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

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

  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 format TagName:Description. If the description contains a space, enter the description in double quotation marks (").

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