Adding Central Monitoring Administration Tags

A policy specifies a set of actions to be taken when a specific condition on the BMC PATROL Agent is fulfilled. A policy enables you to perform the following actions:

Apply specific configuration to one or more BMC PATROL Agents
Configure thresholds and set baselines on BMC ProactiveNet Child Servers

Warning

If a BMC PATROL Agent is already configured through the PATROL Configuration Manager or through the Tools > Configure options in the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console, and the agent is integrated with BMC ProactiveNet through the adapter for BMC PATROL, do not add a tag to that BMC PATROL Agent. Instead, continue managing the configuration for that BMC PATROL Agent through the PATROL Configuration Manager.

If you add a tag to the BMC PATROL Agent, configuration information might be overwritten. Duplicate instances will be created, conflicting monitor instances that were synchronized through PATROL Configuration Manager will be marked for deletion, and all historical data will be lost.

Each policy is assigned a BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration tag and each BMC PATROL Agent can have one or more tags assigned to it. When you assign a tag to a BMC PATROL Agent, the associated policy is applied to the PATROL Agent. You can assign the tag value of a policy to a PATROL Agent in the following ways:

As part of the component installation process, you can add a PATROL Agent and set the tag as part of the configuration process that you perform from Central Monitoring Administration. For details, see Managing downloads in Central Monitoring Administration.
If the PATROL Agent has already been installed, use PATROL Configuration Manager to set the following ruleset that provides the tags:
/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/tagName=tagDescription
Example

For example, if the tag that has to be applied is oracleTag, the ruleset is as follows
/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/oracleTag= “ORACLE MONITORING”
Enter one or more comma separated Central Monitoring Administration tags in the formatTagName:Description. If the description contains a space, enter the description in double quotes (").
Example

For example, TagName1:”UNIX Policy”, TagName2:Linux
Note

In BMC ProactiveNet version 9.0, the tag description is ignored, and only the tag name is used to evaluate the policy.

Adding Central Monitoring Administration Tags

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