Welcome to Energy Monitor’s Documentation!

Table of Contents

• About
  • About
  • Overview
    • Monitoring objects
      • Hosts and Host Groups
      • Services and Service Groups
      • Parenting
    • Host Checks and Alerts in Energy Monitor
      • Alerts
      • Monitoring States
      • On-demand Checks
      • Notifications
    • Monitoring agents in Energy Monitor
      • Supported Agents
        • SNMPv3
        • NRPE
        • NSClient++
        • Agentless Monitoring
  • User Interface
    • Main Menu
    • Main Bar
      • Filter
    • Host configuration menu
• Installation
  • Installation and System Requirements
    • System requirements
      • Supported Operating Systems
      • Supported Web Browsers
      • Network Communication
      • Hardware Requirements
      • Repository
    • Installation
      • Installation steps
  • Licence
    • Installing the licence file
• Getting Started
  • Basic info
    • Log in
    • Log out
    • Change you password
    • Get help
  • Preparing hosts for monitoring
    • Preparing Windows endpoints
      • Configure NSClient++
    • Preparing Linux endpoints
      • 1. Update and/or install the following packages:
      • 2. Install NRPE and Nagios plugins:
      • 3. Configure NRPE:
      • 4. Optional: Configure commands
      • 5. Restart the nrpe service
• Operations on Hosts
  • Saving the changes into the database
  • Adding hosts to the database
    • Autoscan of the network
    • Manual addition
      • 1. Enter “Manage” -> Configure -> Hosts
      • 2. Fill mandatory fields:
      • 3. Confirm with “Add Services”
      • 4. Confirm adding host with “Finish”
  • Adding services to a host
  • Adding contacts/contact groups to hosts
    • Adding the contact/contact group directly into the host
• Configuration Manual
  • User Manual
    • Configuration Page
      • Common Configuration Features
      • Configuration Shortcuts
      • Saving Configuration Changes and Viewing the Changelog
      • Reusable Configuration
      • View active config
      • Commands and custom variables
      • Configuration synchronization in distributed environment
    • Overseeing Hosts and Services
      • Procedure for Adding Windows Hosts to the Energy Monitor System
        • Step 1: Prepare the Windows Host
        • Step 2: Install and Configure NSClient++
        • Step 3: Configure Energy Monitor
        • Step 4: Add services
        • Step 5: Verification and Monitoring
      • Procedure for Monitoring Linux Systems with Energy Monitor
        • Prerequisites
        • Step 1: Install NRPE and Nagios Plugins on Linux Host
        • Step 2: Configure Energy Monitor
        • Step 3: Add services
        • Step 4: Verification and Monitoring
      • Benefits of Monitoring with Energy Monitor
  • Business Intelligence (BI)
    • Overview
    • Designing a Business Intelligence
    • Rule sets
      • Thresholds
      • Scores
      • Essential Member
      • Constant
    • Setup
  • Widgets and Dashboards
    • Dashboards
      • Adding Dashboards
    • Widgets
      • Adding a widget
      • Editing a widget
      • Logserver widget
  • Downtimes
    • Regular Downtimes
      • Setting up a regular downtime
    • Recurring Downtimes
      • Setting up a recuring downtime
  • Notifications Setup
    • Adding Contact to the system
    • Adding Contact Group to the system
    • Configure Postfix
      • Changing SMTP server for notifications
      • Changing e-mail address for the notifications
      • Changing e-mail address for Postfix
  • Adding Hosts to Groups
    • Adding Hosts to groups
  • Adding Contacts to Groups
    • Adding Contacts to groups
  • Adding Services to Groups
    • Adding Services to groups
  • Configuring multiple hosts at the same time
    • Method 1: Propagate
    • Method 2: Clone
    • Method 3: Combination of Cloning and Hostgroups
  • Energy Monitor’s configuration files
  • Scheduler
    • Scheduler offers 4 types of tasks:
      • 1. Autodiscover IP address
      • 2. SNMP
      • 3. Host Update
      • 4. Windows Disk Label Update:
  • Buckets
    • Configuring buckets
    • Automatic buckets
  • Plugins
    • Overview of plugin functionality
  • Geomap
    • Setting up the Geomap
      • Controls
        • 1. Zoom In/Out
        • 2. Map Options
  • Editing commands
  • Timeperiods
    • Configuring a timeperiod
  • Group rights
    • Setting up grouprights
    • Adding a new group
  • Adding users
    • Setting up grouprights
  • Authentication modules
    • Setting up an Authentication Module
      • Default
      • Apache
      • LDAP
      • Combining both at once
      • 4. Optional, System-Level LDAP, to use with SSH or console, on OracleLinux8.X:
      • Optional Improvements
  • Templates - Host and Services
    • Setting up a template
  • View Active Config
  • Manage Filters
  • Scheduling Queue
  • Process and Performance information
    • Available Parameters
      • Performance Information
      • Process Information
  • Retention
    • Setting retention up
  • My Account
    • Customizing options
      • Edit User menu
      • Account Settings
      • Change Password
  • Network Outages
  • Integrating with Active Directory
    • Preparing Active Directory domain
    • Preparing Energy Monitor
      • preparing LDAP module
      • Testing the connection
  • Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts
    • Configuring the relations
    • Reachability Logic
  • Checks in Energy Monitor
    • Active Checks
      • Executing Active Checks
      • Executing Passive Checks
• Reports
  • Availability and SLA report
    • Availability report
    • SLA report
    • Saving the report
  • Histogram report
  • Graphs
    • Creating a graph
    • Viewing your graphs
  • Saved reports
  • Alert history
    • Controls
      • Changing pages
      • Adding comments
      • Changing setings of the list
  • Schedule reports
    • Setting the schedule up
  • Event log
  • Notification Log
• API
  • API
    • Introduction to API
    • SSL Certificates:
    • Authorization Types
      • Restricting access to the API
      • Handling custom variables
      • Adding multiple variables at once
      • Removing custom variables:
      • Filtering data via API
        • Example of a filter:
        • Example of a count:
  • Acquiring Column List
    • Columns List Part 1:
  • Column List: Part 2
  • Column List: Part 3
• Notifications
  • Integrating Microsoft Teams with Energy Monitor
    • Setting up
  • Integrating Discord with Energy Monitor
    • Setting up
      • Checking if the script works properly
  • Integrating Jira with Energy Monitor
    • Setting up
      • Host notifications
      • Service notifications