Application Discovery 6.2 User Guide

Setting data polling interval............................................................................................................24
Setting event attributes.........................................................................................................................24
Introduction to event settings in Application Discovery................................................................24
Setting event severity.......................................................................................................................25
Setting alert location........................................................................................................................25
Managing application templates..........................................................................................................26
Find an application template...........................................................................................................26
Change application template values...............................................................................................26
Create a new template.....................................................................................................................27
Key to application template values.................................................................................................28
Application identity and system scope fields and their descriptions........................................30
Separation rule fields and their descriptions.............................................................................31
Aggregation rule fields and their descriptions..........................................................................32
Create an application template rule................................................................................................32
Create a process aggregation rule..............................................................................................32
Aggregation rule examples...................................................................................................34
How to remove types from the aggregation rule.......................................................................36
Check unmatched processes to find application candidates..........................................................36
Understanding the tables that show unmatched processes.......................................................36
Filling in the system scope fields using table data.....................................................................37
Filling in the template separation rule fields ............................................................................37
Filling in the aggregation rule fields using table data...............................................................37
Create an application workload in Virtualization Manager ..........................................................38
Backing up Application Discovery files...............................................................................................39
4 Troubleshooting ...........................................................................................................41
Errors in installation.............................................................................................................................41
Failure message on installation of Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent)........................41
Data missing in Application Discovery screens...................................................................................42
Applications not visible in Application Discovery screens.............................................................42
Host not visible in Application Discovery screens..........................................................................44
Packages not visible in Application Discovery screens...................................................................46
Application errors in Virtualization Manager workload screens.........................................................46
Error message indicates Application Discovery server is not available.........................................46
No “Applications” icon for system listed on Virtualization Manager Visualization tab screen.....47
No 'by application' entry in Virtualization Manager Workload Definition Criteria drop-down....47
No indicators showing in Virtualization Manager workload real-time utilization meters............48
Errors in Application Discovery user interface operation....................................................................49
UI “Unable to connect to server”messages.....................................................................................49
Java “UI exception” message displays............................................................................................50
Errors due to incompatibilities between different versions of Application Discovery agents and
servers...................................................................................................................................................50
5 Support and other resources.......................................................................................53
Contacting HP.......................................................................................................................................53
Related information..............................................................................................................................53
Application Discovery resources.....................................................................................................53
A Commands for controlling Application Discovery agent and certificates.............55
amgrd....................................................................................................................................................56
agent_config .........................................................................................................................................59
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