Monitoring System Groups with CCMSPING 

Use

You can combine systems into system groups (see System Groups in the Alert Monitor), where one system can belong to multiple system groups. In this way, you can, for example, organize systems into system groups by their function (development, quality assurance, production), their release status, or their geographic location.

You can also configure the availability monitoring to use system groups. In large IT environments, it can greatly simplify the configuration, if you can, for example, monitor all systems in a system group with one command.

You can also declare the system groups as reference system groups. A monitoring setting that is used on all systems in this group is assigned to a reference system group. If another system is later added to a reference system group of this type, this system automatically receives the monitoring settings that have been assigned to the reference system group. In the same way, a system is no longer monitored, if it is no longer a member of this reference system group.

Prerequisites

This procedure is part of the Configuring Availability Monitoring process. It is therefore a prerequisite that you have already performed the part of the process that is to be performed before this procedure.

Activities

Selecting All Monitored Systems of a System Group

The system is displaying the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen. To select all monitored systems of a system group, choose  System Groups → Select Systems of a Group. Choose the desired system group, and confirm your entry.

You can now make the desired availability monitoring settings for the selected systems, as described in Creating and Changing Monitoring Rules.

Adding and Deleting Reference System Groups

The system is displaying the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen. Choose  System Groups → Manage Reference System Groups. A screen appears on which the existing reference system groups are displayed. The following functions are available, among others:

Use	Command
Add a new reference system group	Choose  (Add Reference System Group), and choose the desired system group. The Uniform Monitoring Options screen appears (see below).
Delete a reference system group	Select the desired system group and choose  (Delete Reference System Group). This deletes only the reference, and not the system group itself.

You can use the listed functions to save existing system groups as reference system groups or to remove this assignment. To create or edit system groups themselves, however, use the system group maintenance (see System Groups in the Alert Monitor). To start the system group maintenance, choose  (Start System Group Maintenance).

Editing the Settings of a Reference System Group

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       1.      The system is displaying the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen. Choose  System Groups → Manage Reference System Groups.

       2.      Select the desired reference system group and choose  (Change Group Settings). The system displays the Uniform Monitoring Options screen.

       3.      You can set the monitoring options that you want to assign to the reference system group here. You do this in the same way as described in Creating and Changing Monitoring Rules.

Note that with reference system groups, only changes in the corresponding system groups influence the availability monitoring. If you assign certain monitoring options to a reference system group, these options do not apply for systems that currently belong to the system group, but only for the systems that are added to the system group as of then. In the same way, systems that are removed from the system group as of then are removed from the availability monitoring.

Checking the Monitoring Settings of a System Group

The system is displaying the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen. Choose  System Groups → Manage Reference System Groups. Choose  (Check Consistency with Group), and specify which system group you want to check.

The system now displays a list in which you can see how which systems of a system group are monitored. In detail, the list shows:

·        Systems of the group for which the availability is currently monitored

·        Systems of the group for which the availability is not currently monitored

·        Systems of the group for which the availability monitoring status is not known

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