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. Any change to the monitoring setting will be automatically applied to the appropriate targets in the administration group. 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.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• What is an Administration Group?

• Planning an Administrative Group

• Implementing Administration Groups and Template Collections

• Removing Administration Groups