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FireSIGHT System User Guide
Chapter 55 Using Health Monitoring
Using the Health Monitor Blacklist
The health policy report appears. Depending on your browser settings, the report may appear in a pop-up
window, or you may be prompted to save the report to your computer.
window, or you may be prompted to save the report to your computer.
Deleting Health Policies
License:
Any
You can delete health policies that you no longer need. If you delete a policy that is still applied to an
appliance, the policy settings remain in effect until you apply a different policy. In addition, if you delete
a health policy that is applied to a device, any health monitoring alerts in effect for the device remain
active until you disable the underlying associated alert response; see
appliance, the policy settings remain in effect until you apply a different policy. In addition, if you delete
a health policy that is applied to a device, any health monitoring alerts in effect for the device remain
active until you disable the underlying associated alert response; see
Tip
To stop health monitoring for an appliance, create a health policy with all modules disabled and apply it
to the appliance. For more information on creating health policies, see
to the appliance. For more information on creating health policies, see
. For more information on applying health policies, see
To delete a health policy:
Access:
Admin/Maint
Step 1
Select
Health > Health Policy
.
The Health Policy page appears.
Step 2
Click the delete icon (
) next to the policy you want to delete.
A message appears, indicating if the deletion was successful.
Using the Health Monitor Blacklist
License:
Any
In the course of normal network maintenance, you disable appliances or make them temporarily
unavailable. Because those outages are deliberate, you do not want the health status from those
appliances to affect the summary health status on your Defense Center.
unavailable. Because those outages are deliberate, you do not want the health status from those
appliances to affect the summary health status on your Defense Center.
You can use the health monitor blacklist feature to disable health monitoring status reporting on an
appliance or module. For example, if you know that a segment of your network will be unavailable, you
can temporarily disable health monitoring for a managed device on that segment to prevent the health
status on the Defense Center from displaying a warning or critical state because of the lapsed connection
to the device.
appliance or module. For example, if you know that a segment of your network will be unavailable, you
can temporarily disable health monitoring for a managed device on that segment to prevent the health
status on the Defense Center from displaying a warning or critical state because of the lapsed connection
to the device.
When you disable health monitoring status, health events are still generated, but they have a disabled
status and do not affect the health status for the health monitor. If you remove the appliance or module
from the blacklist, the events that were generated during the blacklisting continue to show a status of
disabled.
status and do not affect the health status for the health monitor. If you remove the appliance or module
from the blacklist, the events that were generated during the blacklisting continue to show a status of
disabled.