Quick Reference Guide

24 Quick Start
ICMP Monitor
The default ICMP Monitor reports on ping response times for all devices.
Figure 1:9. Default ICMP Monitor
The default sends three 64 byte packets every second to the All Devices group.
Custom Monitor
To set up a custom performance monitor, follow these steps:
1. Creating a Custom Monitor
2. Show Performance
3. Install a Monitor in the View
Creating a Custom Monitor
1. Open the Active Monitoring -> Monitor manager, and create a new monitor with action ->
New
.
2. Select the type of monitor in the next screen. For this example, we create an SNMP Interfaces:
Performance Monitor - All
monitor. Consult the online help for more specific instructions about
other types of monitors. This type comes with the application, and can be modified.
3. In the General screen, enter a name (here “TestMonitor”), check Enabled , enter a polling
interval (here 1 minute, the default). For this example, check
Retain polled data and accept the
remaining defaults for checkboxes and the retention policy.
You can accept the default
SNMP Attributes , or alter them to include fewer or more attributes
(click
Add or Remove next to the attributes). For the sake of this example, we accept the default
list of attributes to monitor.