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T a ble o f C o n t e n ts A bo u t T his Doc ume n t.......................................................................................................11 Intended Audience................................................................................................................................11 New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11 Typographic Conventions.........................................
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Navigating with Tabs ...........................................................................................................26 Navigating with Table Links ................................................................................................26 Adjusting Visibility of Applications Within Application Discovery Data Tables...........................26 Set Visibility for Hosts on Application Discovery Screens........................................................26 Set Visibility for
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5 Ge t ting As sis t ance in U sing A ppli cati o n Dis co v e r y.................................................53 Application Discovery Resources.........................................................................................................53 A C o mmands f o r C o n tr o lling HP A ppli cati o n Dis co v e r y A ge n t and C e r tif i cat e s.....55 amgrd................................................................................................................................
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L is t o f F i gur e s 2-1 Segment of Process Inventory Data...............................................................................................17 2-2 Segment of Package Inventory Data.............................................................................................17 3-1 Event Tab Showing Configuration Fields for Data Center and Administrative Events...............29 3-2 Template Summary Including Applications Affected by the Template.......................................
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L is t o f T a ble s 3-1 Possible Values for Agent State.....................................................................................................23 3-2 An Example Comparison of Match Behavior in AD and gWLM for Same Executable Path and Arguments.....................................................................................................................................33 4-1 An Example Comparison of Match Behavior in AD and gWLM for Same Executable Path and Arguments..........
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A bo u t T his Doc ume n t This document presents procedural and example information to help you become familiar Application Discovery, how to manipulate the data presentation, and how to manage event notification. It will help you understand how Application Discovery can be useful to you. In t e nded A udi e nce This document is intended for system and application administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and monitoring application health and availability within a network. Adminis
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R e lat ed Inf o r mati o n The following documents and resources contain useful additional information. • HP WBEM Solutions: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/9920-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN • PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expr essions at http://www.pcre.org/ for building aggregation rules in application templates. • V irtual Server Envir onment (VSE) documentation at http://docs.hp.com/en/vse.html. • The HP VSE Managed Node Softwar e Update web site (http://vsemgmt.external.hp.
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1 In tr odu c ti o n HP Application Discovery works from within HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) to give you the ability to inventory running and installed applications across your system network and to centrally monitor application activity. Within VSE Management Software, HP Application Discovery integrates with HP Virtualization Manager to give you the power to group running processes into custom applications that can be added to a workload for more comprehensive resource management. The H
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2 C o m po ne n ts and C o ncepts A ppli cati o n Dis co v e r y C o m po ne n ts Application Discovery contains these components: • The Application Discovery agent, which discovers the presence of applications and processes on a managed system, collects information about the managed system and its applications, and communicates that information to the Application Discovery server on the central management server. — An agent is fully autonomous. — An agent is the only component that is platform-
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NO TE: An application inventory in a data center or enterprise setting is sensitive material. Therefore, all communication paths in Application Discovery are encrypted and authenticated to check for proper user authorization. See VSE Management Software Version 4.0 Installation and Update Guide for HP-UX for information about steps that must be taken to ensure that Application Discovery's security measures are in place and functioning correctly. For a discussion of access by user job roles, see
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F igur e 2 - 1 Segm ent o f Pr oces s In v ent or y Data For example, if the discovery ratio is low, the number of processes that HP Application Discovery is matching to templates is low. Because more data can be gathered from known relationships, a low ratio indicates that much less can be known and displayed for the processes that are using resources on that host. Conversely, if the discovery ratio is high, HP Application Discovery can provide extensive amounts of data on system behavior. This
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• Install an HP Application Discovery agent in order to monitor processes and applications on that host. See VSE Management Softwar e V ersion 4.0 Installation and Update Guide for HP-UX for instructions. • Start an agent on a system where the agent is installed, but not running. • Modify the behavior of an agent on a system to affect data freshness and retain history. R e f ine Dis co v e r y b y Cr eating A ppli cati o n T e m plat e s HP Application Discovery is shipped with a set of default
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O n HP -UX: Supplied templates are stored in/var/opt/amgr/templates/amgr/ to make it easier to update templates with new releases of HP Application Discovery. New application templates provided by HP can replace templates in this directory. Copies of these templates, which are stored in/var/opt/amgr/templates/local/, are unaffected by release updates to the software. O n M ic r o s o f t® W indo w s: Templates are stored in the VSE install directory (C:\Program Files\HP\Virtual Server Environmen
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On theADServer tab screen, you can see a graphic display of Application Discovery memory consumption plotted against discovery data for processes and packages. The following figure is an example of what you might see: The key to the graphic is as follows: Used mem Memory usage by the Application Discovery server Max mem Maximum memory available for use Tot procs Total number of processes found — matched and unmatched to known templates or packages Tot unmatched procs Total number of processes fo
