6 Settings

In this chapter the menu items under Settings menu are introduced, except for the user, server and template settings.

6.1          Object hierarchy.. 81

6.1.1      Non-virtual objects 81

6.1.2      Virtual objects 82

6.1.3      Separator texts 83

6.2          Site and equipment configuration... 83

6.2.1      Sites 84

6.2.2      Virtual sites 86

6.2.3      Equipments 88

6.2.4      Virtual equipment 106

6.2.5      Linked equipment 107

6.2.6      Public and private charts 108

6.3          SNMP discovery.. 116

6.4          Thresholds. 117

6.4.1      Types 118

6.4.2      Threshold traps 120

6.4.3      Threshold custom e-mail 122

6.4.4      Threshold configuration. 126

6.4.5      Creating thresholds from templates 135

6.4.6      Maintenance windows 139

6.4.7      Unknown level threshold wait 139

6.4.8      Mobile notification groups 140

6.4.9      Threshold custom commands 140

6.5          Bulk configurations. 143

6.5.1      Template based creation of multiple equipment 143

6.5.2      Bulk measurement discovery. 147

6.5.3      Bulk equipment update 151

6.5.4      Bulk deletion. 153

6.5.5      Search for unsuccessful measurements 156

6.5.6      Unsuccessful measurements report 158

6.5.7      Bulk activation or deletion. 158

6.5.8      Nagios config parser 159

6.5.9      Bulk relationship creation. 161

6.5.10         Bulk relationship deletion. 161

6.5.11         Bulk threshold update 162

6.6          Receiving SNMP Trap and Syslog... 163

6.6.1      Event definitions 163

6.6.2      Event configuration. 166

6.7          Scheduled configurations. 167

6.8          Report configuration... 168

6.8.1      Report variables 169

6.8.2      Report activation. 173

6.8.3      Report export and import 173

6.8.4      Creating report from on-demand report 174

6.8.5      Report views 176

6.8.6      Scheduled reports 184

6.8.7      Scheduled equipment send. 186

6.8.8      Report recalculation. 187

6.8.9      Scheduled alarm report 188

6.9          Customization... 188

6.9.1      Creating public / private menu items 188

6.9.2      Creating external links 189

6.9.3      User defined attributes 190

6.9.4      User defined relationships 193

6.9.5      Alarm sounds 194

6.10       Audit trail.. 194

6.11       Searching... 196

6.12       Windows AD synchronization... 198

6.13       Wizards. 199

6.13.1         Create a new site 200

6.13.2         Create a new equipment 200

6.13.3         Equipment parameter modification. 200

6.13.4         Equipment maintenance window.. 201

6.13.5         Create new measurements 201

6.13.6         Create new thresholds 202

6.13.7         Change threshold values 203