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Assign the Monitoring Profile to a Custom Device Collection

You created the Custom Virtual Servers monitoring profile and added event rules to monitor your virtual machines running critical business applications. To begin monitoring your virtual devices, and to activate event rules, assign your My Virtual Servers monitoring profile to the custom Virtual Servers device collection.

Important! The key to starting and stopping the monitoring process is the device collections. Data Aggregator cannot use a monitoring profile unless you associate it to at least one device collection.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Collections from the Monitoring Configuration menu on the Data Aggregator administration page.

   A list of device collections displays.

2. Select the Virtual Servers device collection and click the Monitoring Profiles tab.

   A list displays the monitoring profiles that are assigned to the selected devicecollection. This list will be empty.

3. Click Manage.

   The Assign Collection Monitoring Profiles dialog opens.

4. Select the My Virtual Servers monitoring profile from the Available Monitoring Profiles list and click Add.

   The monitoring profile moves to the Assigned Monitoring Profiles list.

5. Click Save.

   Data Aggregator begins monitoring this collection of devices using your monitoring profile and event rules. Events that are generated appear in the Events Display dashboard.