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

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3 Monitor management
Monitor management is an important feature in APM. The monitor is used to collect the performance
indexes, health status, availability and so forth. The monitor management displays the analysis and
statistics reports base on these data and information.
• Monitor
The monitor summarizes a group parameters and configurations, it collects the application indexes data
to analysis the health status and the availability. Each application only has one monitor.
• Host monitor
Host monitor focuses on the availability and the health status.
• Class monitor
Class monitor focuses on the health status of each application type.
• Custom monitor
Custom monitor focuses on the performance and health status of the whole service.
Application monitor
All the monitors in APM are defined as application monitors. APM provides the ability to query, add,
modify, and delete the application monitors, as well as the ability to customize an application monitor
list, manage/unmanaged an application monitor, and start polling the application monitors.
Viewing an application monitor list
To view an application monitor list:
1. Select Resource tab.
2. In the navigation tree, click Application Management >Application Monitor. The
application monitor list displays.
To view the content of the application monitor list:
You can customize the columns shown in the application monitor list. More information on how to
customize the application monitor list, see "Customizing a monitor list." The columns you can customize
in the application monitor list are:
• Name-Specify the name of the application monitors. Click the link of the different application
monitor names to view the different monitor reports.
• Application Type-Specify the type of the application system, such as ISS server. Click the link of
the application type to filter other types of applications. For more information, see
Table 1.
• Host- Specify the IP address of the host that the monitor application resides.
• Availability—Specify the availability of the application for the last poll query, includes :
Available, Unavailable, Inaccessible and Unmanaged. Put the mouse on the icon of
availability to view the application availability for last hour, different colors stand for different
status of the availability.