Interface Overview The Lithium suite of applications provide network infrastructure monitoring, analysis and case management tools. The Lithium|Web component provides an internet accessible web-based platform to help you monitor and analyse your network, investigate and diagnose incidents, and manage cases. Unlike the Lithium|Console application the Web Interface is customer-specific and will only show information for a single customer.
Main Window 
The main window contains 4 components: Menu Bar 
Main
| Link to the Homepage
| Sites
| Like to the site list
| Incidents
| Link to the incident list.
| Cases
| Link to the case list
| Users
| Link to user management
| IP Registry
| Link to the IP Registry
| Inventory
| Link to the Customer Inventory
| Documentation
| Link to this Documentation website
| Navigation Menu 
As described in the Entity Hierarchy concept document, an entity is a single logical unit in the entity hierarchy. An entity can be any one of the following: Customer, Site, Device, Container, Object, Metric or Trigger. The hierarchy is listed in the Navigation Menu. Main ViewThe Main View is in the centre of the window and it displays all of the current information. This can be site lists, incidents, cases, metrics etc.
Entity Status This displays the overall status of the customer. Showing the number of Failed, Impaired and At-Risk incidents.
Entity NavigationAs described in the Entity Hierarchy concept document, an entity is a single logical unit in the Entity Hierarchy. An entity can be any one of the following: Customer, Site, Device, Container, Object, Metric or Trigger. The navigation menu on the left hand side of the web interface is the main method to navigate through the Entity Hierarchy. Below is a series of images demonstrating the different levels in the navigation menu, and how the main view of the window changes depending on the type of Entity being viewed. The first page shows the Customer level. The Infrastructure Status information is displayed here. The main point to note in this image, is the lower part of the navigation menu, from sites down. This customer has seven different sites. Since both "tx_data" and "syd_data" are highlighted in red, you can tell from a glance that they both have one or more failed entities. Clicking on the Sites link opens up the Site list page. The site list displays information for each site configured. Column
| Description
| Site Name
| A descriptive name to identify the site
| Suburb
| The suburb where the site is located
| Address
| The street address of the site
| State
| The current status of the site: Normal, At-Risk, Impaired, Failed
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In the Navigation Menu, the sites are listed by their unique ID (Note the difference here, compared to the "Site Name" in the site list). Again, you can see at a glance which sites have faulting entities, and the state of the most impaired device. 
After clicking on the desired Site, either in the Site List or the Navigation Menu, the Device List page will open. As you can now see this site has only one device. Column
| Description
| Device Name
| A Descriptive name of the device
| Device ID
| A unique ID used to identify the device
| Management IP
| The IP address that is used to manage/query the device
| State
| The current status of the device: Normal, At-Risk, Impaired, Failed
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The navigation menu now shows all of the Devices monitored at this Site. Here the Devices are listed by there Device ID (Second column in the device list). 
Once you have clicked on the device, the Main View now displays an "At-a-Glance" view of the device. The information displayed here varies depending on the device being monitored, and the metrics being recorded. That being said, every devices will show the top three components. Device Information The heading of this component displays the Device Description and Device ID. Column
| Description
| Site
| Description of the site where this device is located
| Device ID
| The unique ID used to identify this device
| Device Description
| A Descriptive name for the device
| Management IP
| The IP address that is used to manage/query the device
| Vendor Module
| The module that has been assigned to this device to handle vendor specific tasks
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Master AvailabilityDisplays a graph of the Device Availability over the previous 48 hours. It also shows the Average availability. System InformationA summary of the system Information for the device. Uptime
| The amount of time the device has been running
| Name
| The unique ID of this device
| Description
| A Description of the type of device
| Location
| The Location of where the device is located, within the site.
| Contact
| The name of the administrator of the device
| Services
| A numeric field that describes the services the device provides using SNMP service codes.
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Other Available InformationOther information that may be displayed depending on the type of device are: CPU, Memory Pools, Network Interfaces, ADSL Circuit, Connections and Response time.
The next level in the hierarchy are containers. Containers can hold one or more Objects. For example, if a Device has 2 CPU's there will only be one CPU Container, and inside this Container will be two Objects CPU1, and CPU2. The Container window will show the list of Objects that belong to it. The information displayed in the Container window will vary depending on the information stored, in general it will show current values for the Objects.
Once you select an Object to view, the main view is broken up into "Current Data" and "Historic Data". Current Data: Displays information about the object, and lists a few of the important metrics with their latest reading. Historic Data: A series of graphs showing relevent historic data for all recorded metrics. The first graph displays "48 Hours up to Midnight" of the reference date. The next graph shows the week containing the reference date (Weeks start on Monday). The third graph shows the month of the reference date. Finally, the last graph shows the year of the reference date.
Below the "Historical Data" section, you can select the reference date, and the Object (within the current Container) you require.
If you require information for a metric that isn't displayed in the object window, you can select it from the Navigation Menu. This brings up the Metric page. Again, the information available in this window will vary depending on the Metric being viewed. As with the object view, the metric view has both a "Current Data" and "Historic Data" section. At the bottom of this page is the reference date and Object selection form.
The final level in the entity hierarchy is the Trigger. Clicking on a trigger in the Navigation Menu, displays the values for the Trigger. Trigger entities are used to raise Incidents to report fault conditions when the value of the Metric to which the Trigger belong meets the criteria specified by the Trigger.
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