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title: "Monitoring Account"
slug: "monitoring-account"
updated: 2026-02-24T19:25:18Z
published: 2026-02-24T19:25:18Z
canonical: "help.symphonysummitai.com/monitoring-account"
---

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# Monitoring Account

## What's New?

Monitoring Accounts are the User Accounts that can access the Remote Machines. These accounts require authentication and authorization to access data and run certain tasks on the Target Machine. Monitoring Accounts can be configured for a specific Tenant.

An Admin or Analyst can now configure User Accounts for User Authentication based deployments under Monitoring Accounts.

Benefits

- Provides provision to configure User/Service accounts in the Admin console.
- Helps in installing the application on end user machine remotely.

## Configure Monitoring Accounts

To configure Monitoring Accounts, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to **Admin > Discovery & Monitoring > General > Monitoring Account**
2. Under the **Actions** tab, click **Add New**. The Monitoring Account Details page will be displayed.
3. Under the **Details** section of the **MONITORING ACCOUNT** page, specify all the required information. For more information about the fields, see [Field Description.](/apex/docs/monitoring-account#ConfiguringMonitoringAccounts-FieldDesc)
4. Click **SUBMIT**. A new Monitoring Account is configured.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA1.png)

Figure: MONITORING ACCOUNT Page

### Field Description

The following table describes the fields in Monitoring Account page.

| **FIELD** | **DESCRIPTION** |
| --- | --- |
| Used For | Select the protocol used for monitoring. This is a mandatory field. |
| SFTP Servername | Enter the IP Address or the Host Name. |
| User Name | Type in the username of the User to whom you want to provide the administrative rights to access the Windows server machines. This is a mandatory field. |
| Password | Type in the password, which is a mandatory field. |
| Re-enter Password | Re-enter the password, which is a mandatory field. |
| Fingerprint Algorithm | Enter the security algorithm for file transfer. For example, SHA-256. |
| Description | Type in a brief description about the user or the purpose of adding Monitoring Account or any warning message. For example, you can create a user to access data from a group of critical servers, you can add a message like “Do not delete this username.” |
| Active | Indicates the status set for the Monitoring Account. - If selected, the Monitoring Account is enabled. - If not selected, the Monitoring Account becomes inactive. |

**Actions**

This section explains all the icons displayed in the ACTIONS panel of the Monitoring Account page.

**Filters**

Click the **Filters** icon to select a value for the **Used For** list. Click **SUBMIT****.**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA2.png)

Figure: FILTERS pop-up

**Show List**

Click **SHOW LIST** to display the LIST table showing all the Monitoring Accounts configured in the SUMMIT application for the selected Tenant.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA3.png)

Figure: Show List icon under ACTIONS panel

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA4.png)

Figure: MONITORING ACCOUNT page: List of Monitoring Accounts

**History**

Click the **CHANGE HISTORY** icon to view the change history details of the Monitoring Account.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA5.png)

Figure: Change History icon under ACTIONS panel

![](https://cdn.document360.io/62351b42-cfbd-43ad-8ce1-82b8f455337f/Images/Documentation/MA6.png)

Figure: Change History Details page