SysOrb Network Monitoring System User's Guide

For version 4.6.0

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Table of Contents

Abstract

1. System Overview

1.1. SysOrb Components

1.2. Users, Groups and Paths

1.3. Alert concepts

1.3.1. Alert acknowledgement

1.4. Domains

2. Getting started

2.1. First Login and default password

2.2. Changing default password

2.3. Auto-discovering Nodes

2.4. Interpreting SysOrb graphs

2.4.1. Continuous graphs
2.4.2. Enumeration graphs
2.4.3. Uptime graphs

3. User management

3.1. Domains

3.1.1. Adding domains
3.1.2. Editing domains
3.1.3. Deleting domains
3.1.4. Domain representation
3.1.5. Quick links

3.2. Users

3.2.1. Adding users
3.2.2. Editing users
3.2.3. Deleting users

3.3. Preferences

3.4. Paths

3.4.1. Adding paths to a user
3.4.2. Testing paths
3.4.3. Editing paths
3.4.4. Deleting paths
3.4.5. Using Numerical Pagers

3.5. Groups

3.5.1. Adding groups
3.5.2. Editing groups
3.5.3. Deleting groups

4. Host/Node Management

4.1. Monitoring a New Node

4.2. Reconfiguring a Node

4.3. Deleting a Node

4.4. Setting Up Checks

4.4.1. NetChecks
4.4.2. AgentChecks
4.4.3. snmpChecks
4.4.4. ESXi checks
4.4.5. Cumulative checks

4.5. Dependencies

4.5.1. Implicit dependencies
4.5.2. Explicit dependencies
4.5.3. Simple dependency setup
4.5.4. NodeClass dependencies

4.6. NodeClasses

4.6.1. Sub-classes (inheritance)
4.6.2. Associating NodeClasses to a Node
4.6.3. Creating / Editing NodeClasses
4.6.4. Check templates
4.6.5. Detection rules
4.6.6. Distributing standard NodeClasses

4.7. NodeViews

4.8. MultiCheck graphs

4.9. Moving Nodes between Domains

5. Auto-discovering nodes on network

6. Report generation

6.1. Creating a report template

6.1.1. Step 1: report type
6.1.2. Step 2: Node selection
6.1.3. Step 3: NodeClass selection
6.1.4. Step 4: Check selection
6.1.5. Finalization

6.2. Generating the report from the template

6.3. Reading the generated reports

7. Views

7.1. Adding a new view
7.2. Edit a view
7.3. Reconfiguring layout of a view.
7.4. Use a view
7.5. Views and domains

8. External tools

8.1. Avoiding security warnings

9. Forecasts

9.1. Understanding forecasting
9.2. How the forecaster works
9.3. Configuring a forecast

10. Special purpose Web-interface features

10.1. Automatic webinterface login
10.2. Removing naviation buttons and top bar
10.3. Making the SysOrb overview available to other programs

List of Examples
10-1. Link to a status page
10-2. Link to a status page with automatic login

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