Available for Vista and XP.
What are the five most erratic devices in your network?
dVUE 6 is a graphical syslog monitor that shows the availability and alarm status of the five most alarmed devices in your network. For more information about syslog and how to use dVUE 6, see the NetTips.
- Converts syslog severity levels into color-coded alarm levels. For example, a syslog message with an emergency or critical severity level is treated as a critical (Red) alarm. see the NetTips for syslog-to-alarm definitions.
- Monitor ay number of network devices. dVUE6 will always show the five devices that currently have the most alarms.
- Counts the number of alarms for each device and dynamically displays the availability, IP address, and alarm status for the five most alarmed devices in the network.
- Pings devices every 15 seconds and changes the availability indicator from green to red if a device fails to respond, thereby alerting you to a "down" device.
- Archives all received syslog messages so you can retrieve and view detailed information about the event that triggered the alarm. see the NetTips for information about how to read a syslog message.
- Hover over an alarm indicator to see the alarm count for a particular alarm. If the alarm count for a critical or major alarm increases rapidly, the device may be on the verge of failing.
- Clear alarm counts to reset alarm indicators and track alarm events starting at a known point in time.
- Hover over an availability indicator to view the ping response times for the device. A significant variance in response times may point to network latency problems.
There are no dVUE6 configuration steps; however, just add the IP address of the computer running dVUE6 to the syslog configuration file of each device you want to monitor (that way, the device knows to send syslog messages to dVUE6).
