1. In a device monitoring system constructed and arranged to communicate alerts, via a set of alerting rules, in response to changes within a computing environment, a method of providing alerting rules for a particular computing environment, the method comprising: storing multiple alerting rule sets in a rule set database, the multiple alerting rule sets providing sets of alerts when applied to configuration data of existing computing environments; selecting particular alerting rules among the multiple alerting rule sets stored in the rule set database, the particular alerting rules providing particular alerts when applied to configuration data of an existing computing environment; and providing the particular alerting rules to the particular computing environment.