Documentation forUser Device Tracker
Monitoring users, devices, and ports is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition.

Port Management

The Port Management page is used to manage and monitor nodes and ports.

To access the Port Management page, either:

  • Click Manage Ports on the All UDT Nodes widget on the Device Tracker Summery view.
  • Navigate to Settings > All Settings > UDT Settings, and select Manage Ports.

You can add a node at any time by clicking Add Node.

Select Port Discovery to access the SolarWinds Platform Discovery Central.

Unmonitored nodes

  1. Select Show Nodes and Filter to: UDT Unmonitored Nodes.
  2. Select a node. The following options can then be selected:
    • Edit properties: Click to open the Edit Properties page, where you can edit the polling details, custom properties, alert thresholds and other information for the selected node.
    • Unmanage: Click to suspend polling and statistics collection for a specified period. During this period the node status will be "Node status is Unmanaged".
    • Remanage: Click to immediately resume polling and statistics collection.
    • Monitor node with UDT: Click to monitor any ports on this node from the next poll. The node will now be displayed in the Monitored nodes list.
    • Delete: Delete the selected node.

Monitored nodes

  1. Select Show Nodes and Filter to: UDT Monitored Nodes.
  2. Select a node. Expand to show ports. The following options can then be selected:
    • Edit properties: Click to open the Edit Properties page, where you can edit the polling details, custom properties, alert thresholds and other information for the selected node.
    • Unmanage: Click to suspend polling and statistics collection for a specified period. During this period the node status will be "Node status is Unmanaged".
    • Remanage: Click to immediately resume polling and statistics collection.
    • Poll now: Click to immediately initiate polling for the selected device.
    • Delete: Delete the selected node.

Ports

To shutdown or turn on a port you must have Read/Write Credentials for this node

  1. Select Show Ports
  2. Select a port. The following options can then be selected:
    • Unmonitor: Click to stop monitoring a monitored port.

      Unmonitoring a port will stop collection of connection information but will keep capacity information. An unmonitored port is not counted against your monitored port license.

    • Monitor: Click to monitor an unmonitored port.
    • Shutdown: Click to shutdown the selected port.
    • Turn on: Click to turn on the selected port.
    • Delete: Delete the selected port.