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CHAPTER 5: CONFIGURING THE BUILT-IN NOTIFICATIONS
5.5 VIRTUAL SENSORS
Virtual Sensors can be a very powerful tool in your monitoring system. On the AlertWerks gateways, you can have up
to 32 of these virtual sensors and they allow for a multitude of applications.
SNMP Get, sensor logic evaluation, and ping commands among others are all possible from the virtual sensors. An
example use of this could be to use the AlertWerks Gateway as a probe manager. If you had an AlertWerks Gateway
and multiple virtual sensors they could all be monitored, mapped and alerted via the gateway. You can perform
SNMP Get commands on a server to monitor memory or CPU load, or you can ping network enabled devices and be
alerted if they go offline.
You can configure the Virtual Sensors under a separate tab under the Sensors menu.
The first 5 sensors are free; if you need to use more, you can purchase additional licenses.
Select a sensor from the list, and choose its type.
In the following sections, we'll go through each Virtual Sensor type, and how to configure them.
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FIGURE 5-68. VIRTUAL SENSORS SCREEN
FIGURE 5-69. SENSOR TYPE MENU
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