• A general description of the probe, including its purpose and intended use.
• Probe type and probe subtype, for example, messaging is a probe type and one of its associated probe subtypes is router process state. This combination of probe type and probe subtype creates a mail router status probe.
• Configurable specifics on what the probe monitors and how it should report, for example, thresholds for events it generates.
• Configurable probe targets, that is, which servers, database, etc., that the probe runs against.
• Where applicable, configurable scheduling information.

You can use the default Probe documents with their default settings to get you "up and running" with DDM or you can configure probes to run in a manner that is specifically tailored to your organization by creating new Probe documents in which you define and customize your own probes. To use the probes that are defined with the default Probe documents, enable those probes in DDM.

For more information about enabling DDM probes, see the topic Enabling and disabling DDM probes.

The following probes are available in DDM:

• Application Code probes
• Database probes
• Directory probes
• Messaging probes
• Operating System probes
• Replication probes
• Security probes
• Server probes
• Web probes

Editing a DDM Probe document
Deleting a DDM Probe document
Domino domain monitoring

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