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Gizmo

Gizmo is a small system tray application that can be installed on your workstation. Gizmo is available as a local download from the About page in the Network Monitor management interface. Click the Gizmo link to download the setup and follow the instructions.

Gizmo

Features

  • Alarm notification
  • Network Monitor log viewer
  • Start/stop Network Monitor
  • Statistics, including Network Monitor memory usage, cpu usage and uptime

Requirements

  • Net 2.0 Runtime installed

Gizmo configuration

Before you can start using Gizmo you need to configure the application. Open the configuration screen (View menu > Configure) and enter the following parameters.

Gizmo configuration page

  • KNM Host - The DNS name or IP number of the computer hosting Network Monitor.
  • Web interface port - The port number where the Network Monitor management interface is accessed. Defaults to 8080.
  • SSL - Option to connect to Network Monitor using SSL. Check this option if your Network Monitor installation uses SSL for the management interface.
  • Operator name - Name of an operator that Gizmo uses to logon to Network Monitor to extract data.
  • Operator password - Password of the operator.
  • Alert sound path - Path to a .wav file that contains a sound played when an alarm or error occurs.
  • Poll only monitor status - Enable this option if the user running Gizmo does not have (Windows account) administration rights to access the service data base and remote registry of the Network Monitor host machine.

Click the Save button to store your settings. Username and passwords are stored as MD5 checksums in the registry together with the host name and port number. Storing the password as an MD5 checksum makes it very difficult for a third part to extract the operator password.

Note: Your Windows account used to run Gizmo requires permission to access the service control manager of the Network Monitor host computer. Use the Poll only monitor status to work around this requirement.