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Network Node Manager i Software10.30

Use > Access Device Details > Custom Node Collections Form

Custom Node Collections Form

[This is the Context-Sensitive Help topic for the Custom Poller Node form.]

The Custom Node Collections form provides details about the Custom Node Collection you selected from the Monitoring workspace. A Custom Node Collection identifies a topology node that has at least one associated Custom Poller Policy. Because a topology node can be associated with more than one Policy, the same topology node might appear in multiple Custom Node Collections. This topic includes the following sections:

Incidents Tab
Status Tab
Conclusions Tab
Polled Instances Tab

The following table describes the attributes included on the Custom Node Collection form.

For information about each tab: See Also

Basic Attributes
Attribute	Description
Node	Name of the topology node from which the Custom Poller Policy information is being collected. This is the current value in the NNMi database for the Name attribute of the node. The value could be a DNS name, a MIB-II sysName, or an address (depending on how your NNMi administrator configured the discovery process). Click the Lookup icon and select Show Analysis or Open to display more information about the node.
Active State	The Active State for the associated Custom Collect Policy. Possible values are described below: Active - Indicates the Custom Poller Policy is in use. At the time the Active State attribute is set to Active, NNMi applies the Custom Poller Policy to the nodes in the specified Node Group to determine which instances should be polled. Inactive - Indicates the Custom Poller Policy is not in use. NNMi removes all Polled Instances associated with the Policy. Suspended - Indicates someone on your team changed this Custom Poller Policy's Active State to `Suspended`, or the NNMi administrator disabled Custom Poller in the Global Control settings of Configuration workspace, Custom Poller Configuration form. NNMi suspends polling and retains the most recent State value from before the Policy was suspended.
Status	The most severe State value returned from the Custom Poller Polled Instances for this Custom Node Collection. Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical
Policy	A Policy specifies the Node Group and Polling Interval that NNMi should use when polling the results of the MIB Expression configured for the current Custom Poller Collection. If the NNMi Security configuration permits, click the Lookup icon and select Show Analysis or Open to display more information about the current Custom Poller Node's Policy.
Discovery State	Indicates the progress toward collecting data associated with this Polled Instances Tab (discovery using the MIB Expression objects for which you are collecting information). Possible values include: Created - NNMi has not yet discovered any data for this new Polled Instance. In progress - NNMi is currently collecting data for this Polled Instance. Completed - NNMi gathered the data associated with this Polled Instance and placed it in the NNMi database. Unresponsive - The SNMP agent did not respond when NNMi attempted to gather the data associated with this Polled Instance. Failed - NNMi is unable to gather the data associated with this Polled Instance. Look in the Discovery State Information field for details.
Discovery State Last Modified	The date and time when the Discovery State value was last modified.
Discovery State Information	Indicates any problems contributing to the Discovery State calculation.

Incidents Tab

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The Custom Node Collections Form provides details about the selected Custom Node Collection.

For information about each tab: See Also

Incidents Table
Description
Table view of the incidents associated with the selected Custom Node Collection. 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 Custom Node Collection. To see more information about an incident, double-click the row representing an incident. The Incident Form displays all details about the selected incident.

Status Tab

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The Custom Node Collections Form provides details about the selected Custom Node Collection.

For information about each tab: See Also

Overall Status
Attribute	Description
Status	The most severe value returned from the Polled Instances for this Custom Node Collection. Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical
Status Last Modified	Date and time indicating when the status was last set.

Status History Table
Attribute	Description
Status History	List of up to the last 30 changes in status for the selected Custom Node Collection. This view is useful for obtaining a summary of the Custom Node Collection Status so that you can better determine any patterns in node behavior and activity. Double-click a row representing a Status History. The Status History form displays all details about the selected Status.

Conclusions Tab

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The Custom Node Collections Form provides details about the selected Custom Node Collection.

For information about each tab: See Also

Outstanding Status Conclusion Values

Attribute

Description

Outstanding Status Conclusions

The dynamically generated list of summary statuses of the Custom Node Collection that contributed to the current overall Status of the selected Custom Node Collection.

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

This view is useful for obtaining a quick summary of the Status and problem description that led up to the Custom Node Collection's most current Status.

The Status value is correlated based on the most critical outstanding 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 a Custom Node Collection object.

A Y in the Incident? column indicates that the Conclusion results in an incident.

Critical Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPollCritical	A Custom Polled Instance associated with the Custom Poller Collection is in a Critical State.	Critical	Y

Major Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPollMajor	A Custom Polled Instance associated with the Custom Poller Collection is in a Major State.	Major	Y

Minor Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPollMinor	A Custom Polled Instance associated with the Custom Poller Collection is in a Minor State.	Minor	Y

Warning Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPollWarning	A Custom Polled Instance associated with the Custom Poller Collection is in a Warning State.	Warning	Y

Normal Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPollNormal	A Custom Polled Instance associated with the Custom Poller Collection is in a Normal State.	Normal	N

Polled Instances Tab

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The Custom Node Collections Form provides details about the selected Custom Node Collection.

