# Requeriments

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The parameters required for monitoring are:</span>

- <span style="font-weight: 400;">User name to authenticate to the device's REST API (read-only).</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">Password of that user.</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">Full Url (FQDN/IP) and API path of the device (e.g. https://myns.mydomain/nitro/v1/stat/).</span>