Creating device-specific SSH performance monitors
The Secure Shell (SSH) performance monitor allows you to securely access Unix-like devices and plot the performance output on a graph.
To create a device-specific SSH performance monitor:
- From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, right-click a device, then click . The Device Properties dialog appears.
- Click . The Performance Monitors information appears.
- Click . The Select Performance Monitor Type dialog appears.
- Select , then click . The New SSH Performance Monitor dialog appears.
- Enter the appropriate information:
: If you create a script to run on the remote device, the script must be developed, tested and/or debugged on the remote machine. WhatsUp Gold does not support manipulation of the remote script.
- . Select the credential that WhatsUp Gold will use to connect to the remote device. If you select , WhatsUp Gold uses the SSH credential assigned to the device to which the monitor is assigned. If the appropriate SSH credential is not listed, or the device has no SSH credentials assigned, browse () to the WhatsUp Gold Credentials Library to configure a set of credentials.
- . Enter the collection interval (in minutes) you want data to be collected. This number represents the number of minutes between each collection.
- Click to save changes.