Network Monitoring
Network management is not a new concept. Simple management of various network nodes has been handled for quite some time through the use of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Quite often, simple or even complex systems that utilize SNMP to provide for system monitoring are in place in an organization to provide for varying degrees of system management on a network.
Operations Manager monitors network devices using SNMP. The devices are discoverable with the Discovery Wizard and the public SNMP community string. By default, the device information is gathered and up/down state is monitored. This monitoring can be extended to any available SNMP data, including the network interfaces and ports on those devices and the ...
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