Guys, this may sound like a silly question but this always hounds me so thought to get it cleared once for all.

In Grid control config, what is the difference between Preferences->Notification Rule and Setup->Monitoring Templates.

In creating Monitoring templates, you have to select all the metric and also, while creating notification rule, you have to once again select the metrics. that's where I get confused. If I have created three different templates for three different databases, will I be able to create three different notification rules and select the metrics from the template that I created for a particular database?

Please help me understand.

Thanks in advance.