Customizing the Management Agent for Windows Server

You can manually edit the following files to modify the default Management Agent for Windows configuration on a managed Windows server.

Management Agent for Windows Server .INI Files Description

n_ntfmw.ini

Allows you to specify IPX addresses that will be ignored and will not receive SNMP traps.

nttrap.ini

Specifies settings to troubleshoot your managed Windows servers and set trap filters to specify which Windows events are sent to the management system as SNMP traps.

See Controlling Alarm Generation for detailed information on configuring trap filters and trap generation.

The Server Management Agent has been enhanced with the following features: Collecting Events from Custom Event Log Types and Specifying Negative Filter Conditions in the Nttrap.ini File .

n_nttren.ini

Specifies the initial values for the trends and thresholds supported by the Management Agent for Windows.

See Setting Default Trends and Thresholds for detailed information on modifying default trends and thresholds.


Configuring the Management Agent for Windows Server

By default, the Management Agent for Windows sends traps to SNMP Management console on IPX networks broadcasting the 0x026 Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) ID. You can edit the n_ntfmw.ini file to include the IPX addresses of SNMP Management console that you do not want to include as trap targets.

To add the IPX address of a SNMP Management console to omit as an automatic trap recipient:

  1. Open the n_ntfmw.ini file in a text editor.

  2. Add the IPX address for omitted SNMP Management console using the following syntax:

    xxxxxxxx.yyyyyyyyyyyy

    where xxxxxxxx is the net address and yyyyyyyyyyyy is the node address, such as 01014044.00001B4DDAFD.

  3. Save the file and restart the Management Agent for Windows.


Collecting Events from Custom Event Log Types

The Server Management Agent for Windows collects events from Windows Event Log and converts these events to traps. The traps are forwarded to the site server.

You can now use the Server Management Agent for Windows to specify custom event log types to collect traps from DNS server, directory service log, file replication service log, etc. using the nttrap.ini file.

  1. Open the nttrap.ini file from the installation_path\zfs_agnt\ntagent\ini directory.

  2. In the Monitor Settings section, enable the event for custom log types according to the instructions in the file.

  3. Save the nttrap.ini file.


Specifying Negative Filter Conditions in the Nttrap.ini File

The Server Management Agent for Windows now enables you to specify conditions with negatives.

To specify negative filter conditions in the nttrap.ini file:

  1. Open the nttrap.ini file from the installation_path\zfs_agnt\ntagent\ini directory.

  2. In the Available Filters section, and specify the negative filter conditions. For example, Collect events except event with the ID as 500.

  3. In the Actual Filters section, enable these filters.

  4. Save the nttrap.ini file.