Glossary

Department

When the monitor is assigned to a department, only that department users can see the monitor. A monitor can belong to many departments also.

Flow

Flow is the data that transit in the network. It contains everything like: request from source host, destination response, count of requests etc.

Log

Logs are the traces of activity that system stores for any action performed in the network. The logs are used to determine what, where and how did something went wrong.

Monitor

Monitors are the network components (devices, logical entities, URL etc.) that has an IP address.

Monitor Name

The name of the monitor helps you identify any monitor. When a new monitor is provisioned, Motadata will show it’s IP address and host value as name of the monitor. You can change the name by editing the monitor.

Poll

Motadata sends the queries to the network monitors on scheduled intervals. The network replies back with relevant information.

Polling Time

The timestamp of reply by the network (for the scheduled queries sent by Motadata) is called polling time.

Tags

Define your own label and associate with monitors. You can later filter and group the monitors based on these tags.

Traps

When any configuration/setting is changed in system, the activity is referred as trap.

Type

Shows the type of monitor. To see full list of monitor types, see ‘source type’ in Create Monitor Alert page.