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Overview

By default, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor continuously collects data from monitored systems. If you only need to collect data from a system at a particular interval, you can configure monitoring periods and apply them to a service monitor. Monitoring periods are times during which a service monitor will actively monitor a host and send alerts.

You can easily create monitoring periods to suit your specific requirements. For example, you can create a monitoring period named Weekends that only monitors a host from 12:00 AM on Saturday to 11:59 PM on Sunday.

This article explains how to configure daily,  weekly and  monthly monitoring periods.

Getting Started

To configure monitoring periods:

  1. On the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor tool bar, click Services.
  2. In the Services tree panel, click Add Monitoring Period.

 

Click the Help on Time Formats link in the Add Monitoring Period window for more examples.

Configuring a Daily Monitoring Period

A daily monitoring period will check a system once per day during a range of times that you specify. To configure a daily monitoring period:

  1. In the Add Monitoring Period window, enter a descriptive name in the Name field.
  2. To create a monitoring period to run every day of the week from 8 AM to 6 PM, enter: Sun-Sat 8am-6pm.
  3. Click Save

You can now Apply the monitoring period to a monitor.

Configuring a Weekly Monitoring Period

A weekly monitoring period will check a system once or more over a seven-day period during a range of times that you specify. To configure a weekly monitoring period:

  1. In the Monitoring Periods window, enter a descriptive name in the Monitor Period Name field.
  2. The following example shows how to create a weekly monitoring period that covers Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the entire day. A single day of the week could be similarly specified.
  3. Click Save.

You can now Apply the monitoring period to a monitor.

Configuring a Monthly Monitoring Period

A monthly monitoring period will check a system once or more over a month, during a range of times that you specify. To configure a monthly monitoring period:

  1. In the Monitoring Periods window, enter a descriptive name in the Monitor Period Name field.
  2. It is possible to specify a numerical day of the month or the day of the week in a specific week of the month. An example of each follows.

  3. Click Save.

You can now Apply the monitoring period to a monitor.

Applying Monitoring Periods to Monitors

When creating a new service monitor, simply select the desired monitoring period in the Monitoring Period section. The process to change the monitoring period for a service monitor is similar: open the service monitor for editing, scroll down to the monitoring period section, select the desired monitoring period and click Save.