Groups, gateways, devices, and monitor display an Advanced edit tab.
Advanced
Active - If checked the device is considered active. Active devices test their monitors. This option is checked by default.
SSH2 connect. sharing - If checked, enables persistent SSH2 connections for this device. Normally only one connection is opened and then shared among all monitors using SSH2 with this device. Disabling the SSH2 connection sharing results in more logons on the SSH server, but can be useful if you experience any problems with your connections.
Enable inspection - Enables automated inspection on this device. Normally Network Monitor performs a device inventory of all devices regularly, to discover hardware and attached devices.
Use WMI - If a device is a Windows system type, the following monitor types use WMI when the device flag Use WMI is checked. If you experience issues with these monitor types, try unchecking this checkbox.
Inherit map settings - If checked, map settings are inherited from the parent node and the other three map options remain hidden. Uncheck to specify your own map settings.
Map setting - Use google maps. This is the only option available at this time.
Google map display - Checking these options determines whether gateways, groups and devices are shown on the map.
Geographic location - Enter the name of a location or GPS coordinates using decimal notation, such as -33.469048,-70.642007.
Time zone - Monitors display their real time charts in the device's local time.
Inherit time zone - If checked, inherits time zone settings from the parent node. Uncheck to specify you own time zone settings.
Device dependency settings
Inherit dependency - This setting determines the currently selected node's dependency on one or more specified monitors. If checked, this node inherits it dependency from the parent node. If blank, you can define a dependency based on a different set of monitors within the same gateway branch of the navigation tree or leave no monitors specified to ensure this node has no dependencies.
Select dependency monitor / Selected monitors - Enter text to display the names of monitors in the Select dependency monitor list that match the text entered. Select one or more monitors in the list, then click the Add button to add the monitors to the Selected monitors list. You can also click the Select button to browse for target monitors. To remove a monitor, select it and click the Remove button.
Simple maintenance
These settings provide a quick method of specifying a maintenance period for a single device.
Note: Use > Schedules > Device maintenance to specify maintenance schedules for multiple devices.
Start time / (end time) - The range of time during the day when this device down for maintenance.
Day of week - The days of the week this device is down for maintenance.
Maintenance mode - Stop test during maintenance. This is the only device available during a maintenance period.
> Schedules > Device maintenance to specify maintenance schedules for multiple devices.