This document describes how to install the NxE Information and Configuration Tool (NCT or NIC Tool) and use the NCT to discover, identify, monitor, collect configuration information, and troubleshoot network engines on Metasys networks. It also describes how to transfer files between a computer running the NCT and network engines.
Unless otherwise specified, the term network engine in this document refers to Network Automation Engines (NAEs), Network Control Engines (NCEs), Network Integration Engines (NIEs), Series of Network Engines (SNEs), and Series of Network Controllers (SNCs). See Features of the NCT and NCT overview for more information on the network engines supported by this release.