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Add a CA Standard Monitor

When you add a CA Standard Monitor, the management console attempts to communicate with the monitor using the management IP address you specify. If you want to add a monitor that is not currently available on the network, the management console immediately polls the management IP address, after which you can specify the remaining monitor properties. When the monitor is available on the network, synchronize the monitoring device to establish communication between the monitor and the management console.

Optimize the available resources on the monitor by disabling TCP packet monitoring. For example, if you are planning to add a dedicated monitor to receive packet digest files from a CA GigaStor, and you do not want the monitor to monitor TCP traffic on its monitor NIC, disable packet monitoring.

After you add the monitor, it appears in the ADA Monitoring Device List. If you have defined domains in the CA PC or CA NPC, assign a domain to the Packets monitor feed on the CA Standard Monitor.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Administration page.
2. Click Data Monitoring, Monitoring Devices in the Show Me menu.
3. Click Add ADA Monitor under the Show Me menu.

   Standard Monitor Properties opens.

4. Complete the fields in Standard Monitor Properties and click OK.

   For information about setting the monitoring device properties, click Help.

5. Click the link to synchronize monitoring devices with the current client network, server subnet, and application definitions on the management console.

   Monitoring devices temporarily stop monitoring application performance during synchronization. To minimize interruptions to monitoring, complete all of your changes before synchronizing monitoring devices.