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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Step 2: Discover All Instances That Match the Definition
Thediscoveryprocessrunsthefirsttimeanapplicationpatterndefinitioniscreated.ADMsearchesthe
databasefortheCIsthatmeetthecriteriaspecifiedintheapplicationpatterndefinition.Ifthecriteriaismet,
thenanapplicationpatterninstanceiscreated.
Alternatively,thediscoveryprocessistriggeredmanuallyatany
timeasfollows:
1 NavigatetoManage>ApplicationPatternDefinitions.
2 Selecttheappropriateapplicationpatterndefinition.
3ClickDiscoverNewInstancesfromtheActionspaneontheleftsideofthescreen.
MonitoringofthebackgroundprocessisdonethroughtheLastDiscoverycolumn.Whenthediscovery
processiscomplete,thenumberofnewlydetectedapplicationpatterninstancesappearinthestatusbar
ofthewindow.
4IntheLastDiscoverycolumn,clickclickheretoviewtheapplicationpatterninstancesthatwere
discovered.
Step 3: Viewing All Discovered Instances
Aftercompleting“Step2:DiscoverAllInstancesThatMatchtheDefinition”onpage 62,theDiscovered
ApplicationPatternInstancespageappearsdisplayingthescopeoftheseinstances.
SelecttheapplicationpatterninstancesthatyouwouldliketostoreandclickCreate.
Step 4: Storing Selected Instances as Groups
TheapplicationpatterninstancesarestoredasgroupsandareviewedandmanagedfromtheManage>
ApplicationPatternInstancestab.
Step 5: Discovering New Instances Automatically
Youhaveanoptiontoenableordisabletheautomaticdiscoveryofnewinstances.
IftheoptionAutomaticallydiscovernewinstancesonceadayisselectedintheApplicationPatternDefinition,
theADMdatabaseissearchedfornewApplicationPatterninstances.Newlydiscoveredinstancesare
displayedandaresavedmanuallyas
shownin“Step3:ViewingAllDiscoveredInstances”onpage 62.
Iftheoptionisnotselected,nonewinstancesarediscoveredbutanightlyrefreshprocesssynchronizes
existinginstanceswithinformationintheADMdatabase.IfchangesintheApplicationPatternInstance(for
example,relevantCIswerenolongerdiscovered)render
thatinstanceirrelevant,thegreencheckmark
disappearsintheValidcolumn.Youcandeletesuchaninstancemanually,providedtheinstanceisnotpartof
thescopeofeitherActiveProbingorAgingpolicies,norpartofauserʹsconfiguration.