Monitoring templates let you standardize monitoring settings across your enterprise by allowing you to specify the monitoring settings once and apply them to your monitored targets. 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. For example, you can define one monitoring template for test databases and another monitoring template for production databases.

A monitoring template defines all Enterprise Manager parameters you would normally set to monitor a target, such as:

• Target type to which the template applies.

• Metrics (including metric extensions), thresholds, metric collection schedules, and corrective actions.

Once a monitoring template is defined, it can be applied to your targets. This can be done either manually through the Enterprise Manager console, via the command line interface (EM CLI), or automatically using template collections. See "Defining Template Collections" for more information. For any target, you can preserve custom monitoring settings by specifying metric settings that can never be overwritten by a template.

Oracle-Certified Templates

In addition to templates that you create, there are also Oracle-certified templates. These templates contain a specific set of metrics for a specific purpose. The purpose of the template is indicated in the description associated with the template.

Example: The template called Oracle Certified - Enable AQ Metrics for SI Database contains metrics related to Advanced Queueing for single instance databases. You can use this Oracle-certified template if you want to use the AQ metrics. Or you can copy the metric settings into your own template.