Custom Monitoring for SNMP Devices

For Unified Infrastructure Management

Did you know you can create your own monitoring configuration with the SNMP Data Monitoring (snmpcollector) probe? If the thresholds in the default configuration do not meet your needs, you can create a monitoring configuration with different thresholds. First create a new monitoring configuration, then modify it to set the thresholds.

Important! It is strongly recommended that you create a new monitoring configuration instead of modifying a monitoring configuration that is applied to devices. If you modify a monitoring configuration that is already applied to devices, the changes are immediately applied to all monitored devices.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Monitoring Configurations >  > Create New Monitoring Configuration.
2. Enter the name for the configuration and click Submit. The configuration is empty. You must modify the configuration.
3. Select new configuration name >  > Modify Configuration.
4. In the Available column, click the metric families you want to collect data for.
5. Click Submit.
6. Click Reload to reload the SNMP Data Monitoring probe configuration.
7. Select new configuration name > metric family > Default Rule. The metrics and default thresholds for the component are displayed in the right pane.
8. In the table, select a metric. The threshold information appears below the table.
9. Update the threshold information as needed, then click Save.

Note: To return to the default thresholds for a metric, click Actions > Reset Thresholds to Defaults.

For more information, see the Probe Guide for SNMP Data Monitoring.