In order to start wireless devices monitoring by InfiMONITOR it is necessary to add them to the system, first. There are two methods:

• The manual - each wireless device should be added to the monitoring system manually
• The automatic - it is sufficient to add at least one or several devices, depending on a network structure afterwards InfiMONITOR will automatically add all the rest connected devices.

Devices auto-discovering

InfiMONITOR performs automatic devices search via the MINT technology (see Description and working principles of InfiMONITOR). By default, the automatic search function is enabled, to check it, proceed to the section "Settings" -> "Discovering".

In order to disable the automatic devices search and addition function, click the "Disable Auto-Discovering" button. It possible to re-enable at any time.

Adding devices

In order to add the devices go to the section "Settings" -> "Devices". Here is the list of all devices added earlier with the following parameters:

• Host name
• IP-addresses
• Family
  
• Device serial number

• Status - the current host status. There are the following possible options: 

  • Up - Monitoring system has access to the device via the SNMP protocol
  • Unknown - Monitoring system has no access to the device via the SNMP protocol at the moment, however the access has been recently lost. Possible reasons:
    • Device is powered off or is rebooted suspiciously often
    • "SNMP Agent" is not started in device configuration
    • IP-address and SNMP credentials (protocol version, Community name, user name and password) mismatch with data stored in InfiMONITOR for this device
    • Device is too busy with client traffic and hence SNMP agent replies are sent with great latency
    • SNMP port 161 is closed by firewall in device configuration or at some network point between the device and InfiMONITOR server
    • Routing of SNMP datagrams is not properly set at some network point between the device and InfiMONITOR server
    • UDP datagrams fragmentation is broken at some network point between the device and InfiMONITOR server
    • SNMP traffic is shaped too much at some network point between the device and InfiMONITOR server
    • SNMP configuration in InfiMONITOR has settings with too short timeouts and/or too few retries.
  • Down - Monitoring system has no access to the device for considerably long time period via the SNMP protocol. Possible reasons:
    • Any of two endpoint devices is not activated in INfiMONITOR due to license restriction
    • Any of two endpoint devices is in status "Unknown"
    • Wireless connection was not established between the endpoint devices in the moment of last polling of either one ore another device. If you are sure that wireless connection is OK right now, then be patient and wait while both endpoint devices will be polled again (up to 300 seconds by default)
  • Deactivated - Deactivated device, which is put out of action and without license

In order to add devices click the "Add host" button, the window with the following fields will appear:

• "IP Address" - the added device IP-address which InfiMONITOR will use to poll the device
• "SNMP Port" - the network port for the SNMP service to be is available on the device. By default, 161
• "SNMP Version" - the SNMP protocol version, which has to be used by the monitoring system for data receiving from the device. By default, v3
•  SNMP protocol authentication data:
  • "SNMP Community" - the group name for versions authentication. It is applicable for the following SNMP Versions: v1, v2c
  • "SNMP Login" - the SNMP protocol user's account name. It is applicable for the following SNMP Version: v3
  • "SNMP Password" - the SNMP protocol user's account password. It is applicable for the following SNMP Version: v3.

Сlick the "Create" button аfter filling all the fields.

Adding device procedure

The device would not be added instantly, only after its polling. The procedure to add the device consist from the following steps:

1. The device is put into the polling pending queue after being added by the user. At this stage it has not yet been added to the monitoring system and will not be displayed in the common list

2. After a short period of time InfiMONITOR will start the device polling

3. If access to the device via the SNMP protocol has been received, the monitoring system will receive all the necessary information and then perform its addition
4. If InfiMONITOR could not get access to the device via the SNMP protocol, the polling will be postponed until the next polling cycle. This process will continue until gaining access to the device.

To see the pending devices click the "Pending hosts" button

Adding links 

InfiMONITOR automatically defines wireless links between the devices therefore there is no need for their manual addition.