Cisco Systems OL-11291-01 manual Modifying IPM Components, Working With Source Devices

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Modifying IPM Components

This chapter provides information about modifying IPM components. IPM components include collectors, source devices, target devices, and operations. Information is provided on viewing, updating, and deleting these components.

This chapter contains the following major sections:

•Working With Source Devices

•Working With Target Devices

•Working With Operations

•Working With Collectors

•Adding Components Using Seed Files

•Changing IP Addresses

•Setting IPM Database Preferences

•Setting SNMP Timeout and Retry Environment Variables

•Setting New IPM Server Process Timeout Values

•Setting the DISPLAY Variable in Solaris

•Backing Up or Restoring the IPM Database

•NVRAM Settings

•Changing Administrative Password

•Changing IPM Database Password

•Working With Message Log Window

Working With Source Devices

IPM source is a device from which you initiate operations for measuring network performance statistics. Each source must contain the SA Agent feature and an SNMP agent.

Information about working with source is provided in the following subsections:

•Viewing a List of Configured Source Devices

•Viewing Source Properties

•Adding a New Source Device

•Deleting Source Devices

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