Creating Standard Tests

1. Navigate to Administration > Devices.
2. In the Manage Devices window, find the device for which you want to provision tests and click Tests. The Manage Tests page displays.

   

3. In the Manage Tests window click Create New Standard Tests. The Add Standard Tests page displays.
   
4. Select one of the following options.
   • Create new tests from following Application Profile - When you select this option, the Application Profile Name selection box displays with a list widely-used applications and devices. The list is a collection of SNMP and WMI metrics that Traverse can automatically discover. Each entry is associated with one or more standard and proprietary SNMP MIBs, Windows services/applications, or a functional grouping of metrics from different monitors. See Application Profiles for more information. Select one or more application profiles and go to Step 5.
     • You can select multiple application profiles using the Shift and Ctrl keys on your keyboard.
     • When you click Add Tests, the test associated to each selected profile displays (as the filter for subsequent test discovery) in the Filter Tests page.
     • In most cases the SNMP Test page or the WMI Test page, or both display. For example, the Cisco Call Manager profile includes metrics that are collected using both SNMP and WMI.
   • Create new tests using a Device Template - Displays only if linked device templates have been created. Select this option to add tests based on a device template (see Linked Device Templates for more information).
   • Create new tests by selecting specific monitors
     • Select Perform auto-discovery of supported (*) test types if you want Traverse to auto-discover tests for monitors types designated with an asterisk (*).
     • In the Available Monitor Types list, select the monitors that include tests that you want to provision for this device. See Supported Monitors and Tests for the list of available monitors/tests.
5. Click Add Tests. A page similar to the example below displays. A few monitor types have only one test and do not require specifying a credential. In this case this page does not display.

   

6. Set the following options on the A Create New Tests: Step 2 - Filter Tests to Create page.
   • Monitor Instance - Most tests require you to select a shared or device-specific credential/configuration.
     • Use Existing - Select an existing shared or device-specific credential/configuration.
     • Create New - Create you new device-specific credential/configuration.
   • Test Categories - Unselect the specific tests you don't want to create. By default all tests are selected.
   • If one or more already provisioned tests... - If checked, Traverse discovers a provisioned test of the same subtype already exists for this device, the test subtype displays and you can provision another test of the same subtype for the device. If blank and some of the configured parameters for the test do not match the rediscovered parameters (such as max, and OID), then the test displays so that you can update the values.
7. Click Continue. A Create New Tests: Step 3 - Configure test parameters page displays.

   Note: The test parameters that display on this page differ for each test. See Standard Test Parameters for a description of basic test parameters that typically display for each monitor type.