HP Intelligent Management Center v5.1 SP1 Application Manager Administrator Guide
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Click the Resource tab.
2. Enter the Add Application page in one of the following ways:
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 click Add on
the application monitor list page.
3. Click DNS Monitor of the Service Monitor class.
The page for adding a DNS service application monitor appears.
4. Configure the following parameters for the application monitor:
Name—Enter the application monitor name, which must be unique in APM. HP recommends
that you use the Application name_host IP address format to name the application monitor.
Description—Enter a description for the application monitor to aid maintenance.
IP Address—Click Select and select the host where the DNS service is located in the Select
Devices window.
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 requires higher performance.
Host—Enter the domain name of a website for DNS monitoring. For example, enter
www.hp.com.
Record Type—Select a record type for the domain name. Available options include AAAA,
CNAME, MX, SOA, A, SPF, NS, SRV, TXT, and PTR. See Table 8 for Record types.
Table 8 Record types
Record Types
Remarks
AAAA DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6.
CNAME Canonical name for an alias.
MX Mail exchange.
SOA Start of a zone of authority.
A Host address.
SPF Sender Policy Framework.
NS Authoritative name server.
SRV Service record, which identifies the location of servers.
TXT Text strings.
PTR Domain name pointer.
Contact—Enter the contact information, such as name, email address, and telephone number.
Related Applications—Click Add. The Select Applications window appears. Select the
applications that the DNS service depends on, and click OK. You cannot select operating
system applications, such as Windows XP, Windows Server, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX,
Solaris, Mac OS, and Linux. You can view the dependencies between applications in a
topology view.
Detect Application—Enable or disable application detection. Application detection enables
APM to verify connection to the application by using the previous parameter settings, and to