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Creating a new Shooter directly from the MIB tree

First, open the Define <ClassName> Shooters window…

1. Switch to Designer mode.
2. Select Edit|Manage Classes from the menu on the main window.
3. The "Manage classes" window opens
4. Right-click a Class icon and select Define Shooters from the menu.
5. The Shooter configuration window opens.

OR

1. Switch to Designer mode.
2. Right-click a device on the map and select Define Shooters from the right-click menu.
3. The Shooter configuration window opens.

…then, start building the Shooter container…

1. Enter the IP address and Community name of a test-device into the appropriate fields of the Test and Inspect box (if not already automatically provided by Monitor one)
2. Browse through the MIB tree and select the MIB node from which to create a Shooter.
3. Right-click the node and choose Inspect from the popup menu in order to verify whether the test device supports the selected MIB node.
4. The MIB node turns green if the test device supports the MIB node. Only green nodes can be used in Shooters!
5. Right-click the node again and use the menu items to select the desired Shooter-type and the Polling interval. See the snapshot below.
   
   
   
   
6. The "New Shooter properties" window opens.
   
   
   
   
7. Use this window to assign a Shooter name, to select the desired table type or to select how integer and counter values are to be processed. If you select RAW, Monitor one leaves all numeric values as they are. If you select DELTA, Monitor one computes and uses the difference between the last and the previous sample for further processing! You usually use RAW for things like CPU utilization, Temperature or power-provisioning etc. DELTA is used for things like transmitted/received bytes/sec, errors/100 sec etc.
8. Click the Ok button. The "Add/Modify a <Shooter name> Shooter-target" window opens.
   
   
   
   
9. Use this window to set the Shooter-target properties. Select the instance to use from the OID/Instance box. In the example above, we selected the All instances keyword. This means that the Graph will show the number of etherStatOctets of all instances (ports) of the device in one graph! If you select the Provide at Runtime radio-button, the Graph window will prompt you for an instance when it opens. You can also check the Append radio-button and enter a "hard-coded" instance directly into the edit box. The Show this field on screen checkbox allows you to show or to hide series in the Shooter. If you choose to hide the series, then you can still use the retrieved values in a formula. If you are building a new Threshold Shooter, you can use the controls in the Threshold settings box to define additional threshold parameters.
10. Click the Add/Modify button to save the new Shooter into the database. The icon of the new Shooter appears in the Shooters box and its targets in the box under it.