Monitor types and attributes


The PATROL for Light Weight Protocols contains native monitor types that are segregated based on the components.

 

Terminology note

Monitor types in the TrueSight console and Central Monitoring Administration are known as application classes in the PATROL Consoles. Attributes in Central Monitoring Administration are known as parameters in the PATROL consoles. You can access Central Monitoring Administration from the TrueSight console or ProactiveNet.

SNMP

 

This topic gives information about native monitor types and its attributes that are available in BMC PATROL for Light Weight Protocols version 2.1.00 for monitoring network devices such as Switches, Routers, Load Balancers, Servers and so on based on SNMP data collection. The following are the available native monitors:

 

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ICMP

 

This topic gives information about native monitor types and its attributes that are available in BMC PATROL for Light Weight Protocols version 2.1.00 to ping network devices based on ICMP. Ping Monitor is used to ping a system using either its IP address or its DNS name (resolved to an IP address at every poll) and get the system's availability and response time. It uses ICMP protocol and sends an ECHO_REQUEST, and receives an ECHO_REPLY. The following are the available native monitors:

 

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