Quick Configuration Wizard

The Quick Configuration Wizard (QCW) in OpManager offers an easy and effortless way to make configuration changes to multiple devices.

To go to the Quick Configuration Wizard, go to Settings -> Configuration -> Quick Configuration Wizard.

• Device Templates
• Notification Profiles
• Service Monitors
• Threshold Settings
• Event Log Rules
• Device Dependencies
• Credentials
• Delete Devices
• Manage / Unmanage Devices
• Alarm Suppression
• Monitoring Interval
• Update Device Display Name

Device Templates:

Device templates carry the information required to classify the devices and to associate relevant monitors. OpManager comes with over 10000 device templates.

OpManager will automatically identify and associate device templates during discovery. However, in case the device types were not identified, you can create a custom device template and associate it either from Device template page or from QCW > Device Template.

Using the Device Templates tab in QCW, you can configure Device templates for multiple devices.

1. Select a vendor to view the associated device templates.
2. Select the template depending on your requirement.
3. 'Show all devices' option: Enable this option to display all devices in the 'Available Devices' section. By default, devices classified as 'Unknown' device type are listed.
4. Select all the devices you want to associate the template to from the 'Available Devices' list and click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Selected Devices' list.



5. Select all the devices you want to associate the template to from the 'Available Devices' list and click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Selected Devices' list.
   • Associate: Use this option to associate newly added monitors without affecting any existing monitors or its thresholds.
   • Associate & Overwrite: Use this option to overwrite existing device configurations. This will simply replace all existing monitors and its thresholds.

Notification Profiles:

Configure Notification Profiles to selected devices using the option in QCW.

1. Select the Notification Profile that you want to associate.
2. Use the necessary filter and select the the devices you want to associate the Notification Profile to from the 'Available Devices' column.
3. Click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Associated Devices' column.



4. Click on the Associate button once you've selected all the required devices.

Service Monitors:

Associate (or Dissociate) Service monitors and Windows Service monitors to devices in bulk using Quick Configuration Wizard - Service Monitors.

1. Use the 'Associate a service to servers' option to associate a Service Monitor to devices in which the particular service is not monitored.
2. Select the Service Monitor that you want to associate, then select the devices you want to associate the Service Monitor to from the 'Devices on which the service is not monitored' column.
3. Click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Devices on which the service is monitored' column.



4. Click on the Associate button once you've selected all the required devices.
5. Use the 'Associate a windows service' option to associate a Windows Service Monitor to devices in which the particular Windows service is not monitored.
6. Select the Windows Service Monitor that you want to associate, then select the devices you want to associate the Windows Service Monitor to, from the 'Devices on which the service is not monitored' column.
7. Click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Devices on which the service is monitored' column.

Note: Move the devices from the 'Devices on which the service is monitored' column to the 'Devices on which the service is not monitored' to dissociate the monitors from the devices.



8. Click on the Associate button once you've selected all the required devices.

Threshold Settings:

The Threshold Settings option in QCW can be used to configure threshold settings in bulk for Partition Details and VMware-Datastore performance monitors, and Response Time and Packet Loss availability monitors.

Partition Details gives you the percentage of Disk free space in a partition. To configure Threshold Settings for Partition Details:

1. Select 'Monitors Type' as 'Partition Details'.
2. Select the required Protocol, Category and Filter depending on the devices you want configure Threshold Settings for and click 'Next'.



3. Select the devices you want to configure Threshold Settings for and click on 'Configure'.
4. Enter the desired 'Interval' for polling, Data Type and Units (usually percentage) required.
5. Enter the threshold values and message needed for Attention Threshold, Trouble Threshold and Critical Threshold. Exceeding the thresholds set will give you an alert with the respective message.



6. Enter the Rearm value desired and the corresponding message.
7. Enter the number of 'Consecutive Times' of polling for which threshold alerts need to be raised.
8. Click on 'Apply & Overwrite'.

To configure threshold settings for VMWare-Datastore monitors:

1. Select 'Monitors Type' as 'VMWare-Datastore', click 'Next' and select the desired monitor.
2. Click on 'Configure'.
3. Enter the desired 'Interval' for polling, Data Type and Units (usually percentage) required.
4. Enter the threshold values and message needed for Attention Threshold, Trouble Threshold and Critical Threshold. Exceeding the thresholds set will give you an alert with the respective message.
5. Enter the Rearm value desired and the corresponding message.



6. Enter the number of 'Consecutive Times' of polling for which threshold alerts need to be raised.
7. Click on 'Next'.
8. Select from the list of 'Available Datastores' and click the right arrow.
9. Click on 'Apply & Overwrite'.

To configure Threshold Settings for 'Response Time' and 'Packet Loss':

1. Click on the 'Availability Monitors' tab and choose 'Response Time' or 'Packet Loss' depending on your requirement.
2. Configure the Threshold settings, such as Consecutive times - number of polls after which the Threshold alert should be generated, Threshold values for Attention Threshold, Trouble Threshold and Critical Threshold along with their corresponding message.
3. Enter the desired Rearm value and the rearm message.
4. Click on 'Next'.



5. Select the desired devices to apply the Threshold Settings from the list of 'Available Devices' and click on the right arrow to move them to the 'Selected Devices' column.



6. Click 'Save'.

Note: If you want to remove Threshold for the monitor, leave the Threshold related fields empty. Additionally, you can also set or remove thresholds from the Packet loss and Response time dials in the device snapshot page.

Event Log Rules:

The Event Log Rules option in QCW allows you to associate/dissociate event logs in bulk for specific rules.

1. Select the LogFile.
2. Select the Rule for which you want to configure event logs for.
3. Select the required devices from the list of 'All Devices' and move them to the 'Event Log associated devices' column (remove the devices from the 'Event Log associated devices' column if you want to dissociate event logs for the devices).



4. Click on 'Save'.

Device Dependencies:

Configure device dependencies to avoid multiple device down alerts when a core/ parent device is down. It also pauses the Availability monitoring of child devices when the parent device is down, thereby optimizing the performance of OpManager.

1. Filter by Category, choose parent device and click 'Next'.



2. Choose if you want to assign to all devices in a category, a specific Business View or manually group devices that you want to associate as dependent or child of the parent device chosen.



3. Click on Associate.

Note: Get a report of all dependent devices listed with their parent device from the Uplink Dependency Devices report under Inventory reports in the Reports tab.

Credentials:

Using Quick Configuration Wizard - Credentials, you can associate a credential to selected devices.

1. 'Select a Credential' that you want to associate to devices.
2. Use the appropriate filter and select the devices you want to associate the devices for from the list of Devices for which the credential is not associated.
3. After selecting all devices that you want to associate the credential for, click on the right arrow.



4. Click on the 'Associate' button to associate the credentials to the selected devices.

Delete Devices:

Use the Delete Devices tab in QCW to delete devices from your OpManager database in bulk. Deleted devices need to be rediscovered and configured from scratch before they are monitored again.

1. Select a category that you want to delete devices for.
2. Select the devices you want to delete from the 'Devices in the selected category' column and press the right arrow.



3. Once you've moved all the devices that you want to delete to the 'Devices to delete' column, click on the 'Delete' button.

Note: Deleting the devices will lead to the loss of historical data of the availability monitors, associated performance monitors and interfaces.

Manage / Unmanage Devices:

By default, OpManager manages all the discovered devices. However, there might be some known devices in your network that are either down or under planned maintenance and hence cannot respond to status polls sent by OpManager. These devices can be set to 'Unmanaged' status to avoid unnecessary polling. Once maintenance gets over, they can be set to managed status.

The associated device and its historical data will remain intact when you re-manage.

1. Select the Category of the devices you want to un-manage.
2. Select the devices you want to un-manage from the 'Managed Devices' column and select the right arrow to move them to the 'Unmanaged Devices' column.
3. If you want to re-manage previously un-managed devices, you can select them from the 'Unmanaged Devices' column, select the left arrow and move them to the 'Managed Devices' column.



4. Click on the 'Save' button.

Alternatively, you can also Manage/ Unmanage devices from the inventory page. Go to Inventory -> Devices -> Click on the device that you want to Manage/ Unmanage and go to the device snapshot page -> Click on the 'more' option on the top right -> Click on Manage/Unmanage.

Note: To perform this operation automatically, use Device Downtime Scheduler.

Alarm Suppression:

The Alarm Suppression option in QCW enables you to suppress alarms for Devices, Business Views and Groups.

1. Select Category if you want to suppress alarms for devices by sorting by category, select "Business Views" if you want to suppress alarms for Business Views, select "Groups" if you want to suppress alarms for Groups.
2. Choose the 'Time Period' for which you want alarms suppressed from the drop down.



3. Select the Devices/ Business Views/ Groups for which you want to suppress alarms for.
4. Click on the 'Save' button.

Monitoring Interval:

Using the Monitoring Interval tab in QCW, you can modify the availability monitoring interval for all devices in a category and disable or enable availability status polling of all devices in a category.

1. Set the monitoring interval in the 'Monitoring Interval (Minutes)' column for the category of devices you want to make changes for.
   If the 'Monitoring Interval (Minutes)' is changed, then the status polling interval for 'Availability Monitoring' is changed. That is, if status polling occurred every 15 minutes before and the 'Monitoring Interval (Minutes)' column has been changed to 30 minutes, then status polling will occur every 30 minutes now for the devices.
2. Enable/Disable status polling (Availability monitoring) for devices using the 'Enable' checkbox.
   If the status polling is disabled, then the devices will not be polled and hence 'Availability Monitoring' for the selected devices will be stopped.



3. Click on the 'Save' button.

Note: You can also set monitoring interval and status polling for random devices from the Inventory page.

Update Device Display Name:

You can update the display name of devices in bulk using this option. You can do this either by uploading a CSV file with the device name or IP address, and the respective display name or by querying the device itself.

1. To update device name using a CSV file, upload the file in the 'CSV file Import' tab and click 'Update'.
2. To update device name by querying devices using the associated credentials:

• Select if you want to configure the device name to its FQDN , Hostname, or sysName:
  • FQDN (Fully qualified domain name) - If the device display name is configured to its FQDN, the device will be queried and the device display name will be changed to its FQDN, that is its Hostname + Domain name.
  • Hostname - If the device display name is configured to its Hostname, then the device will be queried and its Hostname will become its device display name.
  • sysName - Set the sysName (queried from the device using SNMP) as the display name for the selected devices.
• Select the desired Devices or or filters such as Business Views or Groups and choose the devices whose display name need to be updated in OpManager.
• Click on the 'Update' button.