Finisar Surveyor User Manual

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Surveyor can gather statistical information and view network data from a variety of 
hardware sources. The types of information you receive from a resource depends on 
the hardware.

Surveyor’s auto-discovery feature automatically scans the network for available 
resources, or you can enter the IP address of any host you can reach through a TCP/
IP connection. Surveyor remembers the name of the most recent connection made 
so you can quickly reconnect to the host.

The Resource Browser is a single window through which you can access all local 
and remote resources available in the network. The Resource Browser window 
works much the same as Microsoft Windows Explorer, allowing you to see hosts 
and their associated resources in a hierarchical relationship. “Branches” can be 
expanded or collapsed via point and click, so you can quickly customize your view 
of available resources.

Remote systems containing resources are listed by IP address unless there is a 
Surveyor name table on the system. If an entry exists in the name table for the IP 
address of a resource, the symbolic name in the name table is used to represent the 
resource. Resources within remote systems are listed by module type and module 
number. The module number is assigned by the software from the base address of 
the module, which is set by jumpers during hardware installation. For NDIS 
modules, the modules are numbered by the order in which they are discovered 
within the local or remote host. It is possible to have two different modules with the 
same name if they are within different hosts. 

The Resource Browser opens as a docking window when Surveyor is started and 
can be moved to its own window outside the main window.