Installing The SNMP Protocol
Spotlight is unable to display Open Ports information if the SNMP protocol has not been installed on:
- The Windows machine under diagnosis, AND
- The machine running the Spotlight client.
To install the SNMP protocol (Windows XP)
- Open the Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows components.
- Select Management and Monitoring Tools from the list of components.
- Click Details.
- Select Simple Network Management Protocol.
- Follow the installation instructions.
Spotlight on Windows License
Spotlight on Windows is embedded with a number of other Spotlights, including Spotlight on SQL Server, Spotlight on Active Directory and Spotlight on Exchange.
The embedded version of Spotlight on Windows shares the license of the other Spotlight product. You do not need to license it separately. If Spotlight on Windows reports that its license has expired this means the license of the product Spotlight on Windows shipped with has expired. You can renew the Spotlight on Windows license by renewing the license of the other Spotlight product.
Spotlight on Unix
Spotlight is powerful diagnostic and problem-resolution tool for Unix and Linux operating systems. Its unique user interface provides you with an intuitive, visual representation of the activity on your host machine.
For information on Spotlight on Unix, see these sections
| Section |
Description |
|---|---|
| Background Information |
Introductory material to Spotlight on Unix. |
| Connect to a Unix System | Create / Modify / Delete connections to Unix systems. |
| Home Page | The Spotlight home page shows the flow of information and commands between various sub-components and the size and status of internal resources such as processes, disk files and memory structures. |
| Alarms |
Spotlight alerts you to problems with your system by issuing an alarm. You can configure Spotlight in the level of severity that constitutes an alarm, to disable an alarm, and the actions Spotlight takes on raising the alarm. |
| Drilldowns | When you have isolated a problem, you can display a drilldown page, whose charts and tables provide a detailed breakdown of the underlying statistics. |
| View | Options | Customize Spotlight. |
| Troubleshooting | Solve problems using Spotlight. |
For information on using Spotlight applications See
Spotlight Home Page
The Spotlight home page shows the flow of information and commands between various sub-components and the size and status of internal resources such as processes, disk files and memory structures.
Related operating system statistics are grouped together on panels that are connected by a series of graphical flows and icons. Spotlight updates these flows in real time so you can see how quickly data is moving through the system. The icons change color as Spotlight alarms are raised, upgraded, downgraded and canceled.
To see the Spotlight on Unix Home Page
- Select the Spotlight on Unix connection from the Spotlight browser.
- Click
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