The OpenEdge Management Library contains resource monitoring components that you define, share, and, in many instances, transfer among your company's various work sites. Two of the primary benefits of employing library components are:

  • Minimizing duplication of effort when creating numerous and similar resources
  • Standardizing implementation of your company's business policies through the definition and distribution of these components.

You can define schedules, actions, search criteria, and rule sets at the library level. The import and export activities that are also available in the library allow you to distribute all library components (except schedules) that you create on one machine to other machines located throughout the company.

To access the OpenEdge Management Library, click Library > Go to Library from the menu bar. The OpenEdge Management Component Library appears.

The components you build, maintain, and access through the OpenEdge Management Component Library page are independent of each other. This independence allows you the flexibility to:

  • Combine and reuse these components
  • Minimize redundant resource setup work for numerous items that are very similar
  • Help standardize work flow processes across an enterprise

The following table briefly highlights the remaining library function options, according to the type of resource with which they are associated.

Table 1. Additional OpenEdge Management Library features
To help . . . Use these library components . . .
Create log file monitors Search Criteria and Log File Rule Set. These components allow you to define rules-related data that is to be shared among log file monitors. For example:
  • Create Search Criteria — Defines rule properties from which you can select and associate with other rule properties to create individual rules to run within your log file monitors
  • Create Log File Rule Set — Defines a set of log file monitor rules that you can associate with one or more log file monitor resources
For details, see Monitor file resources.
Create database monitors The database rule set, which allows you to define a set of database rules that you can use with one or more database resources. For details, see OpenEdge Management: Database Management.
Create OpenEdge monitors The NameServer, AppServer, or WebSpeed rule set, which allows you to define a set of rules that you can use with each type of resource. For details, see OpenEdge Management: Servers, DataServers, Messengers, and Adapters.
Identify existing OpenEdge Management components to export to other computers Export Components, which allows you to identify various components that you create and share by importing from and/or exporting to another machine. For details, see Export and import in OpenEdge Management.
Identify existing OpenEdge Management components to import to other computers Import Components, which allows you to identify various components that you create and share by importing from and/or exporting to another machine. For details, see Export and import in OpenEdge Management.