HP Intelligent Management Center v5.1 SP1 Application Manager Administrator Guide

2 Quick start

This section provides instructions on how to monitor applications and view the monitoring report for

administrators that use the APM service module for the first time, or want to add the application

monitors in batches.

Prerequisites

To monitor an application in APM, you first need to complete the following operations:

1. Obtain information related to the target application, including application type, host IP address

of the application, and administrators that manage the application.

2. Add the host on which the target application resides to the IMC base platform. To do this, you

need to obtain the following information:

• SNMP community string

• Telnet user name and password

• SSH user name and password

NOTE:

APM can only monitor applications running on the hosts that are added to the IMC base platform. For

more information, see

HP Intelligent Management Center Base Platform Administrator Guide.

3. If the type of the target application is JBoss Server, Tomcat Server, or Apache Server, configure

the following servers for monitoring the related applications:

• Configure JBoss server

• Configure Tomcat server

• Configure Apache server

IMPORTANT:

To manage applications in APM, you must have the administrator authority of the host where the

target

applications reside.

Application monitor configuration

APM provides the application monitor function that helps administrators comprehensively understand

the performance of applications, including availability, health status, and other specified performance

indexes. In addition, it provides the ability to identify the root cause for the unhealthy applications.