# Getting started with monitoring the system

There are several ways to monitor the system in the SMC Client.

- Monitor the status of individual components and view a summary of the system status.
- Monitor the status of elements that belong to different administrative Domains.
- Create customizable overviews of the system.
- View user information and user alerts
- Monitor enforced Block Lists, open connections, active VPN SAs, active users, routing, and SSL VPN sessions.
- View, approve, and commit pending changes made to configurations and policies of engines.
- Check which configurations and policies are currently applied in the system.
- Check which actions administrators take.
- Check the status of Tasks that schedule commands to run automatically.
- Monitor the status of the maintenance contract.