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user_guide [2007/06/21 12:39]
morten
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faltin [The back-end processes]
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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. |
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 | [[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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