Setting a monitor for Activities
To create a monitor for an activity, do the following steps:
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On the Monitor page, click the Activities tab, and then click Create Monitor.
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On the Details page of the Create Activity monitor wizard, do the following steps:
a. In the Title field, type a name for the activity monitor.
b. Optional: In the Description field, type a description for the monitor, and then click Next. -
On the Monitor page, do the following steps:
a. In the Select the activity to monitor field, select the activity for which you want to create a monitor.
b. Click Add filter template to add a filter to the monitor, and then click Next.
ⓘ Note: The Add filter template button is enabled only if there are predefined filter templates for the selected process. Hence, you must create the filter template before you create the Activity KPI monitor. For more information on creating filters, see Filters.
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On the Schedule page, define the criteria for running the monitor, and then click Next.
- Click Data Upload to run the monitor when data is uploaded to the process.
- Click Frequency to run the monitor at the defined timeframe and days. In this option, you can set to run the monitor at the defined hour or minute. You can also specify whether the monitor should run during business hours
or not.
- Click Calendar to run the monitor at the specified day. You can also set to run the monitor on yearly, monthly, or weekly basis.
ⓘ Note: In this release, you can schedule to run the monitor at a timeframe based on UTC and based on your geographical location.
- Click Data Upload to run the monitor when data is uploaded to the process.
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On the Service page, click the service to which you want to link the monitor, and then click Next.
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On the Parameters page, do the following steps:
a. In the Url suffix field, type the suffix for the URL to display the data.
b. In the HTTP method field, select the required HTTP request method.- POST
- GET
- PUT
c. In the Additional Parameters section, you can set the Query parameters, Header parameters, and Body parameters.
d. Click Verify connection to verify the connection to the URL.
e. Set Activate monitor to Active to activate the monitor when it is created. You also set Activate monitor to Inactive if you do not want to activate the monitor as soon as it is created.
ⓘ Note: When you create a monitor event, you can customize the body parameters on the Parameters page. The page lists the tags that you can use for customization and also provides the options to validate the
JSON
script created in the Body Parameters section (as illustrated in the following figure).
- POST
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Click Create. The created monitor event appears on the Activity tab.
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