For more information about Custom Polled Instances, click here.

The first time a MIB Expression is validated with discovery information, the results appear in the Monitoring workspace's Custom Polled Instances view.

Each Custom Polled Instance:

Updates whenever a change in State occurs (defined using Threshold or Comparison Maps settings).
Includes the most recent polled value that caused the State to change.

These results are then used to determine the Status of the associated Custom Node Collection.

For example, you can specify that each time the hrDeviceStatus for a COM (communication) port returns a value of 5 (down), the State of the Polled Instance becomes Critical, which automatically affects the Status of the associated Custom Node Collection.

For information about each tab: See Also

Polled Instances Table
Attribute	Description
Polled Instances List	Information about Custom Poller Policy information being collected. This table is useful for obtaining a quick summary. Double-click the row representing a Polled Instance. The Custom Polled Instance Form displays all details about the selected Polled Instance.

Custom Polled Instance Form

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The Custom Polled InstanceA Custom Polled Instance represents the results of a MIB variable when it is evaluated against a node. The first time a MIB variable is validated with discovery information, the results appear in the Monitoring workspace's Custom Polled Instances view. The Custom Polled Instance is updated whenever a change in State occurs and includes the most recent polled value that caused the State to change. These results are then used to determine the Status of the associated Custom Node Collection. form provides details about the Custom Polled Instance you selected from the Monitoring workspace. The following table describes the attributes included on the Polled Instance form.

(NNMi Advanced - Global Network Management feature) Any Custom Polled Instances are not sent from a Regional Manager (NNMi management server) to the Global Manager. From the Global Manager, use Actions → Open from Regional Manager to see the list of Custom Polled Instances on the Regional Manager.

For information about each tab: See Also

Note the following about Custom Polled Instances:

The first time a MIB Expression is validated with discovery information, the results appear in the Monitoring workspace's Custom Polled Instances view.
Each Custom Polled Instance:
- Updates whenever a change in State occurs (defined using Threshold or Comparison Maps settings).
- Includes the most recent polled value that caused the State to change.
These results are then used to determine the Status of the associated Custom Node Collection.

For example, you can specify that each time the hrDeviceStatus for a COM (communication) port returns a value of 5 (down), the State of the Polled Instance becomes Critical, which automatically affects the Status of the associated Custom Node Collection.

Basic Attributes
Attribute	Description
Node	Name of the topology node on which the Custom Poller Policy information is being collected. This is the current value in the NNMi database for the Name attribute of the node. The value could be a DNS name, a MIB-II sysName, or an address (depending on how your NNMi administrator configured the discovery process). Click the Lookup icon and select Show Analysis or Open to display more information about the topology node.
MIB Instance	This attribute contains the multiple filtered instances for the MIB Expression. Each instance value identifies a row in the MIB table. If a MIB expression includes multiple MIB Variables that have multiple instances, each instance value that is valid across all MIB Variables for a node is listed here. If NNMi is unable to find the same instance for all MIB Variables in the expression, a Polled Instance is not created. This is because NNMi cannot correctly evaluate a MIB Expression with missing values. If Polled Instances are not created as expected, check the Custom Node Collection view for Discovery State and Discovery State Information values.
Filter Value	The instance of a MIB Variable value after the MIB Filter is applied.
Display Attribute	The MIB Variable that contains the values NNMi displays when generating Custom Polled Instance or Line Graph results. The NNMi administrator selects this Display Variable when configuring the MIB Expression for a Custom Poller Collection.
Active State	Specifies whether a Custom Poller Policy is enabled.
Custom Node Collection	Name of the associated Custom Node Collection.A Custom Node Collection identifies a topology node that has at least one associated Custom Poller Policy. Because a topology node can be associated with more than one Policy, the same topology node might appear in multiple Custom Node Collections. Click the Lookup icon and select Show Analysis or Open to display more information about the Custom Node Collection.
MIB Variable	The MIB Variable that is associated with this Custom Poller Instance. See Specify the MIB Variable Information for a Custom Poller Collection for more information.
Custom Poller Policy	Name of the associated Custom Poller Policy. The Custom Poller Policy defines the Node Group from which the MIB information is polled.
Custom Poller Collection	Name of the Custom Poller Collection.A Custom Poller Collection defines the information you want to gather (poll) as well as how you want NNMi to handle the results. Click the Lookup icon and select Show Analysis or Open to display more information about the Custom Poller Collection.
Status	Overall status for the current Custom Polled Instance. NNMi follows the ISO standard for status classification. See theStatus Tab for more information. Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical Status reflects the most serious outstanding conclusion. The icons are displayed only in table views
State	The State of the Custom Polled Instance as determined by any Thresholds (High State / Low State value) or Comparison Maps (State Mapping = the NNMi administrator assigns a State value for each possible Polled Instance value) configured for the current Custom Poller Collection's MIB Expression. Possible State values for a Polled Instance (Threshold = High State/Low State; or Comparison Map = State Mapping) are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical The most severe Threshold High State or Low State value or Comparison Map State Mapping value returned from the Polled Instances for a Custom Node Collection becomes the Custom Node Collection Status.
Last State Change Value	The value from the MIB Expression that most recently caused the State to change. A value of null indicates that a value was unavailable or an error occurred while evaluating the MIB Expression.
State Last Modified	The date and time the Polled Instance was last modified.

