HP UX Matrix Operating EnvIronment manual Glossary, Agent

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 Insight Dynamics application that inventories running and
Discovery	installed applications in a network and provides application and process map data used for
	creating workloads in HP Insight Virtualization Manager software.
	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 Insight Dynamics 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 SIM
	software. All central operations within HP SIM 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.
gWLM	HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for Integrity. The HP Insight Dynamics
	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 Insight	See gWLM.
Global Workload
Manager software
for Integrity
HP Insight	HP Insight Virtualization Manager software. Provides hierarchical visualization of servers and
Virtualization	workloads, with seamless access to the management tools of the HP Insight Dynamics suite
Manager software	technologies.
HP Integrity	See Integrity VM.
Virtual Machines

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