Quick Configuration
Before you can monitor your SNMP Devices, the server must be
configured, so you will have to define which devices should be
monitored and choose all settings to achieve a good configuration.
All settings and device configuration can be made using the
XR SNMP Tools FrontEnd, which is a standalone
application that configures the main OPC Server. These steps will
show you how to build a simple configuration file for monitoring
network devices.
XR SNMP Tools Server FrontEnd - Main Window
With XR SNMP Tools FrontEnd opened, the first step
is to discover all devices that should be monitored. To detect SNMP
devices on your network, press the Setup Wizard
button.
At the second step, select the option Local Network and go
to the next step clicking on Next.
Network Browsing
In the third step, XR SNMP FrontEnd will attempt
to find all SNMP compliant devices within your subnet range. Go to
next step when Scan complete be displayed.
In the fourth step, all devices found will be listed. Select
devices you wish to monitor and go to the next step.
Now, Device Browsing will scan for network
interfaces in all devices selected for monitoring. Go to the next
step when the scan be completed.
All network interfaces found in all devices will be listed in step
6. XR SNMP Tools FrontEnd will create
Performance Tags for all listed interfaces.
Device Browsing
Go ahead to the next step and complete the setup clicking on
Finish button.
Now, select all wanted Performance Tags by
clicking on Enable column of the tag. Activated tags are
checked and its symbols are red, while disabled tags are not
checked and has gray symbols.
Performance Tags Activation
Click on Activate Profile button to update the server and
reflect this new configuration. Then, confirm the publish
clicking on Yes.
Profile Activation
Start the server with XR SNMP Tools Server Monitor
and review its configuration. Probably you'll need to Reload the
Server, clicking on Reload Server button. In the
screenshot below, it is scanning three devices and current Server
Status is Normal.
Server Main Window
If your server status indicates Scan Overlap, you need to
change some device-specific configuration settings. Please refer to
detailed FrontEnd configuration section for information on how to
do that.
You need to start a client to read the information from the server.
You can use either XR Tag Explorer or any OPC
client(on OPC versions). To use XR Tag Explorer,
open it and click on Add Chart.
Tag Explorer Main Window
The Add Chart Wizard will open. In the first step, select
a name for the chart and click on Next button.
The Step 2 will show chart-specific options. Click on Next
and go to the third step.
Now you should select the monitored tags for this chart. Select all
tags navigating into Server Namespace. Then, click
on arrow pointing to right. To remove a tag from monitoring, select
the tag into Selected Tags and click on the arrow pointing
to left. Then, go to the last step.
Adding Tags in the wizard
The fourth step only shows all defined options for you. To save the
new chart click on Finish.
To finish configuration, click on Start Capture to start
to get data from server.
The Start Capture button
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