Incidents Tab

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The Custom Polled Instance Form provides details about the selected Custom Polled Instance.

The Name of the Source Object for a Custom Polled Instance Incident is the display value that is determined using the Instance Display Configuration for the associated MIB Expression.

If the Instance Display Configuration is not set, NNMi identifies the Source Object using the topology Node Name followed by the MIB Instance value in the format: <node_name> -.<MIB_instance_value>.

The Name that NNMi uses to identify the Custom Polled Instance Incident’s Source Object is not stored in the NNMi database as the Custom Polled Instance object Name.

For information about each tab: See Also

Incidents Table
Description
Table view of the incidents associated with the selected Custom Polled Instance. These incidents are sorted by creation time so that you can view the incidents in chronological order. Use this view to determine which incident is still open for the selected Custom Polled Instance. To see more information about an incident, double-click the row representing an incident. The Incident Form displays all details about the selected incident.

Status Tab

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The "Custom Polled Instance Form" provides details about the selected Custom Polled Instance.

For information about each tab: See Also

Overall Status
Attribute	Description
Status	The most severe value returned from the Custom Polled Instance. Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical
Status Last Modified	Date and time indicating when the status was last set.
Attribute	Description
Status History	List of up to the last 30 changes in status for the selected Custom Polled Instance. This view is useful for obtaining a summary of the Custom Polled Instance Status so that you can better determine any patterns in node behavior and activity. Double-click a row representing a Status History. The Status History form displays all details about the selected Status.

Conclusions Tab

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The Custom Polled Instance Form provides details about the selected Custom Polled Instance.

For information about each tab: See Also

Outstanding Conclusions Table

Attribute

Description

Outstanding Status Conclusions

The dynamically generated list of summary statuses of the Custom Polled Instance that contributed to the current overall Status of the selected Custom Polled Instance.

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

This view is useful for obtaining a quick summary of the Status and problem description that led up to the Custom Polled Instances most current Status.

The Status value is correlated based on the most critical outstanding 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 a Custom Polled Instance object.

A Y in the Incident? column indicates that the Conclusion can result in an incident. An NNMi administrator can configure whether incidents are generated. See Configure Basic Settings for a Custom Poller Collection for more information.

Critical Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPolledInstanceCritical	A Custom Polled Instance is in a Critical State.	Critical	Y

Major Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPolledInstanceMajor	A Custom Polled Instance is in a Major State.	Major	Y

Minor Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPolledInstanceMinor	A Custom Polled Instance is in a Minor State.	Minor	Y

Warning Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPolledInstanceWarning	A Custom Polled Instance is in a Warning State.	Warning	Y

Normal Status Conclusions

Conclusion	Description	Status	Incident?
CustomPolledInstanceNormal	A Custom Polled Instance is in a Normal State.	Normal	N

Custom Polled Collection Form

The NNMi Custom Polling feature enables your NNMi administrator to take a proactive approach to network management by gathering additional device information using SNMP MIB Expressions. For example, an NNMi administrator might want NNMi to monitor the Status of COM (communication) ports on all of your Windows servers or determine disk utilization on a specified group of servers.

A Custom Poller Collection defines the additional SNMP MIB information that NNMi should gather (Custom Poll) as well as how NNMi reacts to the gathered data.

For information about each tab: See Also

If the Security configuration permits, you can access a Comparison Map form from the Comparison Maps tab.

The following tables describe the attributes included on the Custom Polled Collection form.

Basics for this Custom Poller Collection
Attribute	Description
Name	The name for the Custom Poller Collection configuration. The Custom Poller Collection name appears in any incidents generated as a result of the collection.
Affect Node Status	Used to indicate whether each Polled Instance affects the associated Node's Status. The first time a MIB Expression is validated with discovery information, the results appear in a Polled Instance object. The Polled Instance object is updated whenever a change in State occurs and includes the most recent polled value that caused the State to change.
Generate Incident	Used to indicate whether NNMi generates an incident: when a threshold is crossed when a polled MIB value causes the Custom Polled Collection's State to be other than Normal
Export Custom Poller Collection	If enabled , NNMi exports the Custom Poller Collection to a comma-separated values (CSV) file If disabled , NNMi does not export the Custom Poller Collection information.
Compress Export File	If enabled , NNMi exports the Custom Poller Collection in compressed format and appends .gz to the .csv file suffix. If disabled , NNMi does not compress the CSV file.

