SPM-NPM Sample Questions Answers

You need to add a new subnet of 500 devices for monitoring. What is the first step to incorporate these devices into NPM?

How does NPM calculate capacity usage trends?

You run ten reports on three assorted weekly schedules and send the results to the network operations distribution list. The email address for the distribution list changed, and you must update the new email address to send the reports. How do you implement this update?

You receive traps from your network devices and want to alert on a select message. How do you accomplish this?

You use NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team decides to virtualize these servers using VMware. Which part of your virtual infrastructure will NPM no longer be able to monitor?

Network performance over an inter-campus Ethernet link is slow. One side of the connection is experiencing a high number of packet drops. What information in NPM can you review to help discover the cause of the issue?

When you configure a report, you can limit access to specific users.

The finance department asks to view select reports from NPM. Because of compliance policies, you cannot create accounts in the Web Console for users outside of the IT department. How do you allow the finance department to view reports without a user account?