Selecting Agents to Monitor

By default, the Monitor Agent starts monitoring all GroupWise agents (POAs, MTAs, Internet Agents, and WebAccess Agents) in your GroupWise system, based on the information from a domain database (wpdomain.db). You might not want to continue monitoring all agents. And as your GroupWise system grows, you might want to monitor additional agents.


Filtering the Agent List

You can configure the Monitor Agent to stop and start monitoring selected agents as needed.

At the Windows Monitor Agent console:

  1. Click Configuration > Filter.

    or

    On Linux, click Preferences > Filter.


    Filter dialog box

    The Filtered Out list displays all agents that are not currently being monitored.

  2. Select one or more agents in the Monitored list, then click Remove to move them to the Filtered Out list.

  3. Click OK.

Agents in the Filtered Out list are not monitored and do not appear at the Monitor Agent console nor at the Monitor Web console. To start monitoring a filtered-out agent, move it back to the Monitored list.


Adding All Agents on a Server

If you add a new server to your GroupWise system or want to monitor agents in a different GroupWise system, you can easily start monitoring all the agents running on that server.

At the Windows Monitor Agent console:

  1. Click Configuration > Add from Server.

    or

    On Linux, click Preferences > Add Agents.


    Add from Machine dialog box

  2. Type the IP address of the new server, then click OK.

    All GroupWise agents on the new server are added to the list of monitored agents.

If the server is part of your local GroupWise system, you can simply restart the Monitor Agent and it picks up all new agents in your system.


Adding All Agents on a Subnet

If you add several new servers to your GroupWise system or want to monitor agents in a different GroupWise system, you can easily start monitoring all the agents running on the same subnet.

At the Windows Monitor Agent console:

  1. Click Configuration > Add from Network.

    or

    On Linux, click Preferences > Add Agents.


    Add from Network dialog box

  2. Type the subnet portion of the IP addresses of the new servers, then click OK.

    All GroupWise agents on the subnet are added to the list of monitored agents.

If the servers are part of your local GroupWise system, you can simply restart the Monitor Agent and it picks up all new agents in your system.


Adding an Individual Agent

You can start monitoring an individual agent anywhere in your GroupWise system or another GroupWise system.

At the Windows Monitor Agent console:

  1. Click Configuration > Add Agent.

    or

    On Linux, click Preferences > Add Agents.


    Add Agent dialog box

  2. Type the IP address of the server where the agent runs.

  3. Type the port number the agent listens on.

  4. Click OK.

    The agent is added to the list of monitored agents.


Removing Added Agents

To stop monitoring agents that you have manually added to the Monitor Agent's configuration:

At the Windows Monitor Agent console:

  1. Click Configuration > Remove Agents.

    or

    On Linux, click Preferences > Remove Agents.

  2. Select the agents you want to remove, then click Remove.

  3. Click OK.