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Enabling ICMP Polling of the Management Address in a NAT Environment

By default, NNMi automatically enables ICMP management address polling for all nodes, including those nodes residing in a NAT environment. If you have a NAT environment, it is highly recommended that you do not disable this setting.

To enable ICMP management address polling (if it is disabled), do the following:

  1. From the workspace navigation panel, select the Configuration workspace, expand the Monitoring folder, select Monitoring Configuration, and locate the Default Settings tab.
  2. Enable ICMP Management Address Polling. See Set Default Monitoring in the NNMi help.

View the information NNMi displays after performing Actions->Monitoring Settings for SNMP Agents. The displayed information indicates whether NNMi has the management address polling enabled.

When ICMP Management Address Polling is enabled, NNMi changes as follows:

  • The Agent ICMP State field appears in the following forms:

    • Node form
    • SNMP Agent form
    • SNMP Agent table views
  • NNMi changes the display location of the management address ICMP state. NNMi also changes the way it determines the SNMP agent status.

The following table shows the Agent ICMP and IP Address state polling actions that NNMi takes for the ICMP Management Address Polling and ICMP Fault Polling settings.

ICMP Configurations and Resulting State Polling

ICMP Management Address Polling

ICMP Fault Polling

Agent ICMP State

IP Address State

Enabled

Disabled

Polled

Not Polled

Enabled

Enabled

Polled

Polled

Disabled

Disabled

Not Polled

Not Polled

Disabled

Enabled

Not Polled

Polled

The following table shows changes to the SNMP Agent Status determined by APA for the SNMP agent and ICMP responses.

Determining SNMP Agent Status

SNMP Agent Response

Management Address ICMP Response

SNMP Agent Status

Responding

Responding

Normal

Responding

Not Responding

Minor

Not Responding

Responding

Critical

Not Responding

Not Responding

Critical

With ICMP polling of the management address enabled, APA now considers the management address ICMP response and the SNMP agent response when generating conclusions and generating incidents.