diff --git a/scripts/clmc-agent/configure_template.sh b/scripts/clmc-agent/configure_template.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04d1229646e57e5d8415ea9addcae315141ca671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/clmc-agent/configure_template.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+#//
+#// (c) University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, 2017
+#//
+#// Copyright in this software belongs to University of Southampton
+#// IT Innovation Centre of Gamma House, Enterprise Road,
+#// Chilworth Science Park, Southampton, SO16 7NS, UK.
+#//
+#// This software may not be used, sold, licensed, transferred, copied
+#// or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner or form or in or
+#// on any media by any person other than in accordance with the terms
+#// of the Licence Agreement supplied with the software, or otherwise
+#// without the prior written consent of the copyright owners.
+#//
+#// This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the
+#// implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+#// PURPOSE, except where stated in the Licence Agreement supplied with
+#// the software.
+#//
+#//      Created By :            Michael Boniface
+#//      Created Date :          19/03/2018
+#//      Created for Project :   FLAME
+#//
+#/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+TELEGRAF_CONF_DIR="/etc/telegraf"
+TELEGRAF_CONF_FILE=$TELEGRAF_CONF_DIR"/telegraf.conf"
+TELEGRAF_INCLUDE_CONF_DIR=$TELEGRAF_CONF_DIR"/telegraf.d"
+TELEGRAF_OUTPUT_CONF_FILE=$TELEGRAF_INCLUDE_CONF_DIR"/telegraf_output.conf"
+
+echo "Checking Telegraf installation"
+
+# Check the target telegraf directory exists
+if [ ! -d "$TELEGRAF_CONF_DIR" ]; then
+    echo "Error: Telegraf conf directory does not exist on target machine. Check that telegraf is installed "$TELEGRAF_CONF_DIR
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check the target telegraf directory exists
+if [ ! -d $TELEGRAF_INCLUDE_CONF_DIR ]; then
+    echo "Error: Telegraf conf include directory does not exist on target machine. Check that telegraf is installed "$TELEGRAF_INCLUDE_CONF_DIR
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Copy configuration
+echo "Telegraf general config file: " $TELEGRAF_CONF_FILE
+(cat <<'EOF'
+[global_tags]
+  location="$LOCATION"
+  sfc="$SFC_ID"
+  sfc_i="$SFC_ID_INSTANCE"
+  sf="$SF_ID"
+  sf_i="$SF_ID_INSTANCE"
+  ipendpoint="$IP_ENDPOINT_ID"
+[agent]
+  interval = "10s"
+  round_interval = true
+  metric_buffer_limit = 1000
+  flush_buffer_when_full = true
+  collection_jitter = "0s"
+  flush_interval = "10s"
+  flush_jitter = "0s"
+  debug = false
+  quiet = false
+  logfile = "/var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log"
+  hostname = ""
+EOF
+) > $TELEGRAF_CONF_FILE  
+
+echo "Telegraf output config file: " $TELEGRAF_OUTPUT_CONF_FILE
+(cat <<'EOF'
+[[outputs.influxdb]]
+  urls = ["$INFLUXDB_URL"]
+  database = "$DATABASE_NAME"
+  precision = "s"
+  timeout = "5s"
+EOF
+) > $TELEGRAF_OUTPUT_CONF_FILE
diff --git a/test/streaming/manual.md b/test/streaming/manual.md
index 69d7899001cb072a34676af65ad8bae62e44972a..7db0fc7126408bbd70ad54775b03e90b67867b83 100644
--- a/test/streaming/manual.md
+++ b/test/streaming/manual.md
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Press the Data Explorer in the menu and select the nginx measurement and create
 
 ## KPI triggers
 
-In this demonstrator an example KPI rule has been set up in Kapacitor which fires when the average requests per second on the Apache 1 or Apache2 server goes above certain thresholds ( a 'warning' at 0.2 requests/second and a 'critical' message at 0.5 requests/second ). The TICKscript specification for this rule is as follows:
+In this demonstrator an example KPI rule has been set up in Kapacitor which fires when the average number of active connections per 5 seconds on the Nginx 1 or Nginx 2 server goes above certain thresholds ( a 'warning' at 10 connections/5 seconds ). The TICKscript specification for this rule is as follows:
 
