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.

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

For the connections without UCT-Vs, there are no targets that are automatically selected. You can use Customer Orchestrated Source in the monitoring session to accept a tunnel from anywhere.

You can create multiple monitoring sessions per monitoring domain.

To create a new monitoring session:

1. Go to 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.
   Traffic Distribute	Enabling the "Traffic Distribute" option identifies duplicate packets across different GigaVUE V Series Nodes when traffic from various targets is routed to these instances for monitoring.

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 Monitoring Session Options for more details.