# ManageEngine Applications Manager | Demo for Creating Monitor Groups and Monitors

## Working with Applications Manager

At the end of this demo, you should be able to **create a Banking Application Monitor Group** and a **JBoss Monitor**. You will also learn how to associate actions to alarms and escalate alarms.

**Steps for setting up monitoring**

1. Create a monitor group
2. Create monitors and associate the monitors to the monitor group.
3. Configure alarms for the monitor group
4. Associate actions to alarms

**Terms you should know**

**Monitor Group**: A logical grouping of one or more resources which may include application servers, databases, network services etc

**Monitor**: A Monitor represents an Application, Server, Service or Web URL

**Alarm**: Alarms are notifications generated based on Threshold/Health values

**Threshold**: Threshold is a predefined set of values based on which an alarm is generated

**Action**: Actions are tasks to be performed when alarms are generated E.g., Send E-Mail, SMS etc.