Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/using-the-network-dashboard-views-in-scom- 2012/5226 Network Node Dashboard View A node is any device connected to a network.
Switches and routers are among the most common kinds of nodes you will discover.
The node dashboard provides details on the health of a particular device.
The upper portion of the node dashboard consists of the network vicinity view for that node, as well as
"speedometer" gauges for node availability today, yesterday, in the last week, and in the last month.
(Periods of time that were not monitored are counted as "available" in the availability statistics, so newly discovered devices will not appear to have had outages in the gauges.) The lower portion of the node dashboard includes a list of all interfaces on the node that are being monitored.
From this view, you can manually override the automatic selections of which interfaces are monitored by SCOM.
Also, by right-clicking on specific interfaces, you can pivot to performance or reporting views that drill down into the near term or long term history of an interface.
In Figure B, the Interface Packet Analysis report for "PORT 4 on "switch1 during the previous week appears in a second window.