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Interfaces for configuring, monitoring, and administering Digi devices

Monitoring capabilities and interfaces

Monitoring Digi devices includes such tasks as checking device status, checking runtime state,

viewing serial port operations, and reviewing network statistics, and managing their connections.

There are several interfaces for monitoring Digi devices and managing their connections.

As with device configuration, there are several interfaces available for monitoring Digi devices,

including, the web interface embedded with the product, SNMP, command-line interface, and

Device Manager. These interfaces are covered in more detail in Chapter 4, "Monitoring and

management"

Device Manager

In Device Manager, monitoring capabilities can be sorted by the server and the devices managed by

the server. The information is available in logs and can be generated into reports. When available,

the reports post linked totals that can be drilled back to the original devices that make up the

activity of the report.

Device Manager is well-suited to managing ConnectPort X Family devices and the networks in

which the devices reside. Advantages include the ability to view an entire network, and multiple

networks, at once, and ease in viewing signal strength, link quality, and alarms

Web interface

The web interface has several screens for monitoring Digi devices:

 Network Status

 Mobile connection status

 Serial Port Management: for each port, the port’s description, current profile, and current

serial configuration.

 Connections Management: A display of all active system connections.

 System Information: general device information; serial port information for each port,

including the port’s description, current profile, and current serial configuration (the

same information displayed by choosing Serial Port Management); and network

statistics.

Command-line interface

Several commands can be issued from the command line to monitor devices. For a review of these

commands and what they can provide from a device-monitoring perspective, see "Monitoring

capabilities from the command line" on page 225.

SNMP

Monitoring capabilities of SNMP include managing network performance, gathering device

statistics, and finding and solving network problems. For more information on using SNMP for

device-monitoring purposes, see "Monitoring Capabilities from SNMP" on page 229.

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