HP Matrix Operating Environment Software manual Glossary, Application

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	Application Discovery. The HP Matrix Operating Environment application that inventories running
Discovery	and installed applications in a network and provides application and process map data used for
	creating workloads in HP Matrix OE visualization.
	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	Capacity Advisor. The HP Matrix Operating Environment 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 Systems
	Insight Manager software. All central operations within 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	Global Workload Manager. The HP Matrix Operating Environment 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 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 Integrity Virtual	See Integrity VM.
Machines
HP Matrix OE	HP Matrix OE visualization. Provides hierarchical visualization of servers and workloads, with
visualization	seamless access to the management tools of the HP Matrix Operating Environment technologies.
Integrity VM	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 resources,

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