User`s guide

Introduction
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Monitoring capabilities and interfaces
Monitoring Digi devices includes such tasks as checking device status, viewing information on a
device’s GPIO pins, checking runtime state, viewing serial port operations, and reviewing network
statistics, and managing their connections. There are several interfaces for monitoring Digi devices
and managing their connections.
As with device configuration, there are several interfaces available for monitoring Digi devices,
including, the web interface embedded with the product, the optional Java applet, SNMP,
command-line interface, and the iDigi Platform. These interfaces are covered in more detail in
Chapter 4, "Monitor and manage Digi devices"
The iDigi Platform
In the iDigi Platform, monitoring capabilities can be sorted by the server and the devices managed
by the server. The information is available in logs and can be generated into reports. When
available, the reports post linked totals that can be drilled back to the original devices that make up
the activity of the report.
Web
and Java Applet interfaces
The web interfaceand the optional Java applet interface have several screens for monitoring Digi
devices:
 Network Status
 Serial Port Management: for each port, the port’s description, current profile, and
current serial configuration.
 Connections Management: A display of all active system connections.
 System Information: general device information; current GPIO pin states; serial port
information for each port, including the port’s description, current profile, and current
serial configuration (the same information displayed by choosing Serial Port
Management); and network statistics.
Command-line interface
Several commands can be issued from the command line to monitor devices. For a review of these
commands and what they can provide from a device-monitoring perspective, see "Monitoring
capabilities from the command line" on page 146.
SNMP
Monitoring capabilities of SNMP include managing network performance, gathering device
statistics, and finding and solving network problems. For more information on using SNMP for
device-monitoring purposes, see "Monitoring Capabilities from SNMP" on page 149.