Creating a Monitoring Template

Monitoring templates allow you to define and save monitoring settings for specific target types. As such, specific Enterprise Manager privileges are required in order to create monitoring templates.

There are two resource privileges that can be granted to a user/role that allows you to create and/or view monitoring templates:

  • Create Monitoring Template

    This privilege allows you to create a monitoring template.

  • View Any Monitoring Template

    This privilege allows you to view any monitoring template.

These privileges can be granted from the Resource Privilege page of an Enterprise Manager user, or when creating a role.

Monitoring templates adhere to a typical access model: You can grant either FULL or VIEW access on a template to other users or roles. VIEW access allows you to see and use the monitoring template. FULL access allows you to see, use, edit and delete a monitoring template. The template owner can change access to a template.

By default, Enterprise Manager Super Administrators have FULL access on all monitoring templates.

Monitoring template allow you to define and save monitoring settings for specific target types. To define a new template:

  1. From the Enterprise menu, select Monitoring and then Monitoring Templates.
  2. Click Create. Enterprise Manager gives you the option of selecting either a specific target or a target type. Template monitoring settings are populated according to the selected target or target type. Click Continue.

    Note:

    If the selected target type is either Web Application or Service, you will only be able to select those targets for which you have Operator privilege.

  3. Enter requisite template information on the General, Metric Thresholds, and Other Collected Items tabs.

    On the Metric Thresholds tab, you can delete or add monitoring template metrics. To delete existing metrics, select one or more metrics and click Remove Metrics from Template.

    To add metrics, click Add Metrics to Template. The Add Metrics to Template page displays as shown in the following graphic.


    add metric to monitoring template

    On this page, you can select a source from which you can copy metrics to the template. Sources include specific targets, other monitoring templates, or metric extensions. When adding metric to a template from another template, if the metric has adaptive settings, then the adaptive settings will not be copied: Only the metric will be copied along with existing thresholds.

    Note: You must define the metric extension thresholds in order to add it to a monitoring template.

    Click Continue once your have finished modifying the template metrics.

  4. Once you have finished entering requisite information, click OK.