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A Profile is comprised of a collection of Alerts that act on behalf of a set of Monitors. This tutorial will walk you through configuring a Profile to be responsible for a single Monitor. However, Profiles can also be configured to be responsible for many Monitors, or entire Groups of Monitors.

Additional benefits of Profiles include the ability to:

• Create any number of Alerts within each Profile.
• Schedule each Alert independently.
• Specify escalated (ordered) Alerting.
• Specify Credentials to be used when executing Alerts that require authentication.

Note: For detailed information regarding the capabilities described above, please refer to the Alerts section of the ipMonitor Administrator's Guide.

This tutorial assumes that your computer meets the minimum requirements to run ipMonitor 8, and that you have the ipMonitor software currently installed on your system.

To get the most out of this tutorial, ensure that you have at least one Monitor already configured within the ipMonitor software. If you have not yet configured a Monitor, refer to the tutorial entitled Add an HTTP Monitor.

Click the PDF icon to open a printable PDF version of this tutorial. It includes all the information found here, including images from the ipMonitor software, diagrams, and links to additional resources.

To create a Profile, proceed with the following:

1. Log in to the ipMonitor Administration web interface.
2. Click the Alerts menu option.
3. Click Add a Profile.

4. Enter a unique, descriptive name for the Profile in the Name field.
5. Depending on the overall purpose of the Profile, it may be more efficient to simply list Groups and Monitors that will have their Alerts suppressed rather than listing Groups and Monitors to alert for.
   
   Alert for Groups and Monitors that are listed: Select this option to allow all Monitors and Groups assigned to this Profile to trigger Alerts.
   
   Alert for Groups and Monitors that are not listed: Select this option to prevent all Monitors and Groups assigned to this Profile from triggering Alerts.

In order to have the Profile send an Alert based on problems detected by a specific Monitor, the Monitor must be assigned to the Profile:

1. Click the Add Monitors submenu option.

2. Place a checkmark in the checkbox beside the name of the Monitor you want to add to this Profile.

3. Click the Continue button. The Monitor you've added to the Profile will now be listed in the Groups and Monitors to Alert for section of the Edit Profile screen.

4. Click the OK button located at the bottom of the screen to save your new Profile.

For more information regarding Profiles, refer to the Alerts section of ipMonitor's Context-Sensitive Help system, then select About Profiles. The Context-Sensitive Help can be accessed by clicking the Help link located in the top right corner of ipMonitor's Administration web interface.

For information on other features and concepts related to those discussed in this article, refer to the following ipMonitor resources:

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Last Updated: August 1, 2006 | What did you think of this topic?