SNMP (Active)

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) monitor gathers information about the functions of an SNMP-enabled network devices by querying it to verify it returns an expected value. Depending on the specific configuration, the monitor can be considered either Up or Down depending upon the returned value.

Tip: While SNMP Active monitors are used to determine Up state, SNMP Performance monitors in WhatsUp Gold are used to gather historic performance, accounting, fault, and security metrics data useful for reports.

Provide a unique name and description for the monitor, then configure the following:

Click Advanced to set the SNMP timeout and number of retries as well as enable Use in Rescan if desired.

See Also

Active Monitors

Active Script (Active)

APC UPS (Active)

Cloud Resource Monitor

Degraded Array

DNS

Email

Exchange 2003

Exchange

Fan

File Content

File Properties

Folder

FTP

HTTP Content

JMX (Active)

Network Statistics

NT Service

Ping Interarrival Jitter

Ping

Power Supply

PowerShell

Printer

Process

SMI-S

SNMP Extended

SQL Query (Active)

SQL Server 2000

SSH (Active)

SSL Certificate

TCPIP

Telnet

Temperature

VoIP

WAP Radio

WMI Formatted

WMI

Set Polling Properties

Apply Action to Monitor

Using Action Policies

Implicit Action Policy