Step 1: Login to the Nectus Portal and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> SNMP Interfaces Monitoring Settings. 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 […]
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 […]
Step 1: Log in to the Nectus Portal and go to Settings > General Settings > SAML Integration. 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 […]
Automating Selection of Interfaces Enabled for Monitoring By default, Nectus does not monitor any Interfaces and you must select which interfaces you want to be monitored. You can select Interfaces manually by adding it to one of the Interface monitoring groups or you can build auto-population rules that will automatically select Interfaces based on predefined […]
How to Manually Add Device Classification for Unknown Devices Step 1: Nectus maintains internal device classification database where each device is assigned a major platform category and a device model name. Classification is associated with device SNMP Platform OID: (.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0) Classification database is updated daily and support for new devices included in every Nectus update. […]
Controlling Nectus Database Size with Data Retention Rules Step 1: Login to Nectus portal and go to Monitoring 🡪 Global Monitoring Settings option. Step 2: Go to the “Data Retention” tab in the Monitoring Settings modal. It shows retention settings in days for each monitoring metric. Further, it also shows the current database size […]
How to Control Logging in Nectus via .ini Files If there is a need to reduce amount of disk space Nectus Logs take you can adjust logging verbosity or disable logging completely for each Nectus Service. Logging settings for each service is controlled by .INI files located in C:\Program Files\Nectus\ Any changes to .INI files […]
How to Monitor Number of Active TCP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active TCP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Active UDP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active UDP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Active ICMP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active ICMP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Palo Alto VPN (Global Protect) Users Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of connected VPN users every 5min. Palo […]
Nectus DB Migration by manually copying DB to a new server. Step 1: Prepare new server by performing clean Nectus installation with the same Nectus version as on old server Step 2: Stop all Nectus services on the new server Step 3: Delete all the content from “C:\Program Files\Nectus\Database” folder on new server. Step 4: […]
Performing Nectus DB migration to a new server with “DB Migration” tool DB Migration tool is only available to users with Super Admin rights. Prepare new server with clean Nectus installation with the same Nectus version as on old server. Step 1: Login to the old Nectus server and go to Settings -> Database […]
Generating Alerts Based on SNMP Traps Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal, go to the Logs -> SNMP Traps. Step 2: You will see two Tabs “SNMP Traps” and “SNMP Trap OID Alerts”. “SNMP Traps” Tab contain list of all the SNMP Traps received by Nectus server from all the network devices. […]
How to Monitor Windows Services with Nectus Quick Start Guide Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal, Add the WMI Account for accessing the Windows Servers. Go to Settings -> General Settings -> WMI Integration. Click on the Add button in the WMI Integration Modal. Step 2: Provide Windows Domain/Server information with user credentials […]
How to use Custom Tags in Nectus Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal with a valid credentials. Go to Settings -> General Settings -> Tags. Step 2: After clicking the Tags option, it will open a Tags modal with five tabs – SNMP Devices, Interfaces, WMI Servers, IP Monitors, Sites. In this article, […]
How to monitor the status of Windows Processes. Quick Start Guide Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal, Add the WMI Account for accessing the Windows Machine. Go to Settings -> General Settings -> WMI Integration. Click on the Add button in the WMI Integration Modal. Step 2: Provide Windows Domain/Server information with user credentials […]
How to use Nectus API Interface Quick Start Guide Step 1: Log in to Nectus Portal. On the home page, select General Settings -> Miscellaneous. Step 2: Next, we have to generate a new client ID and client secret for creating the token. Go to API Accounts and click on Create. […]
Step 1: Login to Nectus portal. Then, click on IP Monitors. Step 2: Right Click on IP Monitors and select Add Group to create a new monitoring group. Step 3: Provide a unique name to the group and check the “Enable monitoring” option. If monitoring requires custom ICMP monitoring timers then select optional Custom ICMP […]
Step 1. Download latest Nectus release from Nectus Support Portal (https://support.nectus5.com) Step 2. Unzip Nectus distribution archive Nectus xxxxx.zip to any folder on Nectus Server. For upgrade you should have two files: Step 3. Right-click on “Nectus Setup” and select “Run as administrator”. Step 4. […]