(DI-1805) Create a Collector Job

Create a Collector job (for monitoring)

To schedule the monitoring of a remote system it is necessary to run a Collector job for monitoring. This Collector job is scheduled and periodically run as a background job. To create a Collector job follow these steps:

Under the Collectors Jobs tab click on the  button or press the function key F9.
The system displays a pop-up dialog known as a Collector job manager. This has two sections namely Monitoring plan (for creating/ editing Collector jobs) and Running Collector jobs (providing an overview of already created/running Collector jobs).

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To create a new Collector job, you should define the following:

• Definition: Enter a System ID which should be monitored and assign a Monitoring profile.
• Execution: Choose to run the Collector job immediately after the Collector job is (re)started or choose a time and date indicating when to begin.
• Period: Define the time interval between the Collector job runs.
• Retention time: Determines how long data will be stored on the Central monitoring system. In the moment the retention time has elapsed, data will be deleted. The only exception is data with a time stamp that belongs to a time interval which you specified before.

When the Collector job has been created/ edited, click the (Re)Start Collector job button. A notification appears in the bottom left-hand corner.

_{Successfully started monitoring Collector job}