Enter the address of a switch or router or a pattern to search for and click on the Submit button. Any matching devices will be returned.
Topics:
- How do I get details if there is more than one device in the results?
- What do the buttons on the result page do?
- What search patterns can I use?
How do I get details if there is more than one device in the results?
If more than one device matches the search then all the matches will be summarized in a table. Click on a row in the table to see details of the device.
What do the buttons on the result page do?
Search results may contain one or more of the following buttons across the top of the page:
- Status status of the device and its interfaces. (see Sentinel:Traffic>Status).
- Show Map map showing the location of the device (see Sentinel:Maps>Layer 2).
- Connections real-time chart of the top connections through the selected device or interface (see Sentinel:Traffic>Trend).
- Utilization real-time chart of the utilization of the selected interface (see Sentinel:Traffic>Trend).
- Explore query historical traffic on selected interface (see Sentinel:Report>Explore).
What search patterns can I use?
The following examples illustrate different types of search string:
- 10.1.1.254, search for a specific device address
- switch1.inmon.com, search for a specific device by dns name
- *v?1.0*, search for agents running version 1.0 firmware based on their sysDescr strings.
- 10.1.1.254>23, show information for interface 23 on device 10.1.1.254
- 10.1.1.256>*, show all the interfaces on device 10.1.1.254
The * symbol in a pattern matches any sequence of zero or more characters, for example the pattern router* would match: "router", "routers", "router123" etc. The ? symbol matches any single character, for example the pattern router? would match: "routers", "router1", "router2", but not "router" or "router12".