Configuring the probe

After installing the probe you need to make various configuration settings to suit your environment.

The following table outlines how to use the probe's properties to configure the product's features. Configuration of some features is mandatory for all installations. For those features set the properties to the correct values or verify that their default values are suitable for your environment. Further configuration is optional depending on which features of the probe you want to use.

Table 1. Configuring the probe
	Feature	Properties	See
Mandatory features:
	CORBA connection method The method that the probe obtains the reference to the object needed to connect to the CORBA interface.	IORFile NamingServiceHost NamingServicePort NamingServiceIORFile NamingContextPath	Connecting to the CORBA interface
	Authentication Credentials for authenticating with the EMS.	Password Username	Authentication
Optional features:
	Resynchronization policy Specifies whether the probe resynchronizes with the EMS.	InitialResync ResyncInterval ResyncBatchSize ResyncProbableCauseFilter ResyncSeverityFilter	Alarm retrieval and synchronization
	Reconnection policy Specifies whether the probe attempts to reconnect to the EMS following a communications failure.	RetryCount RetryInterval	Reconnection and probe backoff strategy
	Inactivity policy Specifies whether the probe disconnects from the EMS following a period of inactivity.	Inactivity	Inactivity
	Heartbeat policy Specifies whether the probe periodically checks that the connection to the EMS endpoint is still operational.	HeartbeatInterval	Heartbeat
	Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters Enables the probe to process alarms that contain characters encoded in UTF-8, such as Asian languages.	EncodingStandard ORBCharEncoding ORBWCharDefault	Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters
	Peer-to-peer failover pair Allows you to set up two probes to act as a failover pair to improve availability. If the master probe should stop working, the slave probes takes over until the master is available once more.	MessageFile Mode PeerHost PeerPort PidFile PropsFile RulesFile	Peer-to-peer failover functionality
	Command line interface (Telnet) Defines the port allocated to receive CLI commands sent over Telnet, and defines the maximum number of concurrent Telnet connections.	CommandPort CommandPortLimit	Commands supported by the probe over Telnet
	HTTP/HTTPS command interface Enables the HTTP/HTTPS command interface and defines the port that it uses.	NHttpd.EnableHTTP NHttpd.ListeningPort NHttpd.ExpireTimeout	Commands supported by the probe over HTTP/HTTPs