Administrator Handbook | Table of contents |
LoriotPro V4 has a new GUI interface, XP style, with advanced windowing functionalities. Icons uses XP style too.
There is a new initial network and host auto discovering method. This method relies on IP only and doesn’t need to have a seed SNMP router.
LoriotPro Event and SNMP Trap management
The event and trap manager contains many new features.
It is now possible to display for each event or trap a window with detailed
information and description.
Event and traps counter are available. You are able to know how many events of a certain type for a certain host has been receive since the last counter clear. You can have a good idea of the frequency of such or such event. This counter can be cleared individually
You can also configure threshold that are conditional display of events based on event counters. Therefore you can get rid of repeating event in your log, you are advertised only the number of time you need.
It is now possible to set actions based on event and trap counters. You can define escalation action when a certain quantity of events or traps is reached.
The 10 optional fields of a Trap can be used to set filter. These fields are frequently used in the private enterprise Traps to define the involved failed component. You will be able to precisely identify this component and trigger the required action.
In the Trap filter rules and actions, it is now possible to trigger an Event locally or to another LoriotPro. The capability of sending an event 300 for each Trap is still available but can be disable.
Active View
It is now possible tyo set conditional change of Active View objects based on event and trap counters. For example, an Active View objet representing a disk can become red when a disk failure trap is received from a system.
SNMP MIB management
The support of MIB has been enhanced and now can managed duplicated names. LoriotPro is able since its early version to managed SNMP requests on short object name. It does not need to use the numeral Object ID format neither the full name format. But using the short name of an object in the MIB tree was not possible if name were duplicated. In the new version at MIB compilation time, duplicate names are detected and replaced with a composite name. A composite name contains the MIB file name and the object name.
The MIB tree provides advanced display features. You can now display only the branch of the tree that you are using and hide all others.
The tree node can displayed the short object name, their node number and there MIB file description. It is thus very easy to locate in which MIB file a specific node is defined.
Report Center
The Report Center is a new tree that is fully customizable.
The frequently used reports and requests can be arrange in this tree and provide
you a fast and easy access to your information.
The tree can contain HTML dynamic report, SNMP table reports or script reports.
The directory organizer is the ultimate tool for arranging the structure of your directory with a very easy to use drag and drop interface. From there you will be able to move from one place to another any object or group of objects into your directory tree.
The Directory Bulk config tool allows you to setup the parameters of multiple hosts in few operations. Now the configuration of hundreds of hosts located anywhere in your directory can be change in a blick of an eyes.
Task Manager
The tasks (plug-in attached to host in the directory tree) can be displayed in a list available as a new tab in the workspace. From there you can easily filter them by status and call them.
Dynamic IP address support
Hosts that have dynamic IP addresses base on DDNS can be added
to the directory. A dedicated Service is now able to resolve the address of
these hosts given a known DNS name.
The service checks at regular interval if any change occurs in the DNS server
and updates the directory entry accordingly.
Trap Simulator (Service Plug-in)
You know that real Traps are always difficult to generate,
for example a power supply failure on a PC. The Trap Simulator service plug-in
solves this problem by allowing you to send fake Trap to any Trap receiver.
It supports either V1 trap or V2 inform. This tool is very useful for verifying
that trap filters are well defined and that the associated actions are performed.
The 10 Trap optional fields are completed by default with their MIB definition
and their value can be set individually.
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