Configuring the probe

After installing the probe you need to make various configuration settings to suit your environment.

The following table outlines how to use the probe's properties to configure the product's features. Configuration of some features is mandatory for all installations. For those features set the properties to the correct values or verify that their default values are suitable for your environment. Further configuration is optional depending on which features of the probe you want to use.

Table 1. Configuring the probe
	Feature	Properties	See
Mandatory features:
	ObjectServer name	Server	ObjectServer information
	Communications method	Port Protocol BindAddress NoNameResolution NoNetbiosLookups	Communications information
Optional features:
	SNMP V3 Enables the probe to process traps and informs in SNMP V3 format.	ConfPath PersistentDir ReUseEngineBoots UsmUserBase SnmpConfigChangeDetection Interval snmpv3ONLY snmpv3MinSecurity	SNMP V3 support
	Queue and buffer settings Defines the properties of the queue of traps waiting to be processed and of the buffer of events to send to the ObjectServer.	BufferSize Buffering FlushBufferInterval TrapQueueMax	Queue and buffer settings
	Logging lost traps Specifies whether the probe creates log messages for events that are lost because the trap queue is full.	DSALog DSAPeriod	Logging lost traps
	Heartbeat policy Specifies whether the probe periodically checks that the connection to the SNMP endpoint is still operational.	Heartbeat	Heartbeat
	Logging performance statistics Specifies whether the probe creates log messages that contain performance data.	LogStatisticsInterval	Logging performance data
	Peer-to-peer failover pair Allows you to set up two probes to act as a failover pair to improve availability. If the master probe should stop working, the slave probe takes over until the master is available once more.	MessageLog Mode PeerHost PeerPort PidFile PropsFile RulesFile	Peer-to-peer failover functionality
	Backup ObjectServer Specifies a backup ObjectServer that the probe is to use should the connection to the primary ObjectServer fail.	NetworkTimeout PollServer ServerBackup	ObjectServer information
	HTTP/HTTPS command interface Enables the HTTP/HTTPS command interface and defines the port that it uses.	MessageLevel MessageLog NHttpd.AccessLog NHttpd.EnableHTTP NHttpd.ListeningPort NHttpd.ExpireTimeout RulesFile	Managing the SNMP agent over the probe's HTTP/HTTPS interface