Select the location in the Network Explorer where the new watch will be created. This must be a location or a folder which contains one or more locations.

There are two options to create a new watches:

1. Under the Admin Browse, click Create New and select Watch

Or 2. Under Admin Pending, click Create Watch

The Edit Pending Watch dialog is used to edit a watch before it is made live. The path to the folder is shown along with the group (if applicable). There are 5 areas:

1. Main
2. Technical
3. Test Results (visible immediately after a test only)
4. Watch Status (visible after a test and the watch has been saved and reopened)
5. Progress Log (visible after a test and the watch has been saved and reopened)

Save It's possible to save the details at any point. You can return to this dialog at any time to complete the process.

Watch Name

this is a required field which uniquely identifies the watch; it must not exceed 100 characters in length.
Valid characters are A-z 0-9 . - _ + ! $ # @ =

Location

select the required location from the drop-down list if not already displayed

Description

this is optional and is displayed in Highlight in place of the watch name

Watch Type

bandwidth options available will change based on the type selected, see the table below:

Product Type

this is an optional text field which is limited to 20 characters and enables service providers to display the service name for a watch rather than the Highlight default name, for example FTTC instead of ADSL.

Bandwidth

see GIF and table below

PO / Ref

Purchase Order or Reference is optional and may be useful for customer specific information

Both bandwidth fields are required. Start typing and select a bandwidth from the displayed list. Alternatively enter any whole number with one of the following units:

• b/B: bits per second
• k/K: kilobits per second
• m/M: megabits per second
• g/G: gigabits per second
• t/T: terabits per second

The options available in this section will change based on which protocol (SNMPv2 or SNMPv3) is selected. It's possible to save the watch without completing this section but it will not be possible to test nor activate it.

These fields are common between all protocols:

Device IP

the device IP address

Selected Interface

if an interface has previously been selected, it will be shown

SNMP v1

If your device only supports SNMPv1, select SNMPv2 and Highlight will fall back to using the older protocol when it finds that SNMPv2 doesn’t work.

SNMP v2

Community String

can contain any characters except spaces

SNMP v3

Username

must be between 8 and 32 characters and may not contain ,\' and “

Auth protocol

SHA1 (default) or MD5

Auth key

must be between 8 and 32 characters and may not contain ,\' and "

Priv protocol

DES (default) or AES 128

Priv key

must be between 8 and 32 characters and may not contain ,\' and "

Test After all options are completed, the watch can be tested

After clicking ► Test you may briefly see the message Testing...

After a successful test, you will be prompted to choose an interface (Note: it's also possible to save the watch without choosing an interface.) Immediately after interface selection, you will see Test successful

Clicking on Details will show additional details related to the test.

After clicking Save if you then edit the watch, Watch Status and Progress Log will now be visible.

Order Management has two possible states which can be changed by those who have the security privilege Approve New Watches checked in the Add/Edit User dialog:

• Approved
• Not Approved

Technical Test has three possible states in this dialog:

• Test successful
• Test failed
• Interface not selected meaning no interface was selected following a successful test or no interfaces were listed for selection

Test in progress, meaning the test has started but not yet completed, is only seen when testing more than one watch so will not appear in this dialog

This is a list of automatically added events such as:

• Circuit added
• Circuit details changed
• Approved by order management
• Technical test succeeded/failed
• Interface selected

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