Glossary

agent

A program with a well-defined task that runs in the background and that is used to capture

 

information or do processing tasks.

aggregate data

Screens in Application Discovery that display a collection of data about various objects, often

views

including system, application, and event data for all known instances of each in one table, but

 

with emphasis on one aspect of the data.

application

A logically related set of processes active on a host system (a running application ) and/or a

 

logically related set of files on a host system disk (an installed application).

 

Application Discovery recognizes applications based on standard package installation, templates

 

that are shipped with the product, and templates that are defined by users.

Application

HP Application Discovery. The HP VSE Management Software application that inventories

Discovery

running and installed applications in a network and provides application and process map

 

data used for creating workloads in HP Virtualization Manager.

 

See also application discovery.

application

The process of finding applications and gathering performance and location data about them

discovery

for display and use.

 

See also Application Discovery.

Capacity Advisor

HP Capacity Advisor. The HP VSE Management Software application that performs analysis

 

and planning of workloads on a system or across a set of systems.

central

See CMS.

management

 

server

 

CMS

Central management server. A system in the management domain that executes the HP Systems

 

Insight Manager software. All central operations within HP Systems Insight Manager are

 

initiated from this system.

discovery

In system management applications, the process of finding and identifying network objects. In

 

HP Systems Insight Manager, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified

 

network. In Application Discovery, discovery finds and identifies all running and installed

 

applications within a specified network.

discovery ratio

As used by Application Discovery, this is a comparison of matched to unmatched processes

 

running on a host. The ratio is the percentage of processes that can be matched to applications.

Global Workload

See gWLM.

Manager

 

gWLM

HP Global Workload Manager. The HP VSE Management Software application that allows you

 

to centrally define resource-sharing policies that you can use across multiple HP servers. These

 

policies increase system utilization and facilitate controlled sharing of system resources. gWLM's

 

monitoring abilities provide both real-time and historical monitoring of the resource allocation.

host

1. A system or partition that is running an instance of an operating system.

 

2. The physical machine that is the HP Integrity Virtual Machines VM Host for one or more

 

virtual machines.

host name

The name of a system or partition that is running an OS instance.

host OS

The operating system that is running on the host machine.

HP Virtualization

HP Virtualization Manager. Provides hierarchical visualization of servers and workloads, with

Manager

seamless access to the management tools of the VSE technologies.

Integrity Virtual

See Integrity VM.

Machines

 

Integrity VM

HP Integrity Virtual Machines. A soft partitioning virtualization product that allows you to

 

install and run multiple systems (virtual machines) on the same physical host system (Integrity

 

server or nPartition). The Integrity server or nPartition acts as a VM Host for the virtual machines

 

(also referred to as guests). The virtual machines share a single set of physical hardware

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