Once basic monitoring is underway, it becomes easier to fine-tune thresholds and job intervals, articulate and automate event-response policies, and tailor event notification, data collection, and the user interface to suit your needs. As you refine your deployment, focus on the following goals:
Managing events and event notification
For more information about developing and refining your policies for handling events, see the chapter Managing Events.
Handling data collection
For more information about developing and refining your data handling policies, see the chapter Managing Data.
Controlling communication between agent computers and management servers
For more information about communication between agent computers and management servers, see the chapter Site Communication and Security.
Managing security and security roles within AppManager
For more information about controlling access to tasks and configuring security settings, see the chapter Managing Security for Control Center.
Adding management servers and configuring primary and secondary management servers for agent computers
For more information about setting up primary and backup management servers, see Configuring a Primary and Secondary Management Server for Agent Computers.
Organizing the computers in your network into meaningful groups
For more information about using management groups to manage a group of computers, see the Control Center User Guide for AppManager, available on the AppManager Documentation page.
Identifying and establishing Knowledge Script Groups and monitoring policies for the computers in your environment
NetIQ Corporation recommends implementing policy-based monitoring in a test environment before you implement it in your production environment. For more information about initiating policy-based monitoring, see the Control Center User Guide for AppManager.