Monitoring templates simplify the task of setting up monitoring for large numbers of targets by allowing you to specify the monitoring and Metric and Collection Settings once and applying them to many groups of targets as often as needed.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• About Monitoring Templates

• Definition of a Monitoring Template

• Default Templates (Auto Apply Templates)

• Viewing a List of Monitoring Templates

• Creating a Monitoring Template

• Editing a Monitoring Template

• Applying Monitoring Templates to Targets

• Comparing Monitoring Templates with Targets

• Comparing Metric Settings Using Information Publisher