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

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Tool
Description
Hides or displays interface numbers of the nodes on the topology.
Saves the topology after adjustment.
Displays the topology in a bird's-eye view, from which operators can quickly
understand the general layout of the topology and locate the current screen of
topology in the whole topology map.
Operators can click the Hide/Show icon / located to the lower right corner
to hide or display the bird's-eye view as needed.
You can quickly navigate to related functions of a monitored application by using the right-click menu
options on the topology. On the application topology, right-click menu options of an application icon
also apply to hosts icons attached with an operating system logo (such as ).
Right-click menu options include:
 Application Monitor—Select this option to view the monitoring report of the monitored application.
 Host Topology—Select this option to view the host topology.
 Dependency Topology—Select this option to view the dependency topology of the monitored
application.
 Query Alarm—Select this option to query alarms generated by the monitored application. This
option appears only when the applications have alarms generated.
 Traffic Trends—Select this option to view the trends of the rates at which the monitored application
received and sent traffic in the last hour.
Dependency topologies, host topologies, and group topologies support only the Monitor Application
option.
Viewing the application topology
The application topology displays dependencies between applications and hosts and how the hosts are
connected to the access devices and the physical network.
To view the application topology:
1. Click the Resource tab.
2. Select Application Manager > Application Topology from the navigation tree.
The application topology window appears, as shown in Figure 14. The topology shows all
applications that the current operator has the management privileges to and the relationships
among the applications, related hosts, access devices, and the physical network.