors - Only displays if a device is a collector. Displays the collector's current activity, the range of IP addresses scanned, and a listing of logs of recent collection events.
  • The range of IP address can be edited.
  • Click a linked log of a scan to see the detail data collected by NMap during that scan.

Device Inspector

The Device Inspector section of the Device Panel displays an analysis chart of the latest performance data for a component selected in the System tab of the Device Details section. The analysis chart can display performance data for different, selectable time periods: day, week, month and year. Inbound is plotted in green. Outbound is plotted in blue.

Device Inspector data for a device is stored on the managed machine acting as the collector. As long as the collector itself is actively checking into the the VSA, performance data for the device can be inspected within Network Discovery even if the device itself is momentarily offline. When the device is online, the graphic is constantly refreshed. The data storage for each device is very small, because the Device Inspector only stores the latest "moving average" values appropriate for each time scale.

Note: - Double-clicking a device in the Explorer Grid displays a popup window of the Header, Details and Inspector panels for that device, along with controls that can be executed for that single device.