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Defining IP Monitoring Jobs

You can define an IP Monitoring (IP_MON) job to monitor an IP address or a port on an IP address. An IP Monitoring job monitors for a running or stopped status. The job can return the result immediately or wait for the specified device to reach the specified state.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, Windows, or i5/OS.

To monitor remote IP addresses through the agent, the agent must run as root (on the CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, or Windows) or under a profile with sufficient authority to use the system ping command (on the CA WA Agent for i5/OS). If it runs as a user without root privileges, the job will show complete but with the message "Ping (ip address) insufficient privilege" in the status field and transmitter.log.

Required Statements

To define an IP Monitoring job, you must specify the following statements:

• AGENT
• IPADDRESS
• STATUS

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for an IP Monitoring job:

• IPPORT
• JOBCLASS
• USER

Example: Monitor an IP Address and Port

This example monitors a device at IP address 172.24.2.20 and port 9401. When the job runs, it immediately checks if the device is running. If the device is running, the job completes. If the device is not running, the job fails.

AGENT SYSAGENT
IPADDRESS 172.24.2.20
IPPORT 9401
STATUS RUNNING NOW