Additional template tasks

This section provides additional tasks such as how to view your template by using the console or the sm_esmctl utility, how to delete a template, how to configure monitored application processes for a host through the console without using a template, and so on.

Template related and configuration tasks lists the template related and configuration tasks for processes and application service groups.

Table 1. Template related and configuration tasks

Tasks	Description
Template related tasks	Modify an existing application template.	“Modifying an existing user-defined application template” on page 230
	View the template information.	“Display template information” on page 232
	Delete a template that was created by using the console.	“Delete a template” on page 233
	Enable or disable automatic process monitoring of templates by using the AutoConfigMode parameter in the Polling and Thresholds Console. Templates such as ESX-Service and AtmosService that are part of the automatic process monitoring configuration for Atmos, ESX, and vCenter. Modifying the template attribute IsEnabled to disable automatic process monitoring is ignored. Use the AutoConfigMode parameter.	“Enable or Disable Automatic Process Monitoring” on page 237
	Use the sm_esmctl utility to list templates.	“List application templates by using the sm_esmctl utility” on page 234
	Use the sm_esmctl utility to load templates.	“Load the application templates by using the sm_esmctl utility” on page 234
	Use the sm_esmctl utility to save the ESM server repository.	“Save the ESM repository with the sm_esmctl utility” on page 234
	Use the sm_esmctl utility to load the esm-param.conf file.	“Load the esm-param.conf file with the sm_esmctl utility” on page 234
	Replace an existing template with a different template on a host.	“Changing the templates for a host” on page 235
	Remove the process monitoring configuration from a single host.	“Remove process monitoring configuration from a single host” on page 236
	Remove the process monitoring configuration from multiple hosts.	“Remove process monitoring configuration from multiple hosts at the Domain Manager level” on page 236
Configuration tasks	Use the Polling and Thresholds Console to configure a full application command path.	“Process Monitoring using full application command path” on page 235
	Configure process monitoring for a particular host without using a template.	“Configure process monitoring without using a template” on page 236
	Enable the use of templates to discover applications.	“Enabling Application discovery using templates” on page 237
	Enable or disable process configuration using full application command path for a setting group.	“Enable or disable process configuration using full application command path” on page 349

Note:

Process name and arguments have to be unique for process monitoring setup. You cannot have two instances of the same process or arguments.