Object Tracking; Object Tracking Overview - Avaya G250 Administration

Note:
Dynamic CAC also requires configuration of the Avaya Communication Manager.
Note:
For details, see Administrator's Guide for Avaya Communication Manager,
555-233-506.

Object tracking

This section describes the object tracking feature, which enables you to track the state (up/
down) of various objects in the system using keepalive probes, and notify registered
applications when the state changes. This section includes the following topics:

Object tracking overview

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Object tracking configuration
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Object tracking maintenance
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RTR and object tracking configuration examples
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Typical object tracking applications
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Object tracking overview
The purpose of object tracking is to track the state (up/down) of various objects in the system
using keepalive probes, and notify registered applications when the state changes. Configuring
object tracking is a two-stage operation:
The first stage is to define RTRs (Respond Time Reports), the basic building blocks of
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object tracking. RTRs actively monitor the reachability state of remote devices by
generating probes at regular intervals. Each RTR, identified by a unique number, monitors
one remote device, and learns the state of the device - up or down. The state of the RTR
reflects the state of the device it is monitoring - either up or down.
The second stage consists of defining Object Trackers using RTRs. The definition of object
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trackers is recursive. A simple object tracker monitors a single RTR, and its state directly
reflects the state of the RTR. A more advanced object tracker is a track list, which is
composed of multiple simple object trackers. The state of the track list is calculated based
on the states of the objects in the list. Because a track list is itself an object tracker, the
objects in a track list can be previously-defined track lists.
You can view a track list as monitoring the "health" of an entire group of remote devices.
You can define how to calculate the overall health of the group based on the health (up/
down) state of each individual device. For example, you can specify that the overall state is
up only if all remote devices are up, or if at least one device is up. Alternatively, you can
base the overall state on a threshold calculation.
Object tracking
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