Enabling Automatic Configuration

Things to expect:

• The most important point is many new monitors will get created for all of your servers/devices. If you have an existing installation, these will probably be duplicate monitors.
  • Because of the above, you might want to delete any standard monitors that you haven't made special customizations to. You can do that via Bulk Config > Monitors: Delete Monitors. Sorting "By Type" might make it easier to delete all of one type of monitor (all Ping monitors for example) at once.
• Most of the new monitors don't have any actions assigned to them yet. You'll need to go to the Automatic Configuration group, and visit each contained group to add notification actions to the Power Templates in that group.
• By default, all servers/devices inherit from the same (applicable) Power Templates. If you need different servers to send alerts to different groups, you'll need to have your own Dynamic Groups with templates that alert according to your needs, and rules that apply these templates to some servers but not others (Custom Properties is an easy way to do this).

Summary: If you have an existing installation that is working well, it's probably better to NOT enable Automatic Configuration

Disabling Automatic Configuration

Things to expect:

• When Automatic Configuration is disabled, the Automatic Configuration group, with its child groups, will be deleted.
  • Because of the above, the Power Templates will get deleted, which means all monitors that inherit from those templates will be deleted.
• You can always re-enable Automatic Configuration, but the new Power Templates that are created will not have the actions attached the way you have it now.

Summary: If your configuration was originally created by Auto Configuration, it might be best to leave it rather than lose your configuration and need to start over.

Making the Change

After reading the above, if you would like to make the change anyway, you will need to enter this keyword: UNDERSTAND

Undo the Change

When Auto Configuration is enabled or disabled, a configuration backup is created at:

The backup is made before the Auto Configuration change is made.

If you need to restore this backup, you'll need to use the Console on the Central Monitoring Service, and go to the following menu Configuration > Import Complete Configuration.