Network Management

Network Management (netmanagement) is a system context that provides access to data related to the overall operation of Network Management extensions. It is not shown in the visible context tree.

Network Management plugin exploits SNMP, WMI, and Network Host device drivers as a basis for network communications.

Advanced Information

Context Information

Context Type: networkManagement

Context Name: netmanagement

Context Description: Network Management

Context Path: netmanagement

Context Mask: netmanagement

Context Permissions: Observer

Public Variables (Properties) [?]

This context has no public variables (properties).

Public Functions [?]

Send SNMP Trap

Generates SNMP notifications (traps and informs) as described in Sending SNMP Traps and Informs.

Function Name:	sendSnmpTrap
Permissions:	Accessible at Manager permission level
Input Records:	1
Input Format:	see Sending SNMP Traps and Informs
Output Records:	0 (for Traps) or 1 (for Informs)
Output Format:	see Sending SNMP Traps and Informs

Send Syslog Message

Sends Syslog message as described in Syslog Messages Sending section.

Function Name:	sendSyslogMessage
Permissions:	Accessible at Manager permission level
Input Records:	1
Input Format:	see Syslog Messages Sending
Output Records:	0
Output Format:	None

Wake-on-LAN

Awakes a computer by sending a special message. See Wake-on-LAN.

Function Name:	executeWakeOnLAN
Permissions:	Accessible at Manager permission level
Input Records:	1
Input Format:	see Wake-on-LAN
Output Records:	0
Output Format:	None

Get Process Information

Utility function used by process-monitoring tools to retrieve details (parameters or path string) of specific processes.

Function Name:

getProcessInfo

Permissions:

Accessible at Manager permission level

Input Records:

Input Format:

Name	Type	Description
contextName	String	Name of device context.
processName	String	Process name.
requestType	Integer	0 to get paths of processes with the specified name filtered by parameters; 1 to get parameters of processes with the specified name filtered by path.
processFilter	String	Filter string to be applied to parameters or path, depending on the specified requestType.

Output Records:

0...unlimited

Output Format:

Name	Type	Description
value	String	Name of device context.
description	String	Process path or parameters string.

Services Status

Utility function used by service-monitoring tools to retrieve status information from all services registered for all devices.

Function Name:

servicesStatus

Permissions:

Accessible at Manager permission level

Input Records:

Input Format:

None

Output Records:

0...unlimited

Output Format:

Dynamic format with the following fields:

•	a String field named "device" (containing context path)

•	one Color field for every registered service denoting its status

Get NetFlow Data

Filters and fetches NetFlow data from storage. See Fetching NetFlow Data.

Function Name:	getNetFlowData
Permissions:	Accessible at Manager permission level
Input Records:	0...1
Input Format:	See Fetching NetFlow Data
Output Records:	0...unlimited
Output Format:	See Collecting NetFlow Data

Public Events [?]

NetFlow

The netflow event is generated when a new flow is obtained. See Collecting NetFlow Data.

Event Name	netflow
Permissions:	Accessible at context's permission level
Records:	1

Record Format: see Collecting NetFlow Data.