Glossary

Agent – a program installed on the physical or virtual server or other network node that performs monitoring and sends gathered data to the server.

Alarm – an abnormal situation detected on an object during monitoring.

Backing – a system element that allows you to visually group objects in the standard view. Backings are not involved in the monitoring process.

Child object – an object whose parent is not the root object.

Class – a set of default settings that are applied to a newly created objects. Each object in the system belongs to a class.

Client – an application that works with the SAYMON server.

Document – a link or a file attached to an entity.

Event – SNMP Trap or MQTT message received by the system as well as change of an entity’s state.

Event log – web-interface element, that allows a user to view, filter, and search SNMP Traps, MQTT messages, and State History for all entities in the system.

Entity – a collective term for objects and links.

Flow – a system element that allows to display connections between other system elements. Flows are not involved in the monitoring process.

Link – a system element that connects two objects. It can display either a physical connection (for example, connecting a server to a router with an Ethernet cable) or a logical relation (for example, a data flow from one software component to another).

Multiparent – an object, that is a parent of multiple other objects. Multiparenting allows you to display an object in branches of all of its parents in the object tree and influence them.

Object - a system element within which a monitoring process is happening. For example, an object can represent a physical device (server, processor), software module (database, web-server), or a higher-level element relating to business processes (service, platform).

Password policy – a set of requirements for a user password.

Permissions – a set of actions that a user can perform to the system and its elements.

Preset – a pre-defined list of filters and displayed columns for a table of active and historic alarms.

The same presets can be used to configure tables for both active and historic alarms.

Property – is a text data attached to an entity in the key-value format.

Reference – a special system element that displays existing entities in other parts of the hierarchy.

Server – a SAYMON installation, that stores and analyzes data received by agents, and provides this data to clients. Also stores information about user accounts.

State – a parameter of an entity, that displays result of monitoring performed within the entity. Each system entity that can be involved in the monitoring process has a state.

Synthetic alarm – an alarm that is generated based on one or more nested alarms.