Working with Asset Groups

An Asset Group is a TLC object to which you may assign Monitored Assets.

For an introduction to Monitored Assets and Normalization Rules, see:

What are Managers, Log Sources, and Monitored Assets?

How does Log-Message Normalization work?

To add, edit, or delete Asset Groups:

In the side bar, select Resources >

Configuration Manager.

In the side bar of the Configuration Manager, select

Resources >

Asset Groups.

To create a new Asset Group:

Click

Add.

Complete the Asset Group properties dialog (see Table 53) and click OK.

To edit an existing Asset Group:

Double-click the group in the workspace.

Complete the Asset Group properties dialog (see Table 53) and click OK.

To delete an Asset Group, select the group and click Delete/Remove Delete.

If the Save Table Layout feature is enabled (see Saving Table Layouts in the Configuration Manager), you can modify the table in the workspace and click Save Table Layout to save the updated layout for future use.

Tip	If an Asset Group contains one or more Monitored Assets with an Oracle Database Collector, you can change the passwords for the associated Oracle user accounts in the Password Management tab of the Asset Group properties dialog. For more information, see Table 53.

Tip	Your changes will not take effect until you push updates to your Managers (see Pushing Updates to your Managers).

Table 53. Asset Group properties dialog
Tab	Description
Advanced Collector Collection	Note: This tab only appears if an Advanced Windows Collector has been added to your Manager (see Configuring a Collector). When TLC auto-discovers an Axon Agent and creates a Monitored Asset, TLC assigns the Advanced Windows Collector to the Asset. The settings in this tab only apply to these Assets. To have TLC collect all Windows Event Logs from the Agents in this Asset Group, select Yes. Otherwise, TLC will not collect any log messages from the Axon Agents.
Monitored Assets	Contains a list of your Monitored Assets. To add a Monitored Asset to the group, select the Asset's Assigned check box. To remove a Monitored Asset from the group, clear the Asset's Assigned check box. To remove all Monitored Assets from the group, clickUnCheck All Rows.
Normalization Rules	Note: If the Asset Group contains a Monitored Asset for a scanner (see What are Scanner Events?), the Normalization Rules assigned to this tab will have no affect on events collected from the Asset. Instead, TLC automatically normalizes Scanner Events. Contains the Normalization Rules that have been assigned to the group. When the Normalization Engine receives a log message for one of the group's Monitored Assets, TLC executes the rules in the order in which they appear in this tab. To change the order of the Normalization Rules, use the buttons on the right of the Rules tab. To change the list of Normalization Rules assigned to the Asset Group: 1. ClickAdd. 2. In the Modify Rules for Group dialog, select the check box for each Normalization Rule to be assigned to the group and click OK. To change the properties of a rule, double-click the rule in the Rules tab. (For further details, see Working with Normalization Rules.) To remove a rule from the group: 1. Select the rule and clickRemove. 2. In the confirmation dialog, click Yes.
Password Management	Note: This tab only appears if an Oracle Database Collector has been added to your Manager (see Configuring a Collector). Contains a list of all Monitored Assets in the group. If an Oracle Database Collector has been assigned to a Monitored Asset, the tab presents a line item for each Log Source (i.e. database instances or views) specified in the Monitored Asset's properties (see Working with Log Sources for an Oracle Database Collector). For each Log Source, the Monitored Asset identifies an Oracle user account with which TLC accesses the Log Source. In this tab, you can change the passwords for these user accounts. To change the passwords for one or more Oracle Log Sources at the same time: 1. Select the check box for the Log Source(s). 2. Click the Update Passwords button. 3. Enter and confirm a new password for the selected Log Sources, and click OK.