Configuring Hosts and Groups

The monitoring of any technology can be configured through a Policy that you can create or edit via Central Monitoring Administration. You can then apply the policy to the PATROL Agents that share the same tag, or according to their IP address or hostname.

For detailed information about policies, please refer to the Central Monitoring Administration user documentation available on the BMC Web site.

To configure the monitoring of a technology with Monitoring Studio

1.	Log on to Central Monitoring Administration.

2.	In the Navigation pane, click the Policies drawer.

3.	Expand the Monitoring folder and select a policy view (e.g. All).

4.	Click to create a Policy that will be deployed on the PATROL Agents that share the same specified tag or according to their IP address, hostname, etc.

5.	Click the Monitor Configuration link and click the button

6.	In the Monitoring Solution field, select Monitoring Studio. The related Monitoring Profile, Version and Monitor Type information is automatically displayed.

7.	Define the Monitoring Studio Configuration options:

▪	Define a Host settings

▪	Configure a Monitor Group

▪	Create Monitors

▪	Optional — Search Monitors' output for specified string

▪	Optional — Extract numeric values from Monitors' output

▪	Optional — Define the Monitor's polling interval

▪	Optional — Set alert actions

▪	Optional — Set global advanced settings

8.	Click the Add to List button to complete the creation of the Monitor Group.

9.	Once the policy is completed and deployed to the PATROL Agents it targets, Monitoring Studio will start collecting data from the managed technologies on local or remote hosts. The data will automatically be made available in TrueSight Operations Management.

You can also create a Monitor for an existing policy, in this case select the policy to which you want to add a monitor type and click the button. Once the Monitor Type panel is displayed, you can then proceed with the procedure described above from step 6.