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Monitoring a Set of Nodes

In addition to creating the polls, trap masks, and alarms that define how to detect a network condition, track its severity, and respond to it, you must define which devices you want to monitor for this condition. NerveCenter uses a simple mechanism, involving three types of objects, to define this set of devices. The three types of objects are:

• Nodes
• Property groups
• Properties

Nodes represent workstations and network devices and contain property groups, which in turn contain strings called properties. Polls and alarms are assigned properties. Given this situation, NerveCenter can enforce the following rules:

• A poll can be sent to a particular node only if the node's property group contains the poll's property.
• An alarm can be instantiated for a node only if the node's property group contains the alarm's property.

For more detailed information about the NerveCenter objects used to construct behavior models, see NerveCenter Objects.