OneSight Administrator Guide

Adding System Components
each subsequent retry, the timeout value is doubled. For
example, if Timeout Seconds is 5 and Timeout Retries is 2,
the first request attempt will occur after 5 seconds, the
second attempt will occur after 10 seconds, and the third
attempt will occur after 20 seconds. In this example, the total
timeout period equals 35 seconds. If there is no response
after this time, a Sample Failure is triggered.
If Timeout Retries is 0, a Sample Failure is triggered when a
reply is not received in this amount of time.
Timeout retries – Sets the upper limit for the number of times
an SNMP request is retried. For example, if Timeout Retries
is set to 3, the SNMP request will be sent up to four times (the
initial try plus three retries).
Port – Specifies the port number used on this system by the
SNMP agent. Typically, this is port 161.
Version – Specifies the SNMP version.
Virtual Agent Connection Settings
Connection Method – Select the connection method to use for
the Virtual Agent.
Port – Specify the port to use for connecting.
Prompt – Specify the command line prompt for the host
machine. If you do not specify a command line prompt,
OneSight will attempt to infer the prompt by parsing the
screen output.
Charset – Specifies the character set to use. Select a character
set from the list.
ISO-8859-1 – Latin alphabet for Western European
languages such as Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch,
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