# Creating Monitoring Policy Data Sets

Use Monitoring Policy data sets to collect the information you use to build charts, tables, and dynamic inputs.

## Before You Begin

- Create a data set using Monitoring Policy in the CommCell Console.

- To create an embedded data set, your CommCell user account requires a role with the following permissions and associations:

  - Add Report permission and an association with the CommCell entity

  - Query Datasource permission and an association with the Data Source entity that you will use

For more information on users, permissions, and associations, see User Administration and Security - Overview.

## Procedure

1. Create a new report, or open an existing report:

   - To create a new report, from the navigation pane, go to Manage > Integration> Reports, and then click New Report.

   - To open an existing report and add a new data set to it, from the navigation pane, go to Manage > Integration > Reports, and next to the Report Name under Actions, click Edit.

2. On the Report Builder page, in the Report Name box, type a name for the report, and in the Description box, type a short description of the report.

3. On the Data Sets tab, click Add .

4. In the Add Data Set dialog box, on the Query tab, select Monitoring Policy.

5. In the Source Type list, select the type of data source you want to use:

   - Monitoring Policy

   - Saved Search

6. Select which monitoring policy or saved search to use for the data set:

   - If you selected Monitoring Policy, in the Policy Name list, select a monitoring policy.

   - If you selected Saved searches, in the Search Name list, select the name of a search.

7. Click Preview to review the output.

8. Click Done.

   The data set you created appears under Data Sets.

## What to Do Next

- If you are creating a report:Building and Deploying Reports.

- If you are creating a dynamic input: Adding Inputs to Reports.

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