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User Guide
Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
Network
Network
The Network page gives you access to multiple pages that show nodes, links, sessions in tabular format and graphs and traffic in a graphical format.
Graph
The Graph pages gives a graphical representation of the nodes in the environment.
Main network graph
The main network graph shows a graphical representation of the nodes in your environment.
Magic wand
The magic wand icon opens a wizard to help filter the graph and view only the desired information to help you reduce visualized data from large graphs.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
  - Sensors
  - Alerts
  - Assets
  - Queries
  - Smart Polling
  - Arc
  - Network
    - Network
      The Network page gives you access to multiple pages that show nodes, links, sessions in tabular format and graphs and traffic in a graphical format.
      - Nodes
        The Nodes page lets you view all the network nodes in your environment and perform actions on them.
      - Links
        The Links page shows all the links in your environment.
      - Sessions
        A session is established at a certain point in time, and later turned down. An established communication session might involve more than one message in each direction.
      - Graph
        The Graph pages gives a graphical representation of the nodes in the environment.
        Main network graph
        The main network graph shows a graphical representation of the nodes in your environment.
        Magic wand
        The magic wand icon opens a wizard to help filter the graph and view only the desired information to help you reduce visualized data from large graphs.
        Layout
        The Layout dropdown lets you select a layout for the graph.
        Zones/Topology graph
        The Zones/Topology graph shows a visualization of the network topology or zones.
      - Traffic
        The Traffic page shows charts with information about throughput, protocols, and open transmission control protocol (TCP) connections.
      - Graph controls
        A list of the different control options in the graph view.
  - Process
  - Reports
  - Assertions
  - Time machine
  - Vulnerabilities
  - Administration
  - Personal settings
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Magic wand

The magic wand icon opens a wizard to help filter the graph and view only the desired information to help you reduce visualized data from large graphs.

The graph wizard gives hints to help you improve the graph performance. Settings that are annotated with an orange exclamation point are considered suboptimal. Settings annotated with green thumbs are considered helpful.

Magic wand dialog — Figure 1. Magic wand dialog

Show broadcast

Broadcast addresses are not actual network nodes in that no asset is bound to a broadcast address. They are used to represent communications that a node uses towards an entire subnet. Removing broadcast nodes reduces the complexity of a graph.

Only with confirmed data

You can select this to hide unconfirmed links to reduce the complexity of an entangled graph.

Only confirmed nodes

You can select this to hide unconfirmed nodes to reduce the size of a large graph.

Exclude tangled nodes

To improve the readability of the graph, you can select this to exclude nodes whose connections cause the graph to be too complex.

Protocols

This dropdown lets you filter nodes and edges to show only those items that are communicating with the related protocol(s).