Delete or Disable a Monitor

Because monitors can be quite complex to set up, you should not delete them unless you are absolutely certain that you need to.

Delete a Monitor

Privileges: To delete a monitor, you need a security role that has the Sentinel Admin privilege.

To delete a monitor:

1. In the Workspace panel, locate the monitor that you want to delete.
2. Right-click on the monitor.
3. Select Delete from the monitor menu.
4. At the prompt, click Yes.

The monitor is deleted. All events and cases associated with the monitor are also deleted.

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Disable a Monitor

If you do not want a monitor to run, you can disable it. You can enable it when you are ready to use it again.

A disabled monitor has a grey label in the Workspace panel. In the screenshot below, the monitors ”Copy of Stuck Value Random Tag” and “Monitor 2” are both disabled.

To disable a monitor:

1. Right-click on the monitor you want to disable.
2. Select Edit from the monitor menu, to open the monitor.
3. In the Monitor Details panel, clear the Enabled check box.
4. Save the monitor.

The monitor is disabled.

Note: If change management is configured, the monitor must also be approved before any changes take effect.

• To enable a monitor, follow the same steps, this time selecting the Enabled check box.

Note: New monitors are enabled by default, whereas copied monitors are disabled by default.

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Delete a Monitor’s Events

Privileges: To delete events, you need a security role that has the Sentinel Events Delete privilege.

If you have the required privileges, you can delete events from a monitor. Note that any cases raised from these events will also be deleted.

To delete a monitor’s events:

1. In the Workspace panel, locate the monitor whose events you want to delete.
2. Right-click on the monitor.
3. Select Delete Events and Reset from the monitor menu.
4. At the prompt, click Yes.

The monitor’s events are deleted, as well as any cases that were raised by these events.