Selecting this option, would enable you to perform bulk administrative operations on Monitors. Clicking on this link, will take you to the Monitors Bulk Configuration View - where all monitors are listed.
You can perform the following Monitor Admin Operations from the List View tab:
This option enables you to bulk edit the Display Names of the Monitors.
This option enables you to choose the monitors that you want to monitor or not. Under Monitors tab, select Bulk Config view, here all the monitors discovered are listed. Select the monitors for which data collection needs to be done and then click on Manage link, likewise select the monitors for which you do not want data collection to happen and then click on Unmanage link. For license information, the count of the 'number of monitors' would be based on the number of Managed Monitors. On clicking unmanage, an iframe page appears, where you will have various options to choose unmanage type and time period. Options available for selecting time period are, Forever, For 1 hour, For 2 hours, For 8 hours, For 12 hours, For 1 day, For 1 week and custom. Also there are two options available for choosing type of monitoring :
This option enables you to choose the monitors that you want to unmanage. Also you can reset the status of the selected monitors using this option. Under Monitors tab, select 'Bulk Config' view, here all the monitors discovered are listed. Select the monitors for which you do not want data collection to happen and then click on Unmanage link. On clicking unmanage, an iframe page appears, where you will have various options to choose unmanage type and time period. Options available for selecting time period are, Forever, For 1 hour, For 2 hours, For 8 hours, For 12 hours, For 1 day, For 1 week and custom. Also there are two options available for choosing type of monitoring :
This option enables you to bulk update usernames and passwords across monitor types.
For eg., if you have five tomcat servers running, you can select all the five tomcat servers from the list. Click on Update Username/Password. Your selection would be listed and you can enter the username and password that is common across all the five tomcat servers.
This option enables you to bulk update poll intervals across monitor types.
For eg., if you have five apache servers running, you can select all the five apache servers from the list. Click on Update Polling Interval link. Your selection would be listed and you can enter the desired poll interval.
This option enables you to copy and paste the configuration of one monitor to create new monitors of the same type.
For eg., if you want to monitor the apaches running in 10 different servers, then you can configure the monitoring parameters of one apache in Host1 and copy those configurations to the other apaches in Host2 , Host3 ..to..Host10
On clicking copy and paste icon, you need to enter the host names of the servers to which the configurations have to be pasted (the host names can be given comma separated). Enter the SubNet mask too.
Note: If you want to copy and paste the configurations of server monitor, then you can choose to copy the configuration of the services running inside the server or only the server configuration.
Currently we do not support the copy and paste function for the following monitors:
You can update the hostname/IP address of a host. Using the Update Hostname/IP option, you can also perform the following operations:
A shortcut to edit the host name or IP Address:
Note: This option is supported only for the following monitors: MSSQL, MySQL, DB2, SYBASE, APACHE, .NET, ORACLE AS, JDK 1.5, SAP, WebLogic Server, SNMP, JMX, WINDOWS, LINUX, Solaris, AIX, AS400, NOVELL, MAC, and FREEBSD.
