Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM) provides the ability to group machines and monitoring conditions within the product, all of which and be configured via the Management - Groups page. There are 3 different types of groups:
- Primary Groups - this type of grouping allows one to organize the server/devices into meaningful collections that make it easier to manage your environment.
- For example, when creating reports or monitoring rules, you will see the groups referenced as folders. These folders are the primary groups. There are also a number of displays that can be filtered by group.
- One machine/device, can only be assigned to one primary group at a time. In addition, all machines/devices must always be assigned to a primary group. By default, when non-Citrix VDA machines/devices are discovered into the technology they are added to the Auto Register Group.
- By default, Citrix VDA's are automatically group by their Citrix Delivery Group. This setting can not be overridden at this time.
- Secondary Groups - this type of grouping allows one to organize monitoring rules into meaningful collections to make it easier to assign machines to monitoring conditions.
- For example, if you are monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops within Goliath, there will be a secondary group named Citrix Delivery Controller. This group contains all of the monitoring rules that are applicable for monitoring only Citrix Delivery Controller machines. Therefore, instead of editing one by one the handful of Citrix Delivery Controller rules on the Management - Monitors to apply the Citrix Delivery Controllers machines, adding them to this group will automatically do that for you.
- Note - a machine can be assigned to multiple Secondary Groups
- Secondary-Default Groups - this type of the group functions the similarly to Secondary Groups. However, the difference is that any new machine that gets added into the technology will automatically be assigned to this group.
- For example, the technology ships with the group Windows Health. This group contains general conditions that one would want to monitor across the environment regardless of their type. This group contains conditions like resource utilization, application & system event logs, etc. It doesn't matter is the machine is a XenApp Server, Windows VM, Exchange Server, etc these monitoring conditions are applicable for all machine types.
- Note - a machine can be assigned to multiple Secondary-Default Groups. However, it usually makes sense to only have 1 Group of this type exist.
Creating a Group
- Open the technology and navigate to the Management - Groups page
- At the top of the page, click the New Group button
- Enter a unique identifying name for the group and optional description
- Chose the Group Type.
- Next assign servers to the group. Note that machines can onlly be part of 1 Primary group. If you select a machine that's already in another primary group, it will be removed from the original primary group.
- Next, use the Monitoring Rules tab if you would like to assign additional monitoring rules to this group or remove them.
- Please note, all new non Citrix VDA machines are automatically added to the Auto Register Group upon discovery, make sure to check that group if you are having difficulty finding the machines that you’d like to add.
- Select the applicable rules in which you’d like to add to this group and click Apply when finished
- Once finished, click Save to complete the configuration.
Changing a Machines Primary Group Assignment
Please note, the following steps are only applicable for non Citrix VDA machines. By default, Citrix VDA's are automatically group by their Citrix Delivery Group. This setting can not be overridden at this time.
- Open the technology and navigate to the Management - Groups page
- Find and select the primary group in which you would like to move the machine to, i.e. the destination group, and click the Edit button
- In the Add Servers tab, find the servers you would like to move.
- Once finished, click Save to complete the configuration.