Adding Your Own Monitors

You may find that the monitors in a monitoring policy cover most of the monitoring needs you have. However, there may be cases where you want to apply a specific monitor to a group or device separately from a monitoring policy.

For example, the monitoring policies for SQL monitor default instances because the instance name is required to collect performance counters and monitor the Windows services. Generally, default instances are used, but you have a single customer with an important database on a named instance. Creating the monitors directly on the device allows the monitoring to occur as needed without creating a monitoring policy for use with a single device.

What You Can Do

You can add monitors to individual devices:

• Using the Configuration > Alerting > Monitors & Alert Rules option.
• Using the Monitors tab on the Alerts page for an individual device.

To add a monitor to an individual device

1. In Service Center, click Configuration > Alerting  > Monitor & Alert Rules.
2. From the Site list, select the site where the device is located.
3. From the Device list, select the device to which you want to add a monitor.
    
4. Click Add Monitor.

5.   Select the type of monitor from the list.
   

   The monitors that are available depend on whether the device has SNMP-enabled, WMI-enabled, or both.

   Bandwidth Use to measures specific usage of bandwidth of an interface through either WMI or SNMP. See Adding a Monitor for Bandwidth.
   Device Availability Use to establish device availability with ICMP ECHO requests. See Setting Options for Device Availability Monitors.
   Device Warranty Use to add a monitor that notifies you when a warranty is about to expire. See Adding a Monitor for Device Warranty.
   Log File Use to monitor log files for specific strings. See Adding a Monitor for Log Filess.
   Network Services Use to monitor the availability and response times of network services. See Adding a Monitor for Network Services.
   Patch Health Use to capture the status of Microsoft updates. See Adding a Monitor for Microsoft Patch Health.
   Performance Counters Use to measure performance counter values. See Adding a Monitor for Performance Counters.
   SCE Use to gather System Center Essentials (SCE) alerts. See Adding a Monitor for Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE).
   SNMP Traps Use to receive SNMP trap messages. See Adding a Monitor for SNMP Traps.
   Syslog Messages Use to receive syslog messages. See Adding a Monitor for Syslog Messages.
   Windows Events Use to parse the contents of Windows events logs. See Adding a Monitor for Windows Events.
   Windows Services Use to control the state of Windows services. See Adding a Monitor for Windows Services.

6. Click Add Monitor.
7. Type a title for the monitor.
8. Optionally, type a description for the monitor.
9. Apply rules to the monitor. See Setting Alert Actions.
10. Click Save.