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Ensuring Access to SwitchProbe Devices
Because the operations personnel who set up and configured your SwitchProbe devices may be different
than the TrafficDirector administrator, a quick review of the implications of configuration settings at the
SwitchProbe device can help you isolate possible problems.
Before the TrafficDirector application can access SwitchProbe data, the parameters must be properly set
using the SwitchProbe agent configuration utility, including those special parameters required for
tracking Frame Relay, ATM, and WAN statistics.
For more information, see the following sections:
VLAN Monitor, SMON MIB, and ART MIB Options
NetFlow and Resource Monitor Options—SwitchProbe Devices
SwitchProbe and Network Analysis Module Security
VLAN Monitor, SMON MIB, and ART MIB Options
The ARTMIB option is available only on SwitchProbe devices.
Note
Before the TrafficDirector application can access the proper data required in the VLAN Monitor or ART
Monitor applications, you must verify that the VLAN option is enabled at the SwitchProbe device or
Network Analysis Module to support VLAN Monitor, and that the ARTMIB option is enabled at the
device to support ART Monitor.
NetFlow and Resource Monitor Options—SwitchProbe Devices
Before the TrafficDirector application can reflect NetFlow and Resource Monitor activity, verify that the
NetFlow option is enabled at the SwitchProbe device to support viewing of proxy SNMP and round-trip
delay data (with Resource Manager only) and NetFlow statistics.
NetFlow Option—Network Analysis Module
Before the TrafficDirector application can support viewing of NetFlow statistics on the Network
Analysis Module, you must verify that the NetFlow option is enabled on the device.
SwitchProbe and Network Analysis Module Security
To ensure that the TrafficDirector administrator has access privileges to the local console on the
SwitchProbe device using the TrafficDirector Remote Login application, you must grant the optional
administrative privileges (read and write access) to the TrafficDirector administrator.
User access privileges, if set at the SwitchProbe device, allow you to view the console settings but not
to edit them. This user-level security setting is useful if you have multiple sites where operations
personnel may be asked to track down but not necessarily fix a SwitchProbe agent problem.
If you do not know the administrative password at the SwitchProbe device and one is set, you cannot use
the Remote Login application. These SwitchProbe security features are independent of the security
options that you can enable for access to TrafficDirector administrator applications.
The following section contains more information.
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