WhatsUp Gold (hereafter
WUG) is a network monitoring tool that allows you to monitor IP network
devices using standard tools and SNMP. As such it is possible to
integrate the Datacryptor® with WUG - this document describes how to do this.
To get some more information on what WUG is see:
http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WhatsUp/index.html
To obtain a 30 day evaluation copy of WUG see:
http://www.ipswitch.com/download/oneform.asp?product=WG-0000
This document was written using the demo version (v.8.01) and assumes
that you have installed software and made no modifications to the basic
setup.
Contents
- Configuring WhatsUp gold with Datacryptor®
- Create a new blank map using the New Map Wizard.
- Click on Custom device types in the left hand
pane.
- Right click on WUG Server v8 and click Copy.
- Fill in the details as per the image below:
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The icon filename is a custom Datacryptor®.ico which can be downloaded
by clicking here.
Click OK to complete the Edit Device Type box.
5. You will be returned to the blank map screen
again. Click on the Custom device types button
again. You should now see your Datacryptor® icon in the list - this is
a template
used for adding new Datacryptor® to
the map.
6. Drag the Datacryptor® icon into the blank map
and release. It should have New Datacryptor® beneath
the icon.
7. Right click on the Datacryptor® and select
properties. Fill in the boxes as per the diagram below:
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The display
name is what appears beneath the Datacryptor® in
map view - you may wish to make this the IP address of the
unit or a
site location.
8. Next, click on the SNMP button
in the Categories in
the left column. Fill in the boxes as per the diagram below:
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Change the Read and Write
communities to your own specific names if you have changed
them from the default of public/private.
9. Scroll down the Categories column and select
the bottom option which is Menu. Highlight Connect and
click Edit. Here we define
what will happen when we right click the unit and select Connect. With
a Datacryptor® we want to run the Datacryptor®.exe
with unit IP address passed as a parameter.
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Click the arrow box next to the Command box
and click Select File. Browse to the Datacryptor®.exe
file from the Element Manager installation directory. Click
on the arrow box next to
the Arguments box and select <ip
address> from the list
- this will appear as %a in the arguments box as shown above.
Click OK to exit.
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Click OK to exit this screen. This completes
the configuration of the Datacryptor® icon.
10. Click on
the map tab at the bottom of
the screen. This should show you a blank map with just
you Datacryptor® icon added. If you then
right click on the icon and select Connect the
FPV (Front Panel Viewer) should be launched and you will
connect to the unit:
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11. Login to the Datacryptor® as normal and go to to
the IP
Management tab. Click on the SNMP
Config button:
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- Click on Add to add a trap manager and add the IP address of
the WhatsUp Gold server.
- Configuring SNMP in WhatsUp Gold
- It is possible to load vendor specific SNMP
MIBs into WUG. The Datacryptor® is shipped with its own
set of MIBs for the different hardware
platforms. This section explains how to load the MIBs into
WUG.
- WUG ships with a program called mibextra.exe which allows
you to add vendor specific MIBs to the WUG MIBs. It is
installed by default in the WUG installation directory (default
is
C:\Program Files\WhatsUp). The command syntax is:
- <mibextra.exe> <path to Datacryptor®.mib>
- The program should be run from the folder where mibextra.exe
is located.
e.g.
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If
it is successful you should see output similar to that pictured
below.
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The
correct procedure for installing MIBs is to install the
Datacryptor®.mib
first
and then install the hardware specific MIB afterwards. For
example, if you had an IP Datacryptor® you would do:
- mibextra.exe Datacryptor®.mib
- mibextra.exe Datacryptor®-ip-trap.mib
It
is important to install the Datacryptor®.mib
first as the other mibs depend on its existence.
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