Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Traffic to monitor. Select the Flow Monitor source or interface from which to monitor
traffic.
When you select a source, traffic for all interfaces on the source is monitored. When
you select an interface, only traffic for the selected interface is monitored.
By default, the threshold is set to monitor traffic from all Flow Monitor sources.
Note: Sources sending sampled data are not displayed as a selection option in the Traffic to
monitor list because Flow Monitor cannot determine that traffic has failed on sampled data.
Hosts to monitor. Click Select to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies. By
default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.
Notification. Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. This policy
begins sending notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
If you do not see an appropriate threshold policy, or if the list is empty, click browse
(...) to open the Notification Policy dialog and configure a new policy.
Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification
policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the
out of threshold items still appears on the Alert Center Home page.
Threshold check. Enter a value for the threshold check interval, or the interval at
which the Alert Center checks the WhatsUp Gold database to see if there are items
that are out of the threshold's parameters.
Select Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold to have Alert Center
automatically resolve items when they go back inside the parameters of the
threshold.
Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for
thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as
(or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.
Avoid setting the threshold check interval to a very short time as this can degrade system
performance. In general, setting the threshold check interval to less than five minutes is
inadvisable.
6 Click OK to save the threshold settings.
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