To create a monitor policy with the monitor policy wizard

1. In the Symantec Management Console, on the Actions menu, click Monitor > New Policy.

2. In the wizard, in the Choose what to monitor panel, choose what to monitor, and then click Next.

   You must enter a name of the monitoring policy. A descriptive name can help you easily identify the policy in the future.

   You must specify if the policy should be either an agent-based policy or an agentless policy. Whether or not the Monitor Plug-in is installed on the computers that you monitor determines if the policy should be agent-based or agentless.

   • Agent-based monitor policies are intended to be run on computers with the Monitor Plug-in installed on them. If a computer has a Monitor Plug-in that is installed on it, more aspects of the computer are available to be monitored.

   • Agentless monitor policies let you monitor computers without the Monitor Plug-in. Because the Monitor Plug-in is not available, fewer aspects of the computer are available to be monitored.

3. In the wizard, in the Select monitoring categories panel, select one or more monitoring categories, and then click Next.

   A category is a grouping of rules. Rules are grouped into categories so that it is easier to organize and locate them. All of the rules that are contained in a category are displayed in the next step of the wizard.

4. In the wizard, in the Add/Remove monitor rule panel, add or remove monitor rules, and then click Next.

   All of the rules of previously selected categories display in the window. Use Add and Remove to configure the policy to keep the rules that you want to have included in the monitoring policy.

   See Adding rules to a monitor policy.

5. In the wizard, in the Set rule actions panel, set rule actions, and then click Next.

   Based on the conditions of their rules, monitor policies are in one of six severity states. In this step of the wizard, you can specify the tasks that you want to occur for each severity state. Task server tasks are run from the task server. Monitor Plug-in tasks are run locally on the monitored computer. Tasks are run in the order they are displayed in the window.

   See Adding actions to monitor policies.

6. In the wizard, in the Select group of computer to monitor panel, select a group of computers to monitor, and then click Finish.

   Use Apply to to add the computer resources that you want the monitor policy to run on.

   See Adding computers to a monitor policy.

7. Click Finish.