About This Document
This document presents procedural and example information to help you become familiar Application Discovery, how to manipulate the data presentation, and how to manage event notification. It will help you understand how Application Discovery can be useful to you.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for system and application administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and monitoring application health and availability within a network. Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration.
Parts of this document are also intended for data center operators. Operators are expected to be able to identify significant events and communicate them to others. This document is not a tutorial.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
This document is new, and contains conceptual, procedural, and example material to provide detailed information about how to use Application Discovery. It contains the following information:
•An Introduction to Application Discovery.
•Components and Concepts that underlie the workings of Application Discovery.
•Procedures that can be done within Application Discovery to modify the display of data within Application Discovery and to create
•Tasks and Examples that illustrate more complex ways to use Application Discovery.
•Troubleshooting instructions for solving errors in the configuration and operation of Application Discovery.
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions.
audit(5) A manpage with the name audit, located in Section 5.
Command | A command name or qualified command phrase. |
ComputerOut | Text displayed by the computer. |
| A key sequence. A sequence such as |
| the key labeled Ctrl while you press another key or button. |
ENVIRONVAR | The name of an environment variable, for example, PATH. |
[ERRORNAME] | The name of an error, usually returned in the errno variable. |
Key | The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the same key. |
UserInput | Commands and other text that you type. |
Variable | The name of a placeholder in a command, function, or other syntax display |
| that you replace with an actual value. |
[ ] | The contents are optional in formats and command descriptions. If the contents |
| are a list separated by , you must choose one of the items. |
{ } | The contents are required in formats and command descriptions. If the contents |
| are a list separated by , you must choose one of the items. |
... | The preceding element can be repeated an arbitrary number of times. |
| Indicates the continuation of a code example. |
Separates items in a list of choices. |