Administration Groups greatly simplify the process of setting up targets for management in Enterprise Manager by automating the application of management settings such as monitoring settings or compliance standards. Typically, these settings are manually applied to individual target, or perhaps semi-automatically using custom scripts. However, by defining Administration Groups, Enterprise Manager uses specific target properties to direct the target to the appropriate Administration Group and then automatically apply the requisite monitoring and management settings. This level of automation simplifies the target setup process and also enables a datacenter to easily scale as new targets are added to Enterprise Manager for management.

Administration groups are a special type of group used to fully automate application of monitoring and other management settings upon joining the group. When a target is added to the group, Enterprise Manager applies these settings using a Template Collection consisting of Monitoring Templates, compliance standards, and Enterprise Manager policies. This completely eliminates the need for administrator intervention.

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