6.1 About This Document

As network administrators / system engineers are primarily responsible for managing enterprise and service provider infrastructure, this Administrator Guide helps you configuring Web NMS to suit your organizational requirements and facilitates integrating new management services. The administrative tasks are eased by Web NMS by providing easy-to-use graphical user interfaces which enables you to perform all administrative tasks quickly.

The administrative tasks that you can perform using a Web Client are explained in a separate chapter Administration through Web Client. Hence all other chapters explain the administrative tasks that can be performed using the Application, Applet, or Web Start Clients.

Contents

• Configuring Database

• Discovering Your Network

• Configuring Maps

• Fault Management

• Configuration Management

• Performance Management

• Security Management

• Provisioning

• Policy Management

• Administration Tools

• General Administration

• Advanced Administrative Tasks

• Administration through Web Client

• Simulators and Browsers

• Appendix

Document Conventions

To understand the conventions used across the Administrator Guide, click Help provided on the top frame of the Administrator Guide.

Product Support

• For technical support, send an e-mail to nms-support@adventnet.com.

• For contact information, refer to Contact page on our Web site www.adventnet.com.

Related Documents

• For information on installing the product, refer to Installation Guide.

• For information on using the Web NMS Clients and performing user tasks, refer to User Guide.

• For information on Web NMS product features, refer to Quick Tour.

• For complete list of Web NMS documents, refer to Product Documentation page on our Web site.

Viewing Help

To view Web NMS Help

From Help menu, choose Help Contents. An HTML file with links to all Web NMS documents is displayed in a Web browser (the default browser that has been configured in your system).

To view context-sensitive help in Application Client, do any of the following

Context-sensitive help displays appropriate Help topic which assists you to get specific information about whatever part of the client you are using at any given moment.

• Press F1 on any dialog box or window (or)

• Click the Help button on the toolbar in a window.

A help file associated with the screen you are working on is displayed.

To view context-sensitive help in Application Client dialog boxes

Click the Help button.