SNMP PSMRoot Documentation For BMC PATROL For Light Weight Protocols 21

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FieldDescriptionNetwork devices

Network device details

Device name/IPEnter the alias name, host name or IP address of the network device you want to monitor.

If you have provided alias name as the device name, then you must configure the device IP address by providing the IP address in the Forced IP Address field.

Forced IP Address(Optional) Enter the IP address of the network device you want to monitor.

You can leave this field blank if you have provided the actual host nameor IP address in the Device name/IP field.

CategoryEnter a category name to group network devices. The default category is “Network”.

PortEnter the port number of the SNMP agent.

The default port number is 161.

Timeout (sec)Enter the timeout in seconds to wait for each reply of SNMP queries. The default value is 2 seconds. The minimum value is 1 second and the maximum value is 300 seconds.Community stringEnter the community string to allow access to the network device.

SNMP Community strings are used only by devices which support SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocol. SNMPv3 uses the user name and password authentication, along with an encryption key.

VersionSelect one of the following SNMP version, which is supported by the network device:

V3 settings

Authorization user credentials

If you have selected SNMP version 3, provide the following details:User NameEnter the user name to configure the SNMP.PasswordEnter a password.Confirm PasswordRe-enter the password to confirm.Authorization protocolSelect one of the following authentication protocol to authenticate the user:

Privacy protocolSelect one of the following privacy protocol:

The privacy allows for encryption of SNMP v3 messages to ensure confidentiality of data. These protocols provide a higher level of security than is available in SNMP v1 and v2c, which use community strings for security.

Privacy passowordEnter a password to access the SNMP agent.Select monitoring

Agent avaialabilityEnable this monitoring option to check the availability of the SNMP agent.Interface MIBEnable this monitoring option to monitor interfaces on SNMP-enabled devices.Cisco local interfacesEnable this monitoring option to provide more provide more detailed information about the network traffic on a Cisco device. It is based on OLD-CISCOINTERFACES-MIB. The monitor can be created on Cisco devices running pre 10.2 IOS version. Cisco local interface monitor is an extension of interface MIB

Router CPU/MEMEnable this monitoring option to monitor the CPU utilization and memory usage of the routerF5 BIG-IPEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance parameters of BIG/IP hardware. This monitor can run on any platform and collect data from a device remotely.Host MIBEnable this monitoring option to monitor the devices. The Host MIB monitor is based on the standard SNMP MIB (RFC-2790) where various hosts or devices are monitored.TCPEnable this monitoring option to monitor tracks and records of the network-related TCP performance parameters. This monitor tracks socket-related data and helps to point TCP-related problems.RMONEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance parameters of the router.OpenVMSEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance of OpenVMS system.Monitor names

Monitor namesEnter the monitor names separated by a comma which you have configured using Custom monitor monitor type configuration.

Add To List

Click this option for confirming the configuration information that you provided for network devices.Modify Selection

Select one of the items that you added to the list in the preceding step, and click this option to modify details that you provided for network devices.

Remove from List

Select the items added earlier and click this option to delete that item from the list of configured objects and to clear the details provided in the earlier fields for network devices.

Filters

Apply shared filtersEnable this monitoring option to apply filters on shared configurations.Filters

Monitor type nameSpecify the name of the monitor type that you want to filter. Monitor type can be a name of the object type as defined in the custom monitors.Instance namesSpecify the names of the instances that you want to filter. A semicolon should be used as a separator to exclude more than one instance name.Regular expressionSpecify the names of the instances that you want to filter by a regular expression. A semicolon should be used as a separator to exclude more than one regular expression.Network segments

Network segment details

IP address rangeEnter the IP address range in the following format:IPAddress-Range.

For example, if you enter the IP address range as 10.64.109.1-10, all IP addresses in the range between 10.64.109.1 to 10.64.109.10 are configured.

CategoryEnter a group name for all IP addresses in the range. If you leave this field blank, the group name will be taken as the IP address range.Exclude IP addressesEnter comma-separated IP addresses to be excluded from the range.

For example, if you enter the IP address range is 10.64.109.1-10 and you want to exclude IP addresses:10.64.109.6, 10.64.109.7, and 10.64.109.8, use one of the following options:

* 10.64.109.6,10.64.109.7,10.64.109.8
* 6,7,8
* 6-8
* 10.64.109.6-10.64.109.8

PortEnter the port number of the SNMP agent.

The default port number is 161.

SNMP Community strings are used only by devices which support SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocol. SNMPv3 uses the user name and password authentication, along with an encryption key.

