Explorer Overview

Riverbed IQ Ops's Explorer pages show detailed inventories of the entities Things deployed in the customer environment that are needed to run the business, such as applications, devices, interfaces, and locations. that originate incidents A collection of one or more related triggers. Relationships that cause triggers to be combined into incidents include application, location, operating system, or a trigger by itself.. These entities are the devices An entity type representing network devices or hardware components deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies., interfaces An entity type representing network interfaces on devices that are monitored for performance metrics and anomalies., applications An entity type representing software applications deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies., and locations An entity type representing physical or logical locations in the customer environment where entities are deployed and monitored. that populate your network. In addition, the Explorer enables you to define and manage custom properties for entities; these are user-defined entity properties that you can use to describe and identify specific entities of interest in your network. Each entity type, plus custom properties, has its own page under the Explorer menu:

For each entity, the Explorer shows the properties that describe it; these properties vary, according to the entity type, but they include details such as name, IP address, model, inbound speed, and location, among others.

Note: One entity type can be a property of another: A location can be a property of a device and a device can be a property of an interface, to give two examples. For each entity listed on the page, you can click it to view all its properties at once in the Details blade.

Every property name can be used as a column name on an Explorer page. In addition, every property name and value on an Explorer page can be:

Used as a filter.
Used as a search string.
Shown in the Details blade.

Details Blade

The Details blade appears at the right side of the Explorer page when you click on a listed entity, showing all of that entity's properties at a glance.

The Details blade for devices has a second tab listing corresponding interfaces.
The Details blade for interfaces has a second tab listing corresponding devices.
The Details blade for locations has a second tab listing corresponding devices.

In addition, the Details blade provides the Set Custom Property button. Clicking this button opens the Set Custom Property dialog for working with custom properties and values.