Learning How to Create Behavior Models - How to Use Polls - Review and Summary -
Creating a New Poll      How to Use Alarms

Review and Summary

The following section includes exercises and questions to help you review what you have learned in this chapter.

Review Exercises

Complete the following exercises using the skills you learned in this chapter.

  1. Create a new poll to check if a host on your network can function as a gateway. Some of the actions you will take include:
    1. Naming the poll 1FindGateways
    2. Selecting the MIB base object ip
    3. Using the attribute ipForwarding
    4. Generating a trigger called gotGateway
  2. Modify the 1CheckTraffic poll to generate the trigger notBusy if the true conditions are not met.

Review Questions

Answer the following questions using the knowledge you learned in this chapter. See the Answers to the Chapter 3 Review Questions on page 124.

  1. How can you configure a poll to monitor only the file servers on your network?

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  1. What is a trigger?

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  2. How many different MIB base objects can you use to form a complex poll condition?

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  3. What conditions must be met for a poll to be active?

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Summary of What You Learned

In this chapter you learned how to use a poll in NerveCenter. You also learned several new concepts. The checklist below should help you review once more before going to the next chapter.

You learned:

You also were introduced to the following concepts:

Creating a New Poll How to Use Alarms
29 July 2003