21 Setting Up Administration Group Hierarchy

Administration groups are a special type of group used to fully automate application of monitoring and other management settings targets upon joining the group. When a target is added to the group, Enterprise Manager applies these settings using a template collection consisting of monitoring templates, compliance standards, and cloud policies. This completely eliminates the need for administrator intervention. After discovering and monitoring targets, and after creating monitoring templates, create an administration group hierarchy so that the monitored targets can be logically grouped, and the monitoring templates can be applied globally.

Step 1: Set Target Properties to Monitored Targets Step 2: Define a Hierarchy Step 3: Defining Template Collections Step 4: Associate Template Collections and Set a Synchronization Schedule

Step 1: Set Target Properties to Monitored Targets	Step 2: Define a Hierarchy	Step 3: Defining Template Collections	Step 4: Associate Template Collections and Set a Synchronization Schedule
Access the Home page of the monitored target. From the target menu, select Target Setup, then select Properties. On the Target Properties page, click Edit. Set or specify values for the properties of interest. Click OK. Note: For large numbers of targets, it is best to use the EM CLI verb `set_target_property_value` to perform a mass update. For more information, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface Guide.	From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups. On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Hierarchy tab. In the Hierarchy Levels table, click Add. Select one of the available target properties. Repeat this step until you have added all target properties of interest. In the Hierarchy Levels table, click on one of the newly added property. In the Hierarchy Nodes table, if the property values to do appear by default, click Add. Click OK. Repeat Step (4) to Step (6) until all the newly added properties have been provided with a value. Click on the group name, and set the time zone for the group. Click Create.	From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups. On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Template Collections tab. Click Create. On the Create Template Collection page, provide a template collection name. In the Monitoring Template subtab, click Add and select a monitoring template you want to apply. (Optional) In the Compliance Standard subtab, click Add and select a compliance standard you want to apply. (Optional) In the Cloud Policies subtab, click Add and select the cloud policy you want to apply. Click Save. Repeat Step (2) to Step (8) if you want to create additional template collections.	From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups. On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Associations tab. Select the administration group at the highest level in the hierarchy, and click Associate Template Collection. Choose the desired template collection and click Select. All sub-nodes in the hierarchy will automatically inherit the selected template collection. Click Synchronization Schedule. In the Synchronization Schedule dialog, click Edit. Set a suitable schedule for the administration group changes to be applied to targets. Click Save.

Access the Home page of the monitored target.
From the target menu, select Target Setup, then select Properties.
On the Target Properties page, click Edit.
Set or specify values for the properties of interest.
Click OK.

Note: For large numbers of targets, it is best to use the EM CLI verb set_target_property_value to perform a mass update. For more information, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface Guide.

From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups.
On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Hierarchy tab.
In the Hierarchy Levels table, click Add. Select one of the available target properties.

Repeat this step until you have added all target properties of interest.
In the Hierarchy Levels table, click on one of the newly added property.
In the Hierarchy Nodes table, if the property values to do appear by default, click Add.
Click OK.
Repeat Step (4) to Step (6) until all the newly added properties have been provided with a value.
Click on the group name, and set the time zone for the group.
Click Create.

From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups.
On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Template Collections tab.
Click Create.
On the Create Template Collection page, provide a template collection name.
In the Monitoring Template subtab, click Add and select a monitoring template you want to apply.
(Optional) In the Compliance Standard subtab, click Add and select a compliance standard you want to apply.
(Optional) In the Cloud Policies subtab, click Add and select the cloud policy you want to apply.
Click Save.
Repeat Step (2) to Step (8) if you want to create additional template collections.

From the Setup menu, select Add Target, then select Administration Groups.
On the Administration Groups and Template Collections page, click the Associations tab.
Select the administration group at the highest level in the hierarchy, and click Associate Template Collection.
Choose the desired template collection and click Select.

All sub-nodes in the hierarchy will automatically inherit the selected template collection.
Click Synchronization Schedule.
In the Synchronization Schedule dialog, click Edit.
Set a suitable schedule for the administration group changes to be applied to targets.
Click Save.

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