Custom Performance Management
While NNM is normally configured to collect SNMP historical performance data, you often need to collect other performance data in an ad-hoc fashion. Often you need to monitor a specific MIB variable for one device for a few hours. The obvious tool is the MIB browser GUI. Select the device icon in the ovw map window, bring up the MIB browser from the Tools:SNMP MIB Browser menu, navigate to the MIB variable of interest, and press the Graph button. The standard xnmgraph GUI appears with a 10 second real-time polling of the variable. The polling interval can be adjusted down to an aggressive one-second interval if necessary. You can select the pull-down menu File:Configure in Data Collector to easily set it up. Since ...
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