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

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 Timeout (1-60 seconds)—Enter the maximum time period that APM waits for a Telnet
response from AIX. The value range is 1 to 60 seconds and the default is 4 seconds. If no
Telnet response is received from AIX within the timeout time, APM considers that the
interaction has failed.
 Contact—Enter user 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 AIX 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. The overall dependencies between applications can be viewed 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
parameter settings, and to determine whether to add the application monitor based on the
verification result. APM adds the application monitor only when it can connect to the
application. When this parameter is not selected, APM adds the application monitor without
verifying the connection.
5. Click OK.
Modifying an AIX application monitor
Authorized users can modify all parameters except the IP address of an AIX application monitor. When
the IP address of a monitored AIX host changes, operators must add a new application monitor for the
host. However, the new application monitor cannot inherit the history data from the previous application
monitor.
To modify an AIX application monitor:
1. Click the Resource tab.
2. Select Application Manager > Application Monitor from the navigation tree.
The application monitor list page appears.
3. Click AIX of the UNIX Server Monitor class.
4. Click the Modify icon for the AIX application monitor you want to modify.
The page for modifying the AIX application monitor appears.
5. Modify the following parameters:
 IP Address—Cannot be modified.
 Name—Modify the unique application monitor name. HP recommends using Application
name_host IP address for naming the application monitor.
 Description—Modify the description for the application monitor to aid maintenance.
 Polling Interval (min)—Select a polling interval for the application monitor. Available options
include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, and 30, in minutes. A shorter polling interval provides more
accurate real-time data, but consumes more system resources.
 Monitor Type—Select the protocol (SSH or Telnet) through which APM monitors the AIX
application, and then click the Configure link to configure related parameters.
SSH parameters
 Edit SSH Parameters—Select this option if you want to manually configure SSH parameters
for APM. Make sure the SSH settings are the same as those on AIX.