Configure Server Monitoring in Quest SMA

Configure Server Monitoring – Enable server monitoring in Quest SMA with monitoring profiles, log monitoring, alerts, inventory settings, agent configuration and maintenance windows.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

Monitoring Settings

  • In the control panel, select monitoring settings
Configure Server Monitoring screenshot
  • You can configure alert deletion after a certain number of days
Quest SMA server monitoring settings

Modifying Profiles

  • Select the default Windows profile
Quest SMA server monitoring settings
  • Add criteria for French servers
Quest SMA server monitoring settings

Configure Server Monitoring Overview

On the Server

  • From the inventory, select your server with the SMA agent version 6.3 or higher. Then enable monitoring
Quest SMA server monitoring settings

Maintenance Window

  • You can create maintenance windows during which servers will not be monitored (scheduled reboots, backups, etc.). To do this, create your maintenance window with the time range during which the server will not be monitored.
Quest SMA server monitoring settings
  • Apply the maintenance window to each server
Quest SMA server monitoring settings

Alerts

  • Here is an example of an alert on my test server
Quest SMA server monitoring settings