Monitoring Categories

Monitoring categories group Agents for easy management and can be customized to your particular needs.  ELM has many pre-configured Categories, and will import Categories found during an upgrade.

Monitoring Categories are user configurable containers for organizing ELM Agents. Monitor Items are assigned to Categories which then assign them to any Agents in the Category. ELM has many pre-configured Categories, and will import Categories found during an upgrade.

The default All Agents category has special significance to ELM and should not be altered. However the other pre-configured Categories, can be renamed, deleted, or otherwise altered. New Categories can be created as necessary.

Agents can exist within multiple categories. For example, an Agent monitoring SQL Server 2008 could be in the following categories:

•Windows Servers

•Service Agents

•Database Servers

•Corporate Servers

Monitor Items - Monitor Items determine the type of information or activity to monitor. Examples include Event Collector (which collects events), Service Monitor (which watches the state of Windows services), and Performance Collector (which gathers performance counter values) can be assigned to Monitoring Categories. Agents inherit the Monitors that are assigned to an Agent Category. Adding a Monitor to the Agent Category automatically assigns the monitor to each agent in the category. If the agent cannot run the Monitor, for example a Windows XP agent in a category with a Cluster Server monitor, nothing will happen. The agent will ignore the monitor and there is no adverse effect or additional