(DI-1808) 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:

1. On the Collectors Jobs tab, click , or press F9.
   The system displays the pop-up dialog Collector job manager. This dialog has two sub-screens namely Monitoring plan (for creating and editing Collector jobs) and Running Collector jobs (providing an overview of already created/running Collector jobs).
                                                                                                                                                       Collector job manager
2. Define fields in the following boxes:

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

       3. After the Collector job has been created or edited, click (Re)Start Collector job. The following notification appears in the bottom left-hand corner.

_{Successfully started monitoring Collector job}