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

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Figure 2 An classic APM network architecture
Application type management
Applications such as operating systems, databases, application servers, services, and middleware, all
have different monitor modes in APM. Based on the different applications, APM provides you with
corresponding monitor solutions as shown in Table 1.
APM continuously collects application index information and displays it in a graphical application report.
More details about the application monitor modes and related indexes are discussed in subsequent
chapters.
Table 1 Available applications
Class
Type
Remarks
Windows Server Monitor
Windows
The following operating systems:
 Windows XP
 Windows Server 2003
 Windows Server 2008
Performance Counter
Windows performance counters are
supported on the following operating
systems:
 Windows XP
 Windows Server 2003
 Windows Server 2008
 Windows 7
Unix Server Monitor
AIX
AIX 5.4 and higher version
Solaris
Solaris 5.10 and higher version
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 8.2 and higher version
Mac OS
Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 and higher
version