Server monitor Configuration Rules

This help document contains the instructions to set up configuration rules for your server monitors and details how configuration rules can help you eliminate manual intervention in the configuration of your server monitors.

Supported operating systems

• Windows
• Linux (supported flavors and distributions)
• AIX
• Solaris
• FreeBSD
• macOS

How to create a configuration rule

1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
2. Click Admin > Inventory > + icon next to Configuration Rules.
   • Alternatively, you can also navigate to this page by clicking Admin > Inventory > Configuration Rules > Add Rule.
3. Provide an appropriate Display Name and a Description in their respective fields.
4. When the Stop Executing Other Rules toggle button is set to:
   • Yes: Whenever a new monitor is created, any other configuration rule with a lower priority number (displayed in the Priority column on the Configuration Rules homepage) will be ignored after running the rule that is being created.
   • No: Whenever a new monitor that matches the conditions set for this rule is created, all other rules will also be run in the order of priority assigned to them.
5. When the checkbox under the Define Criteria section is set to:
   • Any of these Conditions (OR): The configurations will be applied to all the monitors that satisfy at least one of the conditions that you are about to set.
   • All of these Conditions (AND): The configurations will be applied to the monitors that satisfy all of the conditions you are about to set.
6. Select the appropriate monitor type from the drop-down in the Type field.
   • Server Monitor for server monitoring
   • Server Process for processes monitoring
   • Server Service for services monitoring
   • Server Disk Partition for disk partition monitoring
7. Click the + icon next to the Criteria field to add more fields as per your requirements.
   • Click the trash can icon next to the field to delete unwanted fields.
8. In the newly created fields, in the first drop-down menu, you can select the attributes of the monitors you want to target for the configuration rule you are creating. For server monitors, the supported options are:
   • Monitor Name: Target monitors based on the monitor's display name.
   • Monitor Group: Target monitors based on their monitor groups.
   • Domain Name: Target server monitors belonging to a particular domain.
   • Operating System: Target monitors based on their operating systems.
   • IP Address: Target monitors based on their host IP addresses, including those of servers belonging to an IP address range or subnet mask.
   • Host name: Target monitors based on their hostnames.
   • Tags: Target server monitors based on their tags.
9. Under the Define Actions section, set the actions (configurations) that should be set for the monitors satisfying the conditions set in the previous section.
   
   
   
   
   • Threshold Profile: Select a threshold profile to be associated with the targeted monitors.
   • Notification Profile: Select a notification profile to be associated with the targeted monitors.
   • Monitor Group: Select the monitor groups to which the targeted monitors will be added. Selecting Append adds the monitor groups, while selecting Replace replaces the existing monitor groups with the monitor group selected.
   • Third-Party Services: Integrate your targeted server monitors with more than 30 third-party applications.
   • Check Frequency: Set the interval in which data collection should happen for the targeted server monitors (poll interval).
   • User Profile: Set the user groups which should get alerts from the targeted server monitors.
   • Tags: Assign tags to the targeted server monitors. Selecting Append adds the tag, while selecting Replace replaces the existing tags with the selected tag.
   • Dependent on Monitor: Select the monitor on which your targeted server monitors are dependent on. This helps reduce redundant alerts. When the main monitor is down, an alert will be triggered, and the outages in the dependent monitors will not trigger any alerts.
   • On-Call Schedule: Select the on-call schedule to be applied to the targeted server monitors.
   • Resource Check Profile: Select the resource check profiles to be associated with the targeted server monitors.
   • Add Processes: Enter the names of the processes to be monitored in all of the targeted server monitors.
     In the text input field, enter your process details in this format:
     <Process_Name_RegEx>###<Path_RegEx>###<Argument_RegEx>. Refer to the examples provided at the end of this document for more specifics.
   • Add Services: Enter the names of the services to be monitored in all the targeted server monitors. The text input field supports RegEx inputs. You can filter the services to be monitored based on these start-up types:
     • Automatic
     • Disabled
     • Manual
   • Auto Discover Services: Set this option to True to detect the services running in your targeted devices, match them with the standard list of services by Site24x7, and add them for monitoring.
   • Auto Discover Processes: Set this option to True to detect the processes running in your targeted devices, match them with the standard list of processes by Site24x7, and add them for monitoring.
   • Standalone SQL Monitor: Set this option to True to create each SQL server instance as a stand-alone SQL server monitor and not as a cluster.
   • Exclude Disk Partitions: Enter the disk partitions that should be excluded from monitoring in the targeted servers. Supports RegEx inputs. Refer to the examples provided at the end of this document for more specifics.
   • Include Disk Partitions: Enter only the disk partitions that should be monitored in the targeted servers. This text input field supports RegEx inputs. Refer to the examples provided at the end of this document for examples on RegEx usage.
   • Exclude Disk File System: Enter the disk file systems that should be excluded from monitoring in the targeted servers. This text input field supports RegEx inputs. Refer to the examples provided at the end of this document for examples on RegEx usage.
   • Exclude Network Interfaces: Enter the network interfaces that should be excluded from monitoring in the targeted servers. Supports RegEx inputs. Refer to the examples provided at the end of this document for more specifics.
   • Enable Event Log/Syslog Monitoring: Set this option to True to enable event log (Windows) and syslog (Linux) monitoring in the targeted servers.
   • Disable Server Application Discovery: Select the Windows or Linux applications that should not be auto-discovered in your targeted servers.
   • Log Profile: Select the log profiles to be associated with your targeted server monitors for customized log management.
   • Add as Child's Dependent Monitor: Set this option to True to designate the targeted server monitors as the primary monitor on which the other child monitors (like Microsoft application monitors, Linux applications, or plugins) running on the same server are dependent on.
10. Under the IT Automation Templates section, select the appropriate automation template in the Select Automation drop-down, and select when the automation template should be executed in the next field.
11. Click Save to save your configuration rule, or click Save and Run Rule to run the configuration rule immediately after saving it.

Configuration Rules homepage overview

Here is the list of actions you can perform on the Configuration Rules homepage (Admin > Inventory > Configuration Rules):

List of default services and processes

Once a Windows or Linux monitor is added, the agent will match the services or processes in your servers with the following ones and auto-add them for monitoring.

Windows services

Linux processes

A few examples on how configuration rules can be useful {click to expand}

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