Usage Monitoring

Topics: The Usage Monitoring Administrator Monitoring by Database Global Monitoring Database Monitor/Govern Maintenance Monitored Records Maintenance

Before you can begin governing requests, you must enable SmartMode's Usage Monitoring facility. Doing so allows SmartMode to monitor and log requests as users enter them. The request information is stored in the SmartMode Usage Monitoring databases. SmartMode uses usage monitoring data to generate rules by which it later governs requests, deciding whether a request should be allowed to run. It also uses usage monitoring data to generate reports about site activity. Once you begin governing, you can choose to continue usage monitoring or turn it off and continue governing based on the already-collected data.