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Monitor Sets

Monitor > Monitor Sets

The Monitor Sets page adds, imports or modifies monitor sets. Sample monitor sets can be loaded using the System > Configure page.

A monitor set is a set of counter objects, counters, counter instances, services and processes used to monitor the performances of machines. Typically, a threshold is assigned to each object/instance/counter, service, or process in a monitor set. Alarms can be set to trigger if any of the thresholds in the monitor set are exceeded. A monitor set should be used as a logical set of things to monitor. A logical grouping, for example, could be to monitor all counters and services integral to running an Exchange Server. You can assign a monitor set to any machine that has an operating system of Windows 2000 or newer.

The general procedure for working with monitor sets is as follows:

  1. Optionally update monitor set counter objects, instances and counters by source machine ID using Monitor > Update Lists by Scan.
  2. Optionally update monitor set counter objects, instances and counters manually and review them using Monitor Lists.
  3. Optionally update predefined sample monitor sets using System > Configure.
  4. Create and maintain monitor sets using Monitor > Monitor Sets.
  5. Assign monitor sets to machine IDs using Monitor > Assign Monitoring.
  6. Optionally customize standard monitor sets as individualized monitor sets.
  7. Optionally customize standard monitor sets using Auto Learn.
  8. Review monitor set results using:

Note: Not all monitor sets may be available for editing on the Monitor Set page, since the creator of a monitor set may only have shared the use of the monitor set but not the editing of the set.

Sample Monitor Sets

The VSA provides a growing list of sample monitor sets. The names of sample monitor sets begin with ZC. They can be updated using System > Configure. You can modify sample monitor sets, but its better practice to copy a sample monitor set and customize the copy. Sample monitor sets are subject to being overwritten every time the sample sets are updated. An Excel document called Standard Monitoring Library.xls provides a description of each sample monitor set. It can be downloaded from the Kaseya Support Forum.

Page Select

When more rows of data are selected than can be displayed on a single page, click the and buttons to display the previous and next page. The drop down list alphabetically lists the first record of each page of data.

Add

Click Add to open a form that asks the user to:

  1. Monitor Set Name - Name the new monitor set.
  2. Monitor Set Description - Optionally describe the new monitor set.
  3. Group Alarm Column - Select a group alarm column. User defined group alarm column names are maintained using the Monitor Lists page. Group alarms display on the Dashboard List page.

Import

Click Import to upload a monitor set XML file to your server. Monitor sets can be exported using Define Monitor Set.

Edit

Click Edit to display the Define Monitor Set window and edit a monitor set.