Before you deploy AppManager across your entire enterprise, develop and refine your data handling policies. In determining how you want to manage AppManager data in your organization, consider your group’s internal procedures, department structure, and management goals. For example, if your manager asks you to supply a weekly performance summary for your Network Operations Center (NOC), you need to collect data for those servers and run reporting Knowledge Scripts at least once each week. It is important to understand how your data-handling policies will affect the availability of the specific charts, graphs, and reports you are interested in, as well as the level of database management you will need to perform.
The topics in this chapter address the impact of data collection and the options you should consider when planning to run Knowledge Scripts that collect data.