Credential Profile

Overview

The Credential Profile is an essential part of Motadata AIOps, allowing you to configure and manage device credentials. These credentials enable Motadata AIOps to communicate with your devices, which is a fundamental step in monitoring their data.

By setting up a Credential Profile, you ensure that Motadata AIOps can access the device, gather data, and provide you with valuable insights. This profile becomes especially useful when multiple devices share the same credentials, as it simplifies the management of access details.

Credential Profile Screen

On the Credential Profile screen, you can:

• View existing credential profiles.
• Create new credential profiles.
• Edit and delete existing profiles.

You'll need to associate a Credential Profile with a Discovery Profile when creating the latter. Refer to the Discovery Profile section for more details.

Navigation

Go to Menu, Select Settings . After that, Go to Network Discovery and select Credential Profile. The credential profile screen is displayed.

The credential profile screen displays the following details:

Field	Description
Credential Profile Name	The name of the created credential profile.
Used Count	Indicates the total number of entities using the credential profile. Click on the number in the Used Count column to view the different type of entities associated with the credential profile: Discoveries: The number indicates count of discovery profiles configured using the credential profile. Monitors: The number indicates the count of monitors configured using the credential profile. Apps: The number indicates the count of applications being monitored using the credential profile. Metrics: The number indicates the count of metric policies configured using the credential profile.
Protocol	Displays the protocol associated with the credential profile.
Actions	Select to display the permissible actions for the credential profile: Edit Credential Profile: This action allows you to change the details of an already existing credential profile. Assign Credential Profile: This action allows you to assign a credential profile to a discovery profile. Delete Credential Profile: This action allows you to delete a credential profile.

How to Create a Credential Profile?

The parameters to create a credential profile differ based on the type of the device for which you are trying to create the profile. We will look in detail about creating a credential profile while covering Addition of devices in Motadata AIOps for each of the following category:

1. Server & Apps
2. Network
3. Cloud
4. Service Check
5. Virtualization
6. Wireless

How to Edit a Credential Profile?

Select from the Actions column against the credential profile in the credential profile screen. Select Edit Credential Profile .

A pop-up to edit the credential profile details is displayed.

Edit the credential details as required.

Select the Test button to check whether the device you want to monitor is accessible according to the credential details entered in the profile.

Select the Reset button to erase all the current field values entered in the pop-up, if required.

Select Update Credential Profile to update the credential profile in the system.

How to Delete a Credential Profile?

Select from the Actions column against the credential profile in the credential profile screen. Select Delete Credential Profile .

A pop-up asking to delete the credential profile details is displayed.

Select Yes to confirm the deletion of the credential profile.

Select No if you do not wish to delete the credential profile.

How to Assign a Credential Profile?

Select from the Actions column against the credential profile in the credential profile screen. Select Assign Credential Profile .

A pop-up that lists all the monitors using the same protocol as the credential profile is displayed.

Select the check box against the monitor which needs to be assigned the credential profile. Now, click on Assign Credential Profile. The credential profile is now assigned to the monitor.