Web Agent Form (NNMi Advanced)

Name

The type of the Web Agent. For example, VMware vSphere indicates the agent is runs on a VMware ESXi hypervisor.

The FQDN hostname of the server.

For example, in a VMware environment, the VMware ESXi server's hostname.

NNMi administrators only. Click here for more information.

Enables you to specify how NNMi determines the values of the editable Attributes within this instance of the Web Agent form.

When the node is first discovered, the Web Agent's Mode = Auto by default. NNMi discovers and monitors Nodes using the Communication Configuration settings. See Configuring Communication Protocol for more information.

Agent Enabled

Indicates whether the agent is enabled. The Web Agent is enabled when this check box is selected.

When an agent is Disabled, any data previously reported by that agent is preserved in the NNMi database. Data reported by an Enabled agent is updated as new data is received.

NNMi administrators only. Click here for more information.

To disable the Web Agent, clear the check box.

Scheme

Indicates the mode of communication between NNMi and the Web Agent. Default scheme is HTTPS.

Port

Port configuration for this Web Agent.

Default 80.

Web Agent State

Indicates whether the Web Agent is available and how NNMi is interacting with this Web agent. Possible values are:

  Normal – Indicates that the agent responds to requests requiring authentication and login.

The following values indicate NNMi could not gather the required data:

  No Polling Policy - No polling policy exists for this monitored attribute.

  Not Polled - Indicates that this attribute is intentionally not polled, based on current Monitoring Configuration settings, current Communication Configuration settings, or because the parent Node is set to Not Managed or Out of Service. This object attribute might or might not have an associated polling policy.

  Not Provided — The device does not support providing information for this monitored attribute.

  Not Responding – Indicates that the Web Agent does not respond to requests requiring authentication and login.

 Unavailable - The agent responded with a value outside the range of possible values or returned a null value.

  Unset – Currently not used by NNMi.

State is determined by the State Poller Service. The current state contributes towards the status calculation for the agent. See Web Agent Form: Status Tab (NNMi Advanced) for more information.

State Last Modified

The date and time of the most recent update of any of the values in the Web Agent State attributes (in this table).

Device on which the Web Agent resides.

User Name

The user name with which NNMi connects to the Web Agent.

Status

Status of the node.

Associated Incidents

Table view of the incidents associated with the selected Web agent. These incidents are sorted by creation time so that you can view the incidents in chronological order. Use this view to determine which incidents are still open for the selected Web Agent.

Double-click the row representing an incident. The Incident Form displays all details about the selected incident.

Overall status for the current Web Agent. NNMi follows the ISO standard for status classification. Possible values are:

  No Status

  Normal

  Disabled

  Unknown

  Warning

  Minor

  Major

   Critical

For information about how the current status was determined, see Web Agent Form: Conclusions Tab (NNMi Advanced). Status reflects the most serious outstanding conclusion.

List of the last 30 changes in the status for the Web Agent. This view is useful for obtaining a summary of the Web Agent status so that you can better determine any patterns in behavior and activity.

Double-click the row representing a Status History. The Status History form displays all details about the selected Status.

The dynamically generated list of summary statuses for the Web agent that contributed to the current overall Status of the selected Web agent. Status is set by the Causal Engine.

Each Conclusion listed is still outstanding and applies to the current overall Status.

This view is useful for obtaining a quick summary of how the Status of Web Agent in the node contributes to the current Status of the Web Agent.

The Status value is correlated based on the most critical Conclusions.

Double-click the row representing a Conclusion. The Conclusion form displays all details about the selected Conclusion.

The following table describes the possible Conclusions that might appear for an Web Agent object.

Critical Status Conclusions

Minor Status Conclusions

Warning Status Conclusions

Normal Status Conclusions

Created

Date and time the selected object instance was created. NNMi uses the locale of the client and the date and time from the NNMi management server.

This value does not change when a node is rediscovered. This is because the Node object is modified, but not created.

Last Modified

Date the selected object instance was last modified. NNMi uses the locale of the client and the date and time from the NNMi management server.

Note the following:

• When a node is rediscovered, the Last Modified time is the same as the Discovery Completed time. This is because the node’s Discovery State changes from Started to Completed.
• When a Node is initially discovered, the Last Modified time is slightly later than the Created time. This is because node discovery does not complete until after the Node is created.

ID

The Unique Object Identifier, which is unique within the NNMi database.

UUID

The Universally Unique Object Identifier, which is unique across all databases.