The main window is divided into two major parts - an Outlook-like panel to the left, and an information panel with a number of pages.

The information panel contains a number of pages with a different purpose for each page:

Dashboard	A summary page where the number of online devices and users is shown, as well as information about newly found devices and users.
Devices	All devices, known to DomainScan, is shown here. One can filter, group and sort the list in a number of ways.
Users	All users, known to DomainScan, is shown here. One can filter, group and sort the list in a number of ways.
Monitors	This page shows all active monitors, and the status of each monitor, so that it's easy to identify monitors that created events.
Information	This page shows messages from DomainScan. One can filter, group and sort the list in a number of ways.

This page shows summarized information about the state of the network.


In the upper half, summary information about devices and users is shown.
One can toggle whether or not DomainScan shall list Details information, which can be set in Setup.

Besides the online numbers, the summaries will also display if any events occurred or if new devices or users where detected discovered during the last scan.

If one clicks more, then the Device or Users panel will be shown

The lower part of the dashboard contains a grid with additional important information, such as information about the number of monitors.

This page shows all devices known to DomainScan.

DomainScan depends on the Browser Service within Windows in order to discover devices. However, this service will normally only return Windows based devices.

In order to discover and monitor non-Windows devices, such as printers, routers, Linux or Mac based devices; one must add devices manually by creating device lists.


Different colors and icons are used for different devices and domain types
(Click on Filter in the status line to view all device icons)



Note: A network device is automatically promoted to being a computer or server if network device features a WMI interface.


Pop-up menu

More information	Opens the Device or domain information dialog
Device information	Link to domain information or information about the user that is currently logged into the computer
Choose fields	Opens the Field chooser section in Preferences, where the number of shown fields can be customized
Add devices	Open the default device list file, where one can enter device names that DomainScan must include in the scan.
Filter	In this sub-menu, one can set the filters that are applied to the current view. The selections in the submenu are also available if one clicks on Filter in the Status bar.
Collapse	Collapses all nodes in the tree
Expand	Expands all nodes in the tree
Explore	Connect directly to a remote admin share. (DomainScan Pro will be able to connect to all shares from a$ to z$) When clicked DomainScan will launch Windows Explorer, and instruct it to browse to the admin share with the name that you clicked. For instance; if you click C$ in Name; then DomainScan will try to connect to \\DeviceName\C$ (and \\123.123.123.123\c$, if the one tries to connect via the IP address).
Remote Desktop (RDP)	With this option, one can connect to the device, if the remote device has remote desktop installed. Note The Remote Desktop option will only work if the Remote Desktop application has been installed on the computer (see here)
Ping	Ping the selected device. See here for more information
Send message	Opens the Send message dialog, where a message to the device can be created and sent
Shutdown	Opens the Shutdown dialog, where the selected device can be shut down

This page shows all users known to DomainScan.

Local users (i.e. users that are created locally), are assigned to the [local users] domain.
The [local users] domain does not exist on the network but is created by DomainScan to give local users the same management features as a domain user.


Double click on a user to launch the User information dialog.


Pop-up menu

More information	Opens the User or domain information dialog
Device information	Link to domain information or information about the devices where the users is currently logged in.
Filter	In this sub-menu, one can set the filters that are applied to the current view. The selections in the submenu are also available if one clicks on Filter in the Status bar.
Choose fields	Opens the Field chooser section in Preferences, where the number of shown fields can be customized
Collapse	Collapses all nodes in the tree
Expand	Expands all nodes in the tree
Send mail	Launches the default mail editor, so that one can send a message to the selected user.

This page shows all active monitors and events.

The page can show monitors in two ways - matrix view and list view:

List view
In the list view, all monitors are listed as rows, with device and event information listed as sub items under each monitor.

This list gives the most detailed level of information regarding monitor usage, as one can see exactly how a monitor is used.

Under each monitor there are 1 or 2 sub sections – a section with all the devices or users that are monitored, and maybe a list with events that the monitor detected.

When a monitor, device or event is selected, then the overview panel will show more details about the selected item.

In Filter, it is possible to filter which monitors that are to be shown. The list is also partly available if one right clicks on the monitor list.


Matrix view
In the matrix view, all device and users with an active monitor is listed, and all monitors are shown as columns.

Under each monitor is written either Ok or Error to indicate whether or not the monitor on the particular device has triggered an event.

If the field is empty, then the monitor is not active on the device.

Devices with events are listed above devices without events, so that one can easily identify troubled devices.
As in the list view, one can click (or double click) on a device for further information.



At the buttom of the page, one can find a shortcut to the monitor wizard.

The information page shows information that is stored in the database. Normally information about new devices, new users, device scan failures or other issues are logged, but information about monitor events may also be logged.

Due to the fact that the information load can be quite big on larger networks, a number of filters can be applied to reduce the amount of information.

The status line at the bottom of the main window is divided into 4 sections, where each section shows information about various states of DomainScan.


Mount status and time of the last scan

Here it is shown when the last scan started, which is also the fixed time that is used during the scan.

The database icon will also change, depending on the database status. The icon may be one of the following:



	DomainScan is not connected to a database
	DomainScan is connected to a database
	DomainScan is connected to a database, and is probing the database for new information. During this refresh, one can not close the database or open another database.
	Shown if DomainScan has detected a database issue. The problem will also be written in this panel.


If there are pending commits to the database, then it will be shown as {#}, where # is the number of pending commits.

A pending commit is any change that has been made, but is still not entered to the database.
These changes are initially written to a commit file (or transaction file in database terminology), which is then read by the scanning engine upon start of a new scan.

The commit file will be flushed automatically once the scanning cycle completes. All changes that were made, from the time where the engine started, will not be committed before the start of the next scanning cycle.


Important:
If either a Network tool is running, or Settings are opened, then DomainScan will be locked, which means that DomainScan cannot synchronize with the database. However, synchronization will resume automatically, once the lock is removed.

Service information

Here information about DomainScan Service and its current state is shown.
If one needs further information, one can simply click on the text, which will then launch the Service Setup panel.

Filter indicator

The filter will change depending on which list that is currently active (it’s disabled for the Overview list).
If the text is clicked, then a menu will appear where one can apply a filter to the active list – for instance, one can unselect that offline devices are shown.

Note: If the filter text is green, then there’s not an active filter, and if the text is red, then one or more filters are applied.

Information

The last panel is a summary panel, where a short summary is shown. The content of the summary depends on the list that is currently shown, and will change dynamically.