Owner's Manual

Monitoring
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
General
The General panel is common to all different monitor types.
• Name — The identifier for this monitor.
• Desc
ription — A text description for this monitor.
• Pollin
g Interval — Use these fields to configure how often the monitor polls its target(s).
• Reten
tion Policy — This configures how long NMS200 retains the monitor’s data.
• Enab
led — Check to enable.
• Emit A
vailability Events — Check to activate emitting availability events.
• Ret
ain Availability Data — Check to activate. You must Retain availability data to enable
alarms. If you define thresholds, you should retain availability data. Retain availability
data stores the Boolean values of whether availability data was in the range your defined
metrics.
• Ret
ain Polled Data — Check to activate. If you uncheck Retain polled data only
calculated data remains, you cannot view data retrieved from monitored entities. Turning
off Retain polled data discards the data as it arrives from the device.
• Ret
ain Calculated Data — Check to activate. Retain calculated data complements Retain
polled data. If checked, it stores the calculated results which came from the raw poll data
received from the device.
• Up
date Network Status — Check to activate a check of the monitored device’s network
status.
• #
of Unreachable Attempts before update — The number of attempts to reach the
device before NMS200 updates the displayed network status of the device. (1-100)
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