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Using MonitorMagic
Policies, Monitors, Rules and Alarm actions
Policies
Introduction
To make it configuration easy MonitorMagic supports monitor policies. A monitor policy is a
collection of monitors. These monitors can contain rules and the rules can contain alarm actions.
To get a basic understanding of these concepts you are advised to read the general topic on
policies, monitors, rules, and alarm actions first. The monitors of a policy do not directly relate to a
physical or software "device" of a computer. Instead, they define what monitors must be
generated when the policy is applied to a computer. Example: A policy can contain a monitor
called "All disks". This monitor is not yet associated with any physical disk drive of any computer.
When the policy is applied to computer ABC, MonitorMagic will find all disks in computer ABC
and create monitors, rules, and alarm actions for each of them.
Thus, a policy contains the complete specification of monitors, rules, and alarm actions except for
the name of the computer. When the policy is applied to the computer MonitorMagic generates
the monitors for each physical or software "device" of the computer.
Policies make it very easy to configure multiple monitors for multiple computers. When you have
similar network servers in your network you probably want to monitor these computers the same
way. In this case you can create a policy that meets your monitoring needs and then apply this
policy to each of these computers.
Note: Since MonitorMagic version 3.0, policies can be stored on the MonitorMagic client and on
the MonitorMagic service. See Local and central monitor policies for more information.
More information:
Creating a new policy
Quick start guide
Monitor policy window
The monitor policy window is used to create and manage monitor policies. To activate the
monitor policy window, right click the mouse in he grey area of the MonitorMagic client application
or activate the main menu option View. Select menu option Network - policies. The tabbed
window contains a network browse window and the monitor policies window. At the bottom of the
window, select the Policies tab.
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