Hosts View

The Hosts view is by default located in the middle of the program main window and hidden under the Details one. This view displays the connection statuses for all monitored hosts and their performance and availability characteristics. It displays all hosts in a flat form and allows to apply grouping, sorting and filtering operations for all available hosts at once. The Hosts view is mainly targeted on hosts' states review. Thought it is allowed to add new hosts within the view, and to manage hosts and groups, it is recommended to perform hosts management tasks within the Hosts Browser view. The Hosts view is represented as a table with the hosts' information.

The view is convenient if you prefer a classical data representation and want to choose the information to be displayed using the column choosing feature. Another advantage of this view is the possibility of highlighting the rows with color indicating the connection status: yellow for unstable and red for lost. The decoration can be disabled using the Highlight Connection Status item available both from the context menu and the toolbar of the view.

In the Table View the you can choose from the following set of columns.

You can collapse or expand all the groups using the Full Expand and Full Collapse buttons on the Monitored Hosts area toolbar. The Hosts view can be linked to the Hosts Browser view to display only the hosts that are selected in the Hosts Browser view or that are in the groups selected in the Hosts Browser view. This functionality is enabled using the Link to Hosts Browser items on the toolbar and in the popup menu.

Toolbar Overview

The detailed ping statistics displayed in the Hosts view includes information on the pings percentage, uptime, outages and responses. The responses information shows the maximum and minimum responses time in milliseconds, the average response calculated as an arithmetic mean, and the response deviation calculated as a standard deviation of the responses.

The host state is shown as an icon in all views. The following states are available:

The host state is actually based on the monitoring status calculated by the program. The status is displayed in a separate column with icon and text in the table view, and as a general information field in card views. The following statuses are used:

From the Hosts view, you can control the monitoring process activity for specific hosts, generate historical data reports for custom periods of time and manage a set of hosts. All these actions are available from the view pop-up menu and on the toolbar. The monitoring activity control and host details actions are also available on the Monitoring contextual ribbon page from the Monitoring Tools category which is displayed when the Hosts view is active.

The other useful features of this view are an ability to use copy/paste and drag/drop to copy and move hosts between groups and the ability to import/export hosts and groups. The corresponding actions are available in the pop-up menu, Organize Ribbon group and Clipboard Ribbon group on the Program page.

Now you are familiar with the Hosts view and should be able to use its benefits during the everyday work.