Application Discovery 6.0 Software: User Guide

Setting data polling interval............................................................................................................22
Setting event attributes.........................................................................................................................22
Introduction to event settings in Application Discovery................................................................22
Setting event severity.......................................................................................................................23
Setting alert location........................................................................................................................23
Managing application templates..........................................................................................................24
Find an application template...........................................................................................................24
Change application template values...............................................................................................24
Create a new template.....................................................................................................................25
Key to application template values.................................................................................................26
Application identity and system scope fields and their descriptions........................................28
Separation rule fields and their descriptions.............................................................................29
Aggregation rule fields and their descriptions..........................................................................30
Create an application template rule................................................................................................30
Create a process aggregation rule..............................................................................................30
Aggregation rule examples...................................................................................................32
How to remove types from the aggregation rule.......................................................................34
Check unmatched processes to find application candidates..........................................................34
Understanding the tables that show unmatched processes.......................................................34
Filling in the system scope fields using table data.....................................................................35
Filling in the template separation rule fields ............................................................................35
Filling in the aggregation rule fields using table data...............................................................35
Create an application workload in Virtualization Manager ..........................................................36
Backing up Application Discovery files...............................................................................................37
4 Troubleshooting ...........................................................................................................39
Errors in installation.............................................................................................................................39
Failure message on installation of Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent)........................39
Data missing in Application Discovery screens...................................................................................40
Applications not visible in Application Discovery screens.............................................................40
Host not visible in Application Discovery screens..........................................................................42
Packages not visible in Application Discovery screens...................................................................44
Application errors in Virtualization Manager workload screens.........................................................44
Error message indicates Application Discovery server is not available.........................................44
No “Applications” icon for system listed on Virtualization Manager Visualization tab screen.....45
No 'by application' entry in Virtualization Manager Workload Definition Criteria drop-down....45
No indicators showing in Virtualization Manager workload real-time utilization meters............46
Errors in Application Discovery user interface operation....................................................................47
UI “Unable to connect to server”messages.....................................................................................47
Java “UI exception” message displays............................................................................................48
Errors due to incompatibilities between different versions of Application Discovery agents and
servers...................................................................................................................................................48
5 Support and other resources.......................................................................................51
Contacting HP.......................................................................................................................................51
Related information..............................................................................................................................51
Application Discovery resources.....................................................................................................51
A Commands for controlling Application Discovery agent and certificates.............53
amgrd....................................................................................................................................................54
agent_config .........................................................................................................................................57
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