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1 Introduction
This document describes how to use Application Discovery to monitor applications in a virtual
server environment. This document is for administrators and operators who are responsible for
configuring and/or monitoring application health and availability. Some understanding of system
administration is assumed.
Application Discovery works from within HP Systems Insight Manager to give you the ability to
inventory running and installed applications across your system network and to centrally monitor
application activity.
Within HP Matrix Operating Environment, Application Discovery integrates with HP Matrix OE
visualization 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 Application Discovery server and user interface run on the
(CMS).
Working in tandem with the agent that you install on your managed HP-UX or Linux systems,
Application Discovery gives you access to system and process information captured by the deployed
agents.
With Application Discovery, you can do the following:
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Discover the location and number of recognized, running and installed
in your
network or data center.
•
Monitor the activity and resource usage of running processes and applications.
•
Define and adapt application templates to your environment for better discovery of your
third-party and custom applications, and to make them available for adding to monitored
workloads on HP-UX systems.
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Select the event types for which you want to receive notifications and set their level of
importance.
Features of Application Discovery
You can use Application Discovery to do the following:
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Automate discovery of standard applications supplied with HP-UX and Linux operating systems.
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Automate discovery of applications often run on HP-UX and Linux operating systems within
data centers. For example, Application Discovery includes templates to discover common
applications generated by Oracle and SAP software.
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Find
that represent third-party or custom software.
•
Edit or create an application discovery
to make it specific to your environment.
•
Determine the location of
and installed applications.
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Monitor the activity of running processes and applications.
•
Define severity for application-oriented events to trigger notification messages, and control
where the messages display (in Application Discovery and/or).
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Discover the presence or absence of Application Discovery agents and check their status.
•
Monitor the behavior and performance of the Application Discovery server.
Configuring Application Discovery behavior and changing template definitions requires “Matrix
OE All tools” access (which usually corresponds to root or Administrator permissions). See “User
authorizations” in Matrix OE help for more information about tool boxes in System Insight Manager
and how they affect user access to Application Discovery features.
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