Device Active Monitor States (Remote)
Device Active Monitor States (Remote) report reveals current and historical active monitor down time for selected devices.
(Report Options). Jump to a detailed dashboard or control panel for either:- . IP address or device name that indicates where monitor is applied.
- . (Monitor state color indicator) Active monitor name as it appears in the Active Monitor Library.
Generate a report
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Choose a remote WhatsUp Gold environment where active monitors are enabled.
Select WhatsUp Gold environment
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Purpose
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Select environment. ![WUG_ENV](43843.png)
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Choose an observation point from the list of configured WhatsUp Gold environments.
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. Filter by active monitors in use and defined in the Monitor Library.
Active monitors typically check for network and device performance, security, and faults by:
- Simulating user activity.
- Actively connecting to or querying device management objects.
Deploying Active Monitors is critical for cases when troubleshooting faulty network traffic or behavior caused by a single device. An obvious Active Monitor example is the FTP monitor, which simulates user activity on a target FTP server.
. Filter by observed monitor state.
This active monitor state
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Is measured as
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Up
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Fraction of uptime for the current date range.
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Down
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Fraction of downtime for the current date range.
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Unknown
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Fraction of time that no data was collected. For example, before monitoring began or during monitor off times not considered maintenance.
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Maintenance
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Fraction of time that device was placed into maintenance mode. When production servers are taken offline for diagnostics or performance testing, for example.
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Choose and hide columns, reorder columns, and customize your data view.
Filter and pick by column
Click a report heading (
) and use the "column picker" (
) from the drop down list.
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Purpose
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Columns. ![](41690.png)
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Click a check box to display the column. Clear the check box to hide it.
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Move Column.
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Click on a column heading and drag it to reorder your table's columns.
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Edit report name and show top n table rows using the Report Settings
dialog.
Specify top n:
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Purpose
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Show Top n Items
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Limit items to the samples with the highest values.
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: This report only returns Device Active Monitor States (Remote) metrics for devices that already have the appropriate WMI or SNMP credentials. For more information, see Using Credentials.
Share, export, and save as PDF
Most generated Device Active Monitor States (Remote) report data can be printed, shared, and exported when selecting (
) from the Dashboard Options (
) menu. After the report has been expanded, select export (
) to access the following options: