Monitoring templates simplify the task of setting up monitoring for large numbers of targets by allowing you to specify the monitoring and policy settings once and applying them as often as needed. You can save, edit, and apply these templates across one or more targets or groups. A monitoring template is specified for a particular target type and can only be applied to targets of the same type.
A monitoring template defines all Enterprise Manager parameters you would normally set to monitor a target. A template specifies:
Name: A unique identifier for the template. The template name must be globally unique across all templates defined within Enterprise Manager.
Description: Optional text describing the purpose of the template.
Target Type: Target type to which the template applies.
Owner: Enterprise Manager administrator who created the template.
Metrics: Metrics for the target type. A monitoring template allows you to specify a subset of all metrics for a target type. With these metrics, you can specify thresholds, collection schedules and corrective actions.
Policies: Policy rules for a target type. A monitoring template allows you to specify policy rule attributes such as compliance score settings and corrective actions.
Monitoring templates can be applied to targets that are monitored by 10.1 or greater Management Agents. If the monitoring template contains new Grid Control features only supported by a more recent version of the Agent, the target must be monitored by that version Agent or greater. For example, if your template contains Grid Control 10.2 features such as disabled metric collection schedules or wildcard specification for monitored objects (for metrics), a version 10.2 or greater Management Agent is required.
As mentioned earlier, a monitoring template can be applied to one or more targets of the same target type, or to composite targets such as groups. For composite targets, the template is applied to all member targets that are of the appropriate type. Once a template is applied, future changes made to the template will not be automatically propagated to the targets: You must reapply the template to all affected targets.
Applying a Monitoring Template
Viewing a List of Monitoring Templates
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