Need help configuring templates

[chewy]

Here’s the scenario:

I have my primary windows template with discovery rules for the hard drives and drive space usage as well as perf counter for things like iops, throughput, queue length, etc.

For the majority of machines I don’t need all this extra data so I’d like to avoid capturing so there’s that much less data to deal with.

I tried to make another template but when I added it to my host I got an error about not being able to have multiple vfs.fs.discovery on a host.

I tried to create an item in my main template with {#FSNAME} like the discovery items use but it doesn’t seem to work.

In a nutshell, I’m trying to do the following:

- All servers have my "base" Windows template with vfs.fs.discovery so I can monitor disk space usage

- On a subset of the servers above, query some windows perf counters for the discovered drives.

So how can I have my "base" template, with a filesystem discovery rule, and then on a few hosts, link another template which pulls the perf counter stats for the drives found by the "base" template?

[LenR]

Put your discovery rule and associated simple prototype items in template WIN-Simple.

Clone that to WIN-Fancy and add the other perf counter prototypes

Take everything else you have and put in template Win-Common. Then have both Win-simple and Win-fancy include Win-Common.

The only downside is that if you add/change Win-simple, you will have to make the same changes to Win-fancy.

I don't think item prototypes can refer to a discovery rule from another template.

[chewy]

Thanks for the suggestions. It's not a perfect solution but certainly workable if I don't go changing the simple/fancy templates too often.

[chewy]

Small update...

Looks like I can do what I wanted to. In setting up the suggested workaround and then trying to setup something similar for another set of templates, I discovered I can add to the discovery rule and it works.

On the "fancy" template that inherits from the base, I see under the discovery rules the inherited items. If I click on the item prototypes I can define new rules (in addition to the inherited ones I see) and it seems to work. They are able to use the {#FSNAME} just fine it seems.

Is there any danger in doing it this way as it seems to be exactly what I was aiming for originally.

[Chewbakka-Wakka]

Compare it to mine, it has VFS and SVC discovery - https://github.com/Chewbakka-Wakka/z...r/OS%20Windows

Better all just in one template. The load will not be much, will depend on interval rates etc.