Configuring Monitoring Profiles in CMA
This section provides information about creating a policy and configuring the BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows monitor type in Central Monitoring Administration Console.
Perform step 1 through step 8 to create a policy, configure the BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows monitor type and set thresholds as per your requirements.
If you are familiar with the policy creation steps, you can directly switch to Step 3: Monitor Configuration tab to configure the monitor types.
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Using BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration, you can define and manage policies to configure the BMC PATROL monitoring solutions.
To define general policy details
- In the navigation pane of the Central Monitoring Administration console, click the Policies drawer.
- Expand one of the following policy types:
- Monitoring—Allows you to create or edit monitoring policies
- Blackout—Allows you to create or edit blackout policies
- Staging—Allows you to create or edit staging policies
- Select one of the following policy views:
- All
- Global
- Tenant
- Click Add
, or select an existing policy and click Edit
. Select the configurations that you want to set for the policy.
Provide the following information:
- Click Next.
Policies and tenants
When Central Monitoring Administration receives a configuration request from a BMC PATROL Agent, the policies are applied in the following way:
- If only a global policy match the agent conditions, then configuration from the global policy applies to all the BMC PATROL Agent.
- If a global policy and a tenant policy or a no-associated-tenant policy match the agent conditions, then configuration from both the policies apply to the BMC PATROL Agent. If a conflict arises (that is, two policies configure the same attributes), then configuration from the tenant policy applies.
When you create or edit a policy, you can add and configure monitor types for the compatible BMC PATROL monitoring solutions that are located in the Deployable Package Repository. This topic provides information about configuration of monitoring profiles by using Central Monitoring Administration.
Before you begin
If you have not done so already, define a policy (Step 1) and select a PATROL Agent (Step 2) before you configure the monitor type.
To add or edit monitor types
On the Monitor Configuration page, click Add
to add a new monitor configuration, or select an existing monitor configuration and click Edit
to update it.Monitoring Profile
Monitor Type
No configuration required
No configuration required
To continue configuration, perform one or more of the following actions:
- To add the configuration details for the monitor type, click Add.
To return the settings for the selected monitor type to default values, click Reset.
The values in the current window are reset. Ensure that you add the configuration details for the monitor type.
- To continue adding configuration details, select a different monitor type, version, profile, or solution.
- When you finish configuration, click Close.
After you save or update a policy, the new monitor type configurations are pushed to the selected BMC PATROL Agents.
To delete a monitor type configuration
- On the Monitor Configuration page, in the Define Monitor Types and Attributes table, perform one of the following tasks.
- To delete all the monitor type configuration based on a solution name and all its version, in the Solution column, select a value.
- To delete all the monitor type configuration based on a version of a monitoring solution and its monitor types, in the Version column, select a value.
- To delete all the monitor type configuration based on a monitoring profile, in the Monitoring Profile column, select a value.
- To delete all the monitor type configuration based on a monitor type, in the Monitor Type column, select a value.
- Click Delete
. - In the Delete Confirmation dialog box, click Yes.
- Click Close.
After you delete a monitor type configuration and save the policy, the deleted monitor type configuration is removed from the selected BMC PATROL Agents.
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When you are creating or editing a monitoring policy, you can create thresholds for the monitor instances on the BMC ProactiveNet Server.
For more information about the various monitor types available for the the Microsoft Windows Servers solution, see Monitor types or application classes.
For information about the types of thresholds, see How baselines, thresholds and Key Performance Indicators work together to generate events in the BMC ProactiveNet Operations Console in the BMC ProactiveNet documentation portal.
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You can configure the properties of the BMC PATROL Agent and specify the action that the BMC PATROL Agent must perform when the policy is applied.
You can also configure poll interval settings for monitor types and its attributes. For more information about the various monitor types available for the the Microsoft Windows Servers solution, see Monitor types or application classes.
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You can specify the action that the BMC ProactiveNet Child Servers must perform when the policy is applied. The actions apply to all the devices associated with the BMC PATROL Agent and all the monitor instances that the agent monitors.
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