6.1
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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ToaccesstheApplicationPatternInstancesList,selectManage>ApplicationPatternInstances.The
ApplicationPatternsInstancesListisshownbelow.
Table 6‐2describesthecolumnsthatappearintheApplicationPatternsInstancesList.
Clickthetopofacolumntosortthelistbythatcolumn.
Youcanperformthe
followingactionsonApplicationPatternInstances:
EditInstance—ModifiesNameorDescriptionofanexistinginstance.
DeleteInstance—Removesanexistinginstance.
TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpprovidesstep‐by‐stepinstructionsonhowto
performtheseactions.
Application Discovery Process
Figure 6‐7showsahigh‐leveloverviewoftheprocesstocreateapplicationpatternsandviewtheresultsinthe
ADMconsole.Thecalloutscorrespondtothe“UseCase:CreatingDefinitionsandViewingtheResulting
Instances”onpage 61.
Table 6-2. Application Patterns Instances Column Descriptions
Column Description
Valid AgreencheckmarkmeanstheapplicationpatterninstancewasvalidasofthelastRefresh.
Name ThenameoftheApplicationPatternInstance.ADMprovidesadefaultname,butyoucanprovidea
customnameusingtheEditaction.
Description Theinstancedescriptionisanoptionalfieldandmightnothave
beendefined.UsetheEditactionto
enteradescriptionfortheinstance.
LastRefreshed ThelasttimetheADMdatabasewascheckedforapplicationpatterninstancevalidity.
CreatedBy Usernameofthepersonwhocreatedthisapplicationpatterndefinition.
CreationDate ThetimethisapplicationpatterndefinitionwasoriginallycreatedontheADM
appliancewherethis
patternwasdefined.
UpdatedBy Usernameofthepersonwholastmodifiedthenameordescriptionofthisapplicationpatterninstance.
UpdateDate ThetimethisapplicationpatterndefinitionwaslastmodifiedontheADMappliancewherethispattern
wasdefined.
NOTEYoucannotdeleteanApplicationPatternInstanceiftheinstanceispartofthescopeofeitherActive
probingorAgingpolicies,orpartofauserʹsconfiguration.