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Field

Description

Host Name

The name or IP address of the system to add to up.time.

Display Name

The name for the system that will appear in the up.time UI.

Description

A short description of the system (optional field).

Type

The type of system, which can be one of the following:

• Agent
• Novell NRM
• Net-SNMP v1/2
• Net-SNMP v3
• Virtual Node

Service Group

The name of the up.time service group (which enables you to simultaneously apply common service checks to hosts that you are monitoring) to which you want to add the system (optional field).

Port

The port number that you will use to connect to the system (leave this field blank to use the default port for the type of system that you are adding).

Community

If you are adding a Net-SNMP system to up.time, specify the read community (which acts like a user ID or password) that gives you access to the system. Valid options are:

• public, which enables you to retrieve read-only information.
• private, which enables you to access all information

Username

If you are adding a Net-SNMP or Novell NRM system to up.time, specify the user name required to access the system.

Password

If you are adding a Net-SNMP or Novell NRM system to up.time, specify the password required to access the \nsystem.

Group

The name of the entity group (a set of systems that have been combined in a meaningful way) to which you want to add this system (optional field).

SSL

For agent systems, use this field to specify if up.time will securely communicate with an agent installed on the system using SSL. Valid options are true and false (optional field).

Authentication Method

For Net-SNMP systems, use this field to determine how encrypted information travelling traveling between the Net-SNMP \ninstance and up.time will be authenticated. Valid options are:

• MD5 (a widely-used method for creating digital signatures).
• SHA (a secure method of creating digital signatures).

Privacy Password

For Net-SNMP systems, the password that will be used to encrypt information travelling traveling between the Net-SNMP \ninstance and up.time.

Privacy Type

For Net-SNMP systems, how information travelling traveling between up.time and the Net-SNMP instance \nis encrypted. Valid options are:

• DES (an older method used to encrypt information).
• AES (the successor to DES, which is used with a variety of software including SSL servers).

Pingable

For virtual nodes, use this field to specify if up.time can contact the virtual node using the icmp ping utility. Valid options are true and false.