Configuring Monitoring Accounts

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The Monitoring Accounts are the user accounts who have administrative rights to access the Windows Server. You can configure Monitoring Accounts for users for a specific Tenant.

To configure Monitoring Account:

  1. Select Admin > Advanced > Discovery & Monitoring > Monitoring Account.
  2. On the MONITORING ACCOUNT page, click ADD NEW on the ACTIONS panel.
  3. Select the Tenant and type in the new Monitoring Account details. For more information about the field on the MONITORING ACCOUNT page, see Field Description.
  4. Click SUBMIT. A new Monitoring Account is configured.

    MONITORING ACCOUNT page
    Figure:  MONITORING ACCOUNT page

    MONITORING ACCOUNT page - AWS
    Figure:  MONITORING ACCOUNT page - AWS

FIELD DESCRIPTION

The following table describes the fields on the MONITORING ACCOUNT page:

Fields

Description

DETAILS

Used For

Select the protocol used for monitoring.

Note: 

Under the Used For drop-down field, select LDAP drop-down list and configure the Domain, User Name, Password, Re-enter Password, IPAddress, LDAP Path, and Active fields. After the LDAP configurations are set, the configured LDAP path is available for selection on the DISCOVERY page under the LDAP Path field while configuring the Discovery using Type as Active Directory.

Domain

Type in the domain name to which the user belongs.

User Name

Type in the user name of the User to whom you want to provide the administrative rights to access the Windows server machines.

Password

Type in the password.

Re-enter Password

Re-enter the password.

AWS Account Name

Specify the unique name for the AWS Account. After the configuration, you can view this to filter the Dashboards on the AWS CloudWatch Dashboard page.

Note:

This field displays only when you select the Used For field value as AWS from the drop-down list.

Access Key

Specify the access key that is used to authenticate the AWS CloudWatch Dashboard.

Note:

This field displays only when you select the Used For field value as AWS from the drop-down list.

Secret Key

Specify the Secret Key that is used to authenticate the AWS CloudWatch Dashboard.

Note:

This field displays only when you select the Used For field value as AWS from the drop-down list.

Re-enter Secret key

Re-enter the secret key.

Note:

This field displays only when you select the Used For field value as AWS from the drop-down list.

Description

Type in a brief description about the user or the purpose of adding Monitoring Account or any warning message. For example, you can create a user to access data from a group of critical servers, you can add a message like “Do not delete this user name”.

Is Sudo

This check box should be selected only for the Sudo accounts. If selected for an account, which is not Sudo, the discovery results may not be as expected.

For more information, refer to How to Enable Sudo Access.

Active

Indicates the status set for the Monitoring Account.

  • If selected, the Monitoring Account is enabled.
  • If not selected, the Monitoring Account becomes inactive.

ACTIONS

This section explains all the icons displayed on the ACTIONS panel of the MONITORING ACCOUNT page.

Filters

Click the Filters icon to select a value for the Used For list. Click SUBMIT.

FILTERS pop-up page
Figure: FILTERS pop-up page

SHOW LIST

Click SHOW LIST to display the LIST table showing all the Monitoring Accounts configured in the SUMMIT application for the selected Tenant.

 

 Figure: MONITORING ACCOUNT page: List of monitoring accounts

  • To edit a Monitoring Account configuration, click User Name. Make appropriate changes and click SUBMIT.

Note:

When the Monitoring Accounts are displayed under the LIST table, the ADD NEW action is displayed on the ACTIONS panel. Click ADD NEW to configure a new Monitoring Account.

HISTORY

Click the HISTORY icon to view the change history details of the Monitoring Account.