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Network Host device driver permits AggreGate Server to access a single IP network host for monitoring it's status and various services/applications running on it. The following table presents available services, their global settings, configuration properties and monitoring results (presented as device settings):

Monitoring Service	Configuration Properties	Monitoring Results
Ping	Ping Settings	Ping Results
SNMP	SNMP Polling Settings	SNMP Results
Generic TCP	Generic TCP Service Settings	Generic TCP Results
Generic UDP	Generic UDP Service Settings	Generic UDP Results
HTTP	HTTP Settings	HTTP Results
DNS	DNS Settings	DNS Results
POP3	POP3 Settings	POP3 Results
IMAP	IMAP Server Settings	IMAP Results
SMTP	SMTP Server Settings	SMTP Results
E-mail Round-Trip	E-mail Round-Trip Settings	E-mail Round-Trip Results
FTP	FTP Server Settings	FTP Results
Traceroute	Traceroute Settings	Traceroute Results
SSH	SSH Settings	SSH Results
DHCP	DHCP Settings	DHCP Results
LDAP	LDAP Settings	LDAP Results
Radius	Radius Settings	Radius Results
WMI	WMI Settings	Refer to Device Settings section in WMI chapter

Network Device Discovery

Network Host driver supports device discovery. Discovery is the process of scanning a number of IP network hosts, finding available services/applications, and creating device accounts for them.

The comprehensive description of network discovery is available in AggreGate Network Manager documentation.

Driver Information

Driver Plugin ID:

com.tibbo.linkserver.plugin.device.ip

Global Settings

Global settings defined by Network Host driver are presented in the Global Settings column of Network Host Services table.

User Level Settings

None defined.

Device Properties

Network Host driver properties define configuration parameters used by AggreGate Network Manager to monitor corresponding network host. Most of the properties present settings of services supported by Network Host driver. They are presented in the Configuration Properties column of Network Host Services table.

The only exclusion is Host Address (address) property. It specifies IP Address or Host Name of the network host to be monitored.

Device Assets

IP host assets are divided in two root groups: SNMP assets and WMI assets:

•	If SNMP service is enabled, one asset is created for every SNMP MIB file supported by the device. Supported MIB files are detected automatically by polling the SNMP agent.

•	If WMI service is enabled, one asset is created for every available WMI class.

Device Settings

Network Host device settings are:

•	Host status

•	Monitoring results for services enabled on this network host.

Refer to Monitoring Results column of Network Host Services table.

Device Operations

No operations provided by the driver.

Device Events

Network hosts can generate two different types of events: Service Outages (described below) and SNMP Notifications (described in SNMP device driver chapter).

Service Outage

This event is generated by a service once if goes back "online" after a certain period of downtime.

Event Name	outage
Permissions	Accessible at User permission level
Records	1

The outage event has the following format:

Field Name	Field Type	Notes
service	String	Service that was down.
start	Date	Outage start date and time.
duration	Long	Outage duration in seconds
reason	String	Outage reason.

Connection Handling

This driver makes the device Online if host is available by ping (if ping is enabled) and all monitored services and applications report no errors.

Statuses of individual services may be checked using Configure Device action.

Service online statuses are preserved between server restarts. Therefore, when server starts, every particular service restores its previous status and keeps it until its status check will be performed over again.

Synchronization Details

Network Host driver uses synchronization procedures of particular services enabled for the monitored device. Refer to the appropriate service subsection for detailed synchronization descriptions.