Variable Attributes
Attribute	Description
MIB Expression	MIB Expressions specify what additional information NNMi should gather.
MIB Filter Variable	The MIB Filter Variable is the MIB variable that has a value you want to use as a filter to determine which instances of the MIB expression to Custom Poll.

High Threshold Attributes for a Custom Polled Instance
Monitored Attribute	Description
Threshold Setting Type	One of the following: Count threshold based on the number of occurrences specified before the threshold is reached. Time threshold based on the duration of time specified before the threshold is reached.
High State	Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical
High Value	The value that above which becomes a threshold situation. Use one of the following: Designate a percentage between 0.00 and 100.00. For special situations, the following values can be used: 0.000000000000001 (or 1E-15 in Scientific Notation) for the smallest value greater than zero. 99.99999999999999 for the highest value less than one hundred. Designate any appropriate integer value (for example, a Management Address ICMP Response Time of 0 or greater milliseconds ). The High Value must be greater than or equal to the designated Low Value. If you use the highest possible value, the threshold is disabled because it cannot be crossed.
High Value Rearm	The High Value Rearm designates the lower boundary of the High Threshold range of values.
Threshold Setting Type = Count:
High Trigger Count	The number of consecutive polling intervals the returned value must be greater than the specified High Value to meet the High Threshold criteria.
Threshold Setting Type = Time (setting both of these to zero disables the High Threshold):
High Duration	The minimum time within which the value must remain in the High range before the threshold state changes to High and (optionally) an incident is generated.
High Duration Window	The window of time within which the High Duration criteria must be met.

Low Threshold Attributes for a Custom Polled Instance
Monitored Attribute	Description
Low State	Possible values are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical
Low Value	The value that below which becomes a threshold situation. Use one of the following: Designate a percentage between 0.00 and 100.00. For special situations, the following values can be used: 0.000000000000001 (or 1E-15 in Scientific Notation) for the smallest value greater than zero. 99.99999999999999 for the highest value less than one hundred. Designate any appropriate integer value (for example, a Management Address ICMP Response Time of 0 or greater milliseconds ). The Low Value must be less than or equal to the designated High Value. If you use the minimum possible value, the Low threshold is disabled because it cannot be crossed.
Low Value Rearm	The Low Value Rearm designates the upper boundary of the Low Threshold range of values.
Threshold Setting Type = Count:
Low Trigger Count	The number of consecutive polling interval the returned value must be less than the specified Low Value to meet the Low Threshold criteria.
Threshold Setting Type = Time (setting both of these to zero disables the Low Threshold):
Low Duration	The minimum time within which the value must remain in the Low range before the threshold state changes to Low and (optionally) an incident is generated.
Low Duration Window	The window of time within which the Low Duration criteria must be met.

Comparison Map Form

Custom Poller enables the NNMi administrator to map the returned value of a MIB Expression to a Custom Poller Polled Instance State. NNMi uses Comparison Map values to determine when to generate an incident, as well as the State of the Polled Instance.

Click here for more information about Polled Instances.

The first time a MIB Expression is validated with discovery information, the results appear in a Polled Instance object. The Polled Instance object is updated whenever a change in State occurs and includes the most recent polled value that caused the State to change.

For example, the NNMi administrator might configure a Custom Polled Collection so that the hrDeviceStatus value of 5 (down) is mapped to a Critical State. This means that NNMi changes the State of the Polled Collection Instance to Critical each time the hrDeviceStatus returns a value of 5 when polled.

The following tables describe the attributes included on the Comparison Map form.

State Mapping Attributes
Attribute	Description
Ordering	The order in which the State mapping (Comparison Maps) operations should be performed. NNMi uses the Ordering value to determine which State mapping to use. The lower the number, the higher the priority. For example, 1 is the highest priority.
Comparison Operator	Operator used to evaluate the polled value and subsequently determine its State. For example, the < (less than) Comparison Operator indicates the polled value returned must be less than the Comparison Value to change the Custom Poller Polled Instance to the state specified using the State Mapping value.
Comparison Value	The value to which the polled value is compared.
State Mapping	The State to assign to the Custom Poller Polled Instance when the polled value meets the comparison criteria. For example, each time the value 3 (warning) is returned when NNMi polls hrDeviceStatus, you can specify that you want NNMi to change the State of the Polled Instance to Warning. Possible State values for a Polled Instance (Threshold = High State/Low State; or Comparison Map = State Mapping) are: Normal Warning Minor Major Critical

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