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Setting-up the monitoring
Once BMC Performance Manager Express Monitoring Studio installed in your Portal environment:
| 1. | To use a monitoring tool, add its corresponding application class to an element or element profile. The Monitoring Studio Express application classes are listed under the Miscellaneous category of Add Application Classes. |
| 2. | Select the application class (monitoring tool) from the Available Application Classes. |
| 3. | Enter the information required for monitoring: |
| ▪ | Descriptive label: Name displayed for the application class |
| ▪ | Collection interval: Frequency of collection .i.e. monitoring/polling |
| ▪ | Connection and user credentials: Enter the connection and user credentials |
| 4. | Enter input properties specific to each monitoring tool/application class |
| 5. | Either add a String search and/or a Numeric Value extraction or create additional instances for the same class and object, or, go the next step. You can add any number of instances and any number of string searches or numeric value extractions for each instance of an application class. |
| 6. | Set or modify alert thresholds (Alarm/Warning/No Alerts) on the parameters of the newly-created monitoring instance(s). |
The newly-created instances now appear in the left pane of the Portal window.
Editing or Deleting an instance
To edit or delete an instance, go through the regular procedure followed for all Performance Managers on the Portal environment:
Editing an instance
| 1. | Click on the application class instance in the Configure tab, and on the Thresholds, Properties and Credentials page click Edit. |
| 2. | Edit the properties and credentials, thresholds and alert conditions for the application class instance and its dependent classes. After modification, click Save. |
Deleting an instance
The deletion procedure depends on the number of instances you have under this application class:
| 1. | Delete the entire application class: |
| ▪ | If there is just one instance of the application class |
| ▪ | If you wish to delete all instances under the application class |
| 2. | Delete a specific instance: |
| ▪ | If there are more than one instances of the class. |
Deleting the entire application class from the element
If you have just one instance of this class, or want to delete all instances of the class, you need to delete the whole class:
| 1. | Click on the element in the Configure tab > Application Classes > Delete |
| 2. | Select application class > Next |
| 3. | To confirm deletion click Delete |
A message indicates successful deletion of the Studio – "x" application class and its dependent class(es).
Deleting a specific instance of an application class
To delete a specific instance of an application class when you have more than one instances under one instance:
| 1. | In the Configure tab, click on the instance you wish to delete, and on the Thresholds, Properties and Credentials page, click Delete. |
| 2. | Confirm the deletion by clicking on OK. |
A message indicates successful deletion of the specific instance.
 | Adding, editing or deleting application classes and instances are based on the Portal features. All performance managers fully integrated with BMC Portal are built to use the same features/procedures. |
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