After the initial discovery, you can stop discovery running on the management server. You can, however, continue to access the database through the Atlas Manager. The discovery cycle starts again the next time NetExplorer is up. The Consolidator populates the database and the Atlas Manager automatically updates the atlas pages.
Depending on the size of your network, writing data from the initial discovery cycle can take few minutes to several days. Subsequent discovery updates to the database require substantially less time.
When Novell ZENworks Server Management is first installed, the server module of the Atlas Manager is automatically installed on the management server, and the client module of the Atlas Manager is installed on Novell ConsoleOne. The Atlas Manager on the management server creates a system atlas and provides a graphical view of the database at the console.
The Atlas Manager on the server reads the database and provides two different views of the database at Novell ConsoleOne: the Console view and Atlas view. Both views provide information about the discovered network topology, the physical location of nodes, node configuration information, and alarm information.
The following sections gives you an understanding about using the atlas:
You can access the Novell ZENworks Server Management atlas from Novell ConsoleOne. Open Novell ConsoleOne and double-click the Novell ZENworks Server Management Domains namespace, then expand the domain. The system atlas appears.
The following table describes a Novell ZENworks Server Management atlas consisting of three different pages:
Novell ZENworks Server Management lets you assign roles to manage the atlas. By assigning roles, you can restrict the user from performing specific operations on that object.
HINT: The atlas displays maps based on your role on the network. For example, if your role is restricted to managing certain servers in segment A and B, your atlas will contain only those servers in segments A and B.
You can perform the following tasks on any atlas page (WAN, Islands, or Area page) when the Atlas view is displayed on Novell ConsoleOne.
By setting the alarm disposition to save alarms in the database, Novell ZENworks Server Management maps can alert you to alarm conditions on the network. Alarms are of type severe, major, or minor alarm on a segment or node. Upon recognizing any of these alarms, the ConsoleOne displays different colors above the object depending on the severity of the alarm as shown in the following table:
Color | Severity of Alarm |
---|---|
Red |
Sever |
Pink |
Major |
Yellow |
Minor |
The alarm status is propagated up the hierarchy. For example, if a server has an alarm of type severe, the segment and the page containing the server will display the corresponding alarm icon. For information about alarms, Managing the Alarm Management System.
The following figure shows the atlas namespace in ConsoleOne:
Custom Maps enable you to create and delete custom atlases and custom containers and group nodes into containers. You can also create a hierarchy of objects in atlas. An atlas can contain custom containers. you can create a node or a sub container within the custom container. However nodes cannot be directly contained under the atlas.
You can perform the following operations in the custom atlas:
You can create a custom container within a new custom atlas. You can also create a subcontainer within a container.
You can locate particular node in the specific atlas or across all the atlases that are present. To locate nodes in the same atlas check the Find only in atlasname check box. If you do not check this check box, then the node will be located in all the atlases.
As discovery cycles proceed and more information is discovered, the names displayed in the maps can change. Different priorities are given to names, depending on the source of the name information. If none of the names are discovered, the IP/IPX address of the node is displayed as the node name.
To determine how to display the name of the discovered object, the Atlas Manager uses the following list in the order shown:
Use the Node Name Order dialog box to change the order of display.
The Unified view service is a service that acts as a filter on the atlas. Using the Unified view, you can filter for a list of devices or segments of a particular type. The Unified view allows easy navigation and quick operations to check the highest severity of the alarms present on a particular node or segment.
The following are the two types of Unified view provided:
You can view All, Manageable, or Unmanageable devices in this view. For a corresponding device type, a device is said to be manageable if the list of MIBs implemented by the device satisfies the Manageability_definition property in the UnifiedView.ini file in the novell zenworks\mms\mwserver\bin directory. The Manageability_definition property can be updated with a valid boolean expression of MIB names.
Following are the device types that you can filter:
To filter the devices:
In the atlas, select View > Unified View for Devices.
From the first drop-down list, select All to list all the devices
or
Select Manageable to list the manageable devices
or
Select Unmanageable to list the unmanageable devices.
From the second drop-down list, select a device type.
Click Show.
The Unified view will display the list of the devices. The tabular column in the Unified view contains the following information.
You can view All, Manageable, or Unmanageable segments in this view. For a corresponding segment type, a segment is said to be manageable if the list of MIBs implemented by at least one device in that segment satisfies the Manageability_definition property in the UnifiedView.ini file. The Manageability_definition property can be updated with a valid boolean expression of MIB names. The following are the segment types you can set filter for:
To filter the segments:
At the Atlas level, select View > Unified View for Segments.
From the first drop-down list, select All to list all the segments
or
Select Manageable to list the manageable segments
or
Select Unmanageable to list the unmanageable segments.
From the second drop-down list, select a segment type.
Click Show.
The Unified view will display the list of the segments. The tabular column in the Unified view contains the following information.