> ## Setting up Resource Monitoring

> This chapter describes how to create a resource you want to monitor and define its monitoring plan, including schedules and rules. The chapter also describes how to establish meaningful threshold values for rules and how to create actions that occur in response to Fathom alerts.

> The chapter contains the following sections:

> - Before you begin
> - Monitoring remote resources
> - Monitoring a system, network, or file resource: an overview
> - Working with CPU and memory resources
> - Selecting a system, network, or file resource to monitor
> - Creating a resource monitoring plan
> - Calculating meaningful thresholds with the Configuration Advisor
> - Understanding alerts
> - Determining Fathom's action in response to an alert
> - Using default actions
> - Editing or copying a resource monitor
> - Deleting a resource monitor
> - Working with default values
> - Using job and report templates
> - Sharing monitoring components using the Fathom Library

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