User Guide - Statseeker Version 3.x

Administration Tool

Purpose of this Guide

This Guide provides an overview of the Statseeker Administration Tool.

Use the Administration Tool to:

• Enter product License Keys;
• Set Time Zones;
• Perform Network Discoveries;
• Add, Edit and Delete Users;
• Add, Edit and Delete Groups;
• Configure Alerting;
• Configure Thresholds;
• Configure Statseeker to accept a NetFlow feed;
• Configure Statseeker to report on SLA's;
• Produce a Sever diagnostics report.

Please note that many of the Administration Tool Sections have been split out into seperate User Guides.

Index

• Accessing the Administration Tool
• General
• License Key
• Time Zone Selection
• Network Discovery - go to the Discovery User Guide
• Network Discovery - Advanced Options - go to the Discovery User Guide
• User Profile / Grouping - go to the Grouping User Guide
• Device Events - go to the Alerting User Guide
• Interface Events - go to the Alerting User Guide
• Syslog - go to the Alerting User Guide
• SNMP Traps - go to the Alerting User Guide
• Thresholds - go to the Thresholds User Guide
• Traffic Analyzer - go to the Traffic Analyzer User Guide
• Expert Tools
• Statseeker Administration
• Statseeker Custom Services

Accessing the Administration Tool

1. Log into the Statseeker User interface as the admin user;
2. Select the Administration Tool.

Note: Only the Statseeker Administrator has access to the Administration Tool.

General

License Key

This utility is used to activate Statseeker with license key information. License key information is added during the installation process.

A successful installation of a time unlimited key will have no ‘From’ or ‘To’ date and will have a ‘Status’ of ‘Valid’, as per the diagram below.

Time Zone Selection

The Time Zone Selection limits the Time Zone options available to Users when using Time Filters. By default all time zones are added to the include list. It is highly recommended that all time zones be moved to the exclude list, and then only the time zones relevant are moved back to the include list.

To do this:

1. Select the '<< All' button to move all of the time zones to the exclude list;
2. Highlight the time zones that are relevant to the Users from the exclude list;
3. Select the '>>' button to move them to the include list, as per the diagram below.

Expert Tools

The Expert Tools section contains utilities that should only be used or modified under instruction from Statseeker Support Staff.

• SNMP Walk – used to test SNMP Walks for particular devices;
• SNMP Poll – used to poll particular OIDs;
• SNMP Poller Statistics – displays the results of polling devices in the configuration;
• Config Tool – can be used to view and change configuration files;
• Crontab – Used to run regular jobs. For example, the 11:00 am daily rewalk is a default entry.

Statseeker Administration

• SSAdmin - provides an overview of the ssadmin functionality along with instructions on how to access it via Telnet or SSH;
• Log Viewer - view Statseeker log files without having to log into the command line interface;
• Diagnostics Report - run a Statseeker Diagnostic Report that can be downloaded and sent to Statseeker Support Staff.

Statseeker Custom Services

Manage Scripts

Use this section to manage Statseeker Add ons:

• Install new Add ons;
• Upgrade Add ons;
• View Add on documentation;
• Delete Add ons.