Profiles
Creating a Profile
To create a profile
1 On the start page choose the host you like to create a profile of in the drop down list.

2 Click Go.
3 Click the Clone button
4 Select the services you wish to include
5 Select Save as Profile
6 Enter name and description for the profile you are creating
7 Click Clone
You are then presented with the option of creating clones based on this new profile. If you do not wish to do this now, you can simply use the left hand web menu to return to Configure or another part of op5 Monitor.
Using a Profile
To use a profile
1 From the start page click Profiles
2 Click use next to the profile
3 Select what parts of the profile you want to include
4 Fill in the number of copies and click Continue...
5 Fill out host details for the clones and click Create
Cloning objects
Cloning from an existing Host
To clone a host
Follow the instructions from in
Creating a Profile on page 91, except do not click
Save as Profile.
Cloning services
If you want to create the same service check on multiple host first create the service check on the host, then clone the service check to one or more hosts.
It is also possible to clone multiple services to one or more hosts or hostgroups.
To clone a service to an other host
1 Choose the Configure web menu.
2 Choose your host you want to copy from, then click Go
3 Click Services for host... in the ‘RELATED ITEMS’ menu.
4 Select the service (or one of the services) you want to clone then click on Go and then on Clone.
5 Select the service(s) you want to clone.
6 You can chose to clone the service(s) to a list of hosts, a hostgroup or all hosts in a hostgroup.
7 Click Clone.
Copy objects
There are a number of objects that can be copied in the configuration tool and make a exact copy of the object, besides the name that must be unique.
These are the objects that is possible to make a copy of:
•Hosts
•Services
•Hostgroups
•Servicegroups
•Check commands
•Contacts
•Contactgroups
•Templates
•Timeperiods
•Host Dependencies
•Service Dependencies
•Host Escalations
•Service Escalations
The copy will inherit all the values set on a object except the name.
To illustrate this let us make a copy of a check command and modify it slightly:
1 Click on
Configure in the main menu:

2 Select Commands in the configuration menu
3 Search for a command to copy:

4 Click Copy
5 Make the changes you want. A new name is required. and i.e create a listing of the attached VMFS-storages:

6 Click Submit
This approach should apply to the most objects that are possible to copy.
Propagate settings
To change the same directive on many objects of the same type can be a really time consuming work. This is where the propagate function in op5 Monitor is very handy.
With the propagate function you can copy the value of a directive from one object to one or many other objects of the same type.
In the guide below we will use the propagate function to copy the parents from one host to a couple of other hosts.
To propagate a value of a directive
1 On the start page choose the host you like to propagate a directive value from in the drop down list.

2 Click Go.
3 Click
Propagate.

Now you will see a check box in front of every directive like this.

4 Check the check box for parents and click Propagate selected settings.
5 Select the host objects (host or whole host groups) you like to propagate the settings to.

6 Select how you want to propagate your settings.

You can choose the following options
Option | Description |
Replace | Replace the destination values. |
Append | Append the source values to the destination values. |
Subtract | Subtract the source values from the destination values. |
7 Click Go.
8 Click Save.
Bulk delete
Bulk delete is powerful tool to remove several host or services at once.
Bulk delete support the following objects:
•Hosts
•Services
•Hostgroups
•Servicegroups
•Contacts
•Contactgroups
•Commands
•Time Periods
As an example, we will delete two services "Ping" on two different hosts, but the process is similar on all objects listed above.
To delete multiple services this is preformed trough Configure
1 
Select a host which services you want to delete and click
GO 2 Click
Services for host in the right menu.

3 Click on
Bulk delete objects
4 Select the services that you want to delete and click
Delete
5 Click Save submitted changes