Introduction
9
ForeSight 6100 EMS User Guide
1 • ForeSight 6100 EMS overview
The ForeSight 6100 hierarchical display resembles the example shown in
figure 2
. The
Root
,
Bldg-A
, and
Bldg-
B
container groupings make it easy to quickly locate the nodes (
3095–Admin
,
1001MC–Physics
,
3096RC–
Engineering-1
, etc.).
Figure 2. Sample ForeSight 6100 display
Nodes
A node represents a
simple network management protocol
(SNMP)-enabled Patton device (such as a Model 3095
DACS) on the network. Nodes are always created and grouped inside containers.
The ForeSight 6100 EMS polls the nodes for status information and is notified by the nodes when an event
occurs. Common events include an element exceeding a preset threshold, an element changing state, or an
SNMP agent-generated alert that an event has occurred.
The ForeSight 6100 can indicate node status in a variety of ways—including changing the color of the con-
tainer’s icon or highlighting the node’s text label (in
figure 2
, for instance, the container icons and node labels
are all colored green, which signifies that everything is functioning normally).
Individual node management takes place outside of the ForeSight 6100 application by using a web browser or
Telnet client. This is done by selecting the desired node from the ForeSight 6100 hierarchical display and