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Configuring a Daily Monitoring Period Configuring a Weekly Monitoring Period Configuring a Monthly Monitoring Period Applying Monitoring Periods to Monitors
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By default, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor continuously collects data from monitored systems. If you only need to collect data from a system at a particular interval, you can configure monitoring periods and apply them to a service monitor. Monitoring periods are times during which a service monitor will actively monitor monitors a host and send alerts.
You can easily create monitoring periods to suit your specific requirements. For example, you can create a monitoring period named Weekends that only monitors a host from 12:00 AM on Saturday to 11:59 PM on Sunday.
This article explains how to configure dailyconfigure daily, weekly, and monthly monitoring periods.
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Getting started
To configure monitoring periods:
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- On the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM tool bar, click Services.
- In the Services tree panel, click Add Monitoring Period.
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- The Monitoring Periods dialog appears.
- Use the steps in the following subtopics to configure a daily, weekly, or monthly monitoring period. Note that you can click
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Configuring a
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daily monitoring period
A daily monitoring period will check checks a system once per day during a range of times that you specify.
To configure a daily monitoring period:
- In the Add Monitoring Period window, enter type a descriptive name in the Name field..
- In the Definition field, type the range you want using the proper format. For example, to #
To create a monitoring period to run that runs every day of the week from 8 AM to 6 PM, entertype: Sun-Sat 8am-6pm. - Click Save. You can now
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- apply the monitoring period to a monitor.
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Configuring a
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weekly monitoring period
A weekly monitoring period will check checks a system once or more over a seven-day period during a range of times that you specify.
To configure a weekly monitoring period:
- In the Add Monitoring Periods Period window, enter type a descriptive name in the Monitor Period Name field..
- In the Definition field, type the range you want using the proper format. For example,
The following example shows how to create a weekly monitoring period that covers runs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the entire day. A single day of the week could be similarly specified., type: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00am-11:59pm. - Click Save. You can now
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- apply the monitoring period to a monitor.
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Configuring a
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monthly monitoring period
A monthly monitoring period will check checks a system once or more over a month, during a range of times that you specify.
To configure a monthly monitoring period:
- In the Add Monitoring Periods Period window, enter type a descriptive name in the Monitor Period Name field..
- In the Definition field, type the range you want using the proper format. For example, to create a monitoring period that runs on a specific
It is possible to specify a numerical day of the month or the day of the week in a specific week of the month. An example of each follows., use the format in the following images. - Click Save. You can now
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- apply the monitoring period to a monitor.
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Applying
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monitoring periods to
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monitors
When creating a new service monitor, simply select the desired monitoring period in the Monitoring Period section. The process to change the monitoring period for a service monitor is similar: open
- Open the service monitor for editing
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- Scroll down to the monitoring period section
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- Select the desired monitoring period, and then click Save.
