HP 5992-3838 - Manual (Page 3)

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About This Document.......................................................................................................11
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11
Typographic Conventions.....................................................................................................................11
Related Information..............................................................................................................................12
Publishing History................................................................................................................................12
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................12
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................13
Features of Application Discovery.......................................................................................................13
2 Components and Concepts.........................................................................................15
Application Discovery Components.....................................................................................................15
Refining Application Discovery...........................................................................................................16
How Discovery Works.....................................................................................................................16
Understand Your Current Discovery State......................................................................................16
Discovery Ratio..........................................................................................................................16
Warm-up Ratio...........................................................................................................................17
Refine Discovery by Checking Agent State.....................................................................................17
Refine Discovery by Creating Application Templates....................................................................18
Understanding Application Templates................................................................................................18
How Memory Usage is Calculated.......................................................................................................19
Understanding Server Resource Consumption....................................................................................19
3 Procedures....................................................................................................................21
Starting Application Discovery.............................................................................................................21
Modifying Agent Behavior...................................................................................................................21
Install the HP Application Discovery Agent on a Managed Node.................................................21
Start the HP Application Discovery Agent.....................................................................................21
Using HP SIM to Start the Agent...............................................................................................21
Starting the Agent from the Command Line.............................................................................21
Stop a Running Agent ....................................................................................................................21
Using HP SIM to Stop the AD Agent.........................................................................................22
Stopping the Agent from the Command Line...........................................................................22
Reconfigure a Running Agent from the Command Line................................................................22
Checking Agent State............................................................................................................................22
Explanation of Agent States............................................................................................................23
Working With Data Views....................................................................................................................23
Adjusting the User Interface............................................................................................................24
Set Screen Data Refresh Interval................................................................................................24
Set General Visibility .................................................................................................................24
Set Color Theme.........................................................................................................................24
Set Number of Table Rows.........................................................................................................25
Change the Data View.....................................................................................................................25
Sort Data in View Tables............................................................................................................25
Filter Data in View Tables..........................................................................................................25
Other Controls Available from Right-Clicking on a View Table...............................................26
Navigate Between Views............................................................................................................26
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