APC NetBotz 320 Rack Appliance NBRK0320E Manuel D’Utilisation

Advanced Device Crawlers is a license key-enabled enhancement to Device Crawlers that greatly 
extends your ability to monitor the operational status of your SNMP targets. Advanced Device 
Crawlers extends the capabilities of Basic Device Crawlers to provide far more detailed device-
specific information and to enable OID-specific monitoring and alerting.    

Advanced Device Crawlers provides two methods by which you can monitor individual OIDs on 
your SNMP targets:

• Selecting OIDs surfaced using Device Definition Files

• Manually adding individual supplemental OIDs

Device Description Files (provided and periodically updated by NetBotz) make it quick and easy to 
monitor the environmental and physical data reported by some supported SNMP devices. Identifying 
and monitoring a device’s individual OIDs can be a painstaking process. MIBs can contain thousands 
of individual OIDs, and most of these are of little or no interest or use for monitoring purposes. 
Device Description Files make it simple to monitor the environmental and physical data reported on 
supported devices by automatically surfacing the OIDs that report data that is pertinent to 
environmental monitoring, making the process of monitoring the condition of these devices far 
simpler. 

If you want to monitor the values reported by OIDs on SNMP targets for which Device Definition 
Files is not available, Advanced Device Crawlers also enables you to manually add supplemental 
OID data which can then be monitored.

Advanced Device Crawlers greatly enhance the functionality of Device Crawlers by giving far more 
access to the environmental monitoring data that is stored in the MIBs of your SNMP targets. This is 
accomplished in two ways:

• Using Device Definition Files to quickly and easily surface environmental monitoring-oriented 

OIDs on supported SNMP targets. Any information surfaced using a DDF will appear as a 
sensor set named Advanced Details.

• Enabling monitoring of any user-specified and defined supplemental OIDs on an SNMP target

In addition to enhancing your ability to gather SNMP-based data from your SNMP targets, Advanced 
Device Crawlers enables you to generate alert notifications when monitored OID values change. 
Using both the Device Definition Files and the Supplemental OID functionality, you can extend your 
environmental monitoring and notification abilities to include environmental conditions in and 
around all of your SNMP targets as well as those around your appliances.

To enable Advanced Device Crawlers, you must purchase and add an Advanced Device Crawlers 
license key to your appliance. License keys are available for purchase from NetBotz, Inc. and from 
NetBotz authorized resellers.

To add your Advanced Device Crawlers license key to your appliance:

1. Use the Advanced View to start the License Key task on your appliance. When the task starts,