VersionSelect one of the following SNMP version:

V3 settings
If you have selected SNMP version 3, provide the following details:User NameEnter the user name to configure the SNMP.PasswordEnter a password.Confirm PasswordRe-enter the password to confirm.Authorization protocolSelect one of the following authorization protocol to authenticate the user:

Privacy protocolSelect one of the following privacy protocol:

Privacy passowordEnter a password to access the SNMP agent.Select monitoring
Agent avaialabilityEnable this monitoring option to check the availability of the SNMP agent.Interface MIBEnable this monitoring option to monitor interfaces on SNMP-enabled devices.Cisco local interfacesEnable this monitoring option to provide more provide more detailed information about the network traffic on a Cisco device. It is based on OLD-CISCOINTERFACES-MIB. The monitor can be created on Cisco devices running pre 10.2 IOS version. Cisco local interface monitor is an extension of interface MIB

Cisco routerEnable this monitoring option to monitor the CPU utilization and memory usage of the router

F5 BIG-IPEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance parameters of BIG/IP hardware. This monitor can run on any platform and collect data from a device remotely.Host MIBEnable this monitoring option to monitor the devices. The Host MIB monitor is based on the standard SNMP MIB (RFC-2790) where various hosts or devices are monitored.TCPEnable this monitoring option to monitor tracks and records of the network-related TCP performance parameters. This monitor tracks socket-related data and helps to point TCP-related problems.RMONEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance parameters of the router.OpenVMSEnable this monitoring option to monitor and record the performance of OpenVMS system.Monitor names

Monitor namesEnter the monitor names separated by a comma which you have configured using Custom monitor monitor type configuration.Add To List

Click this option for confirming the configuration information that you provided for network segments.Modify Selection

Select one of the items that you added to the list in the preceding step, and click this option to modify details that you provided for network segments.

Remove from List

Select the items added earlier and click this option to delete that item from the list of configured objects and to clear the details provided in the earlier fields for network segments.

Filters

Apply shared filtersEnable this monitoring option to apply filters on shared configurations.Filters

Import devices from filesEnable this option to configure devices to be monitored automatically from files. The devices to be monitored automatically place the files at %PATROL_HOME%\PSM\Conf\ImportDevices\directory. You can have multiple files for configuring devices and must specify an appropriate name to the files. The devices are grouped under these file names. By default, this option is disabled.

If you have multiple PATROL Agents with different port numbers running on the same computer and each PATROL Agent wants to load a different file, then you can create subdirectories under the file location with the port number.

File locationSpecify the location to load the configured files based configuration or leave it blank to use the default location under%PATROL_HOME%\PSM\Conf\ImportDevices input value must not contain any character from the set ‘*?>Shared configuration

The shared configuration settings enable you to set pre-defined values for the configuration fields to monitor a device and network segment. It also enables you to set pre-defined values for the configuration fields for file-based configuration. You can set up default configuration for the following configuration fields.Port

Enter the port number of the SNMP agent.

The default port number is 161.

Poll interval (sec)Select the polling interval time in seconds. The default value is 300 seconds. The minimum value is 10 seconds and the maximum value is 3600 seconds.Retries countSelect the number of retries count for SNMP queries. The default value is 2. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 4.Timeout (sec)Select the timeout in seconds for SNMP queries. The minimum value is 1 seconds and the maximum value is 300 seconds.Community stringEnter the community string to allow access to the network device.VersionSelect one of the following SNMP version:

Privacy protocolSelect one of the following privacy protocol:

Privacy passowordEnter a password to access the SNMP agent.Filters

Root display nameEnter a display name for the monitor type in order to display a meaningful location name for the target agent. The target agent monitors the configured destination devices. The default root display name is Network Devices(SNMP).Device mappingSelect any of the following monitoring mode:

* Enabled: FQDN—Monitor instance will be displayed as a device in the Operations Console. The device name displayed will be the actual fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the monitored system. Example If you are monitoring a network device whose FQDN is “myServer.bmc.com” and you have provided the alias name as ” Test” in the Device name/IP field. By selecting the Enabled: FQDN option, the device name in the Operations Console will be the FQDN of the network device, which in this example is myServer.bmc.com.

* Enabled: User defined—Monitor instance will be displayed as a device in the Operations Console. The device name displayed will be the alias name that you have provided for the monitored system. Example If you are monitoring a network device whose FQDN is “myServer.bmc.com” and you have provided the alias name as ” Test” in the Device name/IP field. By selecting the Enabled: User defined option, the device name in the Operations Console will be the alias name of the network device, which in this example is Test.

* Disabled—Monitors instance will be displayed as a device of the PATROL Agent.

Enable loggingSelect this option to enable logging. The log files are created at%PATROL_HOME%\PSM\logs. By default, this option is disabled.Enable playbackEnable this option to simulate monitoring of a non-real network device with all BMC native monitors. After enabling, the non-real network device, MyDevice_DEMO, will be created within the DEMO category.

This feature provides you to explore all the monitor types that can be configured on network devices.

Java home pathEnter the Java Home directory.

Example;

* (UNIX): /usr/local/java6
* (WINDOWS): C:\Program Files\Java\jre6

Environment variable, Java home or PATROL Agent JRE will be used by leaving this field empty

Add

Click this option to add this monitoring configuration. This information is displayed on the Monitor Configuration.

After you click this option, you can continue to add more objects for monitoring.

Reset

Click this option to clear your configuration details and revert to the default settings.

Click this option to exit without saving any changes.