Status
Dashboard Settings
allows you to customize the way that Monitor data displays in the InfoCenter dashboard.
Alarm Summary
Displays alarms for all machine IDs that match the current machine ID / group ID filter. You can include additional filtering for listed alarms using fields in the Alarm Filters panel. You can also close alarms or re-open them and add notes to alarms.
Suspend Alarms
Suppresses alarms for specified time periods, including recurring time periods. This allows upgrade and maintenance activity to take place without generating alarms or affecting SLA metrics. When alarms are suspended for a machine ID, the agent still collects data, but does not generate corresponding alarms.
Live Counter
Displays live performance counter data for a selected machine ID. Only machines IDs assigned one or more monitor sets using Assign Monitoring are listed on this page.
Edit
Monitor List
Maintains the complete list of all objects, services and processes loaded on the KServer that are used to create Monitor Sets and SNMP Sets. The Monitor List page also maintains user-defined group alarms.
Update List by Scan
Scans one or more machine IDs and returns lists of counter objects, counters, instances and services to select from when creating or editing a monitor set. Typically only a handful of machines of each operating system type need to be scanned to provide a set of comprehensive lists.
Monitor Sets
This page adds, imports or modifies monitor sets. Sample monitor sets are provided.
A monitor set is a set of counter objects, counters, counter instances, services and processes used to monitor the performances of machines.
SNMP Sets
Adds, imports or modifies a SNMP set. A SNMP set is a set of MIB objects used to monitor the performance of SNMP enabled network devices. The SNMP protocol is used because an agent cannot be installed on the device. You can assign alarm thresholds to any performance object in a SNMP set. If you apply the SNMP set to a device, you can be notified if the alarm threshold is exceeded.
Add SNMP Object
Allows for manually adding SNMP objects from an MIB object that could be vendor supplied.
External Monitoring
System Check
The VSA can monitor machines that don't have an agent installed on them. This function is performed entirely within a single page called System Check. Machines without an agent are called external systems. A machine with an agent is assigned the task of performing the system check on the external system. A system check typically determines whether an external system is available or not. Types of system checks include: web server, DNS server, port connection, ping, and custom.
SNMP Monitoring
LAN Watch
This core framework component uses an existing agent on a managed machine to periodically scan the local area network for any and all new devices connected to that LAN since the last time LAN Watch ran. These new devices can be workstations and servers without agents or SNMP devices. Optionally, the VSA can send an alert when a LAN Watch discovers any new device. LAN Watch effectively uses the agent as a proxy to scan a LAN behind a firewall that might not be accessible from a remote server.
Assign SNMP
Creates SNMP alerts for SNMP devices discovered using a LAN Watch.
SNMP Log
This page displays SNMP log data of MIB objects in a SNMP Set in chart or table formats.
Set SNMP Values
Enables you to write values to SNMP network devices. The SNMP objects must be Read Write capable and requires entering the Write Community password assigned to the SNMP device.
Set SNMP Type
Assigns types to SNMP devices manually. SNMP devices assigned to one of these types are monitored by SNMP sets of the same type. You can also give individual SNMP devices custom names and descriptions as well as remove the device from your database.
Log Monitoring
Parser Summary
Displays and optionally define alerts for all parser sets assigned to all machine IDs within the user's scope. Parser Summary can also copy parser sets assignments to multiple machine IDs.
Log Parser
Defines log parsers and assigns them to selected machine IDs.
Assign Parser Sets
This page creates and edits parser sets and assigns parsers sets to machine IDs. Optionally triggers an alert based on a parser set assignment.
Agent Monitoring
Alerts
The Alerts page enables you to quickly define alerts for typical alarm conditions found in an IT environment. For example, low disk space is frequently a problem on managed machines.
SNMP Traps Alert
Triggers an alert when an SNMP Trap event log entry is created on a selected managed machine. SNMP event log entries are created in response to the managed machine receiving an SNMP trap message from an SNMP device on the same LAN as the managed machine.
Assign Monitoring
This page creates monitor set alerts for managed machines. An alert is a response to an alarm condition. An alarm condition exists when a machine's performance succeeds or fails to meet a pre-defined criteria.
Monitor Log
Displays the agent monitoring object logs in chart and table formats.