OneSight Administrator Guide

Configuring SNMP Monitors
Configuring SNMP Monitors
Creating an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) monitor
allows OneSight to provide specific performance and configuration
information on network devices, such as routers, or on hosts, such
as workstations or mainframes.
To use this monitor, enable SNMP on the machine you intend to
monitor. Also, be sure that the MIB data you plan on collecting is
supported by the SNMP daemon on the monitored machine.
Note: If you want to gather a variety of SNMP metrics or you want
to compare the same metric or set of metrics on multiple machines,
you may want to create a profile monitor for the RFC 1213 Network
Device profile instead of using this dedicated SNMP monitor.
In the Add Monitor dialog box, when you click SNMP in the
Monitor Types box, settings to configure an SNMP monitor appear
on these dialog box tabs:
General Tab – Contains the options that you can use to create an
SNMP monitor for your monitor group.
Advanced Tab – Contains the options for configuring objects.
Alerts Tab – Displays the options that you can use to modify an alert
and associate it with an action plan. You can also configure how the
SNMP alert will affect the monitor group’s health. It can result in a
Warning state, a Critical state, or can have no impact on health.
Locations Tab – Specifies the Data Collector Location from which
to monitor a specific SNMP object.
SmartLinks Tab – Contains the options for specifying a link to
associate with a particular monitor or metric.
Attributes Tab – Contains the options for specifying which attributes
are applied to this monitor for Status page sorting.
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