Introduction

Atlas

The atlas is a set of maps holding monitored hosts along with defined alerts, events, visualization styles etc.

Atlas tree

The atlas tree lists all available maps. There are several map types, described in detail in the Map types topic. The atlas tree is designed to allow you to select the map, which is presented on the right side of the window, and set map properties, etc. You can change the order of maps in the tree (refer to the Managing Maps topic for more information).

Maps

The map is a graphical representation of your network or a part of it. It holds the hosts for visualization. There are several types of maps. For more information please refer to the Map types topic.

Styles

All map objects (except text) use the style mechanism. Style determines how the object is presented. For example it defines colors, fonts, frames, etc. To change the object appearance you have to select its style while defining object properties. For more information about styles, refer to Styles and Maps topics.

Hosts

A host is a representation of any physical device present in your network. It can have several IPs and nVision can monitor all services running on this host on any of its addresses. It means that multi-IP hosts like routers or web servers can be represented in nVision as one icon (object) and all of its interfaces, addresses and services will be monitored.