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Create Reports with a URL
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap Did you ever want to share Performance Reports Designer reports with people who are not logged into the Unified Management Portal (UMP)? You can do...
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CA Nimsoft Monitor Video Tutorials
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap Did you know that there are numerous video tutorials available to help you quickly enable CA Nimsoft Monitor functionality? Browse the sections of...
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Custom Fields for Alarms
For CA Nimsoft Monitor If you’d like to add information to alarms, you can use five custom text fields. The information is included in the alarm information displayed in the Unified Service Manager...
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Filter Alarms by Date
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap When viewing alarms in the Unified Service Management (USM) portlet, you can view alarms for specific dates. To do so, add a filter and then specify...
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Tree and Badge Views in USM
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap The Unified Service Manager (USM) in UMP provides several ways to view the systems in your environment. You can use the following buttons to select a...
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CA Nimsoft Monitor Community
Did you know about the CA Nimsoft Monitor Community? Visit http://forum.nimsoft.com/ to register and get started. Registering lets you take full advantage of the community, allowing you to: Post new...
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Monitoring SNMP Devices
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap. Did you know that you can monitor your Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices? SNMP is a widely-used standard protocol for managing...
View ArticleTurn Component Monitors On or Off
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap. Did you know that the snmpcollector probe allows you to turn off monitoring for some or all QoS metrics at the component level? This is a useful...
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Create an snmpcollector Probe Monitoring Configuration
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...
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Changing Data Sources in Performance Reports Designer
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap You can quickly view data for different data sources in Performance Reports Designer. Use the Source pull-down menu, shown above, to make another...
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Create a Filter for Groups
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap For static groups, create the filter and then choose which of the listed systems to include in the group. For dynamic groups, create a filter to...
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Scheduling Reports
For CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap Snap lets you schedule reports to be emailed automatically. Here’s how: In UMP, hover over Reports and select Report Scheduler. If a connection to your SMTP mail server...
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Probe Templates
For CA Nimsoft Monitor Infrastructure Manager. Many of the Nimsoft Monitor Infrastructure Manager probes contain Templates. Templates provide an easy way to consistently monitor of your environment by...
View ArticleDisplay Metrics from a Custom Probe in USM
For CA Nimsoft Monitor If you create a custom probe, there are a few things you need to do in order for metrics from that probe to appear in the Unified Service Manager (USM) portlet. In the code for...
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How to Install a Windows Robot
For CA Nimsoft Monitor Once NMS is installed, it’s easy to deploy a robot to a Windows system. Here’s how: On the target system, browse to your NMS web page...
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How to Set Up Individual Users in Unified Management Portal (UMP)
For CA Nimsoft Monitor As a Nimsoft administrator, you can create two different types of individual users in the Nimsoft Monitor solution: regular Nimsoft users and Account Contact users. You can also...
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How to Set Up Access to Unified Management Portal (UMP) Through a DMZ
For CA Nimsoft Monitor This article describes how a system administrator sets up access to UMP through a DMZ using an Apache proxy web server and Tomcat Connector. Why use a DMZ? A “demilitarized...
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Configure Dynamic Alarm Thresholds
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap. Many of the CA Nimsoft Monitor probes support Dynamic thresholds. Dynamic thresholds are configured at the QoS metric level in each probe that...
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AES Policy Files
For CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap. Support for SNMP AES-192 and AES-256 privacy protocols was added to v 1.4 of the SNMP Data monitoring (snmpcollector) probe. The options for AES-192...
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What’s New in UMP 7.5?
Redesigned Dashboard Portlet The brand-spanking-new Dashboard portlet provides usability, reliability, and performance improvements. The Dashboard portlet consolidates the functionality of three...
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