Device Status
This is the centerpoint of individual device management. It's divided into 6 sections (General Info, Modules, Vlans, Links, Interfaces and Monitoring Stats), which correspond to the tables Devices, Modules, Vlans, Links and Interfaces. The monitoring part is shown on the bottom representing data from events, monitoring and incidents.
You can create devices like clouds via 
. On those devices you can add more interfaces with the same button in the Interface section. Those devices can be used to link WAN-routers to a cloud or monitor external services.
Due to performance reasons, only uptime, poe, interface (and VM) operational status and interface last-change is realtime (if device was seen in last discovery). Everthing else is retrieved from the database.
Overview
- Hover over the icons for hints on what they do.
- You'll see print supply levels on supported printers or VMs on VMware ESXis. If ssh access is enabled in addition, the VMs can be turned on and off.
takes you straight to DefGen, in case you want to edit the definition file.
adds the device to monitoring and tests SNMP uptime by default. This icons turns into
a clock in that case or another symbol, if you change the test method in Monitoring-Setup (click on icon to get there).
- The serial number is checked against the inventory and reflects support and maintenance status. Click on it to add it or update an existing asset (e.g. to track decomissioned devices).
Interfaces
- Active interfaces' names are blue and clicking on it pops up a realtime SVG graph window, which lets you observe the traffic in a 1 - 300 second interval.
- If the absolute counter is not 0, the background becomes blue, showing you there has been traffic on this interface.
- Recent status changes, high error count or PoE values will be affect the background as well.
- If the last status change is more recent than last discovery, Vlan, Speed and Duplex become grey as they may have changed.
- The background of population turns blue if a node was ever discovered on this port, even if it's empty now. The last seen MAC will be revealed upon hovering over it.
- Filter interfaces by status (only works, if device is reachable)
- Filter interfaces by Vlan uses the PVID field from the interfaces table. If you check "Untagged & Tagged" the vlanport table is used instead
- "IF Information" lets you choose what interface related data is displayed
- By default population, addresses and counter values are shown (0 fields are left empty)
- Interface graph size corresponds to the setting in User-Profile
Chances are you won't get complaints if you unplug a port where:
- No link (icon not green)
- Last change is as much as switch uptime...or at least a long time ago!
- No nodes shown when Population is checked and field itself is not blue.
- No traffic is shown and respective fields are not blue.
If the switch has been rebooted lately you may want to click on 
in the summary section to review free ports in the Interface List.
Managing
SNMP write enabled:
- You can change location, contact and admin status of interfaces directly.
- If the device is using standard MIBs you may also edit IF-alias (enter a "-" to clear) or toggle PoE delivery (e.g. to reset a hanging AP or VoIP phone).
CLI access enabled:
- Click on
to save the running configuration to flash.
- Click on
to look at the device's log.
- The "CLI Send ->" selectbox allows for sending command files (files starting with 'cmd' in the cli folder) to a device. Refer to System-Files for creating command files.
Customizing
A great way of customizing or integrating NeDi with other tools are two includes, which can be edited in System-Files:
- devtools.php is included once and will be shown next to the device icon
- iftools.php is included with every interface and shown with the interface addresses.
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