Users Guide
About the NetMonitor Agent 85
Agent Properties
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To use the Quick Check utility, select the True option.
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In the Quick Check Time box, enter the number of seconds that should elapse between quick
checks. For example, enter 30 to check the system every 30 seconds.
Note If the Quick Check time interval is greater than the sample frequency, the NetMonitor agent will go
into a broken state.
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Click Save.
Database
To control the growth of the vFoglight database, you can purge data from tables in the vFoglight
database. The Database property in the NetMonitor pane allows you to set purge days by each table
associated with a Purge Days list.
To set up purging parameters:
1
From the NetMonitor Agent PurgeDays list, select the frequency list that you want to use to
control the NetMonitor table purge. The default is
NetMonitor_PurgeDays_list.
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Click Save.
Host List
A Host Device list contains the devices the agent will monitor. Once you create a device list, the
vFoglight Management Server stores it and makes it available to all the networks on your system.
You can then edit the list or delete entries from it.
Use the Host List in the NetMonitor pane to create a network device list or to monitor vFoglight
hosts.
To set the device list parameters:
1
From the Network Device List, use the default list, MonitoredDeviceList, or enter a name for
the list in the Network Device List drop-down and click Edit.
2
Select a device list to edit and then click Add New Row.
3
Specify the following information in the Device List dialog box:
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Enter a name in the Server Group box or click Select to choose from values previously
entered. The NetMonitor agent works best when you parcel network devices into groups of
servers. This way you can identify latency problems, questionable response times, and
efficiently report service level statistics.