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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 and examples...........................................................................................

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

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Modifying agent behavior....................................................................................................................

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Install the Application Discovery agent on a managed node.........................................................

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Start the 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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Navigating with tabs ............................................................................................................

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Navigating with table links ..................................................................................................

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Adjusting visibility of applications within Application Discovery data tables..............................

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Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screens..........................................................

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Set visibility for matched applications.......................................................................................

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Set visibility for packages on Application Discovery screens....................................................

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Modifying the graphic display of Application Discovery server activity.......................................

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The impact of discovery on Application Discovery server memory usage...............................

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Modifying the maximum size of an event list.................................................................................

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