Monitoring Accounts

Monitoring Accounts are user accounts with administrative access rights that allow users to select the type of protocol for Discovery scan activity.

User persona: Administrator

Configure Monitoring Accounts 

To configure the Monitoring Account, perform the following steps:

1. Click New on the list page to create a new Monitoring Account. 
   Figure: Create account
   
   The page appears as shown in the screenshot.Figure: Monitoring Account page
   
   Refer to the table below for details about field description under the Monitoring Account page.
   

   Field	Description
   Tenant	Specify the name of Tenant.
   Domain	Specify the name of customer domain.
   Used for	Specify the type of protocol for configuring the monitoring account. Figure: Protocol type Note WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation SSH: Secure Shell LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
   User Name	Enter the username for Monitoring Account.
   Password	Enter the password for Monitoring Account.
   Re-enter Password	Re-enter Password for Monitoring Account.
   IP Address	Specify the IP Address for Monitoring Account.
   LDAP Path	Specify the LDAP Path for Monitoring Account. For example, CN=John Doe, OU=Users, DC=example, DC=com. This LDAP path specifies the location of a user named "John Doe" within the directory service. It starts from the Organizational Unit (OU) named "Users" within the domain "example.com".
   Description	Mention a short description of Monitoring Account.
   Active	Check Active to set Monitoring Account as active.

   
   
2. Click Save to save the configuration of the Monitoring Account. The configured Monitoring Account appears as shown below.
   Figure: Configured Monitoring Account
   
   
3. Navigate to Home > Monitoring Account > List.
   Figure: List
   List page displays the details of configured Monitoring Accounts for the Discovery jobs.
   
   
4. Click eye icon to view the summary of configured accounts. The page is displayed as shown below.
   Figure: Details page
   
   The configured Monitoring Account appear as shown below:
   Figure: Monitoring Account details
   
   
5. Click to open the link for Monitoring Account in a new tab or window.
    Figure: Open Monitoring Account