- Log into Traverse?
- Run auto-discovery on my network?
- Add a single new server or router for
monitoring?
- Setup Email or pager
notification?
- Monitor bandwidth?
- Monitor disk space?
- Monitor Exchange server or SQL
Server or Oracle?
- Monitor web page or Apache or IIS
performance
- Delete a device
- Delete all my devices
- Setup my correct TimeZone? Change my
password?
- Setup and use a Business
Container?
- Get a trend and capacity report on
my disk space?
- Generate a Technical Summary Report?
- Make a bulk change for all my
devices (e.g. change the suppress flag).
- Where is the User Documentation?
- Use your web browser to connect to
http://your_host/ where
your_host is the fully qualified name or ip address of the server
that the Traverse web application is running on. You can connect to
http://127.0.0.1 if you are on the same
machine where you installed Traverse.
- You should get a Traverse Login screen (with Zyrion Traverse logo). If
not, you probably have IIS running on your machine which should be stopped and
the Traverse web application restarted using "Start -> Zyrion Traverse".
- If this is a new installation, you should run an Auto-Discovery by logging
into Traverse using username
zyrion and the password
zyrion
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- Log into Traverse using username
zyrion and the
password zyrion
- Click on
Administration -> Other -> Device Discovery.
Click on "Start a new discovery" on
the sub-menu side.
- Make sure you have the SNMP passwords ("community strings") for your
routers and switches to enter into the discovery form (you can enter multiple
strings one one each line if needed). Most of the discovery pages have default
options already selected, so you just need to select the OK or Submit buttons.
It is suggested that for the initial discovery, enter a class C subnet (e.g.
192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 or 10.1.2.0/255.255.255.0)
- After running the discovery, Provision the devices and tests
- Finally, click on Status to see the real time status of devices on your
network.
NOTE: Traverse will discover the complete network topology only if you provide
it with proper SNMP passwords for your switches and routers (it needs to query
these devices to discover the topology).
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- Log into Traverse as
zyrion with password
zyrion
- Go to
Administration -> Devices -> Create a new device
- Select the device type, enter the SNMP string if known and version.
- On the next screen, select SNMP and PING checkboxes. If you are adding a
Windows server, select the WMI checkbox instead of the SNMP checkbox.
- Hit Continue on the next screen and wait while Traverse scans the target
device.
- A list of all tests found on that device will be displayed. Click on the
"Provision Tests" button to add the device.
The device will automatically be scheduled for monitoring.
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- Go to
Administration -> Actions -> Create an Action Profile
- Specify an action profile name, and set the "Notify Using" field.
Enter your email address in the "message recipient" box. For Pager
notification, you will need to attach a modem and configure the dialup number
as described in the user manual
- It is recommended to set the "Notification should happen:" to
"after 2 tests" to avoid false alarms.
- Click on the Create Action Profile button.
- Back on the Administration Action Profiles page, click on "Select Devices for
Action" and select all the devices and all tests that you are interested
in receiving a notification for.
Based on the topology discovery, that would have been performed during the
initial auto-discovery, you will not get notified if a downstream device fails.
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Traverse automatically detects all active network interfaces on all IP devices
using SNMP. It detects the link bandwidth and automatically displays the line
utilization as a percentage and traffic in KB/sec.
- Click on
Administration -> Devices -> Create a new device
- Select the appropriate device type, and enter the proper SNMP community ID
for the router or switch.
- On the "Available Test Types" page, select the SNMP checkbox and click
"Add Tests", and "Continue" on the next page.
- The system will automatically discover all available tests on the device,
and display them (including all available bandwidth tests). Just select the
tests that you want to monitor.
Traverse will automatically schedule the tests provisioned. You can then go
back to Status and click on the device and the test name to get traffic
statistics. Traverse can display trend analysis as well as historical data for
up to an year.
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Traverse automatically detects all available disk partitions on all servers
using WMI (on Windows) or SNMP.
- Click on
Administration -> Devices -> Create a new device
- Select the appropriate device type, and enter the proper SNMP community ID
for the server if it is a non-Windows computer with SNMP.
- On the "Available Test Types" page, select the WMI checkbox for Windows
servers, or SNMP checkbox for other devices. Click
"Add Tests"
and "Continue" on the next page.
- The system will automatically discover all available tests on the device,
and display them (including all available disk tests). Just select the tests
that you want to monitor.
Traverse will automatically schedule the tests provisioned. You can then go
back to Status and click on the device and the test name to get disk statistics.
Traverse can display trend analysis as well as historical data for up to an
year. You may also run the "days to threshold report" from the Reports
-> Advanced -> Capacity Plannig Reports section.
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Traverse automatically detects Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle and a
number of other applications using WMI (on Windows) or SNMP.
- Click on
Administration -> Devices -> Create a new device
- Select the appropriate device type, and enter the proper SNMP community ID
for the server if you are monitoring the application using SNMP instead of WMI
(on a non-Windows computer). For monitoring Oracle, you will need to setup the
Oracle master agent and subagent as described in the Traverse documentation.
- On the "Available Test Types" page, select the WMI checkbox for Windows
servers, or SNMP checkbox for other devices. Click
"Add Tests"
and "Continue" on the next page.
- The system will automatically discover all available applications on the
device, and display them. Just select the tests that you want to monitor.
Traverse will automatically schedule the tests provisioned.
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Traverse can monitor the time to download a web page, get detailed statistics
from the IIS or Apache process, and even step through a multi-step Web
Transaction eCommerce site.
For monitoring statistics from Apache web servers, you must edit its config
file (httpd.conf) and set ExtendedStatus ON and also allow, by
uncommenting the configuration, <Location /server-status>
- Click on
Administration -> Devices -> Create a new device to add a
new device. For an existing device, click on Administration -> Devices
then click on Tests -> Create Standard Tests
- Select the appropriate device type.
- On the "Available Test Types" page, select the WMI checkbox for Windows
servers to monitor IIS. Also click on Port to monitor Web pages, and for
Apache select the Apache checkbox.
For Apache servers, you will need to edit the apache config file and allow
detailed statistics monitoring.
- The system will automatically discover all available applications on the
device, and display them. Just select the tests that you want to monitor and
click Provision Tests
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- Go to
Administration -> Devices
- Click on 'Update' and select "Delete this device" radio button on the top
left side
- Hit the Submit button
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You can either use the API to delete all the devices or if you want to clear
out your Traverse database and start "fresh":
- Stop all Traverse components
- Go to the Traverse installation directory (\Program Files\Zyrion
Traverse\ or /usr/local/traverse)
- Delete the
database/provisioning and the database/provisioningdict
directories
- Copy these two directories from
database/fresh into the
database directory
- Start all components
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- Go to
Administration -> Prefs
- Change the timezone from the drop-down list, and also change the password.
You can see the current timezone in the upper right corner of the Traverse
page.
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- Go to
Administration -> Containers -> Create a Container
- Decide on the type of container that you want (entire devices, or you can
create a Test container which has individual tests from different devices in a
single "virtual device". Also select if you want to select the list of devices
from the list below, or use a "rule based" container.
- After creating the container, click on
Status -> Containers
You can create any number of containers such as "eCommerce" or "New York
stores" or "all databases" or "all backbone routers"
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- Go to
Reports -> Advanced
- From the "capacity planning reports", select the tests such as "Disk" or
"Bandwidth" from the list of tests.
- In the LEVEL, select "Test" instead of "Device" and
click on the GO button.
You can then see the top servers or routers with disk or line utilization
problems and the number of days to reach the threshold.
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- Go to
Reports -> Summary
- Click on the Technical Summary report
This report gives a 1 week snapshot of all servers and routers on your
network.
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You can make bulk changes to the devices using the API
- Ensure that the BVE API is running (from the Traverse Controller in
Windows or
etc/bveapi.init start on Unix)
- From a Windows command prompt or a Unix shell (type the following commands):
telnet localhost 7661
login zyrion zyrion
Device.List "deviceName=*"
Test.List "deviceName=xyz", "testName=*"
Test.Suspend "testName=VirtMemUsed", "deviceName=compaq*"
Device.delete "deviceName=*"
Quit
You can get more information on the API in the User Manual.
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The entire user manual in hyperlinked HTML format is under the HELP
menu once you log into Traverse
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