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title: "Step 4. Customize Monitoring Group Settings"
description: "In this example scenario, the following customizations to default settings are required when monitoring the Development vCenter Server: No virtual machine data must be collected. A 10-minute collection interval must be used."
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# Step 4. Customize Monitoring Group Settings

In this example scenario, the following customizations to default settings are required when monitoring the *Development* vCenter Server:

- No virtual machine data must be collected.
- A 10-minute collection interval must be used.

As these two settings are commonly customized, they are available as direct links in the **Collection Interval** column. To customize these settings, do the following:

1. Choose the *Development* monitoring group and click the link in the **Collection interval** column.

2. In the **Collector Group Settings** window, do the following:

   1. Disable the **Inherit Veeam Collector default settings** option — this will allow you to modify of the settings inherited from the root **Veeam Collectors** node.

   2. From the **Collection Interval** drop-down list, select *10 minutes*. 

   3. Clear the **Collect VM inventory and metrics** check box.

   4. Click **Save**.

[![Changing Collector Settings](images/changing_collector_settings.png "Changing Collector Settings")](images/changing_collector_settings.png){.toggle scale=65}

Monitoring groups are now configured as follows:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th>
      <p>Group Name</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>High-availability</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>Collection Interval</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>Collect VM data</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p>Production</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Enabled (2 Collectors)</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>15 min (default)</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>True (default)</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p>Development</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Unavailable (1 Collector)</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>10 min</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>False</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

You may now proceed to add monitoring VMware servers — the *Production* and *Development* vCenter Servers.