Vunetrix Manual: General Layout

This manual section provides an overview about the structure of Vunetrix's web interface. The main focus is on the Devices view which you can select via the main menu bar, because there you see your monitoring results at a glance and, thus, you will widely use it.

Vunetrix Portal Page

Once you have run through the Configuration Guru, you will see Vunetrix's welcome page as default after you log in to the web interface. You can set another homepage in your account settings, section Web Interface.

You have the following options on the Vunetrix Portal:

• Run Configuration Guru
• Download Windows Client App
• Perform Network Auto-Discovery
• Install Smartphone Client Apps
• Review Results
• Manually add Groups, Devices or Sensors
• Get Help and Support: Opens the help center where you find links to this manual, to the Knowledge Base, and the contact Vunetrix support.

Vunetrix Welcome Screen

Tree View Layout

Click on the Review Results option on the welcome screen to display the tree-like device view which will be a starting point for everyday use or on Devices in the main menu bar.

Vunetrix Device Tree

From top to bottom, the main layout consists of:

Simply click on an object to see more details about it. In the page heading of the page header bar you always see which object you're looking at.

When you navigate through Vunetrix's web interface you will always use one of the following navigational paths:

• The main menu provides access to all important aspects of the software.
• The quick search is often the fastest way to navigate to an object.
• Using the page's tabs, you can switch between various sub-pages for an object.
• Many objects offer a context menu that will pop up when you right-click them.
• Many objects offer a quick-info menu that will pop up when hovering an object
• And, finally, you are able to drill down into the object hierarchy of probes, groups, devices, and sensors in the object tree by merely clicking an sub-object of the currently displayed object (for example, a sensor on the device page).
   

These six navigation paths put Vunetrix's complete functionality at your fingertips. Quite likely you are already familiar with these techniques from many other websites and web-based user interfaces.

In the following, the different areas of the web interface are described.

Global Header Area

Vunetrix's Global Header Area

The header area of the web interface is both base for the most important information of your installation and starting point for all actions. You can view the global status and navigate through the web interface using the main menu.

Note: This documentation refers to the Vunetrix System Administrator user accessing the Ajax interface on a master node. For other user accounts, interfaces, or nodes, not all of the options might be available as described. When using a cluster installation, failover nodes are read-only by default.

The global header area consists of the following parts:

Page Header Bar

In the page header under the global header area, you see the name of the current object and the page content underneath. When displaying a group, aggregated sensor states are shown in a sensor bar and there is an option to change the tree view. Furthermore, various information about the current object is reported here.

Note: This documentation refers to the Vunetrix System Administrator user accessing the Ajax interface on a master node. For other user accounts, interfaces, or nodes, not all of the options might be available as described. When using a cluster installation, failover nodes are read-only by default.

Vunetrix's Page Header Bar

The page header and tabs area consists of the following parts:

Switch Device Tree View

When viewing a probe or group, you can choose the way your device tree is shown.

Device Tree View Switch Buttons

Switch Device Tree View—Classic Device Tree

Using the different circle symbols in the page header bar, you can define how much space is used to show devices and sensors in a hierarchical tree structure. In four steps, you can switch from a very condensed view (small circle; marked with 1 in the screenshot) up to an extra large view (big circle; marked with 4 in the screenshot).

In the classic device tree view you can collapse devices, groups, and probes. Click on the minus box left to the object's name. The sensor states will be summarized then. Each status of the sensors on this object will be displayed with the number of sensors currently being in this status—with the exception of the states Down, Down (Partial), and Down (Acknowledged). These will be summarized respectively not before there are more than ten sensors in this status, otherwise they are displayed individually.

Collapsed Device With Summarized Ups and Unusuals and Individual Downs

Switch Device Tree View—Extended Views

There are two additional options to the simple tree views which enable you to display the status of all sensors of your entire installation in a single overview. Click on one of the icons to change the view:

Tree Map View (6)
The tree map view tiles all devices of your entire installation into one square, arranged by the groups you put them into. Each device changes color dynamically to reflect the overall status of the sensors on the device. You can also adjust the size of the squares: either depending on a device's priority, or depending on the number of sensors on a device, or depending on both. For this concern, add a check mark under the point Size by: in front of Sensors and/or Priority in the page header bar (see the mark in the screenshot below).

Vunetrix Tree Map View

Sunburst View (5)
The sunburst view shows your entire installation in one circle diagram. The groups are represented as inner circles, and all devices contained within a group are shown as 'cake slices' attached to the outside of a circle element.

Vunetrix Sunburst View

For both views:

• Colors
  A device (or group) element can have different colors, depending on the states of the sensors running on this device or group (see Sensor States). A more severe status is regarded more important and wins the color battle. For example, if a device currently has sensors in the states Up (green), Paused (blue), and Warning (yellow), the according device tile in this view would be yellow, indicating that at least one sensor on this device is in Warning status. If there are any red Down sensors, the according device tile will turn red. Following, all possible states in both views are listed ordered by their hierarchy:

• Size by Sensors / Size by Priority
  You can adjust the size of the different squares. They can be calculated by the number of sensors running on a device or within a group, or by the sensors' priority (see Priority and Favorites), or both. Use the check boxes in the page header bar (see the mark in the tree map view screenshot) to change view immediately, then use the setting that suits best for your needs.

Page Content

The page content of the general layout varies dependent on the selected object. It shows information about the current object and all other objects underneath in the tree hierarchy. The deeper down in the hierarchy you select an object, the more detailed is the displayed information.

By default, a Probe Device is created in the device tree on the local probe. It represents the probe system running with your Vunetrix installation. Vunetrix automatically monitors the system health of the core server and each probe in order to discover overloading situations that may distort monitoring results. To monitor the system status of the probe computer, Vunetrix automatically creates a few sensors. These include a Core/Probe Health Sensor, a WMI sensor that measures disk usage, and a bandwidth sensor for all installed network cards. It is recommended to keep these sensors, but you can optionally remove all except the Core/Probe Health sensor. In a cluster installation, Vunetrix also creates a Cluster Probe Device with a Cluster Probe Health Sensor that monitors the cluster's system health.

You can add (or remove) a device or sensor to favorites by one click on the respective flag displayed with an object (please see the marks in the screenshot below).

One-Click Favorites in the Devie Tree

Another one-click option for adding/removing favorites or setting the priority for a selected device or sensor is given in the page header bar right to the object name (please see screen number 1 in that subsection). Simply click on the flag for favorites or on a star for priority.

One-Click Favorite and Priority in the Page Header Bar

A black flag means that the respective object is a favorite already; clicking on the black flag will remove the object from favorites. A gray flag indicates that it is not a favorite yet. Please see also Priority and Favorites for this concern.

For more details about page contents, please see the following sections:

• Review Monitoring Data
• Historic Data Reports
• Object Settings
• Compare Sensors
• Geo Maps
   

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