You may create new profiles or maintain existing profiles. These profiles are required before starting the monitoring of Collector jobs. Please note that you can create or modify only field names (in this case the profile definition name) that start with Z*, Y* or X*. The standard customizing (field entries except the ones starting with Z*, Y*, X*) can not be changed or added.

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Create custom profile

In profile definiton section click New Entries
Fill in all the information:
1. Monitoring profile name and description
  
  When creating custom Profiles, use Z* or Y* naming convention please.
2. Profile for main system type (optional)
3. Period value - predefined periods in which data will be collected
4. Retention time (Days) - Number of days in which data will be stored on system.
5. Change log
Save

Profile is ready for use.

Display / maintain existing profile

By selecting a profile, the user may customize KPIs, Alerts, Collector's parameters and Collector's setups associated with the profile. Using these profiles, you can define the KPIs which will be collected in the monitored system. Only existing KPIs can be associated with specific profiles.

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If you want to monitor a certain KPI for a specific profile, you can also set alerts. Only created and KPI-specific alerts can be set up in this method.

_{Alerts created for profile-dependent KPI}

In this subcategory, you can define a profile to determine which alert will be monitored with specific setup for a specific KPI. For detailed information about alerts, refer the next section Alert definition.

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