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3. In the Add Monitor screen, type in the name of your monitor (it
must be different from the monitor template name), and select the
monitor template you want to use.
4. Click the Next button and you are guided through the configuration
of your monitor.
5. When you have finished configuring the monitor, click Done.
To configure a monitor from the command line
Use the bigpipe monitor command to configure the monitor at the
command line. If you are defining the monitor with all attributes set to their
default values, type:
b monitor <name> ’{ use <template_name> }’
If you want to set one or more attributes to a new value, specify only those
attributes and their values. For example, to create a tcp_echo monitor
my_tcp_echo in bigpipe using the default values for the attributes interval,
timeout, and dest, you would type:
b monitor my_tcp ’{ use tcp_echo }’
If you are changing any of the default values, you need to specify only these
changes. For example:
b monitor my_tcp-echo ’{ use tcp_echo interval 10 timeout 20 }’
If you are using an optional attribute, such as transparent, add it to the list:
b monitor my_tcp-echo ’{ use tcp_echo interval 10 timeout 20 transparent dest
198.192.112.13:22}’
Note
If you are configuring an snmp_dca or snmp_dca_base monitor, see also
Configuring SNMP servers, on page 4-16.
Monitor attributes
Table 4.26 provides a summary of the monitor attributes and their
definitions. For more information on the monitor templates and attributes,
refer to Selecting the monitor template, on page 4-139.
Attribute Definition
interval <seconds> Ping frequency time interval in seconds.
timeout <seconds> Ping timeout in seconds.
dest <node_addr> Ping destination node. <node_address> Usually *:* for simple monitors, *:* for all
others, causing the monitor instance to ping the address or address:port for which it is
instantiated. Specifying address and/or port forces the destination to that address/port.
Table 4.26 Monitor attributes