Introduction

About NetXMS Mobile Console for Android

NetXMS mobile console is a monitoring tool for Android devices running version 2.2. and later.
Currently, a subset of the functions present in the Desktop/Web edition are implemented, mainly read/only operations. The next paragraphs briefly describes each sections.

Main window

In the figure below you can see how appears the main window.

Sections:

1. Alarms: to view and manage all pending alarms
2. Dashboards: to view predefined dashboards
3. Nodes: to view and manage nodes and containers
4. Graphs: to view predefined graphs
5. MACAddress: to search for a MAC address reading it from bar code or by typing it directly
   

Main menu

• Settings: select this item to configure the agent.
• Reconnect: select this item to force a reconnection to the server to send new collected data.
• Disconnect & Exit: select this item to stop the agent and exit from the app.

Settings

This section is used to configure the behaviour of the console.

Global settings

• Autostart on boot: check to automatically start the agent on boot (to be effective, app must not be moved to SD card).

Connection

Parameters

Allows selecting the parameters used to connect to the server:

1. Server: address of the server (IP or name).
2. Port: port of the server (default 4701).
3. User name: username to connect to the server.
4. Password: password to connect to the server.
5. Encrypt connection: when selected challenges an encryption strategy with the server (depending on supported/configured providers).

Scheduler

Enables the possibility to define periodic connectios to the server. If the scheduler is not enabled the app will try to connect to the server every time it detects a connection and remains always connected as far as the connection remains active:

• Enable scheduler: check this to enable the scheduler.
• Frequency (min): amount of time, in minutes, that has to elapse between each tentative of connection to the server to send the gathered info.
• Duration (min): amount of time, in minutes, that has to elapse before disconnect from the server.
• Daily scheduler: provides the ability to define a “one range” daily on which the agent is operational. Out of the specified range the app will not try to connect to the server to gather the new events:

1. Daily activation on: start time for daily activation.
2. Daily activation off: stop time for daily activation.

Notifications

Connection status

This section is to manage the notifications related to the connection status.

• Notification behaviour: defines which kind of action should trigger notifications to the user. Possible options:

1. Never: ignore connection status
2. When connected: notify when connection is successful
3. When disconnected: notify when connection is unsuccessful
4. Always: notify either connection successful and connection unsuccessful

• Toast notification: provides connection notification via “toast” , behaviour is defined by “Notification behaviour”.
  
• Icon notification: provides connection notification via icon in the status bar, behaviour is defined by “Notification behaviour”.

Alarms

• Alarms notification: select to enable alarms notification in the status bar.
• Alarms sound by severity: for each category of alarm severity it is possible to select a specific sound, in this way it is possible to be notified about the type of the incoming alarms without necessity to check the display.

Interface

Multipliers

Allows to select the preferred multipliers to be used to show values. Allowed options:

• None: do not apply multiplier, values are extended.
• Decimal: applies a decimal multiplier (power of 10, e.g. 1000 -> 1K)
• Binary: applies a binary multiplier (power of 2, e.g. 1024 -> 1Ki)