Monitoring elements

Use the monitoring elements to configure the monitoring features in the SMC.

Table 1. Types of elements in monitoring
Element Type				Explanation
Diagrams				Allow you to visualize your network environment and monitor the system graphically.
Incident Cases				Facilitate data collection during security incidents.
Overviews				Customizable views for system status monitoring, statistics, and shortcuts to configuration tools.
Reports		Design		Define how log data and statistical data from engines are processed and displayed in reports.
		History		Saved statistical presentations of network traffic and the system.
		Sections		Define statistical items that are included in a report and the way that the items are displayed.
Third-Party Devices		Logging Profiles		Define the logging characteristics for a third-party device (what data from the third-party device logs is shown).
		MIBs		Allow you to import and browse management information bases to support third-party SNMP monitoring.
		Probing Profiles		Define how the Management Server tests if third-party devices are running.
Other Elements	Data contexts			Defines the log data types shown in the Logs view or the Reports view.
	Filters			Allow log data filtering in various tasks.
	Geolocations			Show where Hosts (for example, attackers) are on a world map and how much traffic they create.
	Monitoring Snapshots		Blacklist	Saved version of blacklist entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Blacklist Snapshot in the Blacklist view.
			Connections	Saved version of connection entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Connections Snapshot in the Connections view.
			Logs	Saved version of log, alert, and audit entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Logs Snapshot in the Logs view.
			Routing	Saved version of routing entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Routing Snapshot in the Routing view.
			SSL VPNs	Saved version of active SSL VPN connections. Created when you save an SSL VPN snapshot in the SSL VPN Monitoring view.
			Users	Saved version of active users for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a User Snapshot in the Users view.
			VPN SAs	Saved version of active VPN SAs for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a VPN SA snapshot in the VPN SAs view.
	Network Elements			Represent IP addresses.
	Overview Templates			Templates that allow you to create a statistical overview with predefined information selected for the view.