Working with rule sets

A rule set is a set of rules that you associate with one or more resources through a monitoring plan. These rule sets are stored by resource type in the Fathom Component Library. These links allow you to create OpenEdge-related rule sets:

To display the Fathom Component Library page where these OpenEdge links appear, click Library.

Note: The Log File Rule Set link on the Fathom Component Library page allows you to create rule sets to be shared among all log file resource monitors.

Rule sets provide a way for you to manage many broker resource types by sharing rule definitions. In this way, you create a common set of rules that you can associate with multiple resource instances.

Each rule set you create is stored in the Fathom Component Library, making the rule set available for reuse as well as use by other resource monitors within a given resource type.

You can also add individual rules to a monitoring plan, whether or not the rules are part of any rule set. Note that if you include a rule in a monitoring plan's rule set and then add the same rule again with modifications, the rule in the rule set is overridden by the rule with the modifications.

Fathom provides a default rule set for each OpenEdge resource type as it does for other resource types. For example, when an AppServer broker resource is added to Fathom, a default monitoring plan, with a default rule set, is assigned to it. Fathom also provides this default rule set assignment for WebSpeed and NameServer resources.


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