Refining application discovery, How discovery works, Understand your current discovery state – HP 5992-3838 User Manual
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NOTE:
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 "User Authorizations" in the VSE Software Management Help online
reference. For help with communication problems, see
.
Refining Application Discovery
Refining discovery is the process of optimizing agent and template configurations to enrich data
display in HP Application Discovery.
How Discovery Works
HP Application Discovery includes a set of application
that cover a spectrum of typical
application types expected to be found on systems operating within a network or data center. A
template is a set of rules that defines the matching criteria for the processes that constitute an
application. This default set of templates allows HP Application Discovery to find, identify, and
display information for a significant percentage of installed packages and
and processes.
On any one system, a percentage of processes found to be active on a host might not be matched
to a provided template or a discovered package. These are referred to as
. Of
these unmatched processes, some may reflect the presence of custom or third-party software.
HP Application Discovery helps you to refine discovery in the following ways:
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It provides a summary view into total discovery across your data center or network.
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It provides a list of candidate servers and indicates whether or not they have HP Application
Discovery agents running or installed for discovery.
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It provides a way to edit existing application templates and create new ones. When you
modify or add templates to better adapt them to your environment, you refine the ability
of HP Application Discovery to report application behavior in your particular network.
TIP:
At times, you might simply need to find where an application is running or installed. For
this information, click the Applications tab to browse current data.
Understand Your Current Discovery State
To view the current state of discovery, click the Admin/Config tab, and then the Discovery tab.
Discovery Ratio
From the Discovery tab, you can see the
for each managed system running an HP
Application Discovery agent, as well as the total discovery of processes and packages for all
monitored systems. Use this information to help determine where to expend effort to improve
discovery.
The following figure shows a segment of process inventory data.
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Components and Concepts