Bulk Field Change - Performance Monitor

For each of the default performance monitors you want to configure for the selected devices, select a value for Collect data for and specify how often (in minutes) you want to collect data in the Data collection interval (mins) field.

There are different options to Collect data for for each default performance monitor. The following performance monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, and Ping) offer the following options:

• (No Change). Select this option to retain the current settings for a performance monitor.
• (All). Select this option to change all instances of the monitor on the selected devices.
• (Default) (available for Ping monitors only). Select this option to set the performance monitor to collect data from the interface designated as the default interface in the device properties.
• (None). Select this option to remove a performance monitor from the selected devices.

The following monitors have additional options available:

• Interface
  • (No Change). Select this option to retain the current settings for a performance monitor.
  • (All). Select this option to change all instances of the monitor on the selected devices.
  • (Active). Select this option to set the performance monitor to collect data from interfaces that are up at the exact time of the poll.
  • (Custom Active). Select this option to set the performance monitor to collect data from the interfaces that are configured as custom active interfaces in each performance monitor.
    • High speed interfaces (Gigabit or faster). Select this option to collect data from all custom active high speed interfaces. This is the default selection.
    • Name contains. Select this option to collect data from all custom active interfaces that contain the variable you enter. For example, if your network naming scheme includes a subgroup named "customer," you would enter customer in the box to gather data from all interfaces for the subgroup that contain customer in the interface name.
    • Type is. Select this option and choose the interface type to collect data from all custom active interfaces of that type.
  • (None). Select this option to remove a performance monitor from the selected device interface.
• Errors and discards data collection for enabled interfaces. Select this option to collect device interface data on devices that have the Interface Utilization option selected:
  • ifInErrors. Lists the number of inbound packets with errors, on the selected interface, that prevent the packets from being delivered to a higher-layer protocol. The associated OID is 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14.
  • ifOutErrors. Lists the number of outbound packets with errors, on the selected interface, that prevent the packets from being delivered to a higher-layer protocol. The associated OID is 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.20.
  • ifInDiscards. List the number of inbound packets, on the selected interface, that were discarded though no errors were detected to prevent their transmission. One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space. The associated OID is 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13.
  • ifOutDiscards. List the number of outbound packets, on the selected interface, that were discarded though no errors were detected to prevent their transmission. One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space. The associated OID is 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.19.

  Note: All of the above OIDs point to values of type "counter," and therefore their raw value by itself is not meaningful. The difference between the values obtained from two consecutive polls provides meaningful data.

  Important: The Interface Utilization option must be enabled for each device for which you want to Enable errors and discards data collection through a bulk field change. You can select the Interface Utilization option in the Device Properties > Performance Monitors properties dialog for each device. For more information, see Configure Interface Data Collection.

  • (No Change). Select this option to retain the current performance monitor settings for device interface utilization.
  • (Yes). Select this option to enable errors and discards data collection on the selected interface.
  • (No). Select this option to disable errors and discards data collection on the selected interface.

Custom Performance Monitors

On the WhatsUp Gold web interface, you can also modify custom performance monitors that you add to the Performance Monitor Library using Bulk Field Change.

For each custom performance monitor listed, select a value for Collect data for and specify how often (in minutes) you want to collect data in the Data collection interval (mins) field.

Note: Only global custom performance monitors can be modified with Bulk Field Change. Custom performance monitors created directly on a device (and, therefore, not included in the Performance Monitor Library), cannot be modified by Bulk Field Change.