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Creating Custom Performance Monitors

This section provides the procedure to configure Performance Monitors.

• Adding a performance monitor
• Testing a performance monitor
• Modifying a performance monitor

Adding a performance monitor

1. Go to ADMIN > Device Support > Monitoring.
2. Click New and enter the information with reference to the table below:
   
   

   Settings	Guidelines
   Name	Name of this performance object (for reference purposes)
   Type	Whether the performance object is for monitoring a System-level metric or an Application-level metric.
   Method	Method to collect this performance object (WMI).
   Parent Class	WMI metrics are defined in the form of a parent class (for example, Win32_ComputerSystem) having multiple attributes (e.g. Domain, TotalPhysicalMemory etc.)
   List of Attributes	Individual attributes that has to be monitored.
   Event Type	For this performance object: Associate an event type from drop down (must be pre-created).
   Polling frequency	Specifies how often this performance object must be polled.
   Description	Description of this performance object

3. Click Save.
4. Under Enter Device Type to Performance Object Mapping, click New. 
5. Enter a Name for the mapping. 
6. Select the Device Type to which you want to apply the monitor. 
   Whenever a device belonging to the selected device type is discovered, FortiSIEM will attempt to apply the performance monitor to it. 
7. Select the Perf Objects.
8. Click Save. 

After you have successfully tested and applied the Performance Monitor, initiate discovery of the device that it will monitor, and ensure that the new monitor is enabled.

Testing a performance monitor

1. Go to ADMIN > Device Support > Monitoring.
2. Select the performance monitor.
3. Click Test.
4. For IP Address, enter the IP address of the device that you want to use to test the monitor. 
5. Click Test.
6. If the test succeeds, click Close, and click Apply to register the new monitor with the back-end module.

Modifying a performance monitor

Follow the procedure below to modify performance monitor:

1. Select one or more performance monitor(s) from the list.
2. Click the required option from the following table.
   • Edit to modify any performance monitor setting.
   • Delete to delete a performance monitor.
3. Click Save.