Setup Monitoring Profile Action

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Setup Monitoring Profile action provides user interface for adding and configuring network monitoring tools including alerts, charts and trackers.

All the tools available for a device are classified into several groups according to the type of monitoring they provide:

•	Device Availability (see Availability)

•	Processes (see Process Monitoring)

•	CPU (CPU Performance Monitoring)

•	Network Interfaces (see Network Traffic and Bandwidth Monitoring)

•	Storage Volumes (see Storage Monitoring)

•	VMware (see VMware Server Monitoring)

•	Apache (see Apache Web Server Monitoring)

•	Printer (see Printer Monitoring)

•	Performance (for tracking performance of various services)

•	E-mail (to monitor E-mail servers)

•	HTTP (to monitor Web servers)

•	FTP (to monitor FTP servers)

•	DNS (to monitor DNS servers)

•	LDAP (to monitor Active Directory servers)

•	SSH (to monitor SSH servers)

•	Path Tracing (to monitor Traceroute service)

•	Generic TCP and UDP Services (to monitor TCP and UDP services)

Monitoring groups available for a particular device depend on device type and data it provides.

For example:

•	Printer monitoring tools are supported only if the device has prtGeneralTable SNMP variable;

•	Presence of VMware group depends on vmTable variable;

•	Tools from Device Availabilty group can be used for any (IP-based) network device.

To generate monitoring tools for a device:

1.	Select Setup Monitoring Profile item in the device context menu.

2.	Select groups of tools to create.

3.	A separate configuration window will appear for each selected option. Add and configure one or more tools for this group.