A managed asset is actively monitored by the system; an unmanaged asset is not. Monitoring includes:
Collecting information
Accepting asynchronous events (traps, syslog messages)
Applying Policy Components
Generating alerts
For an asset to be actively monitored it must be managed, and its parent hierarchy must also be managed. For example, for a Frame Relay circuit to be actively monitored:
The Frame Relay circuit itself must be managed.
The Frame Relay circuit’s parent interface must be managed.
The interface’s parent device must be managed.
The device's parent Management Domain must be managed.
Unmanaging assets halts all further active monitoring of the assets.
For example, if a router running Frame Relay is unmanaged at the device container level, all monitoring for availability, latency, Interface utilization and Frame Relay statistics will be discontinued.
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Managing and unmanaging at the device level ensures that all monitoring for that device will cease, while not requiring you to manage or unmanage each of the device's interfaces, disks, CPUs, etc. Those assets' Managed states will display in reports as Effectively Unmanaged - meaning that while those sub-components are Managed, the parent device is Unmanaged. Therefore no monitoring of those sub-components will occur. |
Unmanaging a Management Domain is useful if you need to temporarily discontinue monitoring a Management Domain due to scheduled server downtime, or if an end user customer’s account is suspended. Unmanaging a Management Domain can be used to temporarily "turn off" that Management Domain hierarchy. No configuration or state information is lost, but all monitoring stops. Note that for Management Domains within an unmanaged Management Domain hierarchy:
No polling request is made for any asset.
No asynchronous data (traps or syslog messages) are accepted for any asset.
No SilverStreak Down Thresholds will activate.
New assets can be added, either explicitly or via discovery Discovery is the process by which SilverBack detects hardware and software elements in a computer network infrastructure.. However data, will not be collected from those assets until the Management Domain is managed once again.
From the Assets category page, click on the Browse <asset_type> link. For example, Browse Management Domains.
Ctrl-click to select the assets that you wish to manage or unmanage.
Select either the More > Manage or More > Unmanage option.
The selected asset report refreshes to show the current managed status of all assets of that type visible to your user account.
Click on the asset that you wish to manage or unmanage.
Select either the More > Manage or More > Unmanage option.
The selected asset report refreshes to show the current managed status of all assets of that type visible to your user account.
