3 Procedures and examples

With Application Discovery, you can perform the following tasks:

•Check the progress of discovery.

•Define an application for discovery.

•Modify the behavior of agents running on managed systems.

•Set attributes that determine what events to display, where to display them, and the priority they should have.

Starting Application Discovery

1.Enter your user name and ID into the HP Systems Insight Manager software (HP SIM) interface.

2.Accept the certificate required by HP SIM.

3.Select Tools→Integrated Consoles→Application Discovery .

Application Discovery opens in the main display panel of the Applications view.

Modifying agent behavior

Use the information in this section to control the Application Discovery agent from the command line and to adapt its behavior to your environment. For ways to manage and monitor the agent from the user interface, see these sections:

•“Setting data polling interval” (page 24)

•“Checking agent state” (page 18)

Install the Application Discovery agent on a managed node

See the Insight Dynamics installation and update guide for the appropriate operating system for instructions on how to install the Application Discovery agent via the HP Systems Insight Manager software (HP SIM) menus or manually. The Insight Dynamics guides are available with the software and at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.

Start the Application Discovery agent

You can start the agent from the top menu or from the command line.

Using HP SIM to start the agent

1.Initiate this task by selecting Configure →Insight Dynamics Agents→Start AD Agents from the top menu.

2.Using the system list, select the HP-UX systems where you want to start an agent. Click

Apply.

3.Verify the system selection and click Next.

4.A description of the action about to take place is displayed. When you are sure that you want to complete the action, click Run now to start the agent.

Starting the agent from the command line

To start the agent from the command line on the managed node, enter the following command:

/opt/amgr/bin/amgrd

For the full description of the options available for modifying agent behavior, see “Commands for controlling Application Discovery agent and certificates” (page 55).

Starting Application Discovery

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