Testing Ping attribute groups

You can test the Ping attribute group that you created within Agent Builder.

Procedure

  1. You can start the Testing procedure in the following ways:
    • During agent creation click Test on the Ping Information page.
    • After agent creation, select an attribute group on the Agent Editor Data Source Definition page and click Test. For more information about the Agent Editor, see Using the Agent Editor to modify the agent.

    After you click Test in one of the previous two steps, the Test Settings window opens.

  2. Optional: Before you start testing, you can set environment variables and configuration properties. For more information, see Attribute group testing.
  3. Click Browse to select a Ping configuration file. For more about Ping configuration files, see Configuration files
  4. Click Start Agent. A window indicates that the Agent is starting.
  5. To simulate a request from the monitoring environment for agent data, click Collect Data. The agent pings the devices that are specified in the device list file, which is referenced from the Ping configuration file.
  6. The Test Settings window collects and shows any data in the agent's cache since it was last started.
  7. Optional: Click Check Results if the returned data is not as you expected.
    The Data Collection Status window opens and shows you more information about the data. The data that is collected and shown by the Data collection Status window is described in Performance Object Status node.
  8. Stop the agent by clicking Stop Agent.
  9. Click OK or Cancel to exit the Test Settings window. Clicking OK saves any changes that you made.