 ```
 dbrp "CLMCMetrics"."autogen"
diff --git a/test/streaming/test_streaming.py b/test/streaming/test_streaming.py
index a35ef3760200a0b3b35d878bb492dcf6e66b4fbf..c1b7f77190e144a8c77a63c9f83d63e62d1fd1ad 100644
--- a/test/streaming/test_streaming.py
+++ b/test/streaming/test_streaming.py
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ from time import sleep
 from queue import Queue
 from xml.etree import ElementTree
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
-from os.path import isfile
+from os.path import isfile, dirname, join
 from os import remove, system
 import pytest
 import requests
+import json
 
 
 class TestStreamingAlerts(object):
@@ -16,17 +17,30 @@ class TestStreamingAlerts(object):
     A testing class used to group all the tests related to the streaming scenario.
     """
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("log", ["/tmp/RPSLoad.log"])
-    def test_alerts(self, log, streaming_url, streaming_manifest):
+    kapacitor_url = "http://localhost:9092/kapacitor/v1/tasks"
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("rule, log", [
+        ("rules.json", "/tmp/RPSLoad.log"),
+    ])
+    def test_alerts(self, rule, log, streaming_url, streaming_manifest):
         """
         This test case generates some streaming requests to the server to ensure an alert is triggered and then tests the log file for this alert. Different logs can be tested by
-        appending to the list of parameters in the pytest decorator
+        appending to the list of parameters in the pytest decorator.
+
+        Format for pytest parameters under test:
+        ([filename], [log])
+        where [filename] is the name of the json file for the rule under test (must be in the same folder as this test is)
+              [log] is the absolute path of the log file that must be created due to an alert
 
+        :param rule: the name of the rule json file
         :param log: the path of the log file that is under test
         :param streaming_url: the fixture providing the streaming url for this test case
         :param streaming_manifest: the fixture providing the root of the XML streaming manifest
         """
 
+        kapacitor_setter = self.kapacitor_setting(rule)
+        next(kapacitor_setter)  # Setup the test rule
+
         try:
             if isfile(log):
                 remove(log)  # delete log file if existing from previous tests
@@ -57,6 +71,30 @@ class TestStreamingAlerts(object):
 
         print("\nSuccessfully passed alert creation test.\n")
 
+        next(kapacitor_setter)  # Teardown the test rule
+
+    def kapacitor_setting(self, rule):
+        """
+        A generator function used to provide setUp/tearDown actions for a particular kapacitor rule.
+        On setUp rule is initialized, on tearDown rule is deleted. Interleaving is achieved using the generator pattern.
+
+        :param rule: the name of the json file for the rule under test
+        """
+
+        # Initialization of the kapacitor rule - Test setUp (UnitTest style)
+        with open(join(dirname(__file__), rule), "r") as rule_file:
+            data = "".join(line.strip() for line in rule_file.readlines())
+
+        rule_data = json.loads(data)
+        requests.delete(url=urljoin(self.kapacitor_url + "/", rule_data.get("id")))  # delete in case of a task with the same ID already set in the kapacitor
+        requests.post(url=self.kapacitor_url, data=data, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
+
+        yield
+
+        # Deleting the kapacitor rule used for testing - Test tearDown (UnitTest style)
+        requests.delete(url=urljoin(self.kapacitor_url + "/", rule_data.get("id")))
+        yield
+
     @staticmethod
     @pytest.fixture(scope="class", params=[{"server": "http://192.168.50.11", "video": "/test_video/stream.mpd"}])
     def streaming_url(request):