Administration Groups and Template Collections

Monitored environments are rarely static—new targets are constantly being added from across your ecosystem. Enterprise Manager allows you to maintain control of this dynamic environment through administration groups. Administration groups automate the process of setting up targets for management in Enterprise Manager by automatically applying management settings such as monitoring settings or compliance standards. Typically, these settings are manually applied to individual targets, or perhaps semi-automatically using monitoring templates (see Monitoring Templates) or custom scripts. Administration groups combine the convenience of applying monitoring settings using monitoring templates with the power of automation.

Template collections contain the monitoring settings and other management settings that are meant to be applied to targets as they join the administration group. Monitoring settings for targets are defined in monitoring templates. Monitoring templates are defined on a per target type basis, so you will need to create monitoring templates for each of the different target types in your administration group. You will most likely create multiple monitoring templates to define the appropriate monitoring settings for an administration group.

Every target added to Enterprise Manager possesses innate attributes called target properties. Enterprise Manager uses these target properties to add targets to the correct administration group. Administration group membership is based on target properties as membership criteria so target membership is dynamic. Once added to the administration group, Enterprise Manager automatically applies the requisite monitoring settings using monitoring templates that are part of the associated template collection .

Administration groups use the following target properties to define membership criteria:

Contact
Cost Center
Customer Support Identifier
Department
Lifecycle Status
Line of Business
Location
Target Version
Target Type