Target monitoring configuration tabs and options
The monitoring configuration for a target database is displayed when you click the target’s name on the Monitoring Management page.
Monitoring configuration page tabs and options
| Tabs | Purposes |
|---|---|
| General | Settings of audit configuration for each target database. You can start and stop monitoring and auditing in this page. It also shows monitoring and auditing status. See Configuring target database monitoring. |
| Alert Policies | Shows the available alert policies with information, such as policy type, status, name, and severity. You can create Data policies from this page, and enable/disable policies for the target. See Adding alert and audit policies to monitoring. |
| Alert Policy Groups | Associate the alert policy group to your target database. See Adding policy groups to target monitoring. |
| Audit Policies |
Shows the available audit policies with information. You can create Data policies, or enable/disable policies from this page. See Adding alert and audit policies to monitoring. Note: This tab is only available for collection method "TCP/IP Sniffer" for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and DB2. |
| Audit Policy Groups |
Associate the audit policy group to your target database. See Adding policy groups to target monitoring. Note: This tab will be only available for collection method "TCP/IP Sniffer" for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and DB2. |
| Query Schedule | Specifies a schedule for any database query policies, which are alert policies that query the target database with SQL and save the result as an alert. See Configuring a database policy. |
| Alert Notification | Configure Alert Notification for monitoring. See Sending alert notifications. |
| Real Time Blocking | Enables or disables real-time blocking for monitoring configurations that use the TCP/IP sniffer, and configures blocking settings. See Blocking invalid access while monitoring |
| Audit Management |
For Oracle, this page shows the issued audit command and all audit commands for each object. For Microsoft SQL Server, this page shows audited events and audited filters used by FortiDB. This page is not applicable for Sybase. See Displaying the history of issued audit commands. Note: This tab is only available for the following collection methods:
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| White List |
In the White List tab, you can configure data policies, which will be automatically excluded from the Alert Policy settings for Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server Server. See Excluding policies from the Alert Policy settings (whitelist). Note: This tab will be only available for collection method "DB, EXTENDED" for Oracle,"SQL Trace" for Microsoft SQL Server.After Monitor started, the SQL action matching with the white list settings, fortidb will not generante alerts for it. The SQL action matching the white list settings should be known secure action. |