Editing Infrastructure Management Templates

You can edit the Management Templates to change the following artifacts:

• Editing Parameters - Changing the default values
• Editing Aspects - Deleting an Aspect

Editing Parameters - Changing the Default Values

Use Case: You are using Essential System Management Template to monitor the health of every single system in the datacenter. You are monitoring the availability and utilization of the system resources in your environment. You want to modify the parameters corresponding to the resources of the system like hardware and software to closely monitor the health of the system.

To edit the parameters:

1. Open the Management Templates & Aspects pane:

   Click Administration > Monitoring > Management Templates & Aspects.

2. In the Configuration Folders pane:

   Configuration Folders > Infrastructure Management > Infrastructure Management Templates > Essential System Management

3. In the Management Templates & Aspects pane, select Essential System Management from the list, and then click . The Edit Management Template dialog box opens.

4. Click the Parameters tab. The list of parameters appear.

5. Double-click the desired parameter. The Edit/Combine Parameters window appears.

6. You can change the default value by clicking .

7. Specify the value and click OK. The Edit Management Template dialog box opens.

8. Click OK. The version of the Management Template is incremented.

Note The version number of the Management Template is incremented when any customization is made to the Management Template.

Editing Aspects - Deleting an Aspect

Use Case: You are using Extensive System Management Template to monitor the performance of systems in a datacenter. You are monitoring the performance of all system resources like CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, network interface, system process and services, security, system logging and so on. You do not want to use some Aspects which are part of the Extensive System Management Template.

To edit the Aspects:

1. Open the Management Templates & Aspects pane:

   Click Administration > Monitoring > Management Templates & Aspects.

2. In the Configuration Folders pane:

   Configuration Folders > Infrastructure Management > Infrastructure Management Templates

3. In the Management Templates & Aspects pane, select Extensive System Management from the list, and then click . The Edit Management Template dialog box opens.

4. Click the Aspects tab. The list of Aspects appear.

5. Select the Aspect that you want to delete from the list.

6. Click to delete the selected Aspect.

7. Click OK. The version of the Management Template is incremented.