HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Application Performance Manager Administrator Guide

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 Select Application Manager > Add Application from the navigation tree.
The page displays all application types that can be monitored by APM.
 Select Application Manager > Application Monitor from the navigation tree, and then click Add
on the application monitor list page.
3. Click SFTP Monitor of the Service Monitor class.
The page for adding an SFTP service application monitor appears.
4. Configure the following parameters:
 IP Address—Enter the IP address of the host on which the SFTP service application to be
monitored is installed. If the host is already added to the IMC Platform, you can also click Select
and select the host in the Select Devices window. For information about selecting a host, see "2
Quick start." APM automatically checks the specified IP address and associates the application
monitor with the host managed in the IMC Platform.
 Name—Enter a unique application monitor name. HP recommends using Application
name_host IP address for naming the application monitor.
 Description—Enter a description for the application monitor.
 Username—Enter the SFTP username.
 Password—Enter the password of the SFTP user.
 Whether to Download File—Select Yes if you want to test the download function of SFTP.
Otherwise, select No.
 Remote Source File Name—Enter the test file name, which must contains the relative path of the
file to the directory on the SFTP host.
 Local Source File Name—Enter the local test file name, which must contains the absolute path of
the file.
 Whether to Upload File—Select Yes if you want to test the upload function of SFTP. Otherwise,
select No.
 Local Source File Name—Enter the local test file name, which must contains the absolute path of
the file.
 Remote Source File Name—Enter the test file name, which must contains the relative path of the
file to the directory on the SFTP host.
 Port—Enter the port on SFTP. The default port is 22.
 Traffic Collection Port—Enter the service port number for SFTP. The default port is 22. This field
appears only when at least one probe is configured for APM.
 Polling Interval (min)—Select a polling interval for the application monitor. Available options
include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, and 30. The default polling interval is 5 minutes. A shorter polling
interval provides more accurate real-time data but consumes more system resources.
 Contact—Enter the contact information, such as name, email address, and telephone number.
The default is the username of the operator who created the application monitor.
 Related Applications—Configure the applications that the SFTP server depends on. Click Add,
and then select applications in the popup Select Applications window. Operating system
applications, such as Windows, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, Mac OS, and Linux,
cannot be selected. APM automatically adds the dependencies between the SFTP service and
operating system applications by IP address and displays their dependencies in the application
topology.
 Detect Application—Select this parameter if you want to enable application detection.
Application detection enables APM to verify connection to the application by using the previous