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Copy a Factory Monitoring Profile

As the CA Performance Center Administrator, you find that the factory Network Interfaces monitoring profile closely matches your needs and requires only minor changes. Therefore, you create a copy and use it to poll only critical interfaces at a faster polling rate.

Note: Log in as the administrator to perform this task.

Follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the list of all monitoring profiles in CA Performance Center.
2. Select the Network Interfaces monitoring profile and click Copy.

   Note: Factory monitoring profiles cannot be edited or deleted. All monitoring profiles, including custom, are global.

   The Create/Edit Monitoring Profile dialog opens.

3. Enter the following information for your monitoring profile:
   • Name: Uplink Interfaces
   • Description (optional): Monitors performance of interfaces in all critical Uplink devices.
   • SNMP Poll Rate: 1 minute

   Note: We recommend that you rename the profile. Unique naming is enforced across all tenants.

   Consider the following information about poll rates:

   • When the poll rate is changed, it takes up to two cycles for the new poll rate to take effect. When the 60-minute rate is used to poll an existing device, a 'No Data To Display' message appears in the dashboard view given the default time range of Last Hour. If you change the dashboard setting to a prior hour, it is possible to see earlier data. However, the view does not display the latest data until the new poll cycle completes.
   • Interfaces that are assigned to multiple monitoring profiles with different poll rates are polled at the fastest assigned rate.
4. Leave the Change Detection Settings, Rate value at 24 Hours.

   Consider the following information about change detection rates:

   • The change detection rate is how often Data Aggregator checks whether any components on a device have been reconfigured. Changes can include new components that have been created or existing components that have been retired.

     Note: The reconciliation algorithm specified in the metric family defines the configuration changes to watch for. For more information about how change detection and device reconfiguration works, see the Data Aggregator Administrator Guide.

   • The Change Detection Settings, Rate option is used to set the frequency at which Data Aggregator checks for changes. The rate of detection can be set in minutes or hours. By default, the rate is set to 24 hours.
   • Changes are detected at the fastest rate you specified for all of the monitoring profiles that are associated with a collection of devices.
5. Leave the 'Automatically Update Metric Families' check box selected.

   This option controls the Data Aggregator response once a change or reconfiguration is detected. Selecting this option automatically causes Data Aggregator to start monitoring new components or to stop monitoring retired components. When this option is not selected, you can manually control monitoring of components, as follows:

   1. Manually check the Events Display dashboard to watch for configuration events.
   2. Navigate to the Data Aggregator administration menu, Monitored Devices, Polled Metric Families view.
   3. Select the appropriate metric family, and click Update Metric Family to help ensure that Data Aggregator picks up the latest device reconfiguration.

   Note: If an interface filter is applied, Data Aggregator monitors only the interfaces that pass the filter conditions after reconfiguration.

6. Leave the Interfaces metric family as the only metric family in the Selected Metric Families list.
7. Click Save.

   Your copied monitoring profile is added to the Monitoring Profiles list. However, this monitoring profile is not active until you assign it to a device collection.

More information:

Discovery and Polling

View Events

How to Manage Change Detection

Troubleshooting: Polling Has Stopped on Discovered Metric Family

Discovery Workflow

How to Set and Activate an Interface Filter