Designing and Managing Behavior Models - Defining Property Groups and Properties - Creating a New Property Group - Based on the Contents of MIBs -
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Based on the Contents of MIBs

If you purchase a new device that comes with a new vendor MIB, your NerveCenter administrator should incorporate the new MIB into NerveCenter's compiled MIB so that you can take advantage of the new information provided by the vendor. In addition, you should create a new property group that contains properties for all the base objects in the new MIB. Why? Recall that a node's property group must contain properties for each of the MIB base objects you monitor on the node. If you want to poll the new device for the values of the attributes belonging to the new MIB objects, you need properties for the new base objects in the device's property group.

 
  To create a new property group based on the contents of one or more MIBs:

1. From the client's Admin menu, select Property Group List.

   The Property Group List window is displayed.

   Property Group List Window

   

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2. Select the MIB to Group button at the bottom of the window.

   NerveCenter displays the MIB to Property Group window.

   MIB to Property Group Window

   

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   All of the MIBs in NerveCenter's compiled MIB are displayed in the MIB list. If you select one of the MIBs in the list, the names of the base objects for that MIB are displayed in the Base Objects list.

3. Select from the MIB list a MIB whose base objects you want to become properties in your new property group.
4. Enter a name for your property group in the Property Group Name text field. Or leave there the default name that NerveCenter has supplied.
5. Select the OK button.

   The MIB to Property Group window is dismissed, and the name of your new property group appears in the Property Group list in the Property Group List window. If you wanted to base your property group on just one MIB, you're finished. If you want the new property group to contain the names of the base objects from more than one MIB, continue with step 6.

6. In the Property Group List window, select the MIB to Group button again.

   The MIB to Property Group window is displayed.

7. In the MIB to Property Group window, select from the MIB list another MIB whose base objects you want included in your property group.
8. Enter in the Property Group Name field the same name you used in step 4.
9. Select the OK button.

   The Merge or Overwrite Property Group window is displayed.

   Merge or Overwrite Property Group Window

   

10. Select the Merge button.
11. Repeat step 6 through step 10 if necessary.
12. Select the Save button.