NetAlertX/docs/NETWORK_TREE.md

How to setup your Network page

Make sure you have a root device with the MAC Internet (No other MAC addresses are currently supported as the root node).

💡 Tip: You can add dummy devices via the Undiscoverables plugin

💡 Tip: Export your configuration of the Network and Devices once in a while via the Export CSV feature under Maintenance -> Backup/Restore -> CSV Export.

⚡Quick setup:

• Go to Devices > Device Details.
• Find the device(s) you want to use as network devices (network nodes).
• Set the Type of such a device to one of the following: AP, Firewall, Gateway, PLC, Powerline, Router, Switch, USB LAN Adapter, USB WIFI Adapter and WLAN.
• Save and go to Network where the devices you've marked as network devices (by selecting the Type as mentioned above) will show up as tabs.
• You can now assign the Unassigend devices to the correct network node.

🔍Detailed example:

In this example you will setup a device named rapberrypi as a Switch in our network.

1) Device details page

• Go to the Devices (1) page:

• In the (2) Details tab navigate to the the Type (3) dropdown and select the type Switch (4).

Note: Only the following device types will show up as selectable Network nodes ( = devices you can connect other devices to): AP, Firewall, Gateway, Hypervisor, PLC, Powerline, Router, Switch, USB LAN Adapter, USB WIFI Adapter and WLAN.

• Assign a device to your root device from the Node (5) dropdown which has the MAC Internet (6) (Your name may differ, but the MAC needs to be set to Internet - this is done by default).

• Save your changes (7)

1) Network page

• Navigate to your Network (1) page:

• Notice the newly added raspberrypi (2) tab which now represents a network node, also showing up in the tree (3).
• As we asssigned the raspberrypi in the previous 1) Device details page section to the Internet parent network node in step (6), the link is also showing up in the tree diagram (4)
• We can now assign the device (AppleTV) (5) to this raspberrypi node, representing a network Switch in this example

1) Network page with 2 levels

• After clicking the Assign button in the previous section, the (AppleTV) (1) device is now connected to our raspberrypi (2).

• You can see the raspberrypi represents the Network node type Switch (3)
• The (AppleTV) to raspberrypi connection is also displayed in the table of Connected devices (4).
• You can also see that our raspberrypi node is connected to it's Parent network device node with the MAC Internet (5). This connection again shows up in the tree (6) as well.