Resource Group Manager
Your monitored environment might have multiple managed systems that can be categorized by their purpose. Such systems often have the same threshold requirements. Use the Resource Group Manager to organize managed systems into groups that you can assign thresholds to. You can also create resource groups that correlate with your role-based access control (RBAC) policies.
After you click one predefined system group is shown for each monitoring agent type that is installed, such as Windows OS. Each system group contains all the predefined thresholds for the agent.
, the page opens with a table of defined resource groups. Initially,Your access to the Resource Group Manager and resource groups is controlled by your user permissions. You must have View permission for a resource group to see it; you must have Modify permission to create, edit, or delete a resource group.
- New opens the Resource Group Editor for assigning managed systems and thresholds.
- Select a resource group to see the assigned resources and thresholds that are assigned to the group in the adjacent pane.
- Select a resource group and click Edit to open the Resource Group Editor for changing the managed system and threshold assignments.
- Select a resource group that you no longer want and click Delete. After you confirm the deletion, any thresholds that were assigned to the group must be assigned to another group if you want them to continue to run on your managed systems.
- You can click inside the filter text box and type the value to filter by. As you type, the rows that do not fit the criteria are filtered out. To clear the filter, click the in the filter box or press the Backspace key.
- Resource group name
- Predefined groups are named for their agent type; custom groups are named by the author.
- Resource group description
- A predefined group is described as a system group for the monitored resource; custom groups are described by the author.
- Resource group type
- Predefined groups are type System Defined. You have a predefined group for every type of agent that you have installed in your environment.