The Monitoring tests are found in the MONITORING TAB in the MCS main menu, as shown on the right.

To add a new PORT TEST click the ADD TASK LINK.

The port monitor test opens a TCP connection to a device to test an application is alive.

The options here are mostly straightforward. Some are explained below.

CONSOLIDATE: As it's possible to perform a ping every few seconds it's usually necessary to consolidate the data for the database. This means an average of all results over a certain time frame are taken and added to the database as one entry.

This section is only used if the user wishes to alter the default thresholds.

The default settings are shown in brackets for each parameter.

This will not affect the global thresholds for other tests, they will be unique values for this test.

Click ADD PORT TASK to save changes.