Time for action – defining the graph template
Go to Templates | Graph Templates and click on the Add link to the upper right of the page.
Enter Host - Running Processes as the name of the graph.
Enter |host_description| - Running Processes as the Title of the graph template.
Enter processes as the Vertical Label.
Leave everything else as default and click on the Create button. This will create the base graph template for you to work with. As you can see in the following screenshot, some additional fields have been added:
What just happened?
You created your first graph template. There will be two new sections showing up, Graph Template Items, and Graph Item Inputs.
Adding the threshold line
The threshold line will immediately show viewers the value at which the threshold is set and whether the graph is breaching it somewhere. Let's create your new graph template and add this line to it.
