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MonitorMagic Implementation Guide
Version 1.0, October 2004
15. Preparing to apply SNMP policies
MonitorMagic provides integration with several well-known network and hardware devices, such as
Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM. To use this integration, the use of the SNMP protocol is required. This means
that the system or device you want to monitor must be equipped with an active SNMP agent. For
example, to monitor the specific hardware details of a HP Server, it must run the appropriate Insight
Manager agent software.
To simplify working with SNMP policies, create entries for each host or device you want to monitor
using SNMP in the Manual SNMP Hosts branch, as shown below. To access a system using SNMP, a
valid community string must be passed along with an Object Identifier (OID), which represents the
monitored resource (disk, fan, interface, etc). The OID is embedded into each policy, while the
community string and IP address is variable per host. As a result, each host must be added separately
by using the Add SNMP host as shown below.
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