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About Network Utilities

Operators in the Network Utilities category can run on both Orchestrators and agents and can interact with SNMP devices or SNMP managers (such as network managers). Network Utilities operators determine the state of a configuration element of an IP device.

Network Utilities operators generate SNMP-based Alerts (traps) to either devices or network managers. Network Utilities is designed to influence a Process, not to implement a full-fledged network monitor.

Users can invoke operators from Network Utilities to:

• Get the value of remote MIB (Management Information Base) variables and use their values in the Process (for example, as parameters or as conditions).
• Wait for conditions on the value of remote MIB variables.
• Set remote MIB variables to affect the behavior of external devices.
• Send SNMP traps to report errors and special conditions to SNMP management platforms (for example, Tivoli, HP OpenView, or ISM).

Network Utilities operators are available on hosts with UNIX and Windows operating systems. Network Utilities identify remote MIB variables by their Object IDs (OIDs).

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