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About This Document.......................................................................................................

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Intended Audience................................................................................................................................

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New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................

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Typographic Conventions.....................................................................................................................

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Related Information..............................................................................................................................

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Publishing History................................................................................................................................

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HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................

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1 Introduction...................................................................................................................

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Features of Application Discovery.......................................................................................................

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2 Components and Concepts.........................................................................................

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Application Discovery Components.....................................................................................................

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Refining Application Discovery...........................................................................................................

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How Discovery Works.....................................................................................................................

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Understand Your Current Discovery State......................................................................................

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Discovery Ratio..........................................................................................................................

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Warm-up Ratio...........................................................................................................................

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Refine Discovery by Checking Agent State.....................................................................................

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Refine Discovery by Creating Application Templates....................................................................

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Understanding Application Templates................................................................................................

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How Memory Usage is Calculated.......................................................................................................

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Understanding Server Resource Consumption....................................................................................

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3 Procedures....................................................................................................................

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Starting Application Discovery.............................................................................................................

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Modifying Agent Behavior...................................................................................................................

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Install the HP Application Discovery Agent on a Managed Node.................................................

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Start the HP Application Discovery Agent.....................................................................................

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Using HP SIM to Start the Agent...............................................................................................

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Starting the Agent from the Command Line.............................................................................

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Stop a Running Agent ....................................................................................................................

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Using HP SIM to Stop the AD Agent.........................................................................................

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Stopping the Agent from the Command Line...........................................................................

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Reconfigure a Running Agent from the Command Line................................................................

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Checking Agent State............................................................................................................................

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Explanation of Agent States............................................................................................................

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Working With Data Views....................................................................................................................

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Adjusting the User Interface............................................................................................................

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Set Screen Data Refresh Interval................................................................................................

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Set General Visibility .................................................................................................................

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Set Color Theme.........................................................................................................................

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Set Number of Table Rows.........................................................................................................

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Change the Data View.....................................................................................................................

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Sort Data in View Tables............................................................................................................

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Filter Data in View Tables..........................................................................................................

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Other Controls Available from Right-Clicking on a View Table...............................................

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Navigate Between Views............................................................................................................

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