Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Use group assignments for SAM application monitor templates and application monitors

You can assign application monitor templates and application monitors to existing groups of monitored objects, including nodes.

After creating a group, you can add nodes to the group so that any templates and application monitors linked to the group are automatically added to the new nodes. Likewise, if you add a new template or application monitor to the group, all node members receive the new additions.

Note the following details about assigning templates and application monitors to groups:

  • Templates are assigned to selected nodes even if nodes doesn't meet template requirements. For example, if a template assigned to a group requires a specific OS version such as Windows Server 2012, it's automatically assigned to all nodes in the group, even if they're running a different OS.

  • Nested groups are not supported.

  • AppInsight applications cannot be assigned to groups.

  • Application assignment to a group happens in the background and can take some time to be created depending on the size of the application.

  • If an OS-specific template, such as the Apache (Windows) template, is assigned to a group with Linux nodes, the template is assigned and reports a status of Unknown due to OS mismatch.

  • If a node added to the group already has the template assigned to it, no changes occur.

  • If a node is part of two groups with shared templates, the node only receives one copy of each assigned template and application monitors.

  • If you delete a group, the assigned templates may remain assigned depending on the Advanced section configuration. In the Auto Delete Application Monitor option, select Yes to remove the templates if the group is deleted or nodes are removed from the group.

  • You cannot assign credentials to a node and have all templates assigned to the group use those credentials. Credentials are not associated by group. You can select Inherit Credentials from Node when using WMI or an agent. The new application created from the template will use credentials from the node that is assigned to.

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