Ikarus NMS Main Window
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Ikarus NMS Main Window
The Ikarus NMS window is a graphical user interface that facilitates viewing, configuring and monitoring your wireless network. The interface includes a typical main menu, tabbed panes containing graphical and textual information and shortcut menus that allow you to navigate to other windows, tabs and dialog boxes.
Network Topology Tab Information Panes
The Ikarus NMS window consists of three information panes:
- The Topology Map pane,
- the Node List pane,
- the Node Status pane.
Topology Map
Located in the center pane, the Topology Map displays icons representing network nodes and connection information describing the layout of the network. It also can display a map graphic in the background.
Registered Node List
Located in the left pane, the Registered Node List displays all registered nodes on the network.
Node Status
Located in the bottom pane, the Node Status area displays the following information on the currently selected node. Firmware Version – The number representing the firmware version residing in the node. Up Time – The length of time the node has been operating. Key Level INMS Connectivity – The ratio of successfully received probe responses. All panes are resizable and can be adjusted according to user preferences.
Node Shortcut Menu
The Node Shortcut Menu comes up as soon as the user right clicks on a network node residing on the topology pane. It consists of the following options: GUI-Node Connectivity Settings, Open Status Window, Advanced Node Configuration, Save Configuration, Unlock, Back Up, FW Upgrade, Reboot, Restore Defaults, Current Throughput, WISP Easy Wizard (WEW), Remove.
GUI-Node Connectivity Settings
The GUI-Node Connectivity Settings menu option allows you to access the Node Connectivity Settings dialog box (for the currently selected node).
Open Status Window
The Open Status Window menu option allows you to access the Status dialog box, which contains the FW Version, Key Level, Up Time and Host Name fields. (The FW Version, Key Level and Up Time fields also are displayed in the Node Status pane of the Topology Map tab.)
Advanced Node Configuration
The Advanced Node Configuration menu option allows you to retrieve information from the selected node. A new pane is displayed containing a main tab (Advanced Configuration of node: [node name]. Under this tab three sub-tabs are displayed: Configuration, Statistics and System Properties. Each of these tabs contains several additional sub-tabs used in the configuration process.
Save Configuration
The Save Configuration menu option allows you to permanently save the configuration for the current node.
- Note: After the base station is configured, the configuration parameters are stored in RAM (volatile memory). If the base station is powered down the configuration will be lost unless you Save Configuration to the base station’s permanent memory.
Unlock
The Unlock menu option allows you to unlock the node, acquire licensed keys updating your device to a level 1 or a level 2 enabled device.
Back Up
The Back Up menu option allows you to back up and restore the configuration settings for the selected node.
FW Upgrade
The FW Upgrade menu option allows you to access the Select dialog box, from which you can select the firmware image file to be loaded into the node.
Reboot
The Reboot menu option allows you to reboot the node.
Restore Defaults
The Restore Defaults menu option allows you to reset the configuration of the node and bring it to it's initial state(IP:192.168.1.3)
Current Throughput
The Current Throughput menu option allows you to display a real-time graphical display of transmit and receive traffic of the network interface.
WISP Easy Wizard (WEW)
The WISP Easy Wizard (WEW) menu option allows you to start a wizard that provides an easy and convenient way to install and configure wireless nodes.
Remove
The Remove menu option allows you to remove the currently selected node from the Topology Map and Registered Node List.
