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

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"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.
 Port—Enter the HTTP port used by the SOAP-based Web service.
 Traffic Collection Port—Enter the port used by the SOAP-based Web service to provide services.
This field appears only after 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.
 Username/Password—Enter the username and password used to access the SOAP-based Web
service if the service requires identity authentication.
 Path—Enter the URL of the SOAP-based Web service. Do not include the IP address or port
information in the URL. APM determines whether the SOAP-based Web service is available by
accessing the specified URL.
 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 SOAP-based Web service 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 SOAP-based Web 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
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 a SOAP-based Web service application monitor
Operators can modify all parameters except the IP address of a SOAP-based Web service application
monitor. If the IP address of a SOAP-based Web service host that is being monitored 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 a SOAP-based Web service application monitor:
1. Click the Resource tab.
2. Select Application Manager > Application Monitor from the navigation tree.
The application monitor list page displays all application monitors.
3. Click the Modify icon for the SOAP-based Web service application monitor you want to
modify.
The page for modifying the SOAP-based Web service application monitor appears.
4. Modify the following parameters for the application monitor: