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Navigation

How the console is laid out — the two navigation layouts, the five main sections, the Home screen, and the Atlas Tree panel with its search and ordering options.

The console is organized into a small number of top-level sections, with the Network Atlas Tree available alongside them. Almost everything about that arrangement is a preference you can change.

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Two Layouts

The console offers a choice of navigation layout, in Preferences Navigation:

Tabs at the Top
Sections appear as tabs across the top of the window. The traditional layout.
Icons on the Side
Sections appear as icons down the side, giving the content area more vertical space.

Both reach the same places — this is presentation, not capability. The same preferences page also carries the Theme setting, which follows the system by default and can be forced to Light or Dark.

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The Main Sections

Home
The starting overview. See below.
Alerts
Active alerts and alert history.
Views
The Atlas — everything organized into views: nodes, status, top charts, flows, maps, and the per-platform views such as ESXi, Hyper-V, BSD and Software.
Apps
The bundled tools.
Settings
Configuration and Monitoring Dependencies.

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The Home Screen

Home answers "what is the state of things right now" without you having to go looking. It is built from tiles:

  • Alert Status — active alerts, what closed, the last 24 hours as a chart, and the top alert categories
  • Monitoring Issues — issue categories and how many nodes are affected
  • NetCrunch System — server health, with used and free capacity
  • Tasks, Alert Rules and Metrics — what the installation is configured to do
  • Monitoring Probes — a shortcut to the probes view
  • Recent Links — see below
  • What's New — a short summary of what changed in this release, with a link through to the detail

The Credential Manager tile is Desktop Console only. Credentials cannot be managed from the Web Console, and the tile says so rather than failing quietly.

Recent Links

The console remembers where you have been and offers those places back on the Home screen. Anything you return to often can be pinned, which keeps it in the list rather than letting it age out; pinned entries can be unpinned again from the same menu. Until you have used the console the panel simply says so.

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The Atlas Tree Panel

The Network Atlas Tree can be docked on the left, where it stays visible next to whatever you are looking at, or left undocked and opened when needed. The toggle is in Preferences Atlas Tree and on the tree's own menu.

Finding a View

The tree has its own search — type into it and it filters to matching views, showing which folder each one is in. Expand All and Collapse All are on the tree menu for when you would rather see the shape of the whole atlas than search it.

Tree Options

Show Networks & Topology
Include the IP Networks and topology sections. Turn it off if you work entirely in custom views.
Show Empty Dynamic Node Groups
Dynamic groups that currently match no nodes are hidden by default. Turn this on to see them anyway — useful while building the filter that feeds one.
Enable Custom Tree Ordering
Lets you drag views into an order of your choosing instead of the default one. Any item can be put back with Reset to Default Order, so the arrangement is never one-way.

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