Building monitors

  • To create a new monitor, click the puzzle piece that represents the desired function.

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  • Proceed to fill in the desired parameters, as exemplified for UDP below. Hover over the “i” symbol for a parameter to view a tooltip explaining it. You can also click the “i” symbol to view a more detailed parameter description in this support documentation (a new copy of it will open on a new tab in your web browser).

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You can apply various filters to the Test Agent interfaces appearing above (in the Server and Clients boxes). Hiding some of these may be useful if you have a large number of Test Agents:

  • IPv4: Show IPv4 interfaces.

  • IPv6: Show IPv6 interfaces.

  • Show offline: Show interfaces of Test Agents that are offline.

  • Show management: Show management interfaces.

  • Show external IP: Show external IP addresses of interfaces (configured as described here). They will appear as separate items.

You can add further functions to monitor concurrently with the first one.

  • To add one more function, click the empty puzzle piece labeled Add Parallel and repeat the above procedure.

If monitor templates have been defined, you can build your monitor from a template instead. To this end, click the My Templates category on the left, then select the desired template.

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Note that you can also configure alarm notifications via email or SNMP traps. This is done in the top section under Add new alarm. See the page Activating alarms for a monitor for more information.

Starting a monitor

  • Now click the Start button to start the monitor. Results will appear in the Monitoring view as well as in the Dashboard view.