Working with Performance Monitors

The Performance Monitor Library is a central storehouse of all global performance monitors configured for your network. Performance monitors gather information about specific WMI and SNMP values from the network devices.

Note: Default monitors in the library cannot be edited or removed: CPU Utilization, Disk Utilization, Interface Utilization, and Ping Latency and Availability.

You can use the Performance Monitor Library to configure and manage performance monitors.

Use the Performance Monitor Library dialog to configure new or existing performance monitor types:

• Click New to configure a custom performance monitor.
• Select an existing performance monitor, then click Edit to modify its configuration.

1. Note: The five default global monitors cannot be edited or deleted: CPU Utilization, Disk Utilization, Interface Utilization, and Ping Latency and Availability.
2. Select an existing performance monitor, then click Delete to remove it from the list.

   Caution: When you delete a performance monitor from the Performance Monitor Library, any instance of that monitor is also deleted, and all related report data is lost.

Tip: Click Configure Alerts to view the Alert Center Threshold Library.

Caution: When custom Performance Monitors are changed, the changes affect each instance of that particular monitor across device groups.

To configure Performance Monitors for the devices to which they are assigned:

1. From the Device Properties page, right-click a device you want to configure. The right-click menu appears.
2. Click Properties. The Device Properties dialog appears.
   
3. Select the monitor from the list and click Configure to enable a pre-configured monitor for this device.
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   Click Add and create a device-specific monitor.
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   Double-click an existing monitor to change its configuration.
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   Select a performance monitor type, then click Delete to remove it from the list.
4. Click OK to save changes.

See Also Using Performance Monitors Performance monitors overview Using the Performance Monitor Library Adding and editing an SNMP Performance Monitor Adding and editing an SSH Performance Monitor Adding and editing an Active Script Performance Monitor Adding and editing a WMI Performance Monitor