I.2 Overview of monitoring template
With Performance Management, you can define alarms and reports for the health check agent in the following ways:
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Use an existing alarm or report defined for the health check agent
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Copy and then customize an alarm or report defined for the health check agent
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Use a wizard to create a new alarm or report
Performance Management provides pre-defined alarms and reports in a monitoring template for use by the health check agent. Because the necessary information has been preset in these alarms and reports, you can copy them and use them as is, or customize them to suit your environment. By using the alarms and reports in the monitoring template, you can easily prepare to monitor a system's operating status without needing to use wizards to create new definitions.
The following describes the settings in the alarms and reports defined in the monitoring template for the health check agent.