Creating New Interface Monitoring Groups and Profiles

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Step 1: Login to the Nectus Portal and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> SNMP Interfaces Monitoring Settings.

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Step 2: Monitoring Profile Creation – Go to the SNMP Interface Monitoring Profile Tab by clicking the Add Profile button.

Name the profile, enable the relevant options, and click the OK button.

Now, we can see that the newly created profile is shown in the table.

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Step 3: Monitoring Group Creation – Next, let’s go to the SNMP Interface Monitoring Groups tab and create a new interface monitoring group by clicking Add Group.

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Step 4: Assigning Interfaces to Monitoring Group – Click on the interface group name to add the appropriate device interfaces information to the group.

We can also filter the interfaces based on operational status, admin status, site and device types and lastly click on Save button.

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Step 5: Assigning Monitoring Profile to Monitoring Group – Enable the monitoring and select the previously created monitoring profile from the dropdown.

Step 6: Defining Alert Recipients for Monitoring Group – Now, let’s configure recipients for alerting by clicking the email button.

It allows us to add SMS and email recipients to a list. Further, we can also select the appropriate alert templates to send alert/sms.

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Creating New Device Monitoring Groups and Profiles

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Network device monitoring in Nectus  is controlled by device monitoring groups and associated monitoring profiles.

There are two default monitoring groups: “Default Monitoring Group” and “No Monitoring Group”

By default all devices are automatically assigned to Default Monitoring Group where all basic monitoring metric are enabled.

“No Monitoring Group” is used as a parking place for devices that do not required monitoring.

In some cases additional  monitoring groups may be required and this article explains the steps required to create  additional monitoring groups.

 

Step 1: Login to the Nectus Portal and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> SNMP Devices Monitoring Settings.

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Step 2: Monitoring Profile Creation – Go to the SNMP Device Monitoring Profile by clicking the Add Profile button. Name the profile, enable the relevant options, and click the OK button.

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Now, we can see that the newly created profile is shown in the table.

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Step 3: Monitoring Group Creation – Next, let’s go to the SNMP Device Monitoring Groups tab and create a new device monitoring group.

Step 4: Assigning Devices to Monitoring Group – Click on the device group name to add the appropriate device information to the group and lastly click on Save and Ok buttons.

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Step 5: Assigning Monitoring Profile to Monitoring Group – Enable the monitoring and select the previously created monitoring profile from the dropdown.

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Step 6: Defining Alert Recipients for Monitoring Group – Now, let’s configure recipients for alerting by clicking the email button. It allows us to add SMS and email recipients to a list.

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Done.

 

Nectus SAML Integration

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Step 1: Log in to the Nectus Portal and go to Settings > General Settings > SAML Integration.

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Step 2: In the SAML Integration Modal, under the General tab, provide the Entity ID, SSO URL and SLO URL, Certificate, Organization URL and API token.

Refer to SAML provider documentation on how to generate Certificate and API key.

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Step 3: Under Attribute Mappings, provide the SAML attributes for First Name, Last Name, Email and membership Groups.

This mapping is between SAML attributes and Nectus fields.

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Step 4: Click on the “+” button to add the SAML user groups from the SAML Server.

Members of the selected groups will be allowed to login to Nectus.

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Step 5: Click on the “+” button to add individual user accounts from the SAML Server.

Selected users will be allowed to login to Nectus.

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