User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Architecture Overview
- Getting Started
- Managing ADM
- Groups
- Discovery
- Application Patterns
- Report
- Connectors
- Solver
- Index
ADM User’s Guide
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Figure 6-6. Similar Instances Are Identified as One Instance With Unification
Application Pattern Instances
ADManalyzesnewlycreatedapplicationpatterndefinitionanddiscoversinstancesoftheapplicationpattern.
Anapplicationpatterninstanceisasetofcomponents(hosts,services,andsoon)andtheirrelationsthat
answeranapplicationpatterndefinition.Thisdefinitionisappliedagainsttherepositorythusresultingina
displayofall
applicationpatterninstancesthatmatchthatdefinition.
Viewing Application Pattern Definitions and Instances
TheapplicationpatterndefinitionsandinstancesareviewedandmanagedthroughtheManagetab.The
VMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpcontainsfielddescriptionsandinformationabout
usingtheinterface.
Application Pattern Definitions
TheApplicationPatternsListcontainsgeneralinformationaboutexistingapplicationpatterndefinitions.To
accesstheApplicationPatternsList,navigatetoManage>ApplicationPatternDefinitions.TheApplication
PatternsListisshownbelow.
Table 6‐1describesthecolumnsthatappearintheApplicationPatternsList.
server
client
client
client