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IP Node Monitor State Changes

A change in the state of an IP node monitored by the IP Node Monitor is advertised by an Event Distribution Services (EDS) event, which triggers a display update for anyone watching the device status display. The EDS event also can be picked up by any other process, which requires this information.

The EDS event created for a state change has the following attributes:

EDS Event

Attribute

Name

$IPNMON.STATE.UPD

Resource

The IP address of the node.

Ref

oldstate - newstate

Possible status values are:

Status Value

Description

Unknown

Ping has not completed.

OK

Ping completed successfully.

Timeout

Ping timed out.

SNMP Error

Ping completed successfully but an SNMP request has returned an error.