Monitoring Templates

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Monitoring Templates


Monitoring Templates decide the parameters or the performance metrics of the devices that have to be monitored at required intervals using the appropriate protocols i.e., SNMP/WMI. It changes from Category to Category as their monitoring requirements vary. Critical devices like servers and routers require very frequent monitoring whereas, desktops and firewalls don't require very frequent monitoring.

MSP Center Plus provides more than 50 monitoring templates. However, if required you can also create your custom monitoring templates and attach to device templates.


Creating a New Monitoring Template
  1. Go to Network Monitoring-> Admin-> Monitoring Templates.
  2. Click New Template button. New Monitoring Template window opens.
  3. Enter the Template Name.
  4. Select the appropriate Vendor , Category and Application Type.
  5. Select the essential monitors from the Available Monitors box and move to Monitors Added to Template box.
  6. Click New Monitor link if you wan to add a Custom Monitor.
  7. If required you can edit the threshold setting of the monitors by clicking the Edit Thresholds button.
  8. Click Save button.
Monitor Template is successfully added. Now apply this to multiple devices.

To view all the Custom Monitoring Templates, from the Monitoring Templates page click Custom button (available on the top left corner).

Associating Monitoring Template to Multiple Devices
  1. Select the devices that you want to associate the monitoring template from the Available devices box and move to the Selected devices box.
  2. Click Apply.
Dissociating Monitoring Template to Multiple Devices
  1. Go to Network Monitoring-> Admin-> Monitoring Templates

  2. Click on the Device count corresponding to the respective device category.

  3. Select the devices for which you want to dissociate the template.
  4. Click Remove Template button.
The template will be dissociated from the devices.

Dissociating a Monitoring Template from a Single Device
  1. Go to the device snapshot page of the device to which you want to dissociate the template.
  2. Click on Templates tab.

  3. Click the delete icon corresponding to the Monitoring Template that you want to dissociate.
  4. Click Ok button on the confirmation pop-up window.
The template will be dissociated from the device.

Edit Thresholds
Enter the Monitoring Interval, Threshold Alert and Rearm Value.

Threshold Alert
Threshold value determines the value (%) at which the set condition is violated and leaving the status of that monitor tuns to Attention. The threshold condition and value to be configured depends on the monitor. For example, for the Disk Utilization monitor, the threshold value can be 90 and condition have to >. Once the disk utilization exceeds 90% of it total, then the monitor status is changed to Attention and an alert is raised.

Rearm Value
Rearm value is used to prevent assigning of same status to a resource every time it is polled. If a resource is assigned Attention state as it has crossed the defined threshold value, it is assigned a Clear state only if it goes below the Attention rearm value in the subsequent polls. For the above example, the suitable rearm value will be 60. If the monitor value falls below or reaches 60%, then the monitor is turned back to Clear state.

Editing a Monitoring Template
You can edit a Monitoring Template in order to add/remove default monitors and modify their threshold settings. Here are the steps:
  1. From the Monitoring Template page [Network Monitoring-> Admin-> Monitoring Template], click on the Monitoring Template that you want to edit.
  2. Add or remove the monitors.
  3. Click the Threshold button to modify their monitoring interval, threshold and rearm values.
  4. Click the Save button to save the changes.
Deleting a Monitoring Template
Default Monitoring Templates cannot be deleted. Only Custom Monitoring Templates can be deleted. To delete a Custom Monitoring Template
  1. Click on the Custom button available on the top left corner of the Monitoring Templates page.
  2. Click on the delete icon respective to the Custom Monitoring Template that you want to delete.
The Custom Monitoring Template is now deleted.



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