Owner's Manual

Monitoring
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
Tip: Calculated Metrics is particularly valuable if you want to monitor a
composite like ifInErrors + ifOutErrors or want to calculate a parameter
like errors per minute when you have a 5-minute monitoring interval.
Consult the sections above for more information about the other screens and their
cap
abilities.
9. Click Apply fo
r each threshold interval you configure, then Apply for the entire threshold
configuration.
10. Click Save and the monit
or is now active.
Notice that the A
vailability icon appears at the top of a Monitor Status Summary snap
panel in the Expanded Resource Monitor next to a time/date stamp of its last polling.
Right-click the monitor and select Refre
sh Monitor to manually initiate polling.
Values displayed in the Overall Availability column of
the Monitor Manager do not
automatically refresh and may be out of date. The Reference Tree snap panel maps the
monitor’s relationship to its target(s) attribute(s) and other elements. The Details snap
panel summarizes the monitor’s configuration.
11. For inf
ormation about having the monitor’s results appear in the a Dashboard portlet, see
Dashboard Views on page 115.
ICMP Monitor
The ICMP Monitor Options panel contains the following properties:
• Pack
et Size — Size of packet for ICMP transmission
• Pack
et Count —Number of packets to send.
• T
imeout — Number of seconds without a response before a timeout is issued