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In this tutorial we will walk through configuring WhatsUp Gold to monitor a probe on the Senturion

Environmental Monitor.

Applies to:

Senturion Environmental Monitor

Senturion Lite Environmental Monitor

Prerequisites:

Working copy of WhatsUp Gold 12.3 (other versions work as well)

Sensatronics Senturion SNMP MIBS (Get them here)

SensatronicsSenturionorSenturion Liteconnected to network

Sections:

Section 1 - Install Senturion MIBS How to install the SensatronicsSenturion MIBS into WUG

Section 2 - Add the device How to add the device

Section 3 - Configure thePerformance Monitor

How to add a performance monitor fora probe.

Section 4 - Configure the Active

Monitor

How to setup Active Monitor

Thresholds and Alerts

Section 5 - Viewing the data How to view Performance Monitor andActive Monitor data

Section 1: Install Senturion MIBS

Download, extract and copy the sensatronics-senturion-my and sensatronics-smi mibs to the

C:/Program Files/ipswitch/whatsup/data/mibs/ directory
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Restart the "Ipswitch WhatsUp Engine in Windows/Services so the new mibs

will be recognized by the system

Section 2: Add the Device

Open the WhatsUp Gold admin console and add a new device (File/New/New Device....)


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Enter the IP address of your Senturion / Senturion Lite

Click on "Credentials" in the properties section and select your

"SNMP v1/v2/v3 credentials" from the drop-down. The default for the Senturion is "Public"


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Section 3: Configure Performance Monitors

Click "Performance Monitors" in the properties section and

Click the "New" button to add a new individual performance monitor


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Select a performance monitor type of "SNMP Performance Monitor and click the "OK" button


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Enter a name for your probe, here we are using "Senturion Local Temperature"

Clip the Ellipses (...) button next to the Performance Counter Instance field.

Browse to the Probe1Value in the SNMP MIB Walker.

private/enterprises/sensatronics/consumerproducts/envmonitors/productsenturion/probeinfo/probevalues

Select "probe1Value" and click the OK button


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You should now see the oid for that probe in the performance counter f ield.

Set your preferred collection interval, Timeout, and Retries. Click the "OK" button


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You should now see your newly created probe performance monitor in the individual performance monitors list.

Section 4: Configure Active Monitors

Select "Active Monitors" from the Properties Section and click the "Add..." button to add a new Active Monitor.


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Don't select a monitor from the drop-down yet. Instead, click the ellipses (...) button

to the right of the drop-down to create a new Active Monitor type


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Click the "New" button


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Select "SNMP Monior" and click the "OK" button

Name the SNMP monitor after your probe name. In this Case we are using "Senturion Local Temperature"

Click the Ellipses (...) button to the right of the Object ID - Instance field.

Enter the IP address of your Senturion, select your SNMP credentials and click the "OK" Button


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Browse to the Probe1Value in the SNMP MIB Walker.

private/enterprises/sensatronics/consumerproducts/envmonitors/productsenturion/probeinfo/probevalues

Select "probe1Value" and click the OK button


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You should see the probe's object ID appear in the "Object ID" field

Change the Check Type to "Range of Values"

Enter your minimum and maximum threshold values in the Low and High value fields.

Note: The Senturion stores the temperature value as a whole number. So a value of 600 actually means 60.0 degrees

and a value 850 means 85.0 degrees etc.

Click the "OK" button


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Click the "OK" button in the Active Monitor Library screen


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Select your newly created Active Monitor type from the dropdown and Click the "Next" button


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Click "Next" in the Set Polling Properties Section


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Setup your Actions. Select either Action Policy or setup individual actions.


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Select an action policy if desired:

Select the Apply individual actions radio button and click the "Add" button to setup individual actions for this monitor.


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Create a new action or select existing action

We set an individual action to email the Admin when the Monitor is out of range for 20 minutes


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Click the "Finish" Button


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You should see the new probe monitor show up in the Active Monitors list

Click the "OK" button

You should see the newly added device in the device list

Section 5: Viewing the Data

Right Click on the device and select "Poll Now"


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Right-click on the device again and select "Device Status Report"

This will load the web console. Enter your username and password and login.


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You will see your newly added device status.

Click on your probe name in the "Device Performance Monitor Summary"


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You will see a graph load and you should see it starting to graph data on the right


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Go back to your Device Status screen and click on the name of your probe in the "Device Active Monitor States" section. Youshold see a data point on the right

side of the Monitor State graph


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You can repeat the previous steps for each probe you have connected to the Senturion.

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