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Guardian
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.
Zones/Topology graph
The Zones/Topology graph shows a visualization of the network topology or zones.

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.
        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.

Zones/Topology graph

The Zones/Topology graph shows a visualization of the network topology or zones.

General

You can see a visualization of either the zones or the topology, but not both at the same time. You can control these views with the two toggle buttons.

Inside the Zones graph, each node represents a zone and each link represents all of the links between the nodes in the connected zones. When you select a zone, the information pane is populated with all of the nodes/links that are related to the selected zone. The main network graph is filtered to show only the nodes and the links for that zone, and the filtering icon shows.

In a similar way, when a link is selected in the Zones graph, the information pane is populated with all of the links between the two zones, and the Networks graph shows only the nodes and links that belong to one of the two connected zones. When you click in a region of the Zones graph that has no nodes or links, the visualization in the main networks graph is reset to show all the nodes and links.

Zones legend

The ? icon opens the legend for link and nodes based on the selected perspective.

Legend — Figure 1. Legend

Time

These icons let you select an activity time range.

Zones

Links

This dropdown lets you configure visualization options.