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Set up situation-based monitoring
It is difficult to estimate the time required to set up situation-based monitoring. It is easy to turn on various predefined situations if they are not already running, but not always practical.
Before starting or turning off predefined situations, you need to review them to determine which ones are appropriate for your environment. Moreover, you need to review the default thresholds for the situations that you decide to use and adjust them to suit your site policies and requirements.
Any changes made to predefined situations are overwritten when application support is updated. If you modify predefined situations, save them with a new name, and use them instead of the original predefined situation for your monitoring.
For creating new situations, allow for 20 situations per day, including testing.
You may also want to create managed system groups, which are lists of managed systems to which you want to distribute the same situations.
When creating situations and managed systems lists, it is extremely important to choose a naming convention that is meaningful. A similar naming convention must be used for situations, managed systems lists, workspaces, and queries. Customize situations, workspaces, and queries describes some options when considering the situation and managed system group naming conventions.
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Estimate deployment tasks