This topic describes how to modify, disable, enable, or delete synthetic monitoring tasks.
From June 1, 2024, Synthetic Monitoring will no longer provide the pay-as-you-go billing method and subscription resources for new users. For more information, see [Product changes] Discontinuation of the activation of Synthetic Monitoring.
Modify a task
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage and click Edit in the Actions column.
On the Edit Synthetic Task page, modify the parameters and click Update Task.
Disable one or multiple tasks
If you no longer require a synthetic monitoring task, you can disable the task to reduce costs and avoid resource waste.
Disable a single task
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage and click Disable in the Actions column.
In the dialog box that appears, click OK.
After the task is disabled, it enters the Stop state.
Disable all tasks
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, select all tasks that you want to disable and click Disable in the upper part of the page.
In the dialog box that appears, click OK.
After the tasks are disabled, they enter the Stop state.
Enable one or multiple tasks
If you want to enable one or multiple synthetic monitoring tasks that are in the Stop state, perform the following operations:
Enable a single task
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage and click Enable in the Actions column.
After the task is enabled, it enters the Running state.
Enable all tasks
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, select all tasks that you want to enable and click Enable in the upper part of the page.
After the tasks are enabled, they enter the Running state.
Replicate a task
If you want to quickly create a syntactic monitoring task for other destination addresses based on specific syntactic monitoring configurations, perform the following operations:
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage. In the Actions column, click More and select Copy from the drop-down list.
On the Copy Synthetic Task page, modify the parameters and click Create Task.
Delete a task
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage. In the Actions column, click More and select Delete from the drop-down list.
In the dialog box that appears, click OK.
Initiate a synthetic test
You can run a synthetic test based on an existing synthetic monitoring task.
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Synthetic Monitoring > Scheduled Tests.
On the Synthetic Tasks page, find the task that you want to manage. In the Actions column, click More and select Initiate Instant Dial Test from the drop-down list.
On the page that appears, click Dial test now. For more information, see Initiate a synthetic test.