Integrity Check Options Tab

NorthStar Planner automatically detects a variety of errors of various severity levels. Some of these warnings may not be of interest, or are not a source of concern for your network. For this reason, a number of options are provided in this tab to allow you to filter for just those integrity checks (ICs) that concern you.

Network OptionsNetwork Options

The Network section of the window is used to specify the set of configuration files to perform the integrity checking on. If you use NorthStar Planner to monitor the live network, you can select “Use live network”. Alternatively, select “Use specification file” and specify the configuration file folder and corresponding specification file path created by importing the configuration files.

Filter by Category

IC’s are organized into different categories, as listed in the window. You can mark the “Include All Categories” checkbox if you wish to see IC’s belonging to all categories. Otherwise, highlight just those categories you are interested in, in the “Select From” list on the left, and move them to the “Categories to be included” list on the right via the “Add->” button. Pressing the “Add All >>” button is equivalent to selecting the “Include All Categories” checkbox.

Filter by Message

You can filter the integrity check results according to specific IC messages. There is a predefined set of IC messages, each assigned its own msg ID (or message ID), which is the number preceding the message. These are listed in the left hand list of the Filter by Message section.

To customize the ICs to show, unselect “Include All Messages”, highlight just those categories you are interested in, in the “Select From” list on the left, and move them to the “Messages to be included” list on the right via the “Add->” button.

You can perform an additional filter on the messages to be included by entering text in the “And, optionally filter message by matching substring” text field. Only messages which include your text string will be considered.

Filter by Router

In the Filter by Router section, you can choose to see only those IC’s pertaining to certain routers. To do so, uncheck the “Include All Routers” checkbox, highlight the routers that you are interested in (corresponding to the routers in the network you specified), and move them to the “Routers to be included” list on the right-hand side using the “Add->”button.

You can perform an additional filter on the desired routers to be included by entering text in the “And, optionally filter routers by matching substring” textfield. Only those router names which include your text string as part of the name will be considered.

IC’s can also be categorized into two types:

• Router IC - an IC that pertains to a single router

• Network IC - an IC that pertains to two or more routers

• For example, some users may wish to see:

• All Router ICs, but only those Network ICs pertaining to the selected router(s)

• All Network ICs, but only those Router ICs pertaining to the selected router(s)

• None of the Router ICs and only those Network ICs pertaining to the selected router(s)

This explains why so many different options are provided. These options are explained below:

Filter by Group

In the Filter by Group section, you can choose to see only those IC’s pertaining to routers in certain topology groups. To do so, uncheck the “Include All Groups” checkbox, highlight the groups that you are interested in (corresponding to the routers in the network you specified), and move them to the “Groups to be included” list on the right-hand side using the “Add->”button.

Note that in order to select specific topology groups, the map for the selected network specification file should contain groups. Furthermore, these groups should be saved into the network baseline. If there are topology groups, but they are not appearing in the list, save the network first using File > Save Network... before creating a task for the Integrity Check report.

Filter by Severity

ICs are assigned one of four severity levels: High, Medium, Low, Warning. You can select the severity of integrity check errors to display. The severity levels corresponding to individual ICs can be set within the IC Profile Table (Tools > Options > Integrity Checks). See Integrity Check Options Tab for more information.

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