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A Group is designed to facilitate the management of the monitored technologies (application, server, device, etc.). Typically, the name of a Group is the name of the technology you wish to monitor, for example 'My Company's Web Site'. A Group is displayed at the same level as the Monitoring Studio instance and contains one or several Hosts.
To create a group
| 1. | In the PATROL Console, right-click the Monitoring Studio icon and select KM Commands > New Group... |
Creating a Group - Group Information
| ▪ | Group name: Enter the name of the group to be created. |
| ▪ | (Optional) Description: Describe the group to be monitored. |
| ▪ | (Optional) Owner contact details: Enter the name, E-mail, phone number, etc. of the person to be alerted or who can provide support if an alerts occurs. |
Group Constants
Creating a Group - Group Constants
| 4. | Define the Group Constants for the Group. Constants are very useful for monitoring a technology whose properties may change from one system to another.
Constants are defined at the Group level and can be reused in the Monitors related to the group. They facilitate the monitoring across various systems of a technology whose properties may change from one system to another. Here is an example of use: |
Example: You want to specify the monitoring of a device through a command line interface (CLI). Depending on where the PATROL Agent is running, this CLI may be installed in a different directory. To avoid editing every Monitor using this CLI to change the path, you create a Group Constant MYCLI_PATH with the path to the CLI executable. Then you create the "Command Line Analysis" Monitor by specifying, for example: "%{MYCLI_PATH}" -option1 - option2
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 Please note that Groups Constants are case sensitive and should always be used in uppercase.
Fill in the following fields:
| ▪ | Constant name: Enter the name of the constant. Example: TECHNOLOGY_PATH |
| ▪ | Value: Set a value for the constant. Example: /opt/MyTechnology. If you enter the word "PASSWORD" in a Constant name, the corresponding value will be automatically encrypted once you click the Finish button at the last step of the wizard. |
| ▪ | Required: Check the box to activate this newly-set Group Constant. The monitoring of the Group and all its dependent objects will be offline if the value of the Group Constant is not set. This ensures that no monitoring operation is performed until the required Group Constants are properly set. This feature is particularly useful if you create a group monitoring template where all the defined Group Constants are empty – in this case, you first import the configuration template, then enter values to all required Group Constants before the monitoring actually starts. |
Creating a Group - Monitor Settings
| 6. | The new group is defined by an Internal ID and a Display name. These values, set by default by Monitoring Studio, can however be modified while configuring the group. Modify the fields of your choice: |
| • | Internal ID: PATROL internal identifier of this Group. The PATROL internal identifier of every object belonging to this Group (Hosts, Monitors, etc.) will include the internal ID of the Group. It is therefore recommended to keep this ID short. |
| • | Display name: Label that will appear next to the Group in the PATROL Console. |
| • | What thresholds do you want to set for the newly created instance?: Mode to be used to set alert thresholds: |
| ▪ | I want to use the default thresholds: Uses the default thresholds set by Monitoring Studio. (see SEN_MS_GROUP) |
| ▪ | I want to set custom thresholds: Allows you to customize the thresholds for all parameters of the instance. |
| ▪ | I want to use the default thresholds and customize them: Sets the default Monitoring Studio thresholds on all parameters and then allows you to customize any/all of them. This is mainly intended to help save time if you wish to customize the thresholds of just one of many parameters for the instance, and leave the default settings for the others. |
| ▪ | I do not want to set any thresholds for now: No thresholds will be set on any parameter of the instance, and as a result no alerts will be triggered. Monitoring Studio will poll the object and return the output of the polling – but will not raise any alerts until you set thresholds. |
The Group instance is automatically created and its icon  is displayed in the PATROL Console. Collected parameters for Group instances are listed in the SEN_MS_GROUP chapter.
You can now:
| • | Add Hosts by right-clicking the Group instance and selecting KM Commands > New > Host… |
| • | Edit your Group by right-clicking the Group instance and selecting KM commands > Edit. |
| • | Remove your Group by right-clicking the Group instance and selecting KM commands > Delete. |
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