Create a Monitoring Session

You must create a monitoring domain before creating a monitoring session. Refer to Create Monitoring Domain for more detailed information on how to create a monitoring domain.

GigaVUE‑FM automatically collects inventory data on all target instances available in your cloud environment. You can design your monitoring session to include or exclude the instances that you want to monitor. You can also choose to monitor egress, ingress, or all traffic. You can filter the traffic and, use a suite of GigaSMART applications as well.

When a new target instance is added to your cloud environment and it matches a traffic rule confgured in the monitoring session, GigaVUE‑FM automatically detects and adds the instance to your monitoring session. Similarly, when an instance is removed, it updates the monitoring sessions.

You can create multiple monitoring sessions per monitoring domain.

To create a new monitoring session:

  1. In GigaVUE‑FM, on the left navigation pane, select Traffic > Virtual > Orchestrated Flows and select your cloud platform. The Monitoring Sessions page appears.
  2. Click New to open the Create a New Monitoring Session page.
  3. Enter the appropriate information for the monitoring session as described in the following table.

    Field

    Description

    Alias

    The name of the monitoring session.

    Monitoring Domain

    The name of the monitoring domain that you want to select.

    Connection

    The connection(s) that are to be included as part of the monitoring domain. You can select the required connections that need to be part of the monitoring domain.

  4. Click Create. The Edit Monitoring Session Canvas page appears.

The Monitoring Session page Actions button also has the following options:

Button

Description
Edit

Opens the Edit page for the selected monitoring session.

Note:  In case of an error while editing a monitoring session, undeploy and deploy the monitoring session again.
Delete Deletes the selected monitoring session.
Clone Duplicates the selected monitoring session.
Deploy Deploys the selected monitoring session.
Undeploy Undeploys the selected monitoring session.
Apply Threshold You can use this button to apply the threshold template created for monitoring cloud traffic health. Refer to Monitor Cloud Health for more detailed information on cloud traffic health, how to create threshold templates, and how to apply threshold templates.
Apply Policy You can use this button to enable precyption, prefiltering, or Secure Tunnel. Refer to Enable Prefiltering, Precryption, and Secure Tunnel for more details.