Creating a Monitoring Key

To create a monitoring key, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Policy Server section of the navigation pane, select Monitoring Key.

    The content tree displays the Monitoring Key group.

  2. Select the Monitoring Key group.

    The Monitoring Key Administration page opens in the work area.

  3. Click Create Monitoring Key.

    The New Monitoring Key page opens.

  4. Enter information for the monitoring key:
    1. Name (required) — The name you assign to the monitoring key.

      The name can only contain the characters A–Z, a–z, 0–9, period (.), hyphen (-), and underline (_). The maximum length is 255 characters.

    2. Description — Free-form text that identifies the monitoring key.

      Enter up to 250 characters.

    3. Type (required) — The level assigned to the monitoring key.

      Select PCC_RULE_LEVEL value (1), ADC_RULE_LEVEL value (2), or SESSION_LEVEL from the list.

    4. Key — Specifies unique string from all other monitoring keys.

      The key can be up to 255 characters long and must not contain backslashes (\), quotation marks ("), semicolons (;), commas (,), or apostrophes (').

  5. Click Save.
The monitoring key displays on the Monitoring Key Administration page. After you define monitoring keys, you can: