Management Templates

As your network and applications environments continually shift, you need an automated method of ensuring that your monitoring solution automatically adjusts and alerts you to the changes. ScienceLogic takes IT management to the next level by automatically applying pre-defined management templates, either based on manufacturer best practices or customized for your business.

Management templates provide a real-time look into your infrastructure by mapping the hierarchical relationships between components, no matter how virtualized or complex the infrastructure. ScienceLogic's solution includes hundreds of management templates – pre-built monitoring policies based on best practices for leading manufacturers’ equipment and applications, for example, Dell OpenManage, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Windows. These out-of-the-box monitoring templates build you a complete and detailed picture of system health, for real-time and historical views and reports.

FEATURES

• Sophisticated device properties templates applied manually to a device or device group or applied during discovery
• Attributes for default credentials, basic monitoring protocols, retention periods, and thresholds
• Sub-templates for TCP/IP port monitoring that allows basic service availability to be monitored consistently across specific groups of devices
• Sub-templates for web content verification with standard web monitoring across large web server farms with single-click application
• Network interface monitoring sub-templates for standardized monitoring of network traffic across a selected range of devices
• Alignment of custom monitoring policies via a template, using management templates to collect a range of performance and configuration data against specific devices using SNMP, SQL, SOAP, and other protocols

POWERPACK FEATURES

• Pre-packaged management templates and associated events, reports, device definitions, runbook automation actions, credentials, and dashboard widgets for easy export to separate ScienceLogic systems
• Automated version management and change control
• Support for content locking for intellectual property protection

Systems monitoring policies – defined in management templates – can be easily customized for thresholds, events, polling frequency, device characteristics, and the like. Devices can be managed in bulk, brought down to the server level, or even brought down to the component level.

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During ScienceLogic's dynamic discovery process, during which every component, device, and application in your environment is found and recognized, the ScienceLogic platform is intelligent enough to automatically apply the management templates. Data can be collected at intervals ranging from 1 minute to every 24 hours, according to your organization’s needs. Performance and availability metrics are pulled immediately after dynamic discovery, usually within minutes.