Defining Template Collections

A template collection is an assemblage of monitoring/management settings to be applied to targets in the administration group. Multiple monitoring templates can be added to a template collection that in turn is associated with an administration group. However, you can only have one monitoring template of a particular target type in the template collection. The monitoring template should contain the complete set of metric settings for the target in the administration group. You should create one monitoring template for each type of target in the administration group. For example, you can have a template collection containing a template for database and a template for listener, but you cannot have a template collection containing two templates for databases. When direct members targets are added to an administration group, the template monitoring and management settings are automatically applied. A template will completely replace all metric settings in the target. This means applying the template copies over metric settings (thresholds, corrective actions, collection schedule) to the target, removes the thresholds of the metrics that are present in the target, but not included in the template. Removing of thresholds disables alert functionality for these metrics. Metric data will continue to be collected.

Template collections may consist of three types of monitoring/management setting categories:

  • Monitoring Templates (monitoring settings)

  • Compliance Standards (compliance policy rules)

  • Enterprise Manager Policies (Enterprise Manager policies such as determining when to start virtual machines or scale out clusters).

Note:

These monitoring/management settings do not apply to indirect members. For more information about direct and indirect members, see Group Member Type and Synchronization.

When creating a template collection, you can use the default monitoring templates, compliance standards, or Enterprise Manager templates supplied with Enterprise Manager or you can create your own. For more information, see Using Monitoring Templates.

To create a template collection:

  1. Click the Template Collections tab. The Template Collection page displays.
  2. Click Create.
  3. In the Name field, specify the template collection name.
  4. Click the template collection member type you want to add (Monitoring Template, Compliance Standard, Enterprise Manager Polices). The requisite definition page appears.
  5. Click Add. A list of available template entities appears.

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  6. Select the desired template entities you want added to the template collection.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Continue adding template entities (Monitoring Template, Compliance Standard, Enterprise Manager Policies) as required.
  9. Click Save. The newly defined collection appears in the Template Collections Library.
  10. To create another template collection, click Create and create and repeat steps two through eight. Repeat this process until you have created all required template collections.

Note:

When editing existing template collections, you can back out of any changes made during the editing session by clicking Cancel. This restores the template collection to its state when it was last saved.