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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Successful passive monitors
Creating a successful passive monitor requires that you take several steps:
Important: Before you attempt to create a passive monitor, you should know the specific
traps (and coinciding MIBs) for which you want WhatsUp Gold to listen —this makes the
process much easier.
1 Turn on traps on the device from which you want to receive logs, entries, and/or alerts.
2 Point the traps on that device to the WhatsUp Gold machine.
3 Enable the WhatsUp Gold Passive Monitor Listeners (on page 235).
4 Create a passive monitor for each of the traps for which you want WhatsUp Gold to
listen.
5 Assign the passive monitor to the device on which you want to listen for traps.
Additionally, after you create a passive monitor, you can configure alerts to notify you when a
particular trap is received.
Passive Monitor Icon
Passive Monitors Icon
When a passive monitor is configured on a device, the device icon displays a
diamond shape on the upper left side.
This shape changes color when an unacknowledged state change occurs on
the monitor. After the device has been acknowledged, the icon returns to
the above appearance.
Using the Passive Monitor Library
The Passive Monitor Library stores all passive monitor types that have been created for
WhatsUp Gold. The library includes a variety of pre-configured SNMP passive monitors, as
well as a generic "Any" passive monitor for SNMP, Syslog, and Windows Event Log types. The
Any passive monitor listens and receives all traps and events that occur on the device to
which it is assigned.
Though you can create three types of passive monitors, SNMP passive monitors are the type
most widely used.
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