Large infrastructures spanning geographies can pose quite a monitoring challenge owing to the number of components involved and their wide distribution. . Administrators of such infrastructures might therefore prefer to monitor the infrastructure by viewing it as smaller, more manageable units. In eG parlance, these small units are termed ZONES. A zone can typically comprise of individual components, segments, services, and/or other zones that require monitoring. For example, in the case of an infrastructure that is spread across the UK, USA, and Singapore, a zone named USA can be created consisting of all the components, segments, and services that are operating in the US branch alone. The USA zone can be further comprised of an East-coast zone and a West-coast zone to represent infrastructure and services being supported on the two coasts of the US.

While a service/segment contains a group of inter-related components with inter-dependencies between them, a zone contains a group of components, services, segments, or zones that may/may not have inter-dependencies.

This page appears when the Add New Zone button in ZONE page is clicked, and facilitates the creation of a new zone. First, provide a unique Zone name in the space provided. By selecting the Automatically associate the Zones/Services/Segments/Components check box, you can ensure that when a segment associated with a service is added to a zone, the corresponding service gets automatically associated with that zone. Similarly, when a service is added to a zone, then all segments that are part of the service, and all other services that contain the same segments, will automatically get associated with that zone. If you do not want the 'automatic association' to occur, then leave the check box in this page deselected. Finally, click the Add button.