Performance templates tell Zenoss what data sources to collect and how to graph the data. They use that data to establish monitoring thresholds, which we can in turn use to generate events. We apply template properties to the devices class or to the individual device. In Zenoss terminology, the process of applying a template to a device or a class is called binding.
To view the templates that are bound to a device class, navigate to the class (for example, /Server/Linux) and click the Templates tab (shown in the following screenshot).
Let's compare the template bindings for the /Server/Linux device class with that of the device Fox, a member of the /Server/Linux group. Navigate to the Status Overview page for Fox, and from the page menu, select More > Templates (refer to the following screenshot).
All of the templates applied to the class level apply to Fox and when Zenoss creates the graphs, it searches the device class hierarchy and matches the graph to the monitored...