About the Passive Monitor Library
The Passive Monitor Library stores all passive monitor types that have been created for WhatsUp Gold. The library includes a variety of pre-configured SNMP passive monitors, as well as a generic "Any" passive monitor for SNMP, Syslog, and Windows Event Log types. The Any passive monitor listens and receives all traps and events that occur on the device to which it is assigned. For more information, see Using the Any passive monitor.
Though you can create three types of passive monitors, SNMP passive monitors are the type most widely used.
SNMP Trap passive monitors in the library
The SNMP Trap monitors listed in the Passive Monitor Library are based on one of three things:
- . By default, the passive monitor database comes with a few of the most Common SNMP traps already in it.
- . Use the Trap Definition Import Tool to create SNMP Traps from MIB files stored in the \
Program Files\Ipswitch\WhatsUp\Data\Mibs folder. - This can be done either by copying and pasting actual trap information directly from your existing logs, or by browsing the MIB for OID values that you are interested in, and adding the and information if required.
To access and use the Passive Monitor Library:
Go to the Passive Monitor Library.
- From the web interface, click . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Select .
- - or -
From the main menu bar of the console, select .
Use the Passive Monitor Library dialog to configure new or existing passive monitor types:
- Click to create a new passive monitor type.
- Select a monitor type in the list, then click to change the settings.
- Select a monitor type in the list, then click to create a new monitor type based on the selected type.
- Select a monitor type, then click to remove it from the list.
- : From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, you can click to view the Alert Center Threshold Library.