So we are working on implementing Solarwinds monitoring. The first thing on the agenda is developing "monitoring profiles", or documents that define how we monitor different types of things. These are, by necessity, divergent. For instance, you may have a profile for "Windows 2008 Servers" which monitors x, y and z with thresholds 1, 2 and 3. But you may also have "SQL Servers" which monitors a, b and c with thresholds 4, 5 and 6. Without knowing anything about Solarwinds, I see two logical ways to organize this. First, you could simply "apply" both profiles to a server. The second way would be to create 3 profiles: "WIndows 2008 Servers", "SQL Servers" and "Windows 2008 SQL Servers". Both present problems, especially when you start getting into overlapping counters and conflicting thresholds, but I'm wondering what everyone else is doing and what works best when translating these to Application Templates within Solarwinds.
I appreciate any input or links to videos on the subject. If this doesn't make any sense to you, please let me know so I can try to explain further!