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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
5 Type a Name for the monitor, such as Cisco Router Buffer Overflow Monitor.
6 Type a Description for the monitor. This description displays next to the monitor name
in the Active Monitor Library.
7 In the Thresholds to monitor section of the dialog, select IP received discarded.
8 Click OK to save changes.
After configuring the IP received discarded monitor, you need to assign it to the device(s) that
you want to check using the monitor. In the next steps of this example, you will assign the
monitor to a single device, then using the Action Builder, configure and assign an Email
Action that will notify you when the monitor goes down.
Tip: You can also assign the monitor to multiple devices at one time via Bulk Field Change.
For more information, see Assigning a monitor to multiple devices (on page 227).
To assign the IP Received Discarded monitor, and configure and assign an Email Action:
1 Go to the properties for the device to which you want to assign the monitor.
a) From either the Device View or Map View, right-click the device. The right-click menu
appears.
b) Select Properties. The Device Properties dialog appears.
2 Click Active Monitors. The Device Properties - Active Monitors dialog appears.
3 Click Add. The Active Monitor Properties dialog appears.
4 Select the Cisco Router Buffer Overflow Monitor, then click Next.
5 Set the monitor polling properties, then click Next.
6 Select Apply individual actions, then click Add. The Action Builder appears.
7 Select Create a new action, then click Next.
8 Select the Email Action, then click Next.
9 Under Execute the action on the following state change, select Down; this option
specifies that WhatsUp Gold issues a state change after the monitor has detected that
the router has received IP data, but the buffer has been overrun with too much data.
Click Finish. The New Email Action dialog appears.
10 Type a Name for the monitor, such as Cisco Router Buffer Overflow Monitor.
11 Optionally, edit the description.
12 In the SMTP Server box, type the IP address or Host (DNS) name of your email server
(SMTP mail host).
13 Type the Port on which the SMTP Server is installed. The default SMTP port is 25.
14 Optionally, change the Timeout from the default of 5 seconds.
15 In the Mail To box, type the email addresses which will receive the notification. You can
enter two addresses, separated by commas (with no spaces). The address should not
contain brackets, spaces, quotation marks, or parentheses.
16 Optionally, edit the address in the Mail from box. The address appearing here appears
as the notification sender.
17 Select SMTP server requires authentication if your SMTP server uses authentication.
This enables the Username and Password options.
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