Accessing the Software
Now that you understand what nTop is and its transformative approach to design, it’s time to get you set up and ready to start using the software.
In this lesson, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about accessing nTop including:
- System requirements
- Licensing the software
- Setting up your account
- Accessing help resources
By the end of this video, you’ll have a clear roadmap for getting nTop installed and configured so you can begin putting it to work on your design challenges.
Transcript
Now let’s discuss how you can get started as a first-time user. If you don’t have an nTop account, when you first get added to your organization, you’ll have received an email with instructions to activate your account. This account is your passport for accessing the following areas: Your nTop user dashboard is where you can see the licenses assigned to you and download the nTop software. You can log directly into the nTop software if you’re using our named user or our cloud floating license. If your organization is using FlexNet licenses, then you don’t need to log into your account through nTop, and will instead be connecting to your on-prem Flexnet server provided by your IT administrator. You can visit nTopLearn to access all of nTop’s structured training resources. These self-paced educational modules combine practical exercise video demonstrations and assessment modules to help you develop your software proficiency. Finally, you can access nTop support where you can explore our extensive knowledge base and submit support tickets to our team. Before we wrap up this lesson, let’s touch on software updates. We’re constantly evolving and adding new and exciting features and capabilities to our software. Currently, nTop is updated bi-weekly, and users receive notifications for available software updates right within the application where they can choose to download and install them when ready. We hope that by now you have a fairly good understanding of how the nTop software is licensed, installed, and updated, and how you can set your account up to get started. But if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to browse our extensive knowledge base, submit a support ticket at nTop support, or send an email to support@ntop.com. Now you’re ready to dive into the exciting world of nTop. So without further ado, let’s get into the basics of nTop in our next lesson.
0:00 Setting Up and Accessing nTop
0:12 System Requirements
0:35 nTop Licensing and Distribution
1:03 Getting Started as a First-Time User
1:32 Understanding Your nTop Account Access
2:03 Software Update Information
2:19 Additional Support and Resources