For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap.
After running discovery, you are ready to configure monitoring. Monitoring is applied to a device by applying a monitoring configuration.
- For Snap users, the Default configuration is automatically applied to your SNMP devices and the appropriate data is collected from each device.
- For Admin Console users, you must apply a monitoring configuration to your devices.
If the default snmpcollector probe configuration does not meet your needs (Snap and Admin Console), you can refine monitoring so that different devices or components have different thresholds. The following table describes the ways you can customize monitoring by the <nmprobe> probe.
| Scenario | Action |
| You always want default thresholds that are different than the preconfigured defaults. These custom thresholds are applied to all devices that have the default configuration applied to them. | Modify the thresholds in the default configuration. |
| You want to tailor the default thresholds for specific components of a device.For example, you have a device with ethernet, vlan, gigabit, fiber channel, and control plane interfaces, and you want different thresholds for each type of interface. Or, perhaps you want different thresholds for devices in your testing environment and your production environment. | Add rules to the monitoring configuration that is applied to the device.This could be the default configuration or a monitoring configuration you created and applied to the device. |
| You want custom thresholds to apply to some, but not all, devices. These thresholds are not part of the default configuration. | Create a new monitoring configuration. |
| You want to apply custom thresholds to a specific device. These thresholds will override thresholds in the monitoring configuration applied to the device. | Create a custom monitor. |
For more information about advanced configurations of the snmpcollector probe, see the Probe Guide for SNMP data monitoring.