HP UX Matrix Operating EnvIronment manual Introduction, Features of Application Discovery

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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 software (HP SIM) to give you the ability to inventory running and installed applications across your system network and to centrally monitor application activity.

Within Insight Dynamics, Application Discovery integrates with HP Insight Virtualization Manager software 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 central management server (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:

•Discover the location and number of recognized, running and installed applications 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.

•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:

•Automate discovery of standard applications supplied with HP-UX and Linux operating systems.

•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.

•Find unmatched processes that represent third-party or custom software.

•Edit or create an application discovery template to make it specific to your environment.

•Determine the location of running and installed applications.

•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 HP SIM).

•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 “VSE All Tools” access (which usually corresponds to root or Administrator permissions). See “User authorizations” in Insight Dynamics help for more information about tool boxes in HP SIM and how they affect user access to Application Discovery features.

Visibility of systems and applications depends on the permissions a user has for each managed system and application. Users can see only those systems and applications in Application Discovery tables that they already have permission to access or view.

Features of Application Discovery

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Contents Application Discovery 6.2 User Guide For managed nodes Table of Contents Support and other resources Configuring the Wbem provider password Glossary Index List of Figures Application visibility selector Sort indicatorPossible values for agent state List of TablesPage Introduction Features of Application DiscoveryPage Application Discovery components Components and conceptsHow discovery works Refining Application DiscoveryUnderstand your current discovery state Discovery ratioWarm-up ratio Refine discovery by checking agent stateUnderstanding application templates How memory usage is calculatedRefine discovery by creating application templates Key to the graphic is as follows Understanding server resource consumptionPage Using HP SIM to start the agent Procedures and examplesStarting the agent from the command line Starting Application DiscoveryUsing HP SIM to stop the AD agent Reconfigure a running agent from the command lineStopping the agent from the command line Checking agent stateWorking with data views Adjusting the user interfaceExplanation of agent states Set screen data refresh intervalSet general visibility Set color themeSet number of table rows Change the data view Sort data in view tablesFilter data in view tables Navigate between views Other controls available from right-clicking on a view tableSet visibility for matched applications Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screensSetting data polling interval Setting event attributesIntroduction to event settings in Application Discovery Modifying the maximum size of an event listSetting alert location Setting event severityManaging application templates Find an application templateChange application template values Create a new template Key to application template values Constructing regular expressions Application identity Session Separation rule fields and their descriptionsCreate an application template rule Aggregation rule fields and their descriptionsCreate a process aggregation rule Managing application templates Example of a nested template aggregation rule Managing application templates How to remove types from the aggregation rule Check unmatched processes to find application candidatesUnderstanding the tables that show unmatched processes Filling in the system scope fields using table data Filling in the aggregation rule fields using table dataFilling in the template separation rule fields Prerequisites Create an application workload in Virtualization ManagerCreate Monitored Workload Definition screen reopens Backing up Application Discovery filesPage Errors in installation TroubleshootingApplications not visible in Application Discovery screens Data missing in Application Discovery screensData missing in Application Discovery screens Host not visible in Application Discovery screens Check that SSH is configured correctly on the managed node# cd /.ssh /* rootuserhomedirectory/.ssh Packages not visible in Application Discovery screens Application Discovery may not be correctly configuredCheck that the host is known to Application Discovery Check that the Application Discovery agent is running UI Unable to connect to servermessages Errors in Application Discovery user interface operationJava UI exception message displays To list the AD agent package installed on the machine, then Page Contacting HP Support and other resourcesRelated information Application Discovery resourcesPage Page Options Amgrd= Logtrace InstallationAuthors Agentconfig Check agent state Event types Key to event attributesEvent severity types Additional event types specific to Application DiscoveryEvent viewing locations Table C-1 Error messages seen when trying to log Error messagesPage Completing certificate exchange from the command line Using HP SIM to complete certificate exchangeCompleting certificate exchange IntroductionCompleting certificate exchange Credentials Configuring the Wbem provider passwordPage Agent GlossaryManaged SSL Wbem Index Admin/Config tabClear filter menu pick Group option Defining an application template rule AD Agents, 13
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