After you configure an active monitor in the Active Monitor Library, you must add it to the individual devices for which you want to monitor services.

Note: When you assign an active monitor to a device, an instance of the monitor is added to the device. Changes that you make to the monitor configuration via the Active Monitor Library affect all instances of the monitor. For example, if you assign a monitor to four separate devices and then make changes to the monitor from the Active Monitor Library, all four instances of the monitor adopt the changes.

To assign an active monitor to a device:

Note: If you are assigning an active monitor to a device that uses WMI or SNMP credentials, before assigning an active monitor, make sure that the device has the proper credentials assigned. For more information, see Using Credentials.

There are a number of ways to assign Active Monitors to devices:

To manually assign an active monitor to the device:

  1. In the Device Properties Active Monitor dialog, click Add. The Active Monitor Properties dialog appears.
  2. Select the active monitor type you want to assign to the device, then click Next.
  3. Set the polling properties for the monitor, then click Next.
  4. Set up actions for the monitor state changes.
  5. Click Finish to add the monitor to the device.

To use Bulk Field Change to add an active monitor to multiple devices:

  1. Select the devices in the device list, then right-click on one of the selected items.
  2. From the right-click menu, click Bulk Field Change > Active Monitor.
  3. Select the active monitor type you want to add.
  4. Click OK.