Document Outline

• Application Discovery 7.2 User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • Features of Application Discovery
• 2 Components and concepts
  • Application Discovery components
  • Refining Application Discovery
    • How discovery works
    • Understand your current discovery state
      • Discovery ratio
      • Warm-up ratio
    • Refine discovery by checking agent state
    • Refine discovery by creating application templates
  • Understanding application templates
  • How memory usage is calculated
  • Understanding server resource consumption
• 3 Procedures and examples
  • Starting Application Discovery
  • Modifying agent behavior
    • Install the Application Discovery agent on a managed node
    • Start the Application Discovery agent
      • Using System Insight Manager to start the agent
      • Starting the agent from the command line
    • Stop a running agent
      • Using System Insight Manager to stop the AD agent
      • Stopping the agent from the command line
    • Reconfigure a running agent from the command line
  • Checking agent state
    • Explanation of agent states
  • Working with data views
    • Adjusting the user interface
      • Set screen data refresh interval
      • Set general visibility
      • Set color theme
      • Set number of table rows
    • Change the data view
      • Sort data in view tables
      • Filter data in view tables
      • Other controls available from right-clicking on a view table
      • Navigate between views
        • Navigating with tabs
        • Navigating with table links
    • Adjusting visibility of applications within Application Discovery data tables
      • Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screens
      • Set visibility for matched applications
      • Set visibility for packages on Application Discovery screens
    • Modifying the graphic display of Application Discovery server activity
      • The impact of discovery on Application Discovery server memory usage
    • Modifying the maximum size of an event list
    • Setting data polling interval
  • Setting event attributes
    • Introduction to event settings in Application Discovery
    • Setting event severity
    • Setting alert location
  • Managing application templates
    • Find an application template
    • Change application template values
    • Create a new template
    • Key to application template values
      • Application identity and system scope fields and their descriptions
      • Separation rule fields and their descriptions
      • Aggregation rule fields and their descriptions
    • Create an application template rule
      • Create a process aggregation rule
        • Aggregation rule examples
      • How to remove types from the aggregation rule
    • Check unmatched processes to find application candidates
      • Understanding the tables that show unmatched processes
      • Filling in the system scope fields using table data
      • Filling in the template separation rule fields
      • Filling in the aggregation rule fields using table data
    • Create an application workload in HP Matrix OE visualization
  • Backing up Application Discovery files
• 4 Troubleshooting
  • Errors in installation
    • Failure message on installation of Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent)
  • Data missing in Application Discovery screens
    • Applications not visible in Application Discovery screens
    • Host not visible in Application Discovery screens
    • Packages not visible in Application Discovery screens
  • Application errors in HP Matrix OE visualization workload screens
    • Error message indicates Application Discovery server is not available
    • No “Applications” icon for system listed on HP Matrix OE visualization Visualization tab screen
    • No 'by application' entry in HP Matrix OE visualization Workload Definition Criteria drop-down
    • No indicators showing in HP Matrix OE visualization workload real-time utilization meters
  • Errors in Application Discovery user interface operation
    • UI “Unable to connect to server”messages
    • Java “UI exception” message displays
  • Errors due to incompatibilities between different versions of Application Discovery agents and servers
• 5 Support and other resources
  • Information to collect before contacting HP
  • How to contact HP
  • Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components
  • Subscription service
  • Registering for software technical support and update service
  • How to use your software technical support and update service
  • HP authorized resellers
  • Related information
    • Typographic conventions
• 6 Documentation feedback
• A Commands for controlling Application Discovery agent and certificates
  • amgrd
  • agent_config
• B Key to event attributes
  • Event types
  • Event severity types
  • Additional event types specific to Application Discovery
  • Event viewing locations
• C Error messages
• D Completing certificate exchange
  • Introduction
    • Using System Insight Manager to complete certificate exchange
    • Completing certificate exchange from the command line
• E Configuring the WBEM provider password
• Glossary
• Index