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| | [[Device management]] | Search/browse the alert history of your devices. Delete stack modules that have been physically removed from the network. Other device lifecycle management functionality (equipment orders, errors, RMA). | | | [[Device management]] | Search/browse the alert history of your devices. Delete stack modules that have been physically removed from the network. Other device lifecycle management functionality (equipment orders, errors, RMA). | |
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| | [[cricket]] | Cron | 3rd party software that collects statistical data from IP devices through SNMP queries. | | | [[cricket]] | Cron | 3rd party software that collects statistical data from IP devices through SNMP queries. | |
| | [[eventengine]] | Daemon | Processes events posted to NAV's internal event queue. Translates events into alerts to post on the alert queue. | | | [[eventengine]] | Daemon | Processes events posted to NAV's internal event queue. Translates events into alerts to post on the alert queue. | |
| | [[getDeviceData]] | Daemon | NAV's main SNMP collection engine. Collects just about everything except statistical data, and stores it in the NAV database. This includes serial numbers, modules, interfaces, routing information etc. | | | [[ipdevpoll]] | Daemon | NAV's main SNMP collection engine. Collects just about everything except statistical data, and stores it in the NAV database. This includes serial numbers, modules, interfaces, routing information etc. | |
| | [[iptrace]] | Cron | Collects ARP tables from monitored routers and stores in the NAV database. | | | [[iptrace]] | Cron | Collects ARP tables from monitored routers and stores in the NAV database. | |
| | [[logengine]] | Cron | Parses the latest syslog messages from Cisco devices on disk and stores them in the NAV database. | | | [[logengine]] | Cron | Parses the latest syslog messages from Cisco devices on disk and stores them in the NAV database. | |
| | [[maintengine]] | Cron | Effectuates the maintenance schedule by dispatching maintenance events onto the internal event queue. | | | [[maintengine]] | Cron | Effectuates the maintenance schedule by dispatching maintenance events onto the internal event queue. | |
| | [[networkDiscovery]] | Cron | Interprets the candidate topology mactrace has stored in the database, and derives the actual physical and vlan topologies of the network in a two-step process. | | | [[networkDiscovery]] | Cron | Interprets the candidate topology mactrace has stored in the database, and derives the actual physical and vlan topologies of the network in a two-step process. | |
| | | [[pping]] | Daemon | The parallel pinger - sends ICMP echo requests to all IP devices, waits for replies and dispatches boxState events accordingly. The daemon also records ping response time statistics using [[rrdtool]]. | |
| | | [[servicemon]] | Daemon | The service monitor. Monitors services on IP devices, such as SSH, HTTP, SMTP and others, according to the configuration entered in the [[editdb|Edit database web tool]]. Also records service response times using [[rrdtool]]. | |
| | | [[smsd]] | Daemon | Dispatches SMS messages placed on the sms queue by the [[alertEngine]]. Uses dispatcher plugins to dispatch messages through various methods - most commonly by using [[Gammu]] with a locally connected mobile phone. | |
| | | [[thresholdMon]] | Cron | Monitors all known RRD files for exceeded threshold, according to user-configured thresholds, and dispatched threshold events accordingly